IT WAS a delight to spend a couple of hours enjoying a meal with my wife and three friends at a restaurant overlooking and adjacent to the Twin Sails Bridge at the weekend.

It opened and closed three times with no problems to allow yachts and small leisure craft to and fro.

As locals, perhaps we do not spend enough time looking at and enjoying our local sights and spectacles, as we are in too much of a hurry to notice.

Maybe we have come to regard them as a pain-in-the neck as they stop us going about our business.

We live in a beautiful place but seem to spend our time complaining about such marvels when they go wrong, rather than standing back and enjoying them when they are working correctly.

Like the residents of every town and city around the world, we get rather complacent in our views and opinions of our locality.

Perhaps if we took a “grockle’s eye view” we might appreciate our environment a great deal more.

ALAN BURRIDGE,
Blandford Road, Upton