Funny thing Duffer, and maybe strange that you would suggest it, but actualIy I do run for the office. Mondays and Wednesdays, because on both of those evenings I have meets in the town which necessitate me for my own convenience, staying local to Town to avoid a double journey.
It isn't that I do not enjoy coming home, quite the reverse (emoh gnimoc yojne) but yet the time afforded by my thus doing so would not meet the parameters granted me by circumstance, something like the tides for which no man hath ability to change in so many ways.
My having run in to the office now leaves me sans caleche in the latter stages of the day and so it is that I hitch a ride home with a neighbour, my next door one, who happens to finish his business twelve minutes before I finish my evening engagements and with this fortuitous circumstance, we exist peaceful and happy. Whilst he insists with some degree of the gallant, that he should drop me at the very least at the end of my lane, I on the other hand (I have four fingers and a thumb) insist with greater vigour that his residence is just fine, as the remaining three miles to my property constitutes a nice end to my workabout day and serves me well as a cooling off of musculatorie assemblages about my person. It is thus that I arrive beyond darkness and from a distance can smell Cooks creations a beckoning me, and sometimes too the screams of Lambert if he has been careless of his affection in the vicinity of the formidable cook,and/or the dog.
The lane after dimpsey* is a wonder to behold, home as it is to so many creatures that screech and hoot and those that scurry afleet at my coming, all the scents of the dead day that lay low yet langorous and rise like so much faerie dust about my feets, and the moon when she is aglow, well she brings branches to a life seldom witnessed by town folk and this gladdens my soul.
And that is how come I already run to the office.
Lizzie xx
* Dimpsey-
Devon vernacular for eventide following setting of the sun, associated primarily with the afterglow experienced as the earth swallows the sun.