Eating out-of-doors

It takes me a while to relearn each year that the outdoors is somewhere to be lived in.

I realised how strange it sounded writing last week that I rarely eat packed lunches in my day-to-day life, given that once a week at least I spend a good chunk of the day outside working at the allotment; but I go to the allotment to work and I don't really like eating while I am working, especially working outdoors I find I do not get that hungry until I am finished and sat down and then I get ravenous. I only go there one day a week and I don't feel I have time in the day to relax and expand into the space, just to do the work I need to do and to rest in between – I don't live there.