Down in the forrest something stirs
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IN Lights Out, Edward Thomas wrote of "the unfavourable deep forest where all must loose their way." Scotland's forest is, according to C. J. Risk, chairman of the Scottish CBI, "a jungle too much of her own planting" where over the past 40 years the country has lost its way.
But he told the RHA in Glasgow that a track through the undergrowth had now been found and Scotland was ahead of the rest of Britain in economic regeneration. He seemed to share my belief that the nation had in some degree thought itself into a depression as America did in 1929.
So with commercial-vehicle sales rising, the rest of the kingdom might well heed the skirl of the pipes and, taking a calculated risk, follow William Blake, "piping down the valleys wild, piping songs of pleasant glee."
And when during the gleeful songs the hat is passed round, hauliers will expect a fair share of the loot.