Late to the party as usual, I too like this a lot, Mark. I seem to find a lot of Edward Thomas in it, especially the last line (and even Hardy and Stevenson).
Anyway, that's enough name-dropping. L5 is indeed a cracker, redolent of Christmas gifts of yore. (I remember getting this sort of thing, in the early 60s, before we all became consumers. And it's definitely what my dad would have got, which me thinks that your dad is probably in here too - "smiling, walking backwards", possibly - and that's no bad thing.)
Really good.
Cheers
David
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