10 June 2021 Today I went on a walk with a woman I’d never met to find a man I didn’t know who wrote a book I’d never read. Radical Stroud walkers Stuart Butler, Andrew Budd and I were joined by singer/songwriter Lisa Fitzgibbon who is undertaking a two year Arts Council funded project DownContinue reading “The Shiftiness of Reality and Laurie Lee”
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In This Place; At This Time – Imbolc I 2021
The Walk Of The Three Longbarrows – the first in a series of three Imbolc walks taking place over 2-3 weeks. The monotony and restrictions of the current lockdown were starting to tell, and amplified unbearably my usual New Year impulse to break out, break away, do something. I decided to set out on aContinue reading “In This Place; At This Time – Imbolc I 2021”
First Friday December 2020: The Ash and the Birch and Knowledge Hard Won
Today I did an organised walk, joining one of Walking The Land’s ‘First Friday’ walks, with an invitation to explore and respond to winter trees. We met virtually as a group to share ideas and thoughts, and state our intents for our walks, and then went our physical separate ways to, in a delightful phrase,Continue reading “First Friday December 2020: The Ash and the Birch and Knowledge Hard Won”
Star Magick, Slavery and the Bathurst Estate
It was my birthday last week, and I am proud to announce I have now completed 48 full rotations of the sun. I love birthdays for many reasons, but one is that they make effortless cosmonauts of us all. Having taken time off work, we went for a long walk starting near Sapperton, circling throughContinue reading “Star Magick, Slavery and the Bathurst Estate”
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