“Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.” Rebecca Solnit, from Wanderlust: A History of Walking. This was the seed thought given for consideration during Walking The Land’s monthly First Friday walk. I walked with my friend J rather than with the main group – thoughContinue reading “First Friday Walk – January 2022”
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Janus, Edgelands and New Years Day 2022
Today felt like a day that needed to be marked somehow, so I took Fen and me off to Aust. It is such a conjunction of places, confluence and convergence, a perfect place to mark the end of the first day of a new year. For the Romans, this was a sacred day for Janus,Continue reading “Janus, Edgelands and New Years Day 2022”
Rame Head Peninsula – October 2021
Part One: Tregantle – Rame Head – Tregantle I am staying in Plymouth courtesy of my cousins, so I can re-visit the beautiful Rame Head peninsula that I started to explore last August. With only a day or two to spare, I have to decide where to spend my time. For my first day’s walkingContinue reading “Rame Head Peninsula – October 2021”
In This Place; At This Time: Summer Solstice 2021
A Solstice in three parts. As ever, the Solstice felt like a transition period, not merely a day on the calendar, or a micro-measured blink-and-you’ll-miss-it astronomical fixed point. I can always identify the start of such transitions – all of a sudden it is ‘Solstice Time’ – but you never know when it’s going toContinue reading “In This Place; At This Time: Summer Solstice 2021”
The Shiftiness of Reality and Laurie Lee
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”
Snow Day
Snow! The perfect kind, enough for fun, not enough to make it hard to get about. We are perfectly placed for this – high up, and at the bottom of the even higher and steep Rodborough Common. It was very misty up there, still snowing, and also very busy, lending a Lowry-esque air to theContinue reading “Snow Day”
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”
Why am I here?
The spotlight that tends to highlight my obsessions has swung round, and is currently illuminating my old love of boundaries, of the liminal and edgelands – not just those in the landscape, but those within us, both bodily and psychologically. My mind and imaginings have been full of things found on the estuaries of theContinue reading “Why am I here?”
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