tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91720735616626469002024-03-19T06:29:40.254+00:00Deborah Harvey : The Red Dress of Poetry ... ... or Woman Who Wanders About A Bit With The DogDeborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.comBlogger993125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-76920485908529584842024-03-17T16:11:00.004+00:002024-03-18T18:19:20.309+00:00Old friends at Ashton Court <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A walk with old friends. And I do mean old - or rather, of very long standing, having first encountered one in our first year at secondary school, two at primary school and one at nursery school. And where better to meet them for a walk than among the ancient and venerable trees of Ashton Court. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQKBDcWsMNYua-OXSkKydUi5IXPXwdHdrJG0lpr134ijcHDUVOi4rGMKrjgO9XaHZ2AMVEtUpf_80mYhL1HjosKwoNJ7G_W0RUj4hX6-N3_7s19oIMQZqaZMnbO_7LojZJ3DATK-Jkh5Kf2P86gCPK-tD0-5wvGdMti7jGSzZLYNMBcYWdPhuGA00I5Wl/s4521/20240316_113707%20turkey%20oak.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4521" data-original-width="3391" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrQKBDcWsMNYua-OXSkKydUi5IXPXwdHdrJG0lpr134ijcHDUVOi4rGMKrjgO9XaHZ2AMVEtUpf_80mYhL1HjosKwoNJ7G_W0RUj4hX6-N3_7s19oIMQZqaZMnbO_7LojZJ3DATK-Jkh5Kf2P86gCPK-tD0-5wvGdMti7jGSzZLYNMBcYWdPhuGA00I5Wl/w300-h400/20240316_113707%20turkey%20oak.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJBJTCnZnKL5Rg6jv0bt7bSVrMoa71CBNFEByRA7r9V0MA80Z-wF_Ff0QMPHqqjsGOEkTmyCCyFmEWDUQRqCkdTdy8JB9ulsZ265bjKazXUWuauUHiIy0Kmfd_CtyWjXqh1QoRyXEHuPlkgHuB9KOJjydjVtb6R91M9_qwhzmN_jgZAeRX-4pHm3UrS2eN/s2364/20240316_114657.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">A view of Bristol, with Freezing Hill and <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2019/06/midsummer-on-kelston-roundhill.html" target="_blank">Kelston Roundhill </a>in the distance, framed by giant sequoia </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbV8MIU1jGHYkg93-yu0aH8DpW5YiNG75Is4YV_gtSSuzID0jC_iBldQvdq_xImChneychZ9Smxm6op0_Rg5a_fvHCuxy31YM0sxJ7as6P228zXVeLyTSLJgmjuL4ySxa8-zgW4JCLz9NZaneeomlQVORPXVrzUfrmyYkTi_GM_ApK0VX3MPfXkqT6nuWq/s1501/IMG-20240316-WA0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1501" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbV8MIU1jGHYkg93-yu0aH8DpW5YiNG75Is4YV_gtSSuzID0jC_iBldQvdq_xImChneychZ9Smxm6op0_Rg5a_fvHCuxy31YM0sxJ7as6P228zXVeLyTSLJgmjuL4ySxa8-zgW4JCLz9NZaneeomlQVORPXVrzUfrmyYkTi_GM_ApK0VX3MPfXkqT6nuWq/w400-h300/IMG-20240316-WA0001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With so much catching up to do, I was really surprised to see how far we'd walked. And at least trees were obliging enough not to move off as they heard us approaching. </span></div></div><br />Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-28240336478667871212024-03-15T08:53:00.003+00:002024-03-15T20:10:34.046+00:00Robert Plant and Saving Grace at the Bristol Beacon, 13th March 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwayEkgzUUPyzcMcbJL8ezQvetQ7QIBTL0faXSD_fC_ZTDm3KDQqm4tgyAh41PR7njxAj-bUbg9MPDuoIlLdULRZTdjN-YtHWB5zgu1GuuJz3IElUl3ky2QOs_qmysAzKhg_0vBr1Nzt4PZtitVjLdJ7PrU-C33epEvEcxOqOPTXYs6CAnsxlQZp8i9xo/s4608/20240313_183352.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwayEkgzUUPyzcMcbJL8ezQvetQ7QIBTL0faXSD_fC_ZTDm3KDQqm4tgyAh41PR7njxAj-bUbg9MPDuoIlLdULRZTdjN-YtHWB5zgu1GuuJz3IElUl3ky2QOs_qmysAzKhg_0vBr1Nzt4PZtitVjLdJ7PrU-C33epEvEcxOqOPTXYs6CAnsxlQZp8i9xo/w300-h400/20240313_183352.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm trying to remember the first time I heard Led Zeppelin. I'm pretty sure it would have been at my friend Liz's house. Maybe that time she slipped into her brother Robert's room and smuggled Led Zeppelin IV from his record collection for a sneaky listen while he was out. We'd have been about eleven, I think; firm fans of David Bowie and Marc Bolan by then, but sensing this was something a bit edgier ... more dangerous, perhaps. Not long after that it was 'Houses of the Holy', singing along to 'D'yer Mak'er' in her bedroom, plus an early encounter with the thrill of metaphor in the opening line of 'The Rain Song: 'It is the springtime of my loving ... '. And a little later 'Physical Graffiti' - all Robert's and all borrowed briefly on the sly.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_h4w4aIlBvszBhXJC5ZAXncAkmNIu2MlHUm2E2fYvTUuWBe1z5hXqTLhBo_y50YvWgGZTQ_Ckjy1inyWHeLYrgI6tytJq6nOvPwwToWPWmt5-dBNB2WMUFp2FVZBRbKPyKHdlSlad-3hh74FyiJWfkU4Q4cuMCp2gimkgf95OnTYtJjQDzbmglxpcure/s2364/20240313_184724.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_h4w4aIlBvszBhXJC5ZAXncAkmNIu2MlHUm2E2fYvTUuWBe1z5hXqTLhBo_y50YvWgGZTQ_Ckjy1inyWHeLYrgI6tytJq6nOvPwwToWPWmt5-dBNB2WMUFp2FVZBRbKPyKHdlSlad-3hh74FyiJWfkU4Q4cuMCp2gimkgf95OnTYtJjQDzbmglxpcure/w300-h400/20240313_184724.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was thinking about all this while listening to Robert Plant and his band 'Saving Grace' sing 'The Rain Song' at the newly refurbished Bristol Beacon. That feeling of hearing live songs you've lived with almost your whole life. There's not many other people I can still do that with ... there's no chance of seeing David, Lou or <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2012/09/leonard-cohen-at-wembley-arena-8th.html" target="_blank">Leo</a><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2013/07/leonard-cohen-at-o2-21st-june-2013.html" target="_blank">nard</a> again, Bob's <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2015/11/bob-dylan-at-cardiff-motorpoint-arena.html" target="_blank">apparently reluctant</a> to play the songs people most want to hear, and David Byrne was just that bit later. What a privilege, then, to listen to the man with curly hair singing, even though our seats were right at the back of the auditorium. (I was taking a poetry group at the Bristol Folk House when they went on general sale, and had to wait an hour till the break to dash to the box office at the Beacon, by which time they'd almost all sold out. When I arrived back, red in the face and breathless and without my usual cup of tea and flapjack from the cafe, none of my charges seemed that impressed by my achievement, but that's poets for you.) </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7TrVG6WUJ3baxOTXzXBZjWDQ5zg_6JpvJ9F3iWoLQE5UVa9UYkd_GphEO7oIxWa7uRdbCzRRDmVrJr0YtK-WiJt8PqL-3C698Mv8mCYNSrgm_miRlcFxMVS87806VRHSyENP37xuklROqxBUGHfHadBoKuVDPc5-bB6WFzM8hfkDQJfvzNkZ4dh-veopE/s2364/20240313_184749.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7TrVG6WUJ3baxOTXzXBZjWDQ5zg_6JpvJ9F3iWoLQE5UVa9UYkd_GphEO7oIxWa7uRdbCzRRDmVrJr0YtK-WiJt8PqL-3C698Mv8mCYNSrgm_miRlcFxMVS87806VRHSyENP37xuklROqxBUGHfHadBoKuVDPc5-bB6WFzM8hfkDQJfvzNkZ4dh-veopE/w300-h400/20240313_184749.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5j03A3MXL4dePMtjTzoFkykkl9TChbO0otdMg5SeUiFVkFPFLQCCN3JikClLQ8sBKenndn646BoJKhB3KehoU-JoZPeHfrBgxSjwuY4LivEp4-AnpRHPEm2SayFEyB39hSS3siY8-_EreEu2XmTrFeKOq-KQFfSwhnPoDmLrKHVMMSb-1pn97vandZzgz/s2364/20240313_184821.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1784" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5j03A3MXL4dePMtjTzoFkykkl9TChbO0otdMg5SeUiFVkFPFLQCCN3JikClLQ8sBKenndn646BoJKhB3KehoU-JoZPeHfrBgxSjwuY4LivEp4-AnpRHPEm2SayFEyB39hSS3siY8-_EreEu2XmTrFeKOq-KQFfSwhnPoDmLrKHVMMSb-1pn97vandZzgz/w301-h400/20240313_184821.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leonard's voice got better as he aged - he was sounding like God when I saw him in 2012 and 2013 - but as the affectionate cheering during his live performance of 'The Tower of Song' attested, it was never what you'd call golden. David's celebrated range of three and a half octaves diminished to the point where he'd struggle with that long high note in 'Life on Mars' (admittedly always hard for a mortal to sing). Bob's voice is sandier and gluier than ever. Robert can still ooooh better than the best of them, though. </span><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My photos are rubbish, of course, not least on account of the distance: I reckon he was standing just about at the end of my back garden, with me at my bedroom window, whch is a bit long distance for a balcony scene, but here's a couple. I was there. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMGdl_MaxYifq9iw0u0ChCQNs-pFm2FUDVEd6vOtkvokJliF_XvVM3RLAaj6fxzABgVqTDnZmdfQJtmzn4AY2K0ExqvVxbs1_Tz9fXVCWEQ0XrgZ6Mi1I0fvotOnffMQbbGs4ih5c9lCuPetcNdGJ85iIlWKSeRPKzinpvA7BHZXWRiA3MheEx175u18J/s2364/20240313_212438.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNMGdl_MaxYifq9iw0u0ChCQNs-pFm2FUDVEd6vOtkvokJliF_XvVM3RLAaj6fxzABgVqTDnZmdfQJtmzn4AY2K0ExqvVxbs1_Tz9fXVCWEQ0XrgZ6Mi1I0fvotOnffMQbbGs4ih5c9lCuPetcNdGJ85iIlWKSeRPKzinpvA7BHZXWRiA3MheEx175u18J/w400-h300/20240313_212438.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3560hft80W4g4gIBaDHjRrFW8GM1DEtpKqWG7aDGQBfS1L1RmawmSp2oHd_Y-7iVUuVdz6Tms6ojzvAI85WQ1nGyLN88qG-HNuuH3cLzIKzpJVc-F-gss8U-ujXg9iWB89ifD_pZjRyiRl93gWfaoUquK-EIuL-_CJvMIhBnjVS6aD94Wmds9eOS-fM7x/s2364/20240313_222903.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3560hft80W4g4gIBaDHjRrFW8GM1DEtpKqWG7aDGQBfS1L1RmawmSp2oHd_Y-7iVUuVdz6Tms6ojzvAI85WQ1nGyLN88qG-HNuuH3cLzIKzpJVc-F-gss8U-ujXg9iWB89ifD_pZjRyiRl93gWfaoUquK-EIuL-_CJvMIhBnjVS6aD94Wmds9eOS-fM7x/w300-h400/20240313_222903.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-51327591427730471922024-03-10T16:01:00.014+00:002024-03-16T08:16:13.229+00:00Winter's last gasp<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbCpGIiFHM_o9heqI-udeFHSiitpijFX6oRKOCsc_yWVURNBUxUkk29vwlqB8sa4xDnm6TsGz-r3lerbHjCUNqqRYZcL9x0BA_sE-VSx3q-_ziGFzQtiuAbNE86Xzrii_ZtuDCO309HDXNqDyRhZ_ahN-lMWM7FRpcBb1sfZ2HfR7dRXLYng7OAqezWu6/s2364/20240104_104201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbCpGIiFHM_o9heqI-udeFHSiitpijFX6oRKOCsc_yWVURNBUxUkk29vwlqB8sa4xDnm6TsGz-r3lerbHjCUNqqRYZcL9x0BA_sE-VSx3q-_ziGFzQtiuAbNE86Xzrii_ZtuDCO309HDXNqDyRhZ_ahN-lMWM7FRpcBb1sfZ2HfR7dRXLYng7OAqezWu6/w400-h300/20240104_104201.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>PLEEEEASE can we go for a walk! </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Winter left behind a late and strangely localised blast of snow as it slammed the door shut on itself at the end of last week as recorded <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2024/03/snow-day-saturday.html" target="_blank">here</a>. (At least, I hope that's what it's done, though it might be a trifle early to start celebrating.)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The day before it was hailstones ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jwfT-HZiNd2lO3hSneqYq9240vb7ttsn7SqsqIAvk8vnaEMBGoTDSuyKPCiwhSUSiIBJKA0gp-u5kK9DJcCnWlzIlIO7_luOtm2kARxGh86IxAkgSj4ahHoHrAYPAF9480MnqEmW6WaHqqJKbrmgoaxEEs6CzX5AB_mkCl3Hrnd1NLSnZ2sep3OGulD_/s2364/20240301_111844.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jwfT-HZiNd2lO3hSneqYq9240vb7ttsn7SqsqIAvk8vnaEMBGoTDSuyKPCiwhSUSiIBJKA0gp-u5kK9DJcCnWlzIlIO7_luOtm2kARxGh86IxAkgSj4ahHoHrAYPAF9480MnqEmW6WaHqqJKbrmgoaxEEs6CzX5AB_mkCl3Hrnd1NLSnZ2sep3OGulD_/w400-h300/20240301_111844.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">If you try to cross it, you risk losing your wellies, as well as your balance and dignity, as I came close to discovering. </span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There's been a little sun too, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it as the days gradually get longer. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2x-mZpO0q1uT4aBFMVTl79sVwuwr-8LWO-JvuIK-HEfIIednypG0EjTG_tYsSXb4dFKi4Rh4pQrCWwf2v7wBLWsw8IeqZiBoCyBPfwiPAmtv6_tEVSg6w21ciOWJ8-zBs_oTuygvpK13xyZDqmdRg8eWMcPETnR90kMouTBMNMtedWZxqSVO9p8GpnzEs/s2364/20240105_141306.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2x-mZpO0q1uT4aBFMVTl79sVwuwr-8LWO-JvuIK-HEfIIednypG0EjTG_tYsSXb4dFKi4Rh4pQrCWwf2v7wBLWsw8IeqZiBoCyBPfwiPAmtv6_tEVSg6w21ciOWJ8-zBs_oTuygvpK13xyZDqmdRg8eWMcPETnR90kMouTBMNMtedWZxqSVO9p8GpnzEs/w300-h400/20240105_141306.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">The fungi on show is in winter mode ... </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCBm1PcAt8hOlW4flfNP0frjSztG4EosUu1Tfhv9Akye09LDMVT75IbLkbgTwEFg6oithJZYYTOgux_bc-i0pELw9Z1qz9vjg0IEw6DVYHMrzVSxM2GXsajATQE8bjlwNswaauFA-HMukPX3EKs0-OHlX9CMstb378CZhI5b30y6uw6EScxeh0D_9a65K/s3508/MixCollage-09-Mar-2024-05-59-PM-149.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCBm1PcAt8hOlW4flfNP0frjSztG4EosUu1Tfhv9Akye09LDMVT75IbLkbgTwEFg6oithJZYYTOgux_bc-i0pELw9Z1qz9vjg0IEw6DVYHMrzVSxM2GXsajATQE8bjlwNswaauFA-HMukPX3EKs0-OHlX9CMstb378CZhI5b30y6uw6EScxeh0D_9a65K/w532-h377/MixCollage-09-Mar-2024-05-59-PM-149.jpg" width="532" /></a></div><br /><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">TOP: 1 & 2. Crystal brain fungus? (That's a wild guess) 3</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">. </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Slime mould 4. Turkey tails BOTTOM: 5 & 6. Oak bracket fungus 7 & 8. Jelly ears - not a lot of them to the ground this year</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... while underfoot there are definite hints of spring:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCQC6GZVgqvdDF5_pdPJzt0090zcIHRsSxgT2j3WU2ImrBdTbfOQrSXJtCIY2oDEC4pEvW-UxybtKNdVZUaB6Wtc_gSFzb8n0TfJ03l-CG4LOGI49t-9P9SD3vcuhVhSvrM0bKV9x22G5HLUcsb3HSj_OdAAWC4BmEbtcx2meMgVqveStRDIL3WHkqR1I/s3508/MixCollage-10-Mar-2024-03-27-PM-67.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVCQC6GZVgqvdDF5_pdPJzt0090zcIHRsSxgT2j3WU2ImrBdTbfOQrSXJtCIY2oDEC4pEvW-UxybtKNdVZUaB6Wtc_gSFzb8n0TfJ03l-CG4LOGI49t-9P9SD3vcuhVhSvrM0bKV9x22G5HLUcsb3HSj_OdAAWC4BmEbtcx2meMgVqveStRDIL3WHkqR1I/w527-h373/MixCollage-10-Mar-2024-03-27-PM-67.jpg" width="527" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>CLOCKWISE top left:</i> <i>1. Cuckoo pint not yet in flower 2. Celandines 3. First buttercup of the year 4. First dandelion of the year 5. Last year's stinking irises amongst this year's growth 6 & 7. The little elder tree at the foot of the hollowing oak in leaf, and the hollowing oak itself in bud 8. Red dead nettle 9. Hazel catkins 10. A first - dog violets in Rooky Wood. (Usually, flowers here turn out to be litter on closer inspection.)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One late afternoon this last week almost had the feel of evening about it - not the wintry, dark-at-4pm-and-huddled-under-a-blanket sort, but the duskiness of spring evenings when you can get out for a walk after work, and it made me think what a soothing word - and time - evening is: an even-ing of the fretful spirit after a day's work. There wasn't a sunset - it was too cloudy - but when there is, it'll be visible from the field again, and that means spring and the joy of summer evening walks to come. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcAiXtK7HYDGX3TvEKkvyATB21PgsyyPEewriJqibMcchxOkFjOEwX0dPj2PSgvjehoOaoXsYWJyCDmQn7E2Hw1Kmw_BJ0nZvCytQyBpZ7wdtb_bYVMfiwJ__h7tgKW9_kUymBLwXniGCib5FU8-fXr0NONHKcZaWbDBHSJFM8eHrtyvc5YqMYmbCkVrrv/s2364/20240308_171329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcAiXtK7HYDGX3TvEKkvyATB21PgsyyPEewriJqibMcchxOkFjOEwX0dPj2PSgvjehoOaoXsYWJyCDmQn7E2Hw1Kmw_BJ0nZvCytQyBpZ7wdtb_bYVMfiwJ__h7tgKW9_kUymBLwXniGCib5FU8-fXr0NONHKcZaWbDBHSJFM8eHrtyvc5YqMYmbCkVrrv/w300-h400/20240308_171329.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And a kestrel! There was a kestrel too, oh my heart.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz-g42m7fCNm8lH2g9xICHdFOkzmYQ0jHg8fIlpu0WoBbvnbqkQbK0Sy77LE0hgT9Z9tkijPqf2msVwvW2fZw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, the rook that yelps like a dog is making itself heard in the rookery, and how lovely to know that like us, it's survived another winter ...</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyuN7Ywy4XqGxPZ4uVQeWqqGCCXcJDjPJhbLxg2HBmBdAQ3TcsEibbo1mrbExiLIkiXv07i-92TbhR5r9t4UQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... while the lengthening days are embellished with quarrelling jays, drumming woodpeckers, yaffling woodpeckers, bumbling bumbles, all evading the mediocre camera on my phone. But not this magpie, that was making the strangest fizzling noise to its mate ... <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzo-VZWD05ZUtLEWDIPti4-nLz9oWApVPKrdUAjerS-QilOIcuFJT1NsReCnX7iBYURWEuVd55STvUkdY4_cae-USkf3fEiKFt5ozpcDB6b13yzKDhovti6b7stmDF-7S3iFmRyT0oos9kwWdXAzRd4vGOp9NY1G7EA6xBXDqAh4n_pj2vQZbyUeACf0K/s1264/20240125_135251%20fizzling%20magpie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="948" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuzo-VZWD05ZUtLEWDIPti4-nLz9oWApVPKrdUAjerS-QilOIcuFJT1NsReCnX7iBYURWEuVd55STvUkdY4_cae-USkf3fEiKFt5ozpcDB6b13yzKDhovti6b7stmDF-7S3iFmRyT0oos9kwWdXAzRd4vGOp9NY1G7EA6xBXDqAh4n_pj2vQZbyUeACf0K/w300-h400/20240125_135251%20fizzling%20magpie.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... and these gorgeous long-tailed tits in the brambles. <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyCehhoZPYVYUbkxvdBixURSVUCqJPuy9ksU8JL9L7J-bu9ayv1XUju-PI1rfrK71KHK-X0gGFqUQXfdR9kBQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Also, an honourable mention to this raptor I encountered, a Harris's hawk, native to Central and South America. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Talking of which, the right of way along the side of the skylarks' field, next to the railway cutting, has been reopened, but the path that used to meander between between pools of tufted vetch and rosebay willowherb in summer looks like this now ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOFY3_PjQemjJauSrmvuyDO37aBvTYxR_LyJTD1qFGed3MdDMGNH-gFlmKBJRGhjvni74E_9nfogLmmFhHtQZUJ2U_hsfD8uqHLJrGykwQjOr0l5hHaiMp7oBn80y92r8yvBVlFl7Rh5zTiazPsg0kaFzPlsbp_A0qMLbb_dJYCe6XQzjuiTOHwqymaVe/s2364/20240307_111500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1774" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOFY3_PjQemjJauSrmvuyDO37aBvTYxR_LyJTD1qFGed3MdDMGNH-gFlmKBJRGhjvni74E_9nfogLmmFhHtQZUJ2U_hsfD8uqHLJrGykwQjOr0l5hHaiMp7oBn80y92r8yvBVlFl7Rh5zTiazPsg0kaFzPlsbp_A0qMLbb_dJYCe6XQzjuiTOHwqymaVe/w300-h400/20240307_111500.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... and the field itself is lost. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQrL3WyHur7NLoeyoXrHC3hB8xzgmv1Nud2w4T8NT0l-i9xSPsqElXswV0bC-Gl-cJoD-BavrDSF5hM_j5CBVz-YsP__FrKDLctO5bbaNSQwK9AxdGIPKUMQkrhjE00G743m1CpzN5YJrYwNsxTGr8DJb8YjjkwxVmVnSp2r33WFoVUGO7iYv1KQgdfmY/s2364/20240307_114920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQrL3WyHur7NLoeyoXrHC3hB8xzgmv1Nud2w4T8NT0l-i9xSPsqElXswV0bC-Gl-cJoD-BavrDSF5hM_j5CBVz-YsP__FrKDLctO5bbaNSQwK9AxdGIPKUMQkrhjE00G743m1CpzN5YJrYwNsxTGr8DJb8YjjkwxVmVnSp2r33WFoVUGO7iYv1KQgdfmY/w300-h400/20240307_114920.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I have heard skylarks singing on the edge of the old airfield, though; hoping very much they'll get an uninterrupted attempt at nesting there this year. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, the scrub on the Common has been almost completely cut back, despite promises that it would be left undisturbed, with only paths cut through. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDcYOnhmLkCqeSUQwJ2DotFBMun-hxNLNI6lNcfZ_nwnJ3q2Fh9G3BMQpzK0H6OzfFuh4Ek2BubeLl7hCgH_i9jUGbASytBbnhJKqpGKVFFxf8duMYLuO5mQMn1C1VX5BaZ1qaUblnkVmyvWoXYejryCWL1iviDA43AAPxNXlXkLjdvgGixQUCgOEbx5f/s2364/20240212_130315.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This is disappointing, and could be an explanation for why we see muntjac and roe deer tracks in the Field of the Hollowing Oak much more often than in previous winters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux5hIBrBW24ujjahwX11zIRk5AuUlasTEH0F8-e7tv-OoYzKojZ8dOpmzH-UFF0MLa6IxONWjoZ6WOS4_WLJIMwugwNTm6R_4Fq0rBshT2KXS-5tHOiw31exNhIfixIGcHY7y_SkIWIADpWoa32qyrrPW5s0SHDMYqZ4HZr8Ys8phlIXwfYk01mL2EeFd/s3508/MixCollage-09-Mar-2024-10-08-PM-7727.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux5hIBrBW24ujjahwX11zIRk5AuUlasTEH0F8-e7tv-OoYzKojZ8dOpmzH-UFF0MLa6IxONWjoZ6WOS4_WLJIMwugwNTm6R_4Fq0rBshT2KXS-5tHOiw31exNhIfixIGcHY7y_SkIWIADpWoa32qyrrPW5s0SHDMYqZ4HZr8Ys8phlIXwfYk01mL2EeFd/w400-h283/MixCollage-09-Mar-2024-10-08-PM-7727.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Small Dark Wood of the Mind has also been subject to more tree-felling, opening up views of West Way, the road that runs through the lower part of Airbus complex.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxzv0Gq0uN_NBDw5tYl_biKn8duzwibzJ45FnxeIy46L7YHMmmQPpTD8uJVGn9x-kPlnfLNv08-N8OZJHOC2E4FeOC06THFC531V3XoSvRKTYHV4Cw9t1E42YdS8yw5cOfsV9fIGf1eHLXhSP_X0RJ-sg-dIzc1AEjHBfEtrn_Q_3rXBEsiv7pkRnsNkk/s2191/20240225_102151.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2191" data-original-width="1643" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxzv0Gq0uN_NBDw5tYl_biKn8duzwibzJ45FnxeIy46L7YHMmmQPpTD8uJVGn9x-kPlnfLNv08-N8OZJHOC2E4FeOC06THFC531V3XoSvRKTYHV4Cw9t1E42YdS8yw5cOfsV9fIGf1eHLXhSP_X0RJ-sg-dIzc1AEjHBfEtrn_Q_3rXBEsiv7pkRnsNkk/w300-h400/20240225_102151.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile on the golf course, the holes in the hedges that allow wildlife to pass through the wildlife corridor have been blocked again - though with the deer displaced from the Common, I don't give much for their chances of staying that way ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzRc3gu4PyPFQ91tss3LDrgxZdicMti6I-mD1aPCu1l3EgwvZcYNnxOb0bpLYCmD-oMPCOyK38x3nbXmBEaFPu4Z9gktNo-kqHujJ4L2QslxOfwkCbQMpzeZSAOV8LpAuqVOmxv8-ErIyk3NVINg8XR_3Fzldw6smE0-CZpEoxvyCbMKQAZz3D5J_Rcvh/s2364/20240310_101521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzRc3gu4PyPFQ91tss3LDrgxZdicMti6I-mD1aPCu1l3EgwvZcYNnxOb0bpLYCmD-oMPCOyK38x3nbXmBEaFPu4Z9gktNo-kqHujJ4L2QslxOfwkCbQMpzeZSAOV8LpAuqVOmxv8-ErIyk3NVINg8XR_3Fzldw6smE0-CZpEoxvyCbMKQAZz3D5J_Rcvh/w300-h400/20240310_101521.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>... the larger shallower lake, </span><span>that was a </span><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2021/09/early-autumn-elsewhere.html" target="_blank">haven of biodversity</a>,<span> </span><span>has been fillled in with several tonnes of earth plonked on top, and </span><span>apparently they're going to fill in </span><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2020/05/ted-walks-in-time-of-coronavirus-pt-5.html" target="_blank">the beautiful smaller pond</a><span> too. </span><span>I was once buttonholed at a poetry reading by a man who was keen to impress upon me that not all golfers are ecological vandals, but it's hard to believe him on this evidence. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Don't want to finish on a bum note, though it's hard not to feel depressed by the assault on wildlife that we're witnessing. Here's Cwtch having fun. Thank goodness for dogs and the excuse to get out into nature every day. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkl-BFaUAXc_8rQ5RtfYMIpMt98rbRh7AxkBZviMLQS5UqYTX4-SxmWws6oZZW0Qnm-MCMGWO5CuEun2jVUWOlGpN0CkxfTVDiouW7_bUzD-caa3qB-yM09LUj_MIqRdMt4LmguP1eezwPkFrGh-VjcK0_aEBlDI_mSPMQg6YtG_e0E26hou2sWCjfXeLP/s2364/20240117_153505.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkl-BFaUAXc_8rQ5RtfYMIpMt98rbRh7AxkBZviMLQS5UqYTX4-SxmWws6oZZW0Qnm-MCMGWO5CuEun2jVUWOlGpN0CkxfTVDiouW7_bUzD-caa3qB-yM09LUj_MIqRdMt4LmguP1eezwPkFrGh-VjcK0_aEBlDI_mSPMQg6YtG_e0E26hou2sWCjfXeLP/w300-h400/20240117_153505.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ7NhSw2VNEvwsls6-bB4iwIONIVP6ffZ6wWLjnCHCDlzAa418mMx9a_YPYSH1H3NsZ2zLyeJE2-NR_hSW0X1KbBSc7qqQZXHAT-gMGTnkg27WEs28-uAqLoaxCEMI0P71q-wGTUC5SnWZFLPQyQB1G_1h5mZyDqXH9bKB625rA-OGT-AxZN7UQJ2RVhph/s3794/20240127_143705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3794" data-original-width="2845" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ7NhSw2VNEvwsls6-bB4iwIONIVP6ffZ6wWLjnCHCDlzAa418mMx9a_YPYSH1H3NsZ2zLyeJE2-NR_hSW0X1KbBSc7qqQZXHAT-gMGTnkg27WEs28-uAqLoaxCEMI0P71q-wGTUC5SnWZFLPQyQB1G_1h5mZyDqXH9bKB625rA-OGT-AxZN7UQJ2RVhph/w300-h400/20240127_143705.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-39169343797291888452024-03-02T14:13:00.009+00:002024-03-04T17:00:20.477+00:00Snow Day Saturday <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/03/then-plunged-back-into-winter.html" target="_blank">Like last year</a>, we awoke early this morning to find snow in March. Not that our ridiculous island isn't capable of wintry precipitation far later in the year than this, of course; it's just that it seems incongruous when minds are very definitely set on spring. Longing for it, in fact. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4n7doEIQO5QP9UuEy7Ou0p7UptB0eABxAc7OEh7oE0BcNBs_hU6cyPEFV3P7C8J_eD36KypVo5OVlOEH-hQ1pD4JW_7c6FafyBACJV2BBRIuxG6F1JX4jW4u5uFCLc2vXL-QroV66Vfid6yPqXInlMfjvYvIleVXYmRIfSyNMEwWAjfrY6obiLaZX4vqK/s1940/20240302_063056.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1455" data-original-width="1940" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4n7doEIQO5QP9UuEy7Ou0p7UptB0eABxAc7OEh7oE0BcNBs_hU6cyPEFV3P7C8J_eD36KypVo5OVlOEH-hQ1pD4JW_7c6FafyBACJV2BBRIuxG6F1JX4jW4u5uFCLc2vXL-QroV66Vfid6yPqXInlMfjvYvIleVXYmRIfSyNMEwWAjfrY6obiLaZX4vqK/w400-h300/20240302_063056.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The strangest thing about this snowfall was how localised it was. We had two inches on the northern edge of Bristol, where I live, but none, for example, in the affluent suburb of Clifton, a few miles to the south. (Not often we get something they don't have!) And further afield, a dusting in Frome, nothing at all in Glastonbury and Bridgwater. As for Son the Elder, confronted by his appalled mother, having driven with a friend 'through all that snow' to Leicester, he was quick to point out in his defence that as soon as they'd left Bristol, the motorway was clear. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Anyway, we got up and headed for the field before breakfast on the pretext that our dog, Cwtch, would want to play in the snow, though truth be told, it was us who wanted to get out in it; she doesn't care for it much, unlike our old collie, Ted, who revelled in snowy days and could never resist trying out </span><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2013/01/photos-of-dog-in-snow.html" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">his celebrated White Fang impression</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">His'n'hers Northern Soul hoodies</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfts8ncRlFi3tAG4O_g8O9O5Dz0qMYl-fr0Rn3lIDCpKRG4AA5hJXHbtaIS1JyHdmLvc-ygTKLX73ID_mBOqmswLT-3pVMmxXkUgpy8Pp_NgXIIZ7T_uvLlB0bs6gw3eerSABMBBrbb17BaaewDiZxGOigdochCAXJrzeDJWOPe2BXjb4DYgVx6MOp2qJI/s4494/20240302_084602.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3370" data-original-width="4494" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfts8ncRlFi3tAG4O_g8O9O5Dz0qMYl-fr0Rn3lIDCpKRG4AA5hJXHbtaIS1JyHdmLvc-ygTKLX73ID_mBOqmswLT-3pVMmxXkUgpy8Pp_NgXIIZ7T_uvLlB0bs6gw3eerSABMBBrbb17BaaewDiZxGOigdochCAXJrzeDJWOPe2BXjb4DYgVx6MOp2qJI/w400-h300/20240302_084602.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtaX2fRD-q2nhTDztiZNRbFkPRc8NOFOXlwcVZfk49KxLVu-1YNVhxqABO-btrA96oDtR9e0kIdK78J9ye7m_HdewXymujkKR8p6k2xhpB3147cAfQdty70L98xONui29ronz3K0lzYC3n3JoCgnNUyulSZvohWULryxLgu2qkM40pwTxvsB2xfHtnHZjf/s4444/20240302_085112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Thursday started with a trip to the tip with Son the Elder, where we saw this fox, who clearly has their paws under the table as far as snacks are concerned ... </span></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwKjEIjXl7BCC1vuJz3cGTJXwbjI45r9DsV7-DRUaUEnZbyEZoY8jJ4IGZ_itilpZfKgPP8URUd6CHHDq6sIdUh9AMN-XPhwiyEHdtfGt3H7Dl1rYvoiz67rOf4lpax8-2iD3Gup4QiBzgjTzIuIuHhq5pvdKHUKjo8iL2mUNeEcc5ELlpPWHY2p1DBSZ/s400/20240222_111415i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwKjEIjXl7BCC1vuJz3cGTJXwbjI45r9DsV7-DRUaUEnZbyEZoY8jJ4IGZ_itilpZfKgPP8URUd6CHHDq6sIdUh9AMN-XPhwiyEHdtfGt3H7Dl1rYvoiz67rOf4lpax8-2iD3Gup4QiBzgjTzIuIuHhq5pvdKHUKjo8iL2mUNeEcc5ELlpPWHY2p1DBSZ/w300-h400/20240222_111415i.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">... and has done for a while, if this picture, taken by my friend Colin two years ago, is anything to go by. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="No photo description available." class="x1bwycvy x193iq5w x4fas0m x19kjcj4" data-visualcompletion="media-vc-image" height="300" src="https://scontent.fbrs5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/428612497_7142801422506598_3737333746441096855_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=524774&_nc_ohc=rkiaztJqlfgAX9ABHaV&_nc_ht=scontent.fbrs5-1.fna&oh=00_AfAcw9UAIimX5V2WIlynKUhUdeoRnqilTjIQuWNg2CgIXw&oe=65DEC790" width="400" /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was even wetter in the afternoon, but dogs - especially collies - need walking regardless, so Son the Younger and I decided to take Cwtch to Snuff Mills, where there are lots of trees to shelter under.</span></span><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... so we dropped back down to the river alongside Stead's Stream, the brook that feeds it. </span><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UZluGdK-XUxFiWjPMLi5XlJOCIPbbb_3HwRkHtAtRnlv3mJWDfGFs9GggFXmbP_TfJbIJfvzfUrbfqEVZ4y3AcqZqHGehw3zzCNKD_M-jQTHL8DuTF0lxnsQOZAur9bI42KYjSZnFCoykNCNNdTi_UqkbfJun0VhPLyVqgc3iItJ4fa-_IZeZy2hMmLl/s2364/20240222_153319.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UZluGdK-XUxFiWjPMLi5XlJOCIPbbb_3HwRkHtAtRnlv3mJWDfGFs9GggFXmbP_TfJbIJfvzfUrbfqEVZ4y3AcqZqHGehw3zzCNKD_M-jQTHL8DuTF0lxnsQOZAur9bI42KYjSZnFCoykNCNNdTi_UqkbfJun0VhPLyVqgc3iItJ4fa-_IZeZy2hMmLl/w400-h300/20240222_153319.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Frome has burst its banks at this point. Cwtch took the high road ... </span></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwOG7RV9Pigxp1HPknXwPUNp9xS1i4oUYRtXZEwM6r0ovwyWlnU3PaxlHVULcCa66_jRDF3U-0YnL_dFFV1CA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv6st5LmE9elUq4cc4j7KLucvk431-0vI0KzSOCvOCg7cC0QWgtH4Jymaco_g6bIy9hipkTC2uH9emjwDjNlKWFpIKeA5RsTcAj10OF3qeuQWMo-kTv-A2J4TaMf6sI0TfTf1WrWNSQGFe-FQCcvkJVTebTAsqe1qNBz6EP5Y-NW7sjlS2TfM5eF16TI8/s2364/20240222_153839.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwv6st5LmE9elUq4cc4j7KLucvk431-0vI0KzSOCvOCg7cC0QWgtH4Jymaco_g6bIy9hipkTC2uH9emjwDjNlKWFpIKeA5RsTcAj10OF3qeuQWMo-kTv-A2J4TaMf6sI0TfTf1WrWNSQGFe-FQCcvkJVTebTAsqe1qNBz6EP5Y-NW7sjlS2TfM5eF16TI8/w300-h400/20240222_153839.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... while Son the Younger and I, who'd been so busy remembering to pay for our no-longer-free-parking when we arrived that we'd omitted to put our wellies on, picked our way along the side of the flooded walkway</span>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwN69oEaShaM6vB831eAkq4cl1qmaBz5W8aU37zj4iRJ9ietV2TveZ0fjhTaP6I7iY5quCUbukuDfwYP5bpNg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The river was still running fiercely, and it was interesting - and somewhat nerve-racking - to see how Cwtch's dislike of water was in direct conflict with her need to herd ducks. </span></span><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7eZujRQ3AmlKJqJX0H04JKnbyKYskVNiLhraLPRtnmKfRKLqhqz_mFf61Nn-LCYCpw0d2DQsgTpyziojzM0UZwVYIABAw4H0ltXKSKX9YMZMoB_BGsPTTuRVSyVzVZHYlrHpZGLKcV_De4ThqYGZ3eRkTT_4-l8Zn9fvy307fKHP7nHADV9Yhzm079AH/s2364/20240222_154624.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH7eZujRQ3AmlKJqJX0H04JKnbyKYskVNiLhraLPRtnmKfRKLqhqz_mFf61Nn-LCYCpw0d2DQsgTpyziojzM0UZwVYIABAw4H0ltXKSKX9YMZMoB_BGsPTTuRVSyVzVZHYlrHpZGLKcV_De4ThqYGZ3eRkTT_4-l8Zn9fvy307fKHP7nHADV9Yhzm079AH/w300-h400/20240222_154624.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPVsba4i5olnGcP_8FTFA4Wnru7L1kdZ6_q0Gn2ezta1ib-8kCgcr3iNrplK3_u_hpIz5p5xoQysHJdRxz_tWBcetcgwBD-yDOhA38-R2qmFsXjQYnl5VHUK5E467V0nPcfODTuJRcyHmQiPnWtFCAf1c70kN4ItnDJr9qxAwHlQTl1Togm0hh92dlH8x/s2364/20240222_154733.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPVsba4i5olnGcP_8FTFA4Wnru7L1kdZ6_q0Gn2ezta1ib-8kCgcr3iNrplK3_u_hpIz5p5xoQysHJdRxz_tWBcetcgwBD-yDOhA38-R2qmFsXjQYnl5VHUK5E467V0nPcfODTuJRcyHmQiPnWtFCAf1c70kN4ItnDJr9qxAwHlQTl1Togm0hh92dlH8x/w300-h400/20240222_154733.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile the hazels still had one muddy foot in winter, one in spring - a bit like us, really. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><br /></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-29741902407526859672024-02-10T22:22:00.010+00:002024-03-04T13:00:11.102+00:00Travels with My Cousin<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The last time my cousin, Sandra, came over from her home in New Jersey to visit was a staggering fourteen years ago, and we had a fantastic time. I think it was the Easter holidays, so I wasn't working fixed days, and we went on a road trip to Leeds, which included visits to Little Moreton Hall in Cheshire, Mr Straw's House in Worksop and Eyam in Derbyshire. And then a volcano in Iceland called E</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">yjafjallajökull erupted and all the planes between the UK and the US were grounded and we squeezed two extra jaunts out of her forced stay, visiting Isle Abbots and Shepton Beauchamp in Somerset, where our uncle lived, before walking from Langport to Muchelney and back, followed by a third trip to Kilve and East Quantoxhead. It was great. <br /><br />And funnily enough - although not for the poor folk of Grindavik - another Icelandic volcano erupted during this visit, but not causing enough air pollution to ground her flight this time. So she had just a week here, at a much less pleasant time of year, and during term time. Nevertheless, we still managed to meet up a couple of times, for which I'm grateful, and who knows, hopefully I'll get over to visit her in America sometime too. </span><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The photo below was taken by her at Easter Compton farm shop, where we had breakfast before my Auntie Mollie's 90</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> birthday party, the main reason for the timing of the visit. There are few photos of the Northerner and me together, so I'm really pleased to have this one.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyzohj45RXfiy8iDxaPOsd-hdGj_QfmtDL0U6BQfrXkJ9aZCmJkQgEIPxerVv-vSoU0LAaeJOF9cABALnfMZIrv4lU0C7Jhcc83smFnjcE0sGroaSh-YENtTGMbExSSY14iCfhRUzzrU1XgjNmKvzAtnTWErhyN_Z52jYPyOjJ5P3UNxvGT89OvSq1PSI/s1104/416007125_3658592607751217_2061440957406743795_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghyzohj45RXfiy8iDxaPOsd-hdGj_QfmtDL0U6BQfrXkJ9aZCmJkQgEIPxerVv-vSoU0LAaeJOF9cABALnfMZIrv4lU0C7Jhcc83smFnjcE0sGroaSh-YENtTGMbExSSY14iCfhRUzzrU1XgjNmKvzAtnTWErhyN_Z52jYPyOjJ5P3UNxvGT89OvSq1PSI/w300-h400/416007125_3658592607751217_2061440957406743795_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDR2s0ah4alaklaPcNlQa1xFaw93F98svXW-VaXC9BSL4fqKih9KKmGq53FRfRPNELh3AKMNcUFYYfoj30nljtXBCqjSChzuVpUf3CIYt9g3QJupw-9bV0zIjpph16PfRadB-vew-jD6wNuJDV3v8hJVZEBb4ZG9afCHCuAffFeOvqKMIWN2EMkNIib2E/s828/415739883_1426689194893294_5649073242811793862_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="828" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDR2s0ah4alaklaPcNlQa1xFaw93F98svXW-VaXC9BSL4fqKih9KKmGq53FRfRPNELh3AKMNcUFYYfoj30nljtXBCqjSChzuVpUf3CIYt9g3QJupw-9bV0zIjpph16PfRadB-vew-jD6wNuJDV3v8hJVZEBb4ZG9afCHCuAffFeOvqKMIWN2EMkNIib2E/w400-h300/415739883_1426689194893294_5649073242811793862_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With my cousin Joy, Sandra's sister, and her family</span></i></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wM-Ta7cxeWcEDNEaGA7AUfdzP4X1aVtWUcDMYjunq9Abo8wtVZ8dIR4cn7wzi-1U6DLBL8GsSNky57bpRS4wv10YlM1FB8Vzk8B9bbLXjAM8IWxDg5uddU1ytq8lRYICCDRiDJVCW_XiAx-91urZ1twm3vmMkSmnIhNsz55Y9OGpF-mIcF_qxNCyHsE7/s2048/425952492_7115158121932448_2454496090907313059_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1460" data-original-width="2048" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5wM-Ta7cxeWcEDNEaGA7AUfdzP4X1aVtWUcDMYjunq9Abo8wtVZ8dIR4cn7wzi-1U6DLBL8GsSNky57bpRS4wv10YlM1FB8Vzk8B9bbLXjAM8IWxDg5uddU1ytq8lRYICCDRiDJVCW_XiAx-91urZ1twm3vmMkSmnIhNsz55Y9OGpF-mIcF_qxNCyHsE7/w400-h285/425952492_7115158121932448_2454496090907313059_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My late mother's six surviving brothers and sisters (from a total of eleven)</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11IHOhoXDwnPnAk-wBDCNG3a_JLEsl-4h4qzX0b94xvxh-cUXfyq8VIDKtLTFaCU1pGeRfPIDwWulwg3k2UpgURsZOXLVYq5M6PYBvExcNp5899wxQdSdnGf_4XhFNgU2_YjKxvs7D4e9THRbBdsH45oOoU0-8co0XPKQmCMemSXrykmgBnLzl7bpffF7/s2048/425593780_3101218536675651_3320464552872579556_n%20my%20cousins%20are%20better%20than%20yours.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11IHOhoXDwnPnAk-wBDCNG3a_JLEsl-4h4qzX0b94xvxh-cUXfyq8VIDKtLTFaCU1pGeRfPIDwWulwg3k2UpgURsZOXLVYq5M6PYBvExcNp5899wxQdSdnGf_4XhFNgU2_YjKxvs7D4e9THRbBdsH45oOoU0-8co0XPKQmCMemSXrykmgBnLzl7bpffF7/w400-h300/425593780_3101218536675651_3320464552872579556_n%20my%20cousins%20are%20better%20than%20yours.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With as many of my cousins as could get to the party - we number 24 in all</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbP-VWa3LUeH0MN7u43cNSgb4JnUhiexKS_uN7z0maKAaggQ_M-QLpqmefKCw7CpSrL3Wo6GClQiqJCL3x9C0swwME-p5dHFcgBsvp8dt27Yzyw9Mc41sr-iTy0YCBDeSNwEnNZ9rk1OaDem5u995dLDZhoQQwIvwlkPfFseUSN_QvzgOEqn7i8ybZ5rN/s2048/425584460_3101200606677444_3409130042425403394_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtbP-VWa3LUeH0MN7u43cNSgb4JnUhiexKS_uN7z0maKAaggQ_M-QLpqmefKCw7CpSrL3Wo6GClQiqJCL3x9C0swwME-p5dHFcgBsvp8dt27Yzyw9Mc41sr-iTy0YCBDeSNwEnNZ9rk1OaDem5u995dLDZhoQQwIvwlkPfFseUSN_QvzgOEqn7i8ybZ5rN/w300-h400/425584460_3101200606677444_3409130042425403394_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">my boys</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thursday was the day I had Sandra to myself, except of course there were still people who wanted to see her before she went back, so it was largely a matter of balancing everyone's needs, coupled with a truly gruesome weather forecast. In the end we booked a table at the Little Harp in Clevedon, where for a few years at the end of their lives, I took my parents on my mother's birthday. First, though, Son the Younger drove us to Portishead, where we spent a couple of hours with my friend, Liz, who knows Sandra well, and her husband, Paul. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Clevedon was drizzly, as promised, but when w</span>e emerged from the pub, fortified by our lunch and the company of our cousin, Sarah, who lives in Clevedon, her dog Foxy, and the friend formerly known as 'Er-over-the-Road (who's really called Cathy and who knows Sandra well from previous visits), there was a window of drier weather so we made our way along the front to the pier. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx-k-qwxU5KIeGMdfs7LRDFPCuQbBjGzv2hTtbfuB9auoXPY1oyOxoJssaTDMegMdNeI6F9goKKwIx6oCsl78AL7hALx6cym-8IkJWuGPybxYzqqu9Uk4yoWQlB6EqKKANcZfueZZi07gleiMHwUc2DywyfxaOLXKceFmAKgVgYa3vrQjPeGCUV6OfC5g/s1753/20240208_143939i.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1753" data-original-width="1315" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx-k-qwxU5KIeGMdfs7LRDFPCuQbBjGzv2hTtbfuB9auoXPY1oyOxoJssaTDMegMdNeI6F9goKKwIx6oCsl78AL7hALx6cym-8IkJWuGPybxYzqqu9Uk4yoWQlB6EqKKANcZfueZZi07gleiMHwUc2DywyfxaOLXKceFmAKgVgYa3vrQjPeGCUV6OfC5g/w300-h400/20240208_143939i.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Looking in the opposite direction, we could see an interesting little coronet of cloud over Flat Holm, which is probably impossible to make out in this photo and which dissipated very quickly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzrD4sTiHxxF3b8PswLGKRERBvTvbupw6Z_VXnlLl8EB2ddNMCnHHQowRFkV2wK9SheVRHnV6BVAop_TGFgJbb-zTHJnPzIMAdkM6SSFq1GsIlLoJDg1VLmqKmoW44Cjz9iA_huZPq7HvBD7211-ksxoHGYg96tzu2AnMmYDnXb2BJJs76nHmgHoYIZMC/s2010/20240208_144049.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1507" data-original-width="2010" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzrD4sTiHxxF3b8PswLGKRERBvTvbupw6Z_VXnlLl8EB2ddNMCnHHQowRFkV2wK9SheVRHnV6BVAop_TGFgJbb-zTHJnPzIMAdkM6SSFq1GsIlLoJDg1VLmqKmoW44Cjz9iA_huZPq7HvBD7211-ksxoHGYg96tzu2AnMmYDnXb2BJJs76nHmgHoYIZMC/w400-h299/20240208_144049.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4lFNs4NEJ5OHnqd4GhoFDLzk-SnccBZS3AW0yleUW9ItA2NVpHqWvytnOzG7XbaRFXbs_SQfjJhL0Lx_Yy1j9rcVm7Jskbf6WqBx4-UTqnSO6UIQ2NI-xHimf4ZMh3BuRRjnMFi873EavVAVjtwdc04kQVnMkms208UTJFmuD4WTvkyWNTDk2xoOKev3z/s2364/20240208_143527.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4lFNs4NEJ5OHnqd4GhoFDLzk-SnccBZS3AW0yleUW9ItA2NVpHqWvytnOzG7XbaRFXbs_SQfjJhL0Lx_Yy1j9rcVm7Jskbf6WqBx4-UTqnSO6UIQ2NI-xHimf4ZMh3BuRRjnMFi873EavVAVjtwdc04kQVnMkms208UTJFmuD4WTvkyWNTDk2xoOKev3z/w300-h400/20240208_143527.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of course, there had to be a photo call. Here's Cathy and Sandra ... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6oMg-Hd_UrllRxyFAgAFgNnn65MoxfP8y5oax4gC7lYVCxzhhyeBhXHsAHN-dCW7A6SDnEs7clZ4I7ccATH3H_CyccDbWt213u-bMZLcu9DRGfAz-SRDpo9DtJ4RYv2w3vZAOGKgEhO89udvD-3EJbpymaXh6ZPZvuCerGQCtJL0rwPRlpiSB03k0sD0/s2364/20240208_143720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6oMg-Hd_UrllRxyFAgAFgNnn65MoxfP8y5oax4gC7lYVCxzhhyeBhXHsAHN-dCW7A6SDnEs7clZ4I7ccATH3H_CyccDbWt213u-bMZLcu9DRGfAz-SRDpo9DtJ4RYv2w3vZAOGKgEhO89udvD-3EJbpymaXh6ZPZvuCerGQCtJL0rwPRlpiSB03k0sD0/w300-h400/20240208_143720.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... me and Sandra ... </span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTqv22jD68INVICPCLpmPuftIISmMfjjGhD9tdCuVL7rvPdTF2DRm_APyH6D2amsL9_RxgJCekDVk9ZU8-zhPmMbW7lEssvqmC73Zx4wEY3JJEjqZ6QD5tNFTPFWt1lE12haMk6HGU8Y1JpAu4xETxezF-8yN_jD2NHME2NjmNBxEB33Ot3FQVfWtPoGC/s2364/20240208_143736.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfTqv22jD68INVICPCLpmPuftIISmMfjjGhD9tdCuVL7rvPdTF2DRm_APyH6D2amsL9_RxgJCekDVk9ZU8-zhPmMbW7lEssvqmC73Zx4wEY3JJEjqZ6QD5tNFTPFWt1lE12haMk6HGU8Y1JpAu4xETxezF-8yN_jD2NHME2NjmNBxEB33Ot3FQVfWtPoGC/w300-h400/20240208_143736.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... Cwtch, Son the Younger, me and Sandra ... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9__pXUl-6EmRLP3Bvqw3WL9ZJWPEI69qhJ4ObSmu3e_L4X5L97fmhmN_MXI3Sc9KgLcvn_xRByH2y4khdzDdQLPa3kOs340hQJYXoBDEmuuXclMXPAQ6hXqkR3sP0pJpCDG7E0I2IVflaN2htPhte3YBQTC0bnABTzadccv1fyKH5vq0fVARbX-WyD5P/s2364/20240208_143817.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin9__pXUl-6EmRLP3Bvqw3WL9ZJWPEI69qhJ4ObSmu3e_L4X5L97fmhmN_MXI3Sc9KgLcvn_xRByH2y4khdzDdQLPa3kOs340hQJYXoBDEmuuXclMXPAQ6hXqkR3sP0pJpCDG7E0I2IVflaN2htPhte3YBQTC0bnABTzadccv1fyKH5vq0fVARbX-WyD5P/w300-h400/20240208_143817.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... me, Sandra, Cwtch and Cathy ... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWQMSm1ZQ7p6Ak47qx8sjii6PqNdSDWDen5rEeyTAWJUnBCC0UIeKIV1wJZyLNjLBaLXDGHy4RgP9s0-yHbG7CoDPDyol1LpGI5YxC6tHM68IeeK1BYuQImdrxZBZRea749_S_fOQ2VSRV7Qdf8ODgh7SHs_uLBAochgv0237cjv9EDBetmj9WZvmKImm/s2048/426619943_3105530616244443_2286539318220936722_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWQMSm1ZQ7p6Ak47qx8sjii6PqNdSDWDen5rEeyTAWJUnBCC0UIeKIV1wJZyLNjLBaLXDGHy4RgP9s0-yHbG7CoDPDyol1LpGI5YxC6tHM68IeeK1BYuQImdrxZBZRea749_S_fOQ2VSRV7Qdf8ODgh7SHs_uLBAochgv0237cjv9EDBetmj9WZvmKImm/w400-h300/426619943_3105530616244443_2286539318220936722_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... and Cathy, Sandra, Cwtch, me, Sarah and Foxy.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr5htrelpHnjyMIIkwgLko09LKxoGRjKPr8dg7sVOc_hEebPDRBs65l6MzAW8TtJkZeIsasaZZXB9hBtQ2PvbyjHeNBrIc9Ng5uCxBTU-Bflr57D0vyfxGUH0sVoArPRAEteKP01nDZu2jHXUZcfBNY9ZEmQCKOyoelK9HOjr7wep4cdm6mun6oPseaKeK/s2048/426988189_3105530712911100_2331611352420313967_n%20where%20Jack%20grew%20up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr5htrelpHnjyMIIkwgLko09LKxoGRjKPr8dg7sVOc_hEebPDRBs65l6MzAW8TtJkZeIsasaZZXB9hBtQ2PvbyjHeNBrIc9Ng5uCxBTU-Bflr57D0vyfxGUH0sVoArPRAEteKP01nDZu2jHXUZcfBNY9ZEmQCKOyoelK9HOjr7wep4cdm6mun6oPseaKeK/w400-h300/426988189_3105530712911100_2331611352420313967_n%20where%20Jack%20grew%20up.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sarah pointed out the house where our grandfather, Jack Hill, lived before his family moved to Bristol, property prices being comparatively much cheaper in those days.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcQqRLsd3hDAbTic7UVOYGvOEG_ViW6K3r_cttF_evUPI9jMAFJogYbBFS4oaJEObr76ogQj-O1q62I2Vy0fWolVvdkPTJXyR_wjwIFp7K0m8YCgvMIl9adUm_Bx4R2OpyD8g_rE3VdgX6OOQ2CZ2aX9f6uE1_hS1F5fMuHaKGywsihqIIcYASRj489Zs/s1897/20240208_152501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1423" data-original-width="1897" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcQqRLsd3hDAbTic7UVOYGvOEG_ViW6K3r_cttF_evUPI9jMAFJogYbBFS4oaJEObr76ogQj-O1q62I2Vy0fWolVvdkPTJXyR_wjwIFp7K0m8YCgvMIl9adUm_Bx4R2OpyD8g_rE3VdgX6OOQ2CZ2aX9f6uE1_hS1F5fMuHaKGywsihqIIcYASRj489Zs/w400-h300/20240208_152501.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaPXW5R1hzEwPQva34kX96XzIx-bVmfnUuz02RBrUtPKGoJDKENZK1ryscOVovHdSAH5dapb76yZsRggDJVJAEeJeg53A_fKol9OYDV2JbwlBiOdztp5AoJJiHXzcc5Tq_3DFAtveuKTl_zSZTbIWSMSxty4-prCAGKGdUCWNiKPNacux8MWdGSiS7A2lf/w300-h400/426607218_3105530729577765_2216687582327103683_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Me, Cathy, Cwtch doing dressage, Sarah and Foxy</span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzuHqqP4_t0LXIE9ptbYIIyUhL6E_cm43xebxOCCn7jrbH8CMu6SHG0ORu6OXHthGdZEDJRbY6L9PtMDNWQlEtHH_YFqC1iimkDYIsEYRpAE8Yns48bMVQ0ZOj7XfcowQR4OTauAhyphenhyphenqqN0ufgJB8zv8hAulkAttrYrCeNeGIQ2yC1EufQfYxqWXOiVS2iA/s2364/20240208_151102.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzuHqqP4_t0LXIE9ptbYIIyUhL6E_cm43xebxOCCn7jrbH8CMu6SHG0ORu6OXHthGdZEDJRbY6L9PtMDNWQlEtHH_YFqC1iimkDYIsEYRpAE8Yns48bMVQ0ZOj7XfcowQR4OTauAhyphenhyphenqqN0ufgJB8zv8hAulkAttrYrCeNeGIQ2yC1EufQfYxqWXOiVS2iA/w400-h300/20240208_151102.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mist on the Severn estuary at Sand Point, Flat Holm and Worlebury Hill </span></i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And then the week, and Sandra's visit, was over. Thank goodness for keeping in touch on social media. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-60493268415684973632024-02-08T20:29:00.007+00:002024-02-29T14:16:16.924+00:00Nameless Wood and Sheep Wood (again)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the map it looks as if it's possible to walk from the top end of Pen Park Road in Southmead the four miles to Penpole Point on the Kingsweston Estate, overlooking Avonmouth, through woods, with only a few A and B roads to cross, and one day I'll do it, but this walk was mainly about seeing how navigable the stretch of woodland that runs between Charlton Road and Knole Lane is.<br /><br />Son the Younger, Cwtch and I parked off Pen Park Road and crossed the green space adjoining it, which looks to have an old hedgerow across it that I'd like to inspect once it starts leafing in spring. We then cut down between houses, where there was a good view over to Cribbs Causeway and Spaniorum Hill ...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKqBJ8f3IarPK1V3M-3419oQa9vNyfAOyU08w2IcGO_YwGzHIIUWJdvHBcQdVi5wLOftN8v5FJN0DJO86gPxo91E2KNMd7qEHZ6-TufUgLxmfJ5l1mGizQEozK3KxSp_8joygMyuQRCKZjhAgVZovsM-fFWwmJJOZhMF-40EVSRy6ZPutg91UUnjvQRbH/s2364/20240201_135028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKqBJ8f3IarPK1V3M-3419oQa9vNyfAOyU08w2IcGO_YwGzHIIUWJdvHBcQdVi5wLOftN8v5FJN0DJO86gPxo91E2KNMd7qEHZ6-TufUgLxmfJ5l1mGizQEozK3KxSp_8joygMyuQRCKZjhAgVZovsM-fFWwmJJOZhMF-40EVSRy6ZPutg91UUnjvQRbH/w300-h400/20240201_135028.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji1hYg5_-GxYpGYFHcpm4eB7eBF7q8j5XQazU7jiIcvCIt6m3xVryYPCCENeotIL-kjzvDo7j7MbyodWJmRCErtHLvtM9xWUSczgrweeoLw-fEto_HPHUAIOJc5ynDnwtzrJE1D7lXRFuxuYPKAG7o0YOhHrX3Z0YZXyah4BTJaMYTooY2eOv8nqST0F_a/s2364/20240201_135116.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... and followed the concrete path until it turned into the wood, which doesn't appear to have a name, and which I'll therefore call Nameless Wood for the purpose of this account.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZdoM6ZpESeBw4MQ_9xzppwZaB9GJsFd4YI5042l00b4sdgRkMS186rUT4R7DBl1e2VwhD2BG2ASg-1AHXvYnwqM7TswjnYMiSU8qs8ylJ2O5uUeJYfqtqCM_wsmKnR2E70N6bSW2XoEzL41oGqOsZhHVaq7gtfTPrtEGDbX9sji22CcSK1iZK-XN7AVl/s2364/20240201_140133.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZdoM6ZpESeBw4MQ_9xzppwZaB9GJsFd4YI5042l00b4sdgRkMS186rUT4R7DBl1e2VwhD2BG2ASg-1AHXvYnwqM7TswjnYMiSU8qs8ylJ2O5uUeJYfqtqCM_wsmKnR2E70N6bSW2XoEzL41oGqOsZhHVaq7gtfTPrtEGDbX9sji22CcSK1iZK-XN7AVl/w300-h400/20240201_140133.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This, apparently, is where Mr Sanders lives</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMMVM3JYooNHACetDcWWiqBoV496nc1bsOnBKSDqe3OPSdch7wC8tlVJkKCdgFdoTomRCRDuBNbz-Fb7IHBm4lFHW891-j9nppZzg2w-oqkveybLtUqRpeHN78YQa9RXRJc20ostEVVRfp2eiM8fzBVwm2hVqgZHxLtKfrv75UxUu9XBo1WHVVj-27ti8/s2364/20240201_140643.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfMMVM3JYooNHACetDcWWiqBoV496nc1bsOnBKSDqe3OPSdch7wC8tlVJkKCdgFdoTomRCRDuBNbz-Fb7IHBm4lFHW891-j9nppZzg2w-oqkveybLtUqRpeHN78YQa9RXRJc20ostEVVRfp2eiM8fzBVwm2hVqgZHxLtKfrv75UxUu9XBo1WHVVj-27ti8/w300-h400/20240201_140643.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At the far end of the wood we emerged onto Brentry Hill, where I'd never been before. The Georgian pile above was designed by Humphry Repton and completed in 1802</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">. By the end of the century it was a reformatory for inebriates, then an asylum for the mentally ill, before becoming part of Brentry Hospital. It's now divided into posh apartments for the rich. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJK3yHVl_T1OPbPayw_eVTvMir9ryw3B2MB00PVJuoCMpJUW1EnmfucKyJm0jphxb4xCu92Q0yW-sePweOY2ccLoIzNUe5H8j0eM4XhG0fbE6nYIUDerqHLv_R-SZG-_pZob0791AxSewrKfGukdHVt6O2q0byzJxWhzuysuKibgbgta9Z3GUDKoaT5KGm/s2364/20240201_141609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJK3yHVl_T1OPbPayw_eVTvMir9ryw3B2MB00PVJuoCMpJUW1EnmfucKyJm0jphxb4xCu92Q0yW-sePweOY2ccLoIzNUe5H8j0eM4XhG0fbE6nYIUDerqHLv_R-SZG-_pZob0791AxSewrKfGukdHVt6O2q0byzJxWhzuysuKibgbgta9Z3GUDKoaT5KGm/w300-h400/20240201_141609.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbn51e2EdmS2wKkICdVcQ_spheBAapvW_TW9jNv2enlg4ZvvQ3u13CqlX4M6-7NZwsiS2FvSeZ2Vwkn8vQ7ARIMQSVc8HGoVo8ruGa0ho0SZUeYXc0TfX-3DSkMxE1cOozxk1nnBWWGTaroVHWmVb2yZqxMiU45BLNln-jRuqJQqBefmVNyLhH9drw_hzn/s2364/20240201_141915.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbn51e2EdmS2wKkICdVcQ_spheBAapvW_TW9jNv2enlg4ZvvQ3u13CqlX4M6-7NZwsiS2FvSeZ2Vwkn8vQ7ARIMQSVc8HGoVo8ruGa0ho0SZUeYXc0TfX-3DSkMxE1cOozxk1nnBWWGTaroVHWmVb2yZqxMiU45BLNln-jRuqJQqBefmVNyLhH9drw_hzn/w400-h300/20240201_141915.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There was a view of the Severn to the west, though it wasn't clear enough to be visible in photos (though directly above the roof of the mock Tudor property, you might be able to make out the new Severn Bridge). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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(I have to admit, although I hate rhododendrons in native woodland, the siting of the Chapel wall is so implausible, the nasty, ground-gobbling, native plant-swamping plant with flowers like crumpled red serviettes and creepy leathery leaves doesn't seem as misplaced as it might.)</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JnGI81SuWgBpccmoUhr5a6ra9y0mstWNbOkrOgQbRziZN4yXU1nZuw-kV9mobzQYeIjsx7de43CgGZCWDr5EU3HfPhHZCGY4WUgu-BjF2w18V_K9itvWcRR0WvMGNTUjIbA9Pveegpkzf5jQgmgvuugXoB9YVPF1nocBw5BTN_fNSTy2urUNqv7mDWZK/s2364/20240201_152936.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2JnGI81SuWgBpccmoUhr5a6ra9y0mstWNbOkrOgQbRziZN4yXU1nZuw-kV9mobzQYeIjsx7de43CgGZCWDr5EU3HfPhHZCGY4WUgu-BjF2w18V_K9itvWcRR0WvMGNTUjIbA9Pveegpkzf5jQgmgvuugXoB9YVPF1nocBw5BTN_fNSTy2urUNqv7mDWZK/w300-h400/20240201_152936.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the way back I began to rue my enthusiastic continuing of our walk, as I was wearing wellies and they began to blister the balls of my feet. Any distance, and walking shoes or boots are essential. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI16-dDPfPq-a81bCtVOC9vYiX6v1-m6FAxiYGbuEXQF1TNZj92iZ23Hr7wb3ZULXn1riHWjoza1o1b9SLJpWEy7ACWsr9mKk-cFDHtwPpG-rs7xwMCp6k1mDwRjVZVcR5mEfR331GFFBehidg60yPmyfB-xgzApDQOQaxUywP69VulhgHPzOaTAJbkjLQ/s2364/20240201_153125.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI16-dDPfPq-a81bCtVOC9vYiX6v1-m6FAxiYGbuEXQF1TNZj92iZ23Hr7wb3ZULXn1riHWjoza1o1b9SLJpWEy7ACWsr9mKk-cFDHtwPpG-rs7xwMCp6k1mDwRjVZVcR5mEfR331GFFBehidg60yPmyfB-xgzApDQOQaxUywP69VulhgHPzOaTAJbkjLQ/w300-h400/20240201_153125.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kL35SOfeKTikxV8SKo5Y5WA8LCybAErxlSMuCKeS5YVd8JYs_SIhk9MdKYZi1US8iOJGXlVCn9v4qhTWQZtMemwcWJ7WXh6B9OoPAnodCwNxvomIVDr93b13c2XkwK6NQCNoxK62H7jq6AoRslpva12A5A5qHiDWeMpZi91jkzYshye5kyjkAPFAItLe/s2364/20240201_153304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3kL35SOfeKTikxV8SKo5Y5WA8LCybAErxlSMuCKeS5YVd8JYs_SIhk9MdKYZi1US8iOJGXlVCn9v4qhTWQZtMemwcWJ7WXh6B9OoPAnodCwNxvomIVDr93b13c2XkwK6NQCNoxK62H7jq6AoRslpva12A5A5qHiDWeMpZi91jkzYshye5kyjkAPFAItLe/w300-h400/20240201_153304.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The fallen tree has rotted away, the ivy is still flourishing and bearing berries</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHVJGsEvnrdI4yxchDt5R81cEYDmxesgYJtLu1k1U7UVfAKQNjJHLWz5HuYjyZUdm2ddmRVuH8BFIX462o8jNqC7wfyQZgxOwpNReX9eYMQXuSO7bpw7QFsTZbZUATJi_t2ydUQeKgAM1O8txxV7EPuUrMOcOVCq62soR8Zs-_azLdJOGX2iX9X00WWN5B/s2364/20240201_155058.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHVJGsEvnrdI4yxchDt5R81cEYDmxesgYJtLu1k1U7UVfAKQNjJHLWz5HuYjyZUdm2ddmRVuH8BFIX462o8jNqC7wfyQZgxOwpNReX9eYMQXuSO7bpw7QFsTZbZUATJi_t2ydUQeKgAM1O8txxV7EPuUrMOcOVCq62soR8Zs-_azLdJOGX2iX9X00WWN5B/w300-h400/20240201_155058.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Can spring be far behind?</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><p></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-528012080192035342024-02-01T11:17:00.006+00:002024-02-01T11:23:23.695+00:00A yee-haw poetry round-up<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In terms of poetry, 2024 got off to a good start with Clare Shaw and Kim Moore's Writing Hours, a month-long series of daily Zoom workshops, the majority of which I managed to attend despite work commitments. They came at the right time for me this year: I spent most of last year severing emotional ties to my previous project and not writing poems - something which would have sent me into spiralling panic years ago, but which I've come to realise is a vital part of the process - and now I'm ready to start again. To give me a gentle boot up the bum, a commission from Bristol Lyra Poetry Festival came my way, and with the help of a prompt from last year's Writing Hours, that poem is taking pleasing shape as I write this. (I say I don't panic, but phew.) <br /><br />The previous project - my next collection, 'Love the Albatross' - just needs some final arranging of poems and a last read-through before it goes off to my publishers, Ronnie Goodyer and Dawn Bauling of Indigo Dreams, and the act of emailing them will be additional impetus for getting started on a new obsession. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A few excellent poetry gigs have come our way in Bristol over the last few months. I was aggrieved to miss the launch of Melanie Branton's new collection, 'The Full English' and Jonny Fluffypunk's gig, both at Satellite of Love, thanks to a bout of acute bronchitis, but I did get see Ruth Padel read some new poems at Bristol University, inspired by the snake goddess figurines found at Knossos in 1903. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuk3d3mYaTAw11-KUepOBwMClE4SnzqI_z2ERAAzYcXKlKhLltdJJKQbI6Jcuhqv_0olIU_EsEM0g2xqii1tbFK5fMrPZ3Eta-VSMbqwgwG1xSufnzocMwSAOhqcGrKeaa9lpa-andhH5wi1FscEu71YNQCsSzmxaWxVHPt2mGsCsXp2maKtk-PE_wnYjI/s3227/20231116_173017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3227" data-original-width="2420" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuk3d3mYaTAw11-KUepOBwMClE4SnzqI_z2ERAAzYcXKlKhLltdJJKQbI6Jcuhqv_0olIU_EsEM0g2xqii1tbFK5fMrPZ3Eta-VSMbqwgwG1xSufnzocMwSAOhqcGrKeaa9lpa-andhH5wi1FscEu71YNQCsSzmxaWxVHPt2mGsCsXp2maKtk-PE_wnYjI/w300-h400/20231116_173017.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSNaFsYFTzjHaq1pLpY74oOaoE2qvhbueViI3g1DuWR8TP-MEcrIcl6y1-drwWdam8AVEQBlXTLc4YzIdW03RlJdJwHrwagTN6BEJtf8t_60bPOAhk5h9b1fVEwTpWy-s_966SVlvv3nVbQSy0R3jNdcIuln6-cN0_Ee8EZW9VSgH-1xMl01NFFsZVPET/s244/adder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="236" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSNaFsYFTzjHaq1pLpY74oOaoE2qvhbueViI3g1DuWR8TP-MEcrIcl6y1-drwWdam8AVEQBlXTLc4YzIdW03RlJdJwHrwagTN6BEJtf8t_60bPOAhk5h9b1fVEwTpWy-s_966SVlvv3nVbQSy0R3jNdcIuln6-cN0_Ee8EZW9VSgH-1xMl01NFFsZVPET/w304-h314/adder.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I've encountered a few adders in my time, two of them alive (rather than run over). I didn't pick this one up and wave it in the air like the goddess in the top photo; rather - since it didn't appear to want to budge from the side of the path - I picked up my young collie, Ted, and sidled past as quickly as I could (after I'd taken a photo, of course). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I spent another excellent evening at the launch of Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron's poetry film based on the collection of poems by Chaucer entitled 'In an Ideal World I'd Not Be Murdered'. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9LftF1JYy8gH-n0iKXtctklOUpjSZoebxB43Yg003hHxiCT-oWq2fy49g-l2XEf-luRrf0FFe9drwGYZZ3r0iJ7_07x8RZPStFk9-LGf1XcJ7J204-2eFA-3edpkjQYvOH99skKWAbLq2Wq2MS2QcIUsOBwLg4CqfrVejqL2VugF_kYk_cgxGUI4jvsUv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1771" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9LftF1JYy8gH-n0iKXtctklOUpjSZoebxB43Yg003hHxiCT-oWq2fy49g-l2XEf-luRrf0FFe9drwGYZZ3r0iJ7_07x8RZPStFk9-LGf1XcJ7J204-2eFA-3edpkjQYvOH99skKWAbLq2Wq2MS2QcIUsOBwLg4CqfrVejqL2VugF_kYk_cgxGUI4jvsUv=w400-h260" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To be frank, I'd been a bit of an agnostic with regard to poetry film - enjoying many but not quite appreciating the need for them, because shouldn't a really good poem be able to summon strong images in a reader's mind without assistance or embellishment? Obviously the right film had to come along, with poems I already knew well, for me to be converted, and this was it. Helen's film adds layers of time and place to Chaucer's poem, without taking away any of their inherent power. It's an emphatic vindication of the form and I strongly recommend it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yisQ2uN0OOz3ftA4vYoOh49uQqlwS8_GS6Rgv-soigRCRTLb-PVRFGPeGtUUi03lYMAcI5IP6fA0UNWlFT9eofqfQweHi1Hl_vQuup_aPdLGiawnORf4gljNFcoNJxqH3VBxYEnWMcTSOg9XMvpmLwHHNZG7VVAtuV4r4k-Ys3RP2z4iOhwrjjP-Fdgf/s4032/GAG84kGaQAAtMhO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yisQ2uN0OOz3ftA4vYoOh49uQqlwS8_GS6Rgv-soigRCRTLb-PVRFGPeGtUUi03lYMAcI5IP6fA0UNWlFT9eofqfQweHi1Hl_vQuup_aPdLGiawnORf4gljNFcoNJxqH3VBxYEnWMcTSOg9XMvpmLwHHNZG7VVAtuV4r4k-Ys3RP2z4iOhwrjjP-Fdgf/w300-h400/GAG84kGaQAAtMhO.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few opportunities have materialised for me to read some poems during the first few months of this year, although I need to focus on getting readings later in the year and into 2025, once 'Love the Albatross' is published. <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2024/01/poetry-and-story-of-st-mary-tory.html" target="_blank">The reading with Words and Ears at Bradford Roots</a> has been and gone already, but there are a couple looming connected with the aforementioned Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival in April, and on 15th February, I'll be reading in support at the launch of Tina Cole's new collection, 'What it Was', which takes place at the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop's Castle.</div></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZurKLeiDZhe4BubqimQifQykYnbQuU7QJHKlhI6DLhG7ORXyBgFfqhwREdGDCyLeAgNBXh0Ejh86K4xMpktgxLDpG0u3ZQxL8QOP27-_KynnJdvn2Tr8ZEJ6uqmNXxtH2omG3vRGrBA2F1sEGQfoDTE_4TmzGellnBWyV7AaaBw2qBpSS1v_gjFiH8NL/s3508/MixCollage-07-Jan-2024-05-50-PM-5589.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZurKLeiDZhe4BubqimQifQykYnbQuU7QJHKlhI6DLhG7ORXyBgFfqhwREdGDCyLeAgNBXh0Ejh86K4xMpktgxLDpG0u3ZQxL8QOP27-_KynnJdvn2Tr8ZEJ6uqmNXxtH2omG3vRGrBA2F1sEGQfoDTE_4TmzGellnBWyV7AaaBw2qBpSS1v_gjFiH8NL/w555-h393/MixCollage-07-Jan-2024-05-50-PM-5589.jpg" width="555" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a memorable collection, for which I was delighted to write an endorsement. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A few contributor's copies have come my way, in which 'Love the Albatross' poems that have a home. (I'm always relieved when this happens with poems from a themed collection, as it means they stand on their own, as well as part of a whole.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIraq5UqALW7j_s2HW-5IceRAYOug5OOln_lkHh1Bfix1clwbjEHVJTfeJ-Z_wd2aMFY7IgCG3XWHhM7u_mqDIQRcIh9v6QcZ7S4GsXb9pX6dyWmIthReAFhgedeP_6xjC1yd0OHCO9hmq-JEBQGxuWQhOeNQ2s5bsDEekIDXs-qLl1b_10A3O2NSua48F/s2415/MixCollage-06-Jan-2024-05-52-PM-2705.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2415" data-original-width="1702" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIraq5UqALW7j_s2HW-5IceRAYOug5OOln_lkHh1Bfix1clwbjEHVJTfeJ-Z_wd2aMFY7IgCG3XWHhM7u_mqDIQRcIh9v6QcZ7S4GsXb9pX6dyWmIthReAFhgedeP_6xjC1yd0OHCO9hmq-JEBQGxuWQhOeNQ2s5bsDEekIDXs-qLl1b_10A3O2NSua48F/w304-h429/MixCollage-06-Jan-2024-05-52-PM-2705.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRHn3Rv01vD6yMsoAlpRWPsQgNni2nD47Ixk_23G7aVNiWMjtnbfN9DnZpnOKYl6E5FsHh8uupyAKqcrp-yUGDF7760kkPLwADIRYcld-YDv77n6K0AC-bA2uwk2eZiHwu5qpzF0zWa8wYb7ixqbS4_NchOCEdJEKG6ASEhSo9H9AM86opiqR8kPOeMyG/s2364/20240201_084459.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHRHn3Rv01vD6yMsoAlpRWPsQgNni2nD47Ixk_23G7aVNiWMjtnbfN9DnZpnOKYl6E5FsHh8uupyAKqcrp-yUGDF7760kkPLwADIRYcld-YDv77n6K0AC-bA2uwk2eZiHwu5qpzF0zWa8wYb7ixqbS4_NchOCEdJEKG6ASEhSo9H9AM86opiqR8kPOeMyG/w300-h400/20240201_084459.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm especially pleased that the poems published in Dream Catcher stand alongside two by fellow Bristol and Leaping Word poetry group poet, Marius Grose.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally,<a href="https://wildfire-words.com/tc/" target="_blank"> a link to my poem, 'Your silence is all I have left'</a>, which was runner-up in the 2023 Frosted Fire Single Poem competition, and can be both read and heard on the Wild Words website.</div><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-58073241160616228762024-01-25T11:25:00.013+00:002024-02-08T17:28:56.836+00:00If you go down to Sheep Wood today ...<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It was a mild day with sunny spells, and for once there was no named storm battering us, so Cwtch and I went a little farther afield, for a walk at Sheep Wood, which lies just to one side of a ridge of land between the suburbs of Westbury-on-Trym and Henbury. It's one of those not much frequented pockets of land where nature is in charge, something that's to be valued in a city. What makes this one really special, though, is that it contains - or is overlooked by - the original frontage of the Lord Mayor's Chapel, which dates from 1230 and was removed from its original site in the 1820s, when the level of Park Street was raised to improve its gradient. It was rebuilt four and a half miles to the north by (possibly) Henry Brooke of Henbury Hill House to act as a picturesque Victorian folly on the boundary of his garden abutting Sheep Wood.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'd been itching to see it since <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-visit-to-st-marks-church-or-lord.html" target="_blank">I visited the Lord Mayor's Chapel</a> just before Christmas. I thought I might have to hunt for it, but it was the first thing I saw as I entered the wood at its mid-point. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wVnLmDOEa974wMBix84KE3x-L1kh4Uxuln4RC-XVAFJIc6OLL3iZtTLIDdeYvlAII-kiGVyg0ogIH81w632MC7Nk6ak8RM6LPvcq_VDdzz5EBp2LEjysqubVht3Sc_95deGASlmO3msdWO8Bglcoo3sWWHrjcYNN0ZHVZm1wQqlgsY5cA3k33xjy6BQD/s2364/20240124_131304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9wVnLmDOEa974wMBix84KE3x-L1kh4Uxuln4RC-XVAFJIc6OLL3iZtTLIDdeYvlAII-kiGVyg0ogIH81w632MC7Nk6ak8RM6LPvcq_VDdzz5EBp2LEjysqubVht3Sc_95deGASlmO3msdWO8Bglcoo3sWWHrjcYNN0ZHVZm1wQqlgsY5cA3k33xjy6BQD/w300-h400/20240124_131304.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cwtch, on the other hand, was far more excited by the wood itself - all those new sniffs to sniff - and was motoring around, exploring every inch, so I decided to save closer inspection of the frontage for later. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPcfveKg5leinl3HqRpFMgD-sIiA7jqw-kH915DsNPuzq2VU_thhEKJYMP8gzFKEj_WnsrcxDAQDNurI6kCCOVzUJI3tyXLe9bV5bvPwdiw8TfRcQJ9I3lff09cQD9YmfXTwmgAoWgIV8IRFHQZYKOPihIhszc27O95rkiFlIfXyxXndnSHJ1vzzncdEju/s2364/20240124_131446.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPcfveKg5leinl3HqRpFMgD-sIiA7jqw-kH915DsNPuzq2VU_thhEKJYMP8gzFKEj_WnsrcxDAQDNurI6kCCOVzUJI3tyXLe9bV5bvPwdiw8TfRcQJ9I3lff09cQD9YmfXTwmgAoWgIV8IRFHQZYKOPihIhszc27O95rkiFlIfXyxXndnSHJ1vzzncdEju/w300-h400/20240124_131446.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>my first snowdrop of the year</i></span></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixqlzBcquBE8m-wgp0Ob-Lg9yydpE3pP-ub_gbMBPmtmRz_FdBSwzFacbLVg4IHMnD8sXyVenI1CsStQ_KDRmvPJGryZ0CLvlsxnpuOXIlv-zXac2VzjklvUZhk3-H2EtR-dHUnEWicg_0hfdEIug0R1K-ptMjU7ifiyE2cD7nY810CN9Pj0VcD8LmvUvE/w300-h400/20240124_132011.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">two magnificent beeches</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNysuaqY20pXWU1qKBTDuzo4XeWRn4IdliBA1lLTTxyRbMmm5cfVDT9-p8l6Dso9LHTeLS_DF70JycGXyHyFpC8eWW9CixT3L4oueQA3u61d9_RFBo66ZBr4PipSOeDhmB6fI3ahZg7uko0i9TX2Hq5bUxV_53j9VEieEwLSG2ixSl-tOBEoavwgBWx5hO/s2364/20240124_132406.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNysuaqY20pXWU1qKBTDuzo4XeWRn4IdliBA1lLTTxyRbMmm5cfVDT9-p8l6Dso9LHTeLS_DF70JycGXyHyFpC8eWW9CixT3L4oueQA3u61d9_RFBo66ZBr4PipSOeDhmB6fI3ahZg7uko0i9TX2Hq5bUxV_53j9VEieEwLSG2ixSl-tOBEoavwgBWx5hO/w300-h400/20240124_132406.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I felt I ought to have known of the wood's existence before my poet friend David Johnson told me about it a year or so ago, since it adjoins what used to be Wesley College (and before that, Didsbury College). Being Bristolian and raised Methodist, it was ... well, maybe calling it a familiar place in my childhood is a bit of a stretch, but I do remember going to see a production of 'The Crucible' there when I was about 12, and also having a picnic in the grounds when my own children were small. But walking Sheep Wood felt very much like a first footing. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You can just glimpse the former college (now a nursing home) in the background of the photo above. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJoQ1UVqi19XktV6oJTEPXIC6D6GL2qP4RAl3oIbex1TIf3Hq2MRnUN4WxXcYzsypme0zDvtl9DaTTsGvfyIlhCLoRoEH-DLBtTsCIcgiz-de24Kc-YbHIh0E6M8kvS4F084Ld3zJiCE1gKKdftJe5kVE6ZtHQEPN0IcIEwL1OYzVFfn8S-ghvJbT8thQ/s2364/20240124_132451.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFJoQ1UVqi19XktV6oJTEPXIC6D6GL2qP4RAl3oIbex1TIf3Hq2MRnUN4WxXcYzsypme0zDvtl9DaTTsGvfyIlhCLoRoEH-DLBtTsCIcgiz-de24Kc-YbHIh0E6M8kvS4F084Ld3zJiCE1gKKdftJe5kVE6ZtHQEPN0IcIEwL1OYzVFfn8S-ghvJbT8thQ/w300-h400/20240124_132451.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNuKIDSA9kzbPyzNaZ1x_xzmn8jEtTGJgxnBxyP4mfKcFQmj5DZjPLvwFtsxR8eobDrkJCR_1I5D8KhZlEJnCzNTGqab3swM2Ju3cyYhfykqz7aq63CGZAcsO8daCZL9DMcjZdmihw0rv5j9Ugot-KgkUG8VJ7AaIs5WJhqhb3Fsi0u5g7lhqM6J1lUjk/s2364/20240124_132546.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidNuKIDSA9kzbPyzNaZ1x_xzmn8jEtTGJgxnBxyP4mfKcFQmj5DZjPLvwFtsxR8eobDrkJCR_1I5D8KhZlEJnCzNTGqab3swM2Ju3cyYhfykqz7aq63CGZAcsO8daCZL9DMcjZdmihw0rv5j9Ugot-KgkUG8VJ7AaIs5WJhqhb3Fsi0u5g7lhqM6J1lUjk/w300-h400/20240124_132546.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If Cwtch was expecting sheep, she was disappointed, though we did pass a herd of yews at its south-west end. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiolongG7JFu3_3E-BuC3sAqM0jgHMW9JlsjLi6IbdBtX3T0iqX5nIYJeSBryuLYFC86kJgRW92fPa6fI0-4GNanireULWAihD6Q_byuqUE2OsDzOIkC2UEFxigovsqtaKcSc26UFfs2B7THnAbbzBWKg8SsqHZJ4orcQQ6rc5IBST8pi8tHr45ArB4x8y7/s2364/20240124_133342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiolongG7JFu3_3E-BuC3sAqM0jgHMW9JlsjLi6IbdBtX3T0iqX5nIYJeSBryuLYFC86kJgRW92fPa6fI0-4GNanireULWAihD6Q_byuqUE2OsDzOIkC2UEFxigovsqtaKcSc26UFfs2B7THnAbbzBWKg8SsqHZJ4orcQQ6rc5IBST8pi8tHr45ArB4x8y7/w300-h400/20240124_133342.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Being higher than its surroundings, on one side at least, there were some pale but interesting views of the suburbs to the west. Above, in wintry sun, the dreaming spires of Brookridge House, Henbury, which you can also see from the farmland where we more often walk, a mile and a half to the north-east. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqvOiY6dwlb5X50vXYYIbrOyD-jqb2vfTOTCyJ-MXlt9oL3pXWonSf63XxXwxhfLVqA8pR1JwxLJILgTULnBnpC4xNSMKtHPw1MIKr-jM5ZwMR_1LqsiU4biqf3LVdbMtWSxa4ZpjfzJitW_kV6BHBtR1aGwDme_Dg6DVaEv0yKfEzT3AGvZYXIr_4IA8/s2364/20240124_134343%20oak%20burr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqvOiY6dwlb5X50vXYYIbrOyD-jqb2vfTOTCyJ-MXlt9oL3pXWonSf63XxXwxhfLVqA8pR1JwxLJILgTULnBnpC4xNSMKtHPw1MIKr-jM5ZwMR_1LqsiU4biqf3LVdbMtWSxa4ZpjfzJitW_kV6BHBtR1aGwDme_Dg6DVaEv0yKfEzT3AGvZYXIr_4IA8/w300-h400/20240124_134343%20oak%20burr.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A huge burr at the foot of an oak. All the trees in the wood are under a preservation order.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepqwQU_xoseD9SQFXnqTyBOAgJ-zGmc4W02YnbCd8LE2uFNEWoUiX8S4SqUgkrfzgQPQkJJQJHF5Z2YJqlaR9-a_ddWr4AdlM3Yv53tJHNDQt2CDbJvVoyZ0bhfuQOHCEYtWUgcBnnoT8Zvzj9NQsda3PiB16S6DXhoOIRDTIlyMDqHfncgQVO09xWWsg/s2364/20240124_135159.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepqwQU_xoseD9SQFXnqTyBOAgJ-zGmc4W02YnbCd8LE2uFNEWoUiX8S4SqUgkrfzgQPQkJJQJHF5Z2YJqlaR9-a_ddWr4AdlM3Yv53tJHNDQt2CDbJvVoyZ0bhfuQOHCEYtWUgcBnnoT8Zvzj9NQsda3PiB16S6DXhoOIRDTIlyMDqHfncgQVO09xWWsg/w300-h400/20240124_135159.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-JofFvUqxEGB9ZhM6ah9RTrcp1yIdI_l_wI5s7yGQJXivypZf1ECwa9wfdoy2FvtL6H8VwWUFHWVlhDetbnbHENA_eOo3Z-6XXdQP18G_3-7Xg2xJhTVK_3S3hKXKOI7JewDnIjYiX98Uz-RO-ETRUH4rkNNdOgZ1bQjmzx48Mkwc5nbOJY6LYwcbrvJ/s2364/20240124_135254.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">CLOCKWISE from top left: stump puffball; velvet top(?) and black braacket fungus; oak bracket fungus (the oak is completely dead; the misleading leaves are from a nearby tree); King Alfred's Cakes; slime mould; hoof fungi</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVHvVzZUB8LGRMfzxhWWKEA81wq1XHXW_bKYhPZfxjdz8ZD_t2PcHFfZcdtrHsnJdGUbcv___nHuENgqGGwBMxmsFfk01NztOkGt6NzJ01eHeEgAwa2hqtOe-EHJ7yuvdYFiqI3fv8LVjd4C81vVczYGLx_dCxV2AHNWuPNOq7mLbWt8Z6c1bkqRkORys/s2364/20240124_140508.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVHvVzZUB8LGRMfzxhWWKEA81wq1XHXW_bKYhPZfxjdz8ZD_t2PcHFfZcdtrHsnJdGUbcv___nHuENgqGGwBMxmsFfk01NztOkGt6NzJ01eHeEgAwa2hqtOe-EHJ7yuvdYFiqI3fv8LVjd4C81vVczYGLx_dCxV2AHNWuPNOq7mLbWt8Z6c1bkqRkORys/w300-h400/20240124_140508.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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As we approached the Chapel facade on our return, the path ascended to its foot, so you could get a much closer look. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEy3I_m4Gn0pPGtItKk97kjNEkmGEQ1jPCfYEJTlpRkVXUQzMDbDWihYUizhkuz75Zi3DchF88imW5m93Afzuz2rpLA7ItBSJ93cC1e46cd_vFRzRO7jqZ_QnvPbXn_bWEBmUSntWf2B6YI78AtgMqzw8TsfSnTVqtUp3ieHdFynrhsIBDE2zrH_fVpf73/s2364/20240124_140619.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEy3I_m4Gn0pPGtItKk97kjNEkmGEQ1jPCfYEJTlpRkVXUQzMDbDWihYUizhkuz75Zi3DchF88imW5m93Afzuz2rpLA7ItBSJ93cC1e46cd_vFRzRO7jqZ_QnvPbXn_bWEBmUSntWf2B6YI78AtgMqzw8TsfSnTVqtUp3ieHdFynrhsIBDE2zrH_fVpf73/w300-h400/20240124_140619.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLkKOIquT5QUUmmx0jpmd6Oq6y-T48rqiFBK22Dlx8GluUmkc7_M4J2yktrB2caQXKJCEyGN5NXTBvlLhkFjRm00rLNpXSqj_MK6kz_9I9uL9344WmK1-NCaXdcvgV1m_YjDyJKf1TLVBI1e4wf22j-6a7ku-apVgSurQtsbAv73hCz498s0mIyujUf0h8/s2364/20240124_140651.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLkKOIquT5QUUmmx0jpmd6Oq6y-T48rqiFBK22Dlx8GluUmkc7_M4J2yktrB2caQXKJCEyGN5NXTBvlLhkFjRm00rLNpXSqj_MK6kz_9I9uL9344WmK1-NCaXdcvgV1m_YjDyJKf1TLVBI1e4wf22j-6a7ku-apVgSurQtsbAv73hCz498s0mIyujUf0h8/w300-h400/20240124_140651.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIIl2-QOvX3pzDN8K09iwZEKBde4ttMKN7O3l5Z30DbzoOOLTw0XSk3BIs2XvIl2EUbsjJRVnZOGtnycKTn_Hus1pEqsUTlOJaMvWhZs0bHEs56UYI-cNE599ch20NLifPFT-wPRPrMHeDjbik_6VdGqK9-YuMC5TQF_73Hgi8FZs-Vhj1Sy0pOj8C4VU/s2364/20240124_140707.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIIl2-QOvX3pzDN8K09iwZEKBde4ttMKN7O3l5Z30DbzoOOLTw0XSk3BIs2XvIl2EUbsjJRVnZOGtnycKTn_Hus1pEqsUTlOJaMvWhZs0bHEs56UYI-cNE599ch20NLifPFT-wPRPrMHeDjbik_6VdGqK9-YuMC5TQF_73Hgi8FZs-Vhj1Sy0pOj8C4VU/w300-h400/20240124_140707.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOezAeZH5alQySBDhtdMvamyK0xHj-5IIt1cbfkUu75eJbt61CRwpWW-iaRKPgX4Q0JKbz6FZj6FGAdDbbvOMya0OrdGHb5AfnWC8-aMNm6osqFdv1oNOJDJNueMe1sNVkBrJO4uNe1HlIneEydnTk7o4DvI59ABTGxYbLHM8DQsOkYOm7OLibHkuFCd9/s2364/20240124_140735.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOezAeZH5alQySBDhtdMvamyK0xHj-5IIt1cbfkUu75eJbt61CRwpWW-iaRKPgX4Q0JKbz6FZj6FGAdDbbvOMya0OrdGHb5AfnWC8-aMNm6osqFdv1oNOJDJNueMe1sNVkBrJO4uNe1HlIneEydnTk7o4DvI59ABTGxYbLHM8DQsOkYOm7OLibHkuFCd9/w300-h400/20240124_140735.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There's also a sort-of viewing platform built lower down on the side of the hill, which is accessed by a dangerous-looking flight of steps. I've been nervous of any sort of step or stair since <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2015/01/broken-leg-blues-part-1-extreme.html" target="_blank">I broke my leg</a> stepping off my doorstep back in 2015 - once your body has let you down so comprehensively, it's difficult ever to trust it again - but they still looked a better option than slithering down the slope, because obviously I couldn't pass up the chance of another, slightly different view of an eight-hundred-year-old wall. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklQ5sLlvi5e2yjXO6dO4VH9_BtCX4KxP07WOg_E2kApoynvTKde7pZMKEWlZLBKPZ1Fdyag9Tao2crFlwycUy4a4bBuhgx0jBl89U9WGBlh6ysJHYsu9WiuM1YKOHt1iwEUfKKDgvCNPcUCqyjXNdghiRcfaoDlVO895H46h2juIKFkXEnaLiorHyDzKe/s2364/20240124_141048.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklQ5sLlvi5e2yjXO6dO4VH9_BtCX4KxP07WOg_E2kApoynvTKde7pZMKEWlZLBKPZ1Fdyag9Tao2crFlwycUy4a4bBuhgx0jBl89U9WGBlh6ysJHYsu9WiuM1YKOHt1iwEUfKKDgvCNPcUCqyjXNdghiRcfaoDlVO895H46h2juIKFkXEnaLiorHyDzKe/w300-h400/20240124_141048.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1twnMD78V3zYrWPQqlRRPqdLguEWcM4NVq1t6qDCUtlKl1Q2nlW3jykKD2WJZm3ZNeslCxZSD3L7eRsquQOyeo0JY1hVRlv0R0DBdaRV7Z3WPa_-nEDiXNo6ujmw84n4WHupHaAz2a9hRvZwzElIH8RyUW0rvH5R5EveHyTozlyXGaPKieipKzVKIGUqd/s2364/20240124_140919.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1twnMD78V3zYrWPQqlRRPqdLguEWcM4NVq1t6qDCUtlKl1Q2nlW3jykKD2WJZm3ZNeslCxZSD3L7eRsquQOyeo0JY1hVRlv0R0DBdaRV7Z3WPa_-nEDiXNo6ujmw84n4WHupHaAz2a9hRvZwzElIH8RyUW0rvH5R5EveHyTozlyXGaPKieipKzVKIGUqd/w300-h400/20240124_140919.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85uuRJu52jzFqjfsapWl242H1zzcz1wawZwgDIOHQtojFIq-EkAg5sTASlsYKZt6RwbpljHAJ8YN_rch6Ah5EZabFyMHMYex61EFLXJiOhPGb6BnJIDy2UDne-AGY5F4oI57BSd_9a9W5IdzUirHq_VDyEfABQN-l4bSJV_T5o3XNAfZpuw-gTWY0AYjz/s2364/20240124_141021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85uuRJu52jzFqjfsapWl242H1zzcz1wawZwgDIOHQtojFIq-EkAg5sTASlsYKZt6RwbpljHAJ8YN_rch6Ah5EZabFyMHMYex61EFLXJiOhPGb6BnJIDy2UDne-AGY5F4oI57BSd_9a9W5IdzUirHq_VDyEfABQN-l4bSJV_T5o3XNAfZpuw-gTWY0AYjz/w400-h300/20240124_141021.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And there it was. A bit magical, really. Cwtch says we'll come back again to see how it looks in different seasons, and I think she's right. </span></div></div></div></div><p></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-27877799679829441552024-01-21T19:58:00.007+00:002024-01-22T08:49:36.128+00:00Poetry and the Stories of St Mary Tory<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Covid put paid to a lot of things, one of them being the Words and Ears poetry evenings that used to take place in The Swan at Bradford-on-Avon. (It seems churlish to complain, given that the organiser, Dawn Gorman, now presents 'The Poetry Place' on West Wilts Radio - another boon for the poetry community in the West - but I do miss the rather more plentiful opportunities we used to have for in-person mingling with the poets of Wiltshire and Somerset. <br /><br />I was really pleased, then, to be able to join a few of them for a one-off Words and Ears Live at the 2024 Bradford Roots Music Festival. First though, since I'd arrived in very good time, a little visit to the lovely Chapel of St Mary, more commonly known as St Mary Tory,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In case you're wondering, 'Tory' has nothing to do with the political party; rather, it derives from the word 'tor' and refers to its location, perched high on the hill above the 17</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> century suburb of Newtown. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_gTCQEgV-KNNeHoQJeMN7uUws-Z7uxp-WFa4AFR3dBRmugPnE6FUEN8Vt_abGLPWP3lPqjQTeoX_QJtliREIHUXRxw1J4b4XOtvAOOr1IxA4aeYH1HLRG7RYoCy6eBhzCIkBhUaGyfyoGSHc6HZWmn2CVpS0hEIaMggXh6xZlKW3OhvfAkMDYIxLaDyh/s2364/20240120_150119.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_gTCQEgV-KNNeHoQJeMN7uUws-Z7uxp-WFa4AFR3dBRmugPnE6FUEN8Vt_abGLPWP3lPqjQTeoX_QJtliREIHUXRxw1J4b4XOtvAOOr1IxA4aeYH1HLRG7RYoCy6eBhzCIkBhUaGyfyoGSHc6HZWmn2CVpS0hEIaMggXh6xZlKW3OhvfAkMDYIxLaDyh/w300-h400/20240120_150119.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Luckily, I was winding my way to Mary Tory from the top of the hill, rather than uphill from the centre of Bradford-on-Avon, which I've heard is a fair climb. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BKItFm8akkpQx-x8Kb_ZVEPBFkx6CJJy_8GO_xwaT5nYMQYFGkotC_dfbxRqHGBmQWxj8OfH8SV1M_BpvJxvjzNguSwERE1YEBL5trhQ3D2GSvjCPJ8jBxmLC2lbqk6SG5vttiipNXbUuz-hy767UPVL5MAEBsmMhQxxSObHKp1V2LqUNYXvEeoZQY5D/s2364/20240120_150134.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BKItFm8akkpQx-x8Kb_ZVEPBFkx6CJJy_8GO_xwaT5nYMQYFGkotC_dfbxRqHGBmQWxj8OfH8SV1M_BpvJxvjzNguSwERE1YEBL5trhQ3D2GSvjCPJ8jBxmLC2lbqk6SG5vttiipNXbUuz-hy767UPVL5MAEBsmMhQxxSObHKp1V2LqUNYXvEeoZQY5D/w300-h400/20240120_150134.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">... and to the west, I could see <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-one-stoat-day.html">the Tithe Barn with the Kennet and Avon canal</a> behind it. It would be good to go back again on a clearer day. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitK20uPsIJlAAzvm30x9B2t14phQPSqI2nDgEQ4E5PJEv59Q-3fZ3YfHnXhABLW1d2WDmVk1nx5vtfpWILJKKyUB0WmSSZLPizuR4ODJWc4Rp-M0Z9RSPSAVnuG9QQscyGv-bdFNm5TydoorAKAiblCm5dWejmxEiRLiDQGUOf3cscAuaqwj4RdNBp-LqF/s2364/20240120_150725.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitK20uPsIJlAAzvm30x9B2t14phQPSqI2nDgEQ4E5PJEv59Q-3fZ3YfHnXhABLW1d2WDmVk1nx5vtfpWILJKKyUB0WmSSZLPizuR4ODJWc4Rp-M0Z9RSPSAVnuG9QQscyGv-bdFNm5TydoorAKAiblCm5dWejmxEiRLiDQGUOf3cscAuaqwj4RdNBp-LqF/w300-h400/20240120_150725.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-k4HKg5yLs0PIivRuCAxqrAY3Q4zbmbo-4ZSwPQQ_qEXMUpbyYocllD6MuP4OxhkkyjPTA1FwxBzep3vDq9KXOw6QmUI4-1pIJ0XdQAB-UrIeXMhaH_kjqWR8PpmtZdhfQAah9S1GoQjKw5QBrf34V6d4gcxmsZtuTp7LW2CZ6Nd5zegCFzQFlQmg7CGy/s2364/20240120_150849.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-k4HKg5yLs0PIivRuCAxqrAY3Q4zbmbo-4ZSwPQQ_qEXMUpbyYocllD6MuP4OxhkkyjPTA1FwxBzep3vDq9KXOw6QmUI4-1pIJ0XdQAB-UrIeXMhaH_kjqWR8PpmtZdhfQAah9S1GoQjKw5QBrf34V6d4gcxmsZtuTp7LW2CZ6Nd5zegCFzQFlQmg7CGy/w300-h400/20240120_150849.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>St Mary Tory</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjaex8GML68WSgEwM8c46HDRmZH2hcUGmINpA-0YbrGS2xGbtgfVk8tL6BO1yQAcTLsr1IZkWVr0UqRlt0rJvuwpcvVL_Y-LFm9bmS50nC9Pb7oj38Vz3BwD0pR9tZNQjZrm0WNU1UL9bjHqQc7dhL7abjEzXfaHG0umLeln9nrwtieufcSE160phRCfx/s1185/20240120_151007.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1185" data-original-width="889" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikjaex8GML68WSgEwM8c46HDRmZH2hcUGmINpA-0YbrGS2xGbtgfVk8tL6BO1yQAcTLsr1IZkWVr0UqRlt0rJvuwpcvVL_Y-LFm9bmS50nC9Pb7oj38Vz3BwD0pR9tZNQjZrm0WNU1UL9bjHqQc7dhL7abjEzXfaHG0umLeln9nrwtieufcSE160phRCfx/w300-h400/20240120_151007.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The chapel is thought to date from the second half of the 15</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> century, and was originally a pilgrim chapel on the route between Glastonbury and Malmesbury. The antiquary, John Leland, came across it in his 'Itinerary' of 1533, and John Aubrey, chronicler of the 17</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century, considered it 'the finest hermitage I have seen in England'. By the 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century it was a ruin, and was rebuilt, in its original, late Perpendicular style, by T B Saunders QC. </span></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-QPYK30bJ7tVaf5P2s-mza3irDNDjioxK2pNN9LcJq13dD1mX1EJVeeUQuuRRVaVMO-ULYzG04LaOEH7u3EGKsDNJ3xGTkhFkx9mRrcXOLFcyEADyYaiuqKjnQ87CB6nd-ZJI8Py4yURQEs0x9wDJ001A1amzaBg8SR1z0yb6hb6wD55pTQWKa-OHLU2/s2364/20240120_151029.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8-QPYK30bJ7tVaf5P2s-mza3irDNDjioxK2pNN9LcJq13dD1mX1EJVeeUQuuRRVaVMO-ULYzG04LaOEH7u3EGKsDNJ3xGTkhFkx9mRrcXOLFcyEADyYaiuqKjnQ87CB6nd-ZJI8Py4yURQEs0x9wDJ001A1amzaBg8SR1z0yb6hb6wD55pTQWKa-OHLU2/w300-h400/20240120_151029.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The lovely East Window, was designed and made by Mark Angus of Bath in 1999. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjdcZFboUCzT36UYi-HCSk5WfM5otUa7hnA8JITGCOZ1sBgHm3ATeZlQODCi3tLyB3kuJySW0f0w9nV5-SDGzSlTOFtwz-bCAhLGY2YdZyo0ZawzXv1S0Z8WjILEiZmnkjuOS1bcQZUkEgoUOjht5WPnUcafFKJqRpgx7E3P10fLsTGqI-EMRXeT8-Wc3/s2364/20240120_151229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjdcZFboUCzT36UYi-HCSk5WfM5otUa7hnA8JITGCOZ1sBgHm3ATeZlQODCi3tLyB3kuJySW0f0w9nV5-SDGzSlTOFtwz-bCAhLGY2YdZyo0ZawzXv1S0Z8WjILEiZmnkjuOS1bcQZUkEgoUOjht5WPnUcafFKJqRpgx7E3P10fLsTGqI-EMRXeT8-Wc3/w300-h400/20240120_151229.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOH7Ge5J2dfI8MpJkC62TTovOYGbKB3IQfS4VkFQhSPvMlzpq5-T9DZ1EBbDIyfFb2tWlntFXiznSkWvUlf_P59AqS-tez8eV5fqJhzJwQr4SYPirESvb3RCEkwmlPjg_qIp9IldWy2JRqtptfihEXVGrviQVdbyQ8OcmTehxDIUnynO0TF3tEayRRET_/s2364/20240120_151436.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrOH7Ge5J2dfI8MpJkC62TTovOYGbKB3IQfS4VkFQhSPvMlzpq5-T9DZ1EBbDIyfFb2tWlntFXiznSkWvUlf_P59AqS-tez8eV5fqJhzJwQr4SYPirESvb3RCEkwmlPjg_qIp9IldWy2JRqtptfihEXVGrviQVdbyQ8OcmTehxDIUnynO0TF3tEayRRET_/w300-h400/20240120_151436.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It felt like a very peaceful, special place, but I couldn't linger too long as I had poems to read. I duly arrived back at the festival slightly pink and breathless, but my poems - featuring Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Joe Strummer and Ian Dury - were well received, and I was also interviewed by Dawn for West Wilts radio about my forthcoming collection, 'Love the Albatross'. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNlTLDq8z0D1jiVuUOer2O7wq9-RajiqnIgM6e9abT9WddiCsb3qELzUO9BakRFFc87U19V-HCOJ5J-YEA4A0pAHL8kfJ3xu_Oghm023bJlPLTetX7T4PBwI8OxDnTcVR6JBZRlKgDtAw6_UHa5BZRYDm08eXLdT4_LnQOgfZvMUpsmeDqoGcw3J2w-kO/s3508/MixCollage-21-Jan-2024-05-40-PM-5592.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNlTLDq8z0D1jiVuUOer2O7wq9-RajiqnIgM6e9abT9WddiCsb3qELzUO9BakRFFc87U19V-HCOJ5J-YEA4A0pAHL8kfJ3xu_Oghm023bJlPLTetX7T4PBwI8OxDnTcVR6JBZRlKgDtAw6_UHa5BZRYDm08eXLdT4_LnQOgfZvMUpsmeDqoGcw3J2w-kO/w543-h384/MixCollage-21-Jan-2024-05-40-PM-5592.jpg" width="543" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the Golden Gudgeon stage - clockwise - Linda Saunders with Dawn Gorman during the sound check, Jeff Phelps, Dawn and Frances-Anne King, Eileen Cameron, Chris Macfarlane, Linda Saunders, Dee Way and Ruth Sharman</span></i></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A funny thing happened when I was talking to a member of the audience, who was wearing a bird headband, about wassailing, specifically the time <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2015/12/of-tennis-balls-and-apple-trees.html" target="_blank">we wassailed my grandmother's apple tree</a> which my friend had driven over from my old garden on top of her Morris Traveller and replanted, and she said 'Dru Marland'! Which is exactly what I love about our community and our corner of the world. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-67724730043599122982024-01-06T21:56:00.005+00:002024-01-24T16:28:53.038+00:00Elsewhere at the end of the year<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An attack of bronchitis is hardly an ideal way to start the New Year, but since I'm holed up at home, I might as well post some photos of where I'm not currently walking a somewhat disconsolate dog.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Autumn was just starting to peter out the last time I posted about the edgelands, so here's a few of its dissolution into winter. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUOvn-U3gQRij9jDZJEmE3ehoBE8v9QeU_8vwM8nUn0sefTW2-ca2AZZVK45OcOMccRUU-Xe5yKno-zetNRYO7lGeMnhQLhxk_qg7pCVP6mpr33gvqC98knsy3gZpqUtSamLLXl2CUbAIahuj-pvVANAqkZeVD80SjrTKB1H703qYyCmU2lncsov4MaX9/w300-h400/20231123_101423.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">glorious oaklings</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYQqvw0NHibjdjRqW1J8Ns4JxwWULykAaKr7Rcu1t4vLE_tWuKfNFrgD36hi2K-zNpTWdaOqmVmJS-6EgBTTn0tFhEN795UrhEZNkkCmDTNs8mEkmjSaSd8d9BdbhmGgeo2Wy2qFUb7TUUM188NEAfaxT10FCjUuo3HPVPoX67BILPEU15yhzaUb3yFMW/s2364/20231123_101819.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the hollowing oak clinging to its colour</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9NfC2THuEbbnZSa5hpa6yrG53l3Q7CNV3ECE63Q2KrXw5nVOTUlUc06cxXbf6djWkpSYGzdRVy5g4gA2djjdHtTQW1oVl2aCXv17pO4Hw12TSvR_Fj6AXDE8mv2IgC-ksx7k61NBkPurf4D36HpY0Yl1GhR8-BQ2uMrH1EsiIL3_s4PXbjkSY23DO93R/s2364/20231123_102043.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9NfC2THuEbbnZSa5hpa6yrG53l3Q7CNV3ECE63Q2KrXw5nVOTUlUc06cxXbf6djWkpSYGzdRVy5g4gA2djjdHtTQW1oVl2aCXv17pO4Hw12TSvR_Fj6AXDE8mv2IgC-ksx7k61NBkPurf4D36HpY0Yl1GhR8-BQ2uMrH1EsiIL3_s4PXbjkSY23DO93R/w300-h400/20231123_102043.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: medium;">the Goat Willow, as yellow with autumn leaves now as it was with catkins in spring</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZE7M88K8thq0DHTgVBZ7ajV4vVywUSNIuDXZKEfrLyo1fa_OapZ3RR9q3raK3fZieZeSNXuOBD-_z6-aql6PUbdVHNcSoaiPlnPJFiBuQ3OGVo_E6WDWvwiLvgjRBtP1CyYSR0M-fnv9D0YnywlIMu26PE3kQyMsnvxdl0ibj5pBYq9E7t_Yy9Kqztpv/s2364/20231124_085253.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxZE7M88K8thq0DHTgVBZ7ajV4vVywUSNIuDXZKEfrLyo1fa_OapZ3RR9q3raK3fZieZeSNXuOBD-_z6-aql6PUbdVHNcSoaiPlnPJFiBuQ3OGVo_E6WDWvwiLvgjRBtP1CyYSR0M-fnv9D0YnywlIMu26PE3kQyMsnvxdl0ibj5pBYq9E7t_Yy9Kqztpv/w300-h400/20231124_085253.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Badger's Bottom</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9OTZn6smVQue16xvETnvJqcAn3yfyY89uznvy4gTuSdfRRO_RozOwEHFqwPxjJPxGcRCVM8WhRnvfmWliGaTtqY8iQ7qZ2X2QrCyIMF6-EaZO76ZFdLKH6l8Hp9ClT8BupTleORs_JuP8vgbB4uC4hyskBLWd_KWUBLLmXRNTktZ7I4NFuKS3iI8aZ9j/s2364/20231124_085837.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO9OTZn6smVQue16xvETnvJqcAn3yfyY89uznvy4gTuSdfRRO_RozOwEHFqwPxjJPxGcRCVM8WhRnvfmWliGaTtqY8iQ7qZ2X2QrCyIMF6-EaZO76ZFdLKH6l8Hp9ClT8BupTleORs_JuP8vgbB4uC4hyskBLWd_KWUBLLmXRNTktZ7I4NFuKS3iI8aZ9j/w300-h400/20231124_085837.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the oak out on the fields</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4x5Ysb42ridRg4vx5DFM8HR8qpeRm-nh-WeNrgmsC2J5_mAMugcmLsgHs7SOhdP89TvzkAZD6D39I3FyLO-M-LKFI4KV_wwNqHBflhybXC1MTObi7xh6L45B5ZrLHwGuyqOru1fKchu5HvRm3STwZRgnYafU0hOOOAce_myvM-3OJLfQYlwzLvunTKsqJ/s2364/20231124_090453.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4x5Ysb42ridRg4vx5DFM8HR8qpeRm-nh-WeNrgmsC2J5_mAMugcmLsgHs7SOhdP89TvzkAZD6D39I3FyLO-M-LKFI4KV_wwNqHBflhybXC1MTObi7xh6L45B5ZrLHwGuyqOru1fKchu5HvRm3STwZRgnYafU0hOOOAce_myvM-3OJLfQYlwzLvunTKsqJ/w300-h400/20231124_090453.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">my favourite field maple</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvVebVBo24H8zSK9XxnRa_XNdz-El1hPEwC5I93_av7aPdn2F5Nu0dlmWYYufIXp4RQVfxHslRAvaBmKUgutsroJppRxSSnKhupLEOJBgtXRiqIHcscOppYun5YLVnHjCVRVIbZQLcPVJub9oTuKfflS_dvxFOltIt1jheUFt8z7mAEBfLZ1AqnlNGhrk/s2364/20231124_091514%20dogwood.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvVebVBo24H8zSK9XxnRa_XNdz-El1hPEwC5I93_av7aPdn2F5Nu0dlmWYYufIXp4RQVfxHslRAvaBmKUgutsroJppRxSSnKhupLEOJBgtXRiqIHcscOppYun5YLVnHjCVRVIbZQLcPVJub9oTuKfflS_dvxFOltIt1jheUFt8z7mAEBfLZ1AqnlNGhrk/s320/20231124_091514%20dogwood.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I've already posted about <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/12/frost-and-mist-and-fire.html" target="_blank">the beautiful frost in mist </a>we had in the first week of December, which had been preceded by a lighter display about ten days earlier. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8IUNDFxchsOFKnJZcO8DbCUAePeSQm8XJ9b_N2bQnpa-Yh06lQ5IRfn-jK4mLeyiuDCuiyAmbeh4pUCfesKM5U67szJsjyFqj2Mia373Xmq-c3YfyxVda0wAPV6L03NHRIFwZmcoHy5u5aWF0NjU1l1ET-Zrhc6co58DBAvBZZZqSsjJaa9isA82FbNe5/s2364/20231125_110103.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8IUNDFxchsOFKnJZcO8DbCUAePeSQm8XJ9b_N2bQnpa-Yh06lQ5IRfn-jK4mLeyiuDCuiyAmbeh4pUCfesKM5U67szJsjyFqj2Mia373Xmq-c3YfyxVda0wAPV6L03NHRIFwZmcoHy5u5aWF0NjU1l1ET-Zrhc6co58DBAvBZZZqSsjJaa9isA82FbNe5/w300-h400/20231125_110103.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8QVsdSwz4whZ-1RZ2xNl2DriP3w9AO7HoF05ML5ZQRQ4DrXLwgzgkSoJmgsBgxKJXHmoPkmEyKA6OAO3BndWLATp4pUbzAuveA2qiVOUhjnwp8tNvMXE1MT7NLAjlBhcYuEhlws5iw-dXR23PolG3XLQER6PTOn9v0FpL9ePT14LSad9jrVOrZbneojC/s2364/20231125_110115.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz8QVsdSwz4whZ-1RZ2xNl2DriP3w9AO7HoF05ML5ZQRQ4DrXLwgzgkSoJmgsBgxKJXHmoPkmEyKA6OAO3BndWLATp4pUbzAuveA2qiVOUhjnwp8tNvMXE1MT7NLAjlBhcYuEhlws5iw-dXR23PolG3XLQER6PTOn9v0FpL9ePT14LSad9jrVOrZbneojC/w400-h300/20231125_110115.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqo-hCKWRSUx2OCYECr5791V6kerDl5mK3Ia2hbibLBgGG_1pqtQZ11PRuWbbs0Ey95d9Waz2XyAnIDx0FGXrZ62c02uxG9n2UJXAcPpqcWPlsyYkA_IjA3idn8WjK4QIuunizYvyia93uCoPMsJWL1f1Gico6DOdANANPhO8taOnehhu0C0sWe4lQ7NQ/s4608/20231125_111813.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqo-hCKWRSUx2OCYECr5791V6kerDl5mK3Ia2hbibLBgGG_1pqtQZ11PRuWbbs0Ey95d9Waz2XyAnIDx0FGXrZ62c02uxG9n2UJXAcPpqcWPlsyYkA_IjA3idn8WjK4QIuunizYvyia93uCoPMsJWL1f1Gico6DOdANANPhO8taOnehhu0C0sWe4lQ7NQ/w300-h400/20231125_111813.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Floods too. Winter's the time for floods, here in the skylarks' field.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcGylYqg3iuMhIsXYYTWliLoDsDkDra50LAY_5lAb7V2MvK-awhggsLjNO3cwWneKbrHdotGkjj39A4W5D9Da0GFhwR2pO8DsYH3gUieLKfU-CV5A_0j-en_PFriMIe18NiNVNpV13r0x7-WMafSGa0Lh5yObE7VYICQHRH3wXUOGXlRge0vTngBalomoX/s2364/20231206_094650.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcGylYqg3iuMhIsXYYTWliLoDsDkDra50LAY_5lAb7V2MvK-awhggsLjNO3cwWneKbrHdotGkjj39A4W5D9Da0GFhwR2pO8DsYH3gUieLKfU-CV5A_0j-en_PFriMIe18NiNVNpV13r0x7-WMafSGa0Lh5yObE7VYICQHRH3wXUOGXlRge0vTngBalomoX/w300-h400/20231206_094650.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKo-_h2U3j9WhEP0NDH9rGkx81wUUjZemLwH156baF1Krz53Tnr4e1P28dnnMsdqUNmxH7MqVtArpW1tANZf0Fvk4pH9Wryd2CqKSLPAbmn3YqYe1SQ9uDXup1E3L2sh937lU01VTi7BlkEktUgjLJmW0UvA2gb9N7zlaYdULDhbFpRUWNvqvROZ8I0QtX/s2364/20231206_094742.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKo-_h2U3j9WhEP0NDH9rGkx81wUUjZemLwH156baF1Krz53Tnr4e1P28dnnMsdqUNmxH7MqVtArpW1tANZf0Fvk4pH9Wryd2CqKSLPAbmn3YqYe1SQ9uDXup1E3L2sh937lU01VTi7BlkEktUgjLJmW0UvA2gb9N7zlaYdULDhbFpRUWNvqvROZ8I0QtX/w300-h400/20231206_094742.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMI8mD5GTiKS90fd5FTeW_Tz22oyqdbqXaFGFQvFOguhcsFfh62qUIrhJt1kjMGQ6d97wntcKrXl5-YgioDvm8x3YRUZ8khZfeMFjfloTuCrI2Jh1kupZgaWv_Ut3abnKHJKEHHXHmNT2YkwxbDwaZown_Yex4195d2UAD-zrV1LUcC-qSBW6utE8U4xW/s2364/20231206_094935.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMI8mD5GTiKS90fd5FTeW_Tz22oyqdbqXaFGFQvFOguhcsFfh62qUIrhJt1kjMGQ6d97wntcKrXl5-YgioDvm8x3YRUZ8khZfeMFjfloTuCrI2Jh1kupZgaWv_Ut3abnKHJKEHHXHmNT2YkwxbDwaZown_Yex4195d2UAD-zrV1LUcC-qSBW6utE8U4xW/w300-h400/20231206_094935.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The ditch at the foot of the Field of the Hollowing Oak has had a flow - even a current - for much of December, plus a dam. The poet in me would love to declare Beaver! but there are no nibbled tree stumps and anyhow, they wouldn't live in what is usually just mud. It's just something it built for itself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOYmbwzNrjK9a8R7AJ7d147GG6TTK2zd5XBb3pbt4D-JS1NviYsF1wtaqbR44oKiX1bx4aNnMCdJD-Gh_YPO5FQYPCsA4eUXZIh3YPI1zLGnEeDBDmpr8_fFbjVjYbAoamk8OXd3dePPnMd9jgiJSjgaAMxBl0J8_2Ht0jkZCUl4BwkSuH3cXDX1Oqj9h/s2364/20231208_141859.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYOYmbwzNrjK9a8R7AJ7d147GG6TTK2zd5XBb3pbt4D-JS1NviYsF1wtaqbR44oKiX1bx4aNnMCdJD-Gh_YPO5FQYPCsA4eUXZIh3YPI1zLGnEeDBDmpr8_fFbjVjYbAoamk8OXd3dePPnMd9jgiJSjgaAMxBl0J8_2Ht0jkZCUl4BwkSuH3cXDX1Oqj9h/w300-h400/20231208_141859.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Clockwise from top left: bramble blossom and spindle; buttercups; frosted red dead nettle; white dead nettle; ivies; yarrow and hogweed; ragwort; next spring's periwinkle</span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As for fauna, the roe deer are much in evidence, if only by their hoofprints. One set is conspicuously smaller than the others - hard to know if that's their fawn, which won't be fully grown yet, or muntjac straying into the field, maybe, especially there's all that construction going on near their rumoured stronghold of Charlton Common. All just conjecture on my part, though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfF8CxdJfWEP8ILUXEInOJ5fHYXoXY_CCavj_8nFu_EnbohM4-tcDe7feOSMLhOeLw-NGa3yLEHFqSpVB94Tg1kCC6INY3OxZywwyion1MkPMY067e7Y5QytiQMgZPCoRxEKe4UrcphucICREjIMflvazMXa5LYa4M-P05pdYRiexs24lTqiTBaZjJ-wOS/s3508/MixCollage-05-Jan-2024-09-38-PM-6303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfF8CxdJfWEP8ILUXEInOJ5fHYXoXY_CCavj_8nFu_EnbohM4-tcDe7feOSMLhOeLw-NGa3yLEHFqSpVB94Tg1kCC6INY3OxZywwyion1MkPMY067e7Y5QytiQMgZPCoRxEKe4UrcphucICREjIMflvazMXa5LYa4M-P05pdYRiexs24lTqiTBaZjJ-wOS/w400-h283/MixCollage-05-Jan-2024-09-38-PM-6303.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In addition to the nocturnal wanderings of deer, there's been the usual:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEianBHljkbnQUOa3YRAiEmtzYu8EwjHjSLkqSckUcrjNPWe14WPowo3ty0C7O651GaAFpjB6eelV8nw3YYWmsAfPtIhyphenhypheno0FfJxsPpscXWEaYunaS9Tx7O9Pyn4kvdgZjC1McwhYBmwxjlf7Ewadh8IEjmxCsXZ19RQHa8S32eUh5GdANBXO7XUYqczCSOOQ/s2364/20231130_134424.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEianBHljkbnQUOa3YRAiEmtzYu8EwjHjSLkqSckUcrjNPWe14WPowo3ty0C7O651GaAFpjB6eelV8nw3YYWmsAfPtIhyphenhypheno0FfJxsPpscXWEaYunaS9Tx7O9Pyn4kvdgZjC1McwhYBmwxjlf7Ewadh8IEjmxCsXZ19RQHa8S32eUh5GdANBXO7XUYqczCSOOQ/w300-h400/20231130_134424.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>a dead shrew</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0N4mZwdWaEP9K2LyDcBqj6GoxVwy3uX5AXd_kwlmYk_SNqpOnIu_jlhU-bDPJCijuxgu3lN2tzr0pjLv47WcUWmpc1CjY6Txy_S0c3fKUT7rsECWjn-jwKuTVg-NKBwgQtdYUnc8qCdmllzXpLMzUtqKgIb6v5kQDlCqlAUmVb4K7YQgFgniirBFsGYG/s4608/20231213_122049.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK0N4mZwdWaEP9K2LyDcBqj6GoxVwy3uX5AXd_kwlmYk_SNqpOnIu_jlhU-bDPJCijuxgu3lN2tzr0pjLv47WcUWmpc1CjY6Txy_S0c3fKUT7rsECWjn-jwKuTVg-NKBwgQtdYUnc8qCdmllzXpLMzUtqKgIb6v5kQDlCqlAUmVb4K7YQgFgniirBFsGYG/w300-h400/20231213_122049.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a dead pigeon</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwo8VUCHj9fA5ccOw7ftTBsjTRIOdBYyNZpiOHUUUS28KBLblDrEOhlKb-R8ofaS36c6IvKsXEr2H7n3ovcow' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a kestrel on the hunt</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgMBOTtKQYw6sHS16V-VP3r7Ow1XQc_WTwJSPQB39CcMia-f4opVqVnm-KiY5-NM-nfj7f9LFRqMQjvaoXuBnVfomuA2JuxMTpR0RkvbKHwCkO7CdOCYUwKFsJ1BvcjRc5hG3a8jf7VTvhFNXBQOO6WDxwNtO72D1yuCyBSOG0Z0xtGzCg1BsipBEScKpY/s2364/20231218_110111%20goldfinch%20colours.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgMBOTtKQYw6sHS16V-VP3r7Ow1XQc_WTwJSPQB39CcMia-f4opVqVnm-KiY5-NM-nfj7f9LFRqMQjvaoXuBnVfomuA2JuxMTpR0RkvbKHwCkO7CdOCYUwKFsJ1BvcjRc5hG3a8jf7VTvhFNXBQOO6WDxwNtO72D1yuCyBSOG0Z0xtGzCg1BsipBEScKpY/w300-h400/20231218_110111%20goldfinch%20colours.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">dive-bombing goldfinches that, if they hadn't been too fast to photograph, would have looked something like this</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As for the developement of Brabazon, the hi-vizzers are increasingly visible this side of Fishpool Hill.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-C-uTrr7peRGTKO7-XEcTJP68ImnGb3bwwyVMtqsixnIQ9rR3K-2r9R-bzXh23SxPjWj_321cYleOa2XX7eqdxmDDDX8sVDT7j8t0VdltX0p4gpo3OOa-7KSHgLg6N7Xqa0nfmFcOTJI8jLoynwLV1CMxsHRjEjShsKlWdVnGCxw4nuUrrXbAMhwmdGfX/s2364/20231129_100832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-C-uTrr7peRGTKO7-XEcTJP68ImnGb3bwwyVMtqsixnIQ9rR3K-2r9R-bzXh23SxPjWj_321cYleOa2XX7eqdxmDDDX8sVDT7j8t0VdltX0p4gpo3OOa-7KSHgLg6N7Xqa0nfmFcOTJI8jLoynwLV1CMxsHRjEjShsKlWdVnGCxw4nuUrrXbAMhwmdGfX/w300-h400/20231129_100832.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A long trench has been dug in the skylarks field, alongside the cutting, stopping just short of the badgers sett. Let's hope it stays that way.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhAjdxTR98Ec13u9JSr5EW_8z68TVR4ekQHrLenyqMzPbBDKqtBSw6NCQrsQwFRc6iXJejDJrTU2aBNbSiltoBQACb-S2FU5Nw47UxUQSZ3oxYxmt180i7Dz6Ad_f5xWh-ete_Tgq99DhZuwqZx91eCTV9kib0ib2wOgA264PHZMYet9o-wFdolfgXhN6y/s2364/20231129_105435.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhAjdxTR98Ec13u9JSr5EW_8z68TVR4ekQHrLenyqMzPbBDKqtBSw6NCQrsQwFRc6iXJejDJrTU2aBNbSiltoBQACb-S2FU5Nw47UxUQSZ3oxYxmt180i7Dz6Ad_f5xWh-ete_Tgq99DhZuwqZx91eCTV9kib0ib2wOgA264PHZMYet9o-wFdolfgXhN6y/w300-h400/20231129_105435.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">M</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">eanwhile, the footpath has been lost beneath the tracks of heavy plant ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgheY65svW40aJOY6kevZdypWZelCnm2Be0tf505Xp1uwt37-ZHYIWhhtlTi7JVIA2omFP-kCfp5_pJX3ukLMrzAe2ski1pDuIB43Rkg2z5n416-8yeOTwFS6JMGof6LG1UNPFo3EsOOKPmV1BPoRhadiZRRzwyPJFaO9bSsWTnpsDO2YEakZZq-3TpV-/s2364/20231216_141917.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgheY65svW40aJOY6kevZdypWZelCnm2Be0tf505Xp1uwt37-ZHYIWhhtlTi7JVIA2omFP-kCfp5_pJX3ukLMrzAe2ski1pDuIB43Rkg2z5n416-8yeOTwFS6JMGof6LG1UNPFo3EsOOKPmV1BPoRhadiZRRzwyPJFaO9bSsWTnpsDO2YEakZZq-3TpV-/w300-h400/20231216_141917.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">... that continue on down the far field. </div></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFDXkG4csjTQbbE7JwOcgNXwBMp4gf3XgHR7b3oVrlyaDtbIgrsug_TEQPENaLrwhp-M1rpktZeUx19psu2MFLDRdZl2UU3pbEHOyK2KhR1peu_BasGcEPRE0WnZH0-eiU7u_EycADJiUcdQ6jlCI_b9jjg3um9t6-286OBsQ6vendrWo35OuEmi8pCl8/s2364/20231216_141301.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFDXkG4csjTQbbE7JwOcgNXwBMp4gf3XgHR7b3oVrlyaDtbIgrsug_TEQPENaLrwhp-M1rpktZeUx19psu2MFLDRdZl2UU3pbEHOyK2KhR1peu_BasGcEPRE0WnZH0-eiU7u_EycADJiUcdQ6jlCI_b9jjg3um9t6-286OBsQ6vendrWo35OuEmi8pCl8/w300-h400/20231216_141301.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For weeks there's been chain-sawing going on down in the cutting ...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Rq_3V1C-S51uxdjWmi_ibq3gwAmlLwHOWAgZ7unDQkSmWH_wLPFkratwMYGib5MfE5OnJBZ42jOHDEPSrAl7U5P-8c2cPJN6dOL0yzJnMM-EHd2IiDa3xHW_e4T1-JASczFnQd8Q9-fhxziQuYK8V_X0mx5QxvH-LuxZeij1HwQdaWxkpTmpsdkowIhW/s2364/20231117_153622.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Rq_3V1C-S51uxdjWmi_ibq3gwAmlLwHOWAgZ7unDQkSmWH_wLPFkratwMYGib5MfE5OnJBZ42jOHDEPSrAl7U5P-8c2cPJN6dOL0yzJnMM-EHd2IiDa3xHW_e4T1-JASczFnQd8Q9-fhxziQuYK8V_X0mx5QxvH-LuxZeij1HwQdaWxkpTmpsdkowIhW/w300-h400/20231117_153622.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... with a section of hedgerow removed, maybe to make a walkway to the station once it's reopened.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPG8-hjr5Y8f6G8gpIngyF3kfExifv61K1mIu6-gK0R5CRheTl4b6DACPaJjlavJmA9xJYD0Z992fiKj6NdWbmb5VPg0NezxGqcXeRkBIRSVCUOTk9cTX3vxDbH5OCmGWR8AwBxmILPAfCCwmxu24Qr15yIc_GDXisJ4Bz3ymfIxSs5NfRpnZ0TFtzeCP7/s2364/20231117_154044.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPG8-hjr5Y8f6G8gpIngyF3kfExifv61K1mIu6-gK0R5CRheTl4b6DACPaJjlavJmA9xJYD0Z992fiKj6NdWbmb5VPg0NezxGqcXeRkBIRSVCUOTk9cTX3vxDbH5OCmGWR8AwBxmILPAfCCwmxu24Qr15yIc_GDXisJ4Bz3ymfIxSs5NfRpnZ0TFtzeCP7/w300-h400/20231117_154044.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I'm reminded - as so often! - of 'Black Beauty', when the colts are sent to a neighbouring farm and a steam train that skirts the meadow they're kept in terrifies them. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqTXfATuvl-kFOzQO8UKbFRfB7HP_RMD_zH1ytjo40hcgWMlwn-nXJZg-iGoVY4tQWsRyD5eOdRjmdGS65wM91e2rctIvvwJRZNy1X-dCIduCk83BE6stPs1bD3VodlfaJXYVhrigW60aGhhdqjBYAqxSvlyWj_dX8gKpsU6EJhiuM4M8Ke2zH09XIhke/s2364/20231122_101912.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUqTXfATuvl-kFOzQO8UKbFRfB7HP_RMD_zH1ytjo40hcgWMlwn-nXJZg-iGoVY4tQWsRyD5eOdRjmdGS65wM91e2rctIvvwJRZNy1X-dCIduCk83BE6stPs1bD3VodlfaJXYVhrigW60aGhhdqjBYAqxSvlyWj_dX8gKpsU6EJhiuM4M8Ke2zH09XIhke/w300-h400/20231122_101912.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMucorq8yVDHl7FBpPnAvU6_jjZvPgyu5e4CXbokQDh0yA-OZXp3QNhR4Hq7NoG5n5Mo7C8ogoUOEPek4zvpKIAVJWKhY4ok0w7NXRJ25txFXsQxjshpu7hBg-whEStJeiZiEH8O0LoMv5CsJ3Uh5Z02ScNyqwK9wtWA-MKMeWcwP68cClvXLUEdd8a3x/s2364/20231216_141334.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwMucorq8yVDHl7FBpPnAvU6_jjZvPgyu5e4CXbokQDh0yA-OZXp3QNhR4Hq7NoG5n5Mo7C8ogoUOEPek4zvpKIAVJWKhY4ok0w7NXRJ25txFXsQxjshpu7hBg-whEStJeiZiEH8O0LoMv5CsJ3Uh5Z02ScNyqwK9wtWA-MKMeWcwP68cClvXLUEdd8a3x/w300-h400/20231216_141334.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even the footpath was briefly cut off by a black plastic fence, but it soon got trodden down. Nevertheless, I can't help feeling that our days of walking here are effectively over.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thank goodness for the field and the hollowing oak.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1Scw9nVZ9Bv_O6J2SQKI-S3wQYZ1LbR_ZKYQwyFXlSe1gYu3l5HJZEdyh-RxHQghc2mb2gKLcIQLooyyhsc8kAFkwCAe2BA3aOyNrNasfqZhc7kgX1ziX6UVEOESSqIbjI1x9qq36GOrZsdnqYxYvyTGy-Ki4fjUE7kFXhjWHr8P-guK_paNGkSyv8hA/s2364/20231130_134159.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht1Scw9nVZ9Bv_O6J2SQKI-S3wQYZ1LbR_ZKYQwyFXlSe1gYu3l5HJZEdyh-RxHQghc2mb2gKLcIQLooyyhsc8kAFkwCAe2BA3aOyNrNasfqZhc7kgX1ziX6UVEOESSqIbjI1x9qq36GOrZsdnqYxYvyTGy-Ki4fjUE7kFXhjWHr8P-guK_paNGkSyv8hA/w400-h300/20231130_134159.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZCJJncUEYR1R1JbUr-gx80Tg9vUz5odiALrB5uEEslB9HFdMu1NH2aZSEd_d3cDeAUJzMlbWif8CfCUYNFkTjCZK0hKOBW5qXrGxE0Wof-JP-_0eS19rS5KqK9ogUrC92-qWuuqHM7-oYr3k3imG9VvAIelwmsi1W3Aw2R0ySbHyxdmtUQocu8LJERO3/s2364/20231210_124721.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZCJJncUEYR1R1JbUr-gx80Tg9vUz5odiALrB5uEEslB9HFdMu1NH2aZSEd_d3cDeAUJzMlbWif8CfCUYNFkTjCZK0hKOBW5qXrGxE0Wof-JP-_0eS19rS5KqK9ogUrC92-qWuuqHM7-oYr3k3imG9VvAIelwmsi1W3Aw2R0ySbHyxdmtUQocu8LJERO3/w300-h400/20231210_124721.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCxXFDl6R8jHdXZcHhRwfN2DqRrmRf2bmkBRfm97fZY7QfHTulZBq8X2-H0gn3yXEs_XGTRtJ8rSgQR_AgEdsI4aoh5Egc-ee6oOo53uLIN78wYDiwWi4odcPHF7dpbgf9_nxKy8uFQvfpt5iYfBBHVJIz01bgAWFB1_p6qwaRyMyYMpOlChDbDRU0gQ2/s4608/20231213_120836.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivCxXFDl6R8jHdXZcHhRwfN2DqRrmRf2bmkBRfm97fZY7QfHTulZBq8X2-H0gn3yXEs_XGTRtJ8rSgQR_AgEdsI4aoh5Egc-ee6oOo53uLIN78wYDiwWi4odcPHF7dpbgf9_nxKy8uFQvfpt5iYfBBHVJIz01bgAWFB1_p6qwaRyMyYMpOlChDbDRU0gQ2/w300-h400/20231213_120836.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-77044844298629996912023-12-31T09:44:00.008+00:002024-01-21T21:40:27.107+00:00Visiting the yew at Waverley Abbey<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> 'No fucking about now', said the Northerner in a stern and northern way as I fastened my seatbelt. 'Just straight there and straight back, ok?' <br /><br />But a 340-mile round trip driving one of the offspring back to near Brighton in dreary midwinter's not much fun without at least a bit of a treat. And I don't mean an M&S Wensleydale and carrot chutney sandwich from Chieveley Services either (though they are my preferred fare on long drives). So we made the outward journey shorter, though a little longer timewise, by coming off the M4 at Reading and taking the A33 through the top right-hand corner of Hampshire to Waverley Abbey in Surrey, which has a nice tree. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I barely know the Home Counties, but as I drove past a turning called Old Compton Lane, this patch at least began to look familiar, and I wondered if I'd been there before. Could we be anywhere near <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2011/06/watts-gallery-compton-hope-over.html" rel="" target="_blank">Watts Gallery</a> and <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2011/06/watts-gallery-compton-lady-marys-chapel.html" target="_blank">Lady Mary's Chapel</a>, not forgetting <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2011/07/stag-and-angels.html" target="_blank">Guildford Cathedral</a>, which I'd visited with poet friends a considerable number of years ago? And godawfully charming <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2012/06/homesick-in-surrey.html" target="_blank">Godalming</a>? It was only when I got home that I could look up the locations, and yes, we were little more than a stone's throw from all of these spots, which is the trouble with letting Google Maps plan your journey, instead of poring over an atlas: the places are more difficult to join up in your memory. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Anyway. We were on a mission to see the yew tree that won the <a href="https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/tree-of-the-year-2022/" target="_blank">Woodland Trust's UK Tree of the Year competition in 2022</a>, and if there were a few mediaeval eccelsiastical ruins to take in at the same time, so much better. It had even stopped raining, more or less, and there were plenty of red kites about, which was a bonus. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7XTNKCS-Oz4iJ8aR6A_51XNwnQcxsDgdM0yKLZwUdwegPlOisWiiWPgbq-CcyYd0jORowGOf5JiKz_DPkq0awUWbbygu256j9hVGEXlwhQvDF-GXqoeT8uDF0d4pQOY1zx21K0W65kr_QuKgyYIxzdjhhuBoE_0VMcpiXvp78JtpjXi361yZqrv4qkiA/s2364/20231228_110027.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW7XTNKCS-Oz4iJ8aR6A_51XNwnQcxsDgdM0yKLZwUdwegPlOisWiiWPgbq-CcyYd0jORowGOf5JiKz_DPkq0awUWbbygu256j9hVGEXlwhQvDF-GXqoeT8uDF0d4pQOY1zx21K0W65kr_QuKgyYIxzdjhhuBoE_0VMcpiXvp78JtpjXi361yZqrv4qkiA/w300-h400/20231228_110027.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Our route to the yew and the ruins took us along the side of a picturesque man-made lake, which, the map later suggested, is fed by the nearby River Wey. The skies were stormy with alternating scuds of rain and sun.</span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCwrrr-3I4iUR4J8mkgfG8i5aAoVWILFoo5BkaDsm2HOb-4XhsB1kyeqguebj0Fqt7VXCgbMIcW_W55pLLqstgFny1RQRxS1oJ22THnHRdE0qR6SBQ_19TzpHULU-4nVMDqpQjDn3XvhWVyh8S0s3kl21aIxe_TQIKML0QVb7hrZFgL8-46cYuNL_PhsNa/s2364/20231228_110302.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCwrrr-3I4iUR4J8mkgfG8i5aAoVWILFoo5BkaDsm2HOb-4XhsB1kyeqguebj0Fqt7VXCgbMIcW_W55pLLqstgFny1RQRxS1oJ22THnHRdE0qR6SBQ_19TzpHULU-4nVMDqpQjDn3XvhWVyh8S0s3kl21aIxe_TQIKML0QVb7hrZFgL8-46cYuNL_PhsNa/w300-h400/20231228_110302.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We also passed Waverley Abbey House, for which the moody Abbey ruins, along with the lake, became a landscape feature in its grounds, but which is of much less interest to me.</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDjwis20WPQ9qaYgE2ND-58Wlw4CuihX32i8lW0thQ6cjLX7aBgXTh7K9tWnEr6-8tGwEp2hAwd1Jdo0KGTcBiQtKAEICQoLhKgBCpNoxkrA5vZ61JtWQTky_iMfpU12zWB9YY4QFAgkNNxPJ2-MvOuiQK25Yn5vmXni8E4lq0pinb3VInsTlM5w706jv/s2364/20231228_110552.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggDjwis20WPQ9qaYgE2ND-58Wlw4CuihX32i8lW0thQ6cjLX7aBgXTh7K9tWnEr6-8tGwEp2hAwd1Jdo0KGTcBiQtKAEICQoLhKgBCpNoxkrA5vZ61JtWQTky_iMfpU12zWB9YY4QFAgkNNxPJ2-MvOuiQK25Yn5vmXni8E4lq0pinb3VInsTlM5w706jv/w400-h300/20231228_110552.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We know parts of the Abbey were demolished rather than left to fall, as much of its stone was used in other, nearby buildings, so the yew could have been planted, by person or bird, on the razed walls of the Abbey Church shortly afterward its destruction - and given the species' connection with spiritual and religious places, what a powerful symbol its flourishing is. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwG1MWd44EOkd8MMkA7W99ChgkLPXBBkpdLiSlmuPb44evDIQfdUMvAjVGeZf8kuIOmYFTGeug3qZFJvlTaRRshsaiiYeH_x60b38U2Gq73ea0EciHLFmvMWc_XuMW_MBYcYkJ9ZliOfzH8MVl3tZZRxzhD5pu2AlCKR_mVDLylYxLwunel6K7AANJ5aC/s2364/20231228_112007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwG1MWd44EOkd8MMkA7W99ChgkLPXBBkpdLiSlmuPb44evDIQfdUMvAjVGeZf8kuIOmYFTGeug3qZFJvlTaRRshsaiiYeH_x60b38U2Gq73ea0EciHLFmvMWc_XuMW_MBYcYkJ9ZliOfzH8MVl3tZZRxzhD5pu2AlCKR_mVDLylYxLwunel6K7AANJ5aC/w300-h400/20231228_112007.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4M1mV2oUGK9ClVpOeFJ6Zpg9FvMtXPQA6V1-HH5hYTnEKCvhGYuELIUZ_2U6bqIZHtRxHy9iptWyObqY9m9tVICqdrntaaxmAQ30f33qcxOdjZhPq5F5EQyLL5y8vNYMInDHfGOHSxACTQkFPZm0g50bcBF1OyH6U-QXcYIOWWhpxyJX7sZOE6462Oicb/w300-h400/20231228_113523.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It strikes me, looking at the list of trees that have won the various <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_Year_(United_Kingdom)" target="_blank">Tree of the Year competitions</a>, that triumph is no guarantee of survival. Some of the trees that are nominated are included because they're in danger of being felled and it's a good way of drawing attention to their plight. Of these some still stand, like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimmon_Oak" target="_blank">Brimmon Oak</a> in Wales - I remember signing a petition to save that one. But the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubbington_Pear_Tree" target="_blank">Cubbington Pear</a>, which was England's Tree of the Year in 2015, was felled in 2020 (on my birthday😞) to make way for the HS2 railway line; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Man_Tree" target="_blank">Happy Man Tree</a>, which won the same competition in 2020, was felled by developers the following year, and the pain caused by the wanton destruction of the 2016 winner, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_Tree" target="_blank">the Sycamore Gap Tree</a>, last September is still felt by many. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To which we say, may the lovely Waverley yew stand for thousands of years. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-59123674083350412042023-12-28T21:29:00.013+00:002023-12-28T23:00:04.294+00:00A visit to St Mark's Church, or the Lord Mayor's Chapel <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Despite being born, raised and resident in Bristol, there are lots of buildings in the city I don't know well, or indeed at all. One is the 13</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">century church on College Green, just off the city centre, which has had several names during its long existence. <br /><br />Founded in c1230, it started life as Gaunt's Chapel, </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">djacent to Gaunt's Hospital and part of St Augustine's Abbey. It was then known for centuries as St Mark's Church, both before and after its purchase </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in 1539 </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by what is now Bristol City Council, following the dissolution of the monasteries. Since 1722, when it became the official church of the Lord Mayor and the city corporation, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">it's generally gone by the name of the Lord Mayor's Chapel. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Its elusive nature is in part because until recently, it was often closed to the public. My sole previous visit was on one of the Bristol Open Doors weekends, back when you didn't have to buy a wristband and the whole point of the initiative was that it was free to visit places that were usually out-of-bounds, giving it a vaguely illicit, 'mass trespass' feel that's been lost now you're required to pay for the privilege. <br /><br />For the last year, however, the Chapel's been open from Thursdays to Saturdays, and as I recently found myself in town with no need to hurry home to the dog, I decided to revisit it.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KfOA8Kfu69YPMXwkfAB_xNT1EY-yexI-4t-ZuT855ZoNQvjcQrLCq-MEAvCLcqO2HH_WfYlNgVTPbI8qiQZFR6FQSkqEgFwVDBS3Y9WaR9dpfUoLWFboQNVOIe_rlGJi-Lvwcmf4ZckRU6bTV3AE79uJ8HQw0E7azK75EvKe7O3TIg5nUvlipqXz9Dhy/s2364/20231215_135308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0KfOA8Kfu69YPMXwkfAB_xNT1EY-yexI-4t-ZuT855ZoNQvjcQrLCq-MEAvCLcqO2HH_WfYlNgVTPbI8qiQZFR6FQSkqEgFwVDBS3Y9WaR9dpfUoLWFboQNVOIe_rlGJi-Lvwcmf4ZckRU6bTV3AE79uJ8HQw0E7azK75EvKe7O3TIg5nUvlipqXz9Dhy/w300-h400/20231215_135308.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another reason for not having been there more often could be that it's relatively easy to walk past it without really noticing it. For a start it's in the middle of a rank of shops, so that with the exception of the frontage, you get little idea of how the building looks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVCPolqPXxXGzHi2J2Mq18TZ2lSQqul-o2QF4q_JKik6duSXepfjPYc8BSc2lu0FSPKvuMDkz_YAFq-5Am8VckN_zI82DPE76AloPWWLkNz4r_gOsmkgOJFBnjZPuovOwxndgwImRIwcvk6EKQSmVrFCzPIyfVKzwwZAn-jcARmZGRFlJQ6wr_Ek88qBaQ/s2364/20231215_134845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVCPolqPXxXGzHi2J2Mq18TZ2lSQqul-o2QF4q_JKik6duSXepfjPYc8BSc2lu0FSPKvuMDkz_YAFq-5Am8VckN_zI82DPE76AloPWWLkNz4r_gOsmkgOJFBnjZPuovOwxndgwImRIwcvk6EKQSmVrFCzPIyfVKzwwZAn-jcARmZGRFlJQ6wr_Ek88qBaQ/w300-h400/20231215_134845.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />(About that frontage: it's a rebuild dating from the 1820s, when the cast-iron viaduct was built over Frogmore Street to raise the level of Park Street and improve its gradient. The original was removed to Sheep Wood in Henbury, to provide a picturesque folly in the back garden of some wealthy Bristolian whose identity is in dispute.) </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBimq6joO4mGb4zF7EG5-Ls9wr2rx2owYP0WOmT2-7p1Oym0iJYTRZUFJSWSsyH5B3Q5fKSPsGXQi3gQjKXxFiEkrj1qfXv9akJCLH2Np6y-02WuYXHDLG4GMDI25bsi7QbbKBH0bIkDxZTQM1KKb4PFsEkHsXP5CsIWxtv-HvVpxDeMtuOAEZ0b3spbTQ/s2364/20231215_134907.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBimq6joO4mGb4zF7EG5-Ls9wr2rx2owYP0WOmT2-7p1Oym0iJYTRZUFJSWSsyH5B3Q5fKSPsGXQi3gQjKXxFiEkrj1qfXv9akJCLH2Np6y-02WuYXHDLG4GMDI25bsi7QbbKBH0bIkDxZTQM1KKb4PFsEkHsXP5CsIWxtv-HvVpxDeMtuOAEZ0b3spbTQ/w300-h400/20231215_134907.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The Chapel of St Andrew, with 17</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century wrought-iron screen and gates by Bristol blacksmith William Edney, removed from <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2011/11/all-i-want-for-christmas.html">Temple Church</a> following the latter's bombing in the Bristol Blitz </span></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lord Mayor's Chapel is filled with treasures. Its collection of 16</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century French stained </span><span style="font-size: medium;">glass was purchased by the council in the early 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century and so, to me at least, is somewhat less interesting for not being original - presumably those windows went the way of most mediaeval glass during the Reformation. Most of the panels seem to be made up of fragments of this earlier glass mixed with far more modern work, as in the East Window. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEzNzwfEtN8lZDCplrJhMhm7y_8cNxwFTxaqoBDQxtSVVUSoxZpZww1SeGtwaIs2ZEIttMzL2yXJGkezM_rB9Sg7U6Rilc3ABR372lbz-yl6Go3HWfLRJ3Gta3qNm5cazJ_H1W1PDXeXebRn3LRt3XyDT2ZDjrKsgYPuXfc2heM6cMav-tsQyhqfMXcHG/s2364/20231215_131404.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEzNzwfEtN8lZDCplrJhMhm7y_8cNxwFTxaqoBDQxtSVVUSoxZpZww1SeGtwaIs2ZEIttMzL2yXJGkezM_rB9Sg7U6Rilc3ABR372lbz-yl6Go3HWfLRJ3Gta3qNm5cazJ_H1W1PDXeXebRn3LRt3XyDT2ZDjrKsgYPuXfc2heM6cMav-tsQyhqfMXcHG/w400-h300/20231215_131404.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Likewise, the corbel tables contain mostly 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century corbels carved when the Chapel was restored, although there are some that date from the 13</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century, that were found in the rubble infill of walls when the new Choir vestry was constructed. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWMdzRnukNRxFiwu4t4RY3PCyXdYZYr9fQWqwVFTIY3qrIHS06cYdH3xGMpQsK-mmJKUAFLaydC6zJf_lK1hIQSMTHsyvE8B_aOYqUtxlHUHVewEoGaXqnytmtl47d7NKx9J8MDCFBYMqcEBsCVC5JTod9gxTvg5cPxYgPBhg4Q2Ifv51kvWGwokJhSuQ/w300-h400/20231215_132533.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Also originating in the 19</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th </span><span style="font-size: medium;">century are these - well, I've seen them described online as horses holding shields, but looking at their foreheads and their tails, I'm sure they're unicorns, which have an association with Bristol dating back to 1529, when the city was granted a crest supported by a golden pair of the beasts. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">... and fragmentary wall paintings (c1500), which were discovered by chance in 1824. From left to right they depict the Resurrection, the Nativity, and the appearance of Christ to Mary Magdalene in the garden. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IuFISPrtWQkcfJD6DslaSrTEmm3urLBly_bTFZzOKaKB2QBU-BNahMEx3dFh9g4e4vF3ytz5woJKxOfe9gZk0K0sy_vzgCLO6orvAvBw-LPBet8X8gUOfF1IJixqt4xZxL5Sim8y45LYIhyphenhyphenlvqnnVO0YWK70jjAjsNxS6hE33jtgk3aYAibECPCgij-D/s2364/20231215_132853.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_IuFISPrtWQkcfJD6DslaSrTEmm3urLBly_bTFZzOKaKB2QBU-BNahMEx3dFh9g4e4vF3ytz5woJKxOfe9gZk0K0sy_vzgCLO6orvAvBw-LPBet8X8gUOfF1IJixqt4xZxL5Sim8y45LYIhyphenhyphenlvqnnVO0YWK70jjAjsNxS6hE33jtgk3aYAibECPCgij-D/w400-h300/20231215_132853.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Unknown merchant, dating from c1360 and erroneously identified as Henry de Gaunt as early as 1531</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCED0U6l7u4PXG_E74XMAhBJ8OxEDXE5uxd-sXdU-FDieAHKwAMC4ar3OsoEIb5xgu7S_LNrKhvoM8wZ7qtR2AcvTBModXFv1U4uB6ku3j4g6uhe1YsKBUNPOJwOapVMX5pwpt1PaYmC4pQRb19TqYFLefV5QpBIMNCw7aFrAfR4c00OHGGBRwjYSOsTqP/s2364/20231215_131226%20Sir%20Maurice%20Berkeley%20of%20Uley%20or%20Stoke%20Gifford%20and%20his%20wife,%20Ellen%201475.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCED0U6l7u4PXG_E74XMAhBJ8OxEDXE5uxd-sXdU-FDieAHKwAMC4ar3OsoEIb5xgu7S_LNrKhvoM8wZ7qtR2AcvTBModXFv1U4uB6ku3j4g6uhe1YsKBUNPOJwOapVMX5pwpt1PaYmC4pQRb19TqYFLefV5QpBIMNCw7aFrAfR4c00OHGGBRwjYSOsTqP/w300-h400/20231215_131226%20Sir%20Maurice%20Berkeley%20of%20Uley%20or%20Stoke%20Gifford%20and%20his%20wife,%20Ellen%201475.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">(Look at that fabulous winged death's head mask)</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVRrjxtCsSPbjw0nluDum-yxXZMvZMq88YqFVgNoWLRE3GbVyOf82N7vPaoElfY3dy916j2qVxB-70RAV7xw76GTHuu9vMALBGZbq-sh0R4a0tM-iwGB9Yn1qa8ZlBGfSzMsiQMtGBv5tQf6AN_waMEWL6ZsSFsEGFRap6xunHeCt73suYt3W7sa1YAGa/s2364/20231215_130436%20Sir%20Richard%20Berkeley%20of%20Stoke%20Gifford%20dd%201604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVRrjxtCsSPbjw0nluDum-yxXZMvZMq88YqFVgNoWLRE3GbVyOf82N7vPaoElfY3dy916j2qVxB-70RAV7xw76GTHuu9vMALBGZbq-sh0R4a0tM-iwGB9Yn1qa8ZlBGfSzMsiQMtGBv5tQf6AN_waMEWL6ZsSFsEGFRap6xunHeCt73suYt3W7sa1YAGa/w300-h400/20231215_130436%20Sir%20Richard%20Berkeley%20of%20Stoke%20Gifford%20dd%201604.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, died 1604</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've saved my favourite tomb till last. It was erected by Sir Baynham Throkmorton of Tortworth in memory of his wife, Lady Margaret, who died in childbirth in 1635, at the age of 25. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD755_Fj6xQgXAfXJKEQvP-ovVyYKKMyXPsCe9FFXpy8B0V0M8dqS3In3l5ZNIs5iB7PQ_0m5tXgP-Drhe_5WXcXLvMO8Agao5ifZIvcZcxMldBriD82KvwO8q0d2yZGlwD658lWvv3oSJ9nt0V43CUA_kW60Ds2-prSGMgZMHWdU3UsU-sSW90uRwdLP/s2364/20231215_133058%20Lady%20Margaret,%20Wife%20of%20Sir%20Baynham%20Throkmorton,%201610%20-%201635.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD755_Fj6xQgXAfXJKEQvP-ovVyYKKMyXPsCe9FFXpy8B0V0M8dqS3In3l5ZNIs5iB7PQ_0m5tXgP-Drhe_5WXcXLvMO8Agao5ifZIvcZcxMldBriD82KvwO8q0d2yZGlwD658lWvv3oSJ9nt0V43CUA_kW60Ds2-prSGMgZMHWdU3UsU-sSW90uRwdLP/w300-h400/20231215_133058%20Lady%20Margaret,%20Wife%20of%20Sir%20Baynham%20Throkmorton,%201610%20-%201635.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-FLV1niexnOFDwJTlDfzIZTdpDcvcvIm0sqw1svzhF_y9Xio2S5QJbc0zRghYh3NnrhBxLboOvh21IgFWkXQmL7CWKR5hZ1R9AzuLUmogpxXle8HvsBziv8-DkSWoRD7C5R2SOl92WRIxEqg6CJ-sna1rco08HVTopbbHKJDNqvyaiYPZ2QnnXpoDCfL/s2364/20231215_133227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-FLV1niexnOFDwJTlDfzIZTdpDcvcvIm0sqw1svzhF_y9Xio2S5QJbc0zRghYh3NnrhBxLboOvh21IgFWkXQmL7CWKR5hZ1R9AzuLUmogpxXle8HvsBziv8-DkSWoRD7C5R2SOl92WRIxEqg6CJ-sna1rco08HVTopbbHKJDNqvyaiYPZ2QnnXpoDCfL/w300-h400/20231215_133227.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sir Baynton was the great-grandson of Sir Richard Berkeley of Stoke Gifford (tomb above). He's depicted on the tomb but not in it: he married twice more, and is buried in St Margaret's Church in Wetminster. In any event, it's Margaret that draws the eye with her daisy emblem on her chest, her baby in one arm, her free hand in her husband's. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJBGV_UfHSvoDd26t5wAmJVgAx2GXXGrHaaew1QuSnl27SV6dg5tmwxzEfAK5CJ3e6bvSehoV0LQsH38rdVUXTHzfPF2HV8aVBbOzpBSBA09F9FRBRVX8vNVSQoAvJWexxIoz7n1T_Po33yjBFaWGFUlD1qbGX60wFY0Tag7989s3HUpjn9RP5V6bKumb/s2364/20231215_133521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJBGV_UfHSvoDd26t5wAmJVgAx2GXXGrHaaew1QuSnl27SV6dg5tmwxzEfAK5CJ3e6bvSehoV0LQsH38rdVUXTHzfPF2HV8aVBbOzpBSBA09F9FRBRVX8vNVSQoAvJWexxIoz7n1T_Po33yjBFaWGFUlD1qbGX60wFY0Tag7989s3HUpjn9RP5V6bKumb/w300-h400/20231215_133521.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Seeing the tomb again, I found that although I'd remembered lovely Margaret quite clearly, I'd completely expunged Sir Baynton in the intervening years. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2b9z4b6z0JSaffkHMziG1un1UzYwicQO5n9a_u-Kx4o0pkPQ9RdY_bY6H2JXA582eft9_PJoBq6UU_CQMy-rzVFZcMZfQ_32CoH_yBtvQgE8jP26JT6domKJAoVc7vXn5InOvi8ZPJT20I5DxOERi4KM0J9sSbrEtoxGaTOgdSGfydLjEBrDDS_OS1laD/s3508/MixCollage-15-Dec-2023-graffiti%20on%20Lady%20Margaret's%20tomb%201635.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2b9z4b6z0JSaffkHMziG1un1UzYwicQO5n9a_u-Kx4o0pkPQ9RdY_bY6H2JXA582eft9_PJoBq6UU_CQMy-rzVFZcMZfQ_32CoH_yBtvQgE8jP26JT6domKJAoVc7vXn5InOvi8ZPJT20I5DxOERi4KM0J9sSbrEtoxGaTOgdSGfydLjEBrDDS_OS1laD/w400-h283/MixCollage-15-Dec-2023-graffiti%20on%20Lady%20Margaret's%20tomb%201635.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The other thing I like about it is the fascinating graffiti on it, dating from thirty years after its installation to the late 20</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now all I have to do is visit Sheep Wood to find the original Chapel facade. Maybe in the New Year. <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTLA8NXyYcstK3PEswlI8zDzTEYaEnKmUedC5oOfYOkYxyZ1YG78KngjH6x6f57S1ZkjcMRAwEi_PA9hvBzWKI3YeIp82TqXEltxEFkTSOeRk8OY5MnzFcqsbQaYa5E8hhWOrAs_4EVnii_bGDj_-Gi7Ms_T-PVvFcm0eKivsdW4xktfwvY6KPdlPQ-u9/s2364/20231215_132613.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmTLA8NXyYcstK3PEswlI8zDzTEYaEnKmUedC5oOfYOkYxyZ1YG78KngjH6x6f57S1ZkjcMRAwEi_PA9hvBzWKI3YeIp82TqXEltxEFkTSOeRk8OY5MnzFcqsbQaYa5E8hhWOrAs_4EVnii_bGDj_-Gi7Ms_T-PVvFcm0eKivsdW4xktfwvY6KPdlPQ-u9/w300-h400/20231215_132613.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5H9E1nFKQxa075p_33gAuYkWaWSxmNCDm-g7_uSg3uFyJVdnkKIsLLzUwakd30IM1I3xY3x8KjvxxX6wh3vL2pmBBJItvy01IW-yRgIkeWe4PFt6iLpnICzf_yeDqCEDX5wm1FMYGKbeBzp7nVZklXZ6sRO1YSkbampumvcgaWnazAUTaf7CDiq2f_B_Z/s2364/20231215_132550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5H9E1nFKQxa075p_33gAuYkWaWSxmNCDm-g7_uSg3uFyJVdnkKIsLLzUwakd30IM1I3xY3x8KjvxxX6wh3vL2pmBBJItvy01IW-yRgIkeWe4PFt6iLpnICzf_yeDqCEDX5wm1FMYGKbeBzp7nVZklXZ6sRO1YSkbampumvcgaWnazAUTaf7CDiq2f_B_Z/w300-h400/20231215_132550.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-52131772133600206932023-12-22T21:18:00.016+00:002023-12-28T20:22:53.084+00:00Blinking in the light <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Somewhere in one of the boxes of photos under my bed, there must be a picture of my friend, Angela Prior-Kimball, and me together, when we first knew each other at Lancaster University in the early 80s, but for a reason that has nothing to do with our friendship, I still haven't mustered the inclination to unearth them. So here we are not together, Angela having taken the second photo, of which I was completely oblivious, at the 1983 graduation ball. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MSTGIi-Bk3gSGgC1tqneV8nYfFd5q6xx7ZDZ2MYa2SgzCTSAC9dLnIzJ6EDeE0jA7GcoSg0kcy19vodiyZGqHEgzVndyvqIN68bMD2wazcSV4dK-ZthsSzWq9z4JuI9TxsA2GiW9-yGOCDYbhN5UiUzijJR1Gd8ioC7xq6CyuhYnydT835qdJNHSypLB/s3508/MixCollage-22-Dec-2023-02-09-PM-107.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MSTGIi-Bk3gSGgC1tqneV8nYfFd5q6xx7ZDZ2MYa2SgzCTSAC9dLnIzJ6EDeE0jA7GcoSg0kcy19vodiyZGqHEgzVndyvqIN68bMD2wazcSV4dK-ZthsSzWq9z4JuI9TxsA2GiW9-yGOCDYbhN5UiUzijJR1Gd8ioC7xq6CyuhYnydT835qdJNHSypLB/w400-h283/MixCollage-22-Dec-2023-02-09-PM-107.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the face of it, our friendship was somewhat unlikely. Angela was ebullient, with a can-do attitude - to the last, as it turned out. She was good at tennis - her nickname at the time was Angela Prior-Lloyd-Bum (Lloyd after the then Chris Evert Lloyd) - and even then she had a fascination with fashion, and impressive boundaries. I, on the other hand, was </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">bookish, definitely not sporty or fashionable, and riddled </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with insecurities. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">One episode I remember - which Angela had forgotten, although she appreciated it when I told her the last time I saw her - involved a rabbit fur coat my father had given me, which had been given to him by a former client from when he'd sold insurance. Of course, I wouldn't dream of wearing fur now, but this was the winter of 1981/2 , which was so cold it has <a href="1981–82 United Kingdom cold wave" target="_blank">its own Wikipedia entry</a>, and I was steadily freezing to death in the west end of Morecambe, in a mouldy attic which was painted the colour of the inside of a Ladyshave box (as another friend memorably described it), so I suppressed a vague feeling of disquiet, and wore it. Until, that is, the night I bundled it into an alcove in what was then Lonsdale College bar, only for it to be gone when I came to catch the bus back to the Battery. <br /><br />Any relief I felt at not wearing rabbit skin over my own any more was swamped by anxiety at what my father might say when he found out I'd let the damn thing get stolen. I still wasn't fully reconciled to its loss when Angela turned up unexpectedly in my flat a few nights later and asked if I'd had any news of its whereabouts. I immediately launched into a description of where I'd looked, who'd been in the bar at the time, various false sightings, etc, only for her to start laughing and call me a silly moo because in my consternation, I hadn't noticed that it was draped around her shoulders. The landlord, it turned out, had put it behind the bar so that it wouldn't get nicked, but hadn't been there when I was looking for it, and had forgotten to tell me subsequently. Angela, though, like the Vintage Queen she was to become, had ferreted it out. </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Being a language student, I graduated a year later than Angela, in 1984, by which time she'd started her business, Heaven Vintage, and was rumoured to be managing a pop group. Within a few years I had multiple babies and she was appearing on The Clothes Show; then, by the mid 1990s, she was living in Miami and it seemed our paths had diverged for good ...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... though elsewhere, computer programmers were dreaming of a phenomenon called social media, and by 2011</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">, we'd re-forged our connection to the point where I dedicated a poem in <i>Communion</i>, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">my first poetry collection,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to her. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even so, that might have been the extent of our rekindled friendship, were it not for a chance encounter in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2014. I was hurrying to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to see Henry IV Part I with my partner; Angela was sitting </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the sun</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">with a friend on the corner of Sheep Street and High Street, and true to form, spotted me as I passed by, quite unaware, and shouted my name. 'I recognised you by your walk!' she declared, somewhat disconcertingly. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdMVb4HhCTsXKSfn4zAJIdI3cH2JMQjoDwXpf7GnxTGsxn1HszBfKJefSsUdL4Su2z0dpUb9SCgRConEP-yXDyUXv4tBhInTKsCkNv2E17A1BHwODInP9zHRVNGoPaUppMxzO2PBC04r8LELembS64g-nQGBs4tNGwFsBX4s0dVfF3EJBD9vA6e0Llr-w8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="640" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdMVb4HhCTsXKSfn4zAJIdI3cH2JMQjoDwXpf7GnxTGsxn1HszBfKJefSsUdL4Su2z0dpUb9SCgRConEP-yXDyUXv4tBhInTKsCkNv2E17A1BHwODInP9zHRVNGoPaUppMxzO2PBC04r8LELembS64g-nQGBs4tNGwFsBX4s0dVfF3EJBD9vA6e0Llr-w8=w400-h288" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After that, we kept in closer touch. My last two trips to see her in Coventry came after her diagnosis of Stage 4 ovarian cancer almost exactly two years ago. <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2022/07/cavorting-in-coventry.html" target="_blank">The first </a>included a visit to the Cave of Wonders that was her flat on Blondvil Street, which address suited her to the ground.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRHidZe15zSRBMDBv1sRydObGGgLN6mwHT0p4ubJsfEyucFmARBP2bzCc4iwaHzqPn-fA94SK2jq3iyEiitSruq_UAPVJ56V7v75YNsLYb-APEfGFC-ofZkYLGwTCMQMipl-zbJiNRHTIAT8ATL6XUXgQR4XxxhtfawZoGWtltqKZxdfyJ0Ig05n31Mbms/s2364/20220725_123049.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRHidZe15zSRBMDBv1sRydObGGgLN6mwHT0p4ubJsfEyucFmARBP2bzCc4iwaHzqPn-fA94SK2jq3iyEiitSruq_UAPVJ56V7v75YNsLYb-APEfGFC-ofZkYLGwTCMQMipl-zbJiNRHTIAT8ATL6XUXgQR4XxxhtfawZoGWtltqKZxdfyJ0Ig05n31Mbms/w300-h400/20220725_123049.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XOoB-dIOA9zYlMjid8hQoScb4nEEGnS8LHMKQb4i6WgIITYI87kKfKdwInPV1tn_9rrWZyyvs0AEEaMeBNhtEAXvOtH3I6w8MUTDWhynEPzVWA2ZTPVEbKw6HbjXYrfpGg91Jg8_RYeBJu56q7BkwtYGNvrzjdEjpqWci8KLs7BmJp0OMJbKD8xJ5PVZ/s2364/20220725_123251.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XOoB-dIOA9zYlMjid8hQoScb4nEEGnS8LHMKQb4i6WgIITYI87kKfKdwInPV1tn_9rrWZyyvs0AEEaMeBNhtEAXvOtH3I6w8MUTDWhynEPzVWA2ZTPVEbKw6HbjXYrfpGg91Jg8_RYeBJu56q7BkwtYGNvrzjdEjpqWci8KLs7BmJp0OMJbKD8xJ5PVZ/w300-h400/20220725_123251.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNPUAjXWYAcUiQx5HWW49kxy6OZcmoUr2eGsv06KEscjhvifBaItXv4s3z_zH8GcLlI2iwPTRNqB8VOKrStHzXzxk-QM-9F14HK2xkCfpbuMyN9lkwJX-35DdpRJzkz_YeWiK65fTC-yWXqVdK607lZ2bgJmPl7l80mMIc7h29fDYsgob-o_LU3iyAomm/s2364/20220725_123308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZNPUAjXWYAcUiQx5HWW49kxy6OZcmoUr2eGsv06KEscjhvifBaItXv4s3z_zH8GcLlI2iwPTRNqB8VOKrStHzXzxk-QM-9F14HK2xkCfpbuMyN9lkwJX-35DdpRJzkz_YeWiK65fTC-yWXqVdK607lZ2bgJmPl7l80mMIc7h29fDYsgob-o_LU3iyAomm/w300-h400/20220725_123308.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JE_zuFp66pmOu4G-nSqlxBLZmC1TOl8k_AKwXr4YUsD741AYlcgmpp-kTBxH5Az4qRhaC9vt3J_7ETqMwNXqXqXIc4pJ18ShOMyOnBNtqQZlcccxqqjKgSmJwhDXtKLyL_cmeZcBm4U5nlnba93CWppE6gcGG0u6oHjTiEJ-lslJshPEhuoKbBHLGmGz/s2365/20220725_124911.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2365" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JE_zuFp66pmOu4G-nSqlxBLZmC1TOl8k_AKwXr4YUsD741AYlcgmpp-kTBxH5Az4qRhaC9vt3J_7ETqMwNXqXqXIc4pJ18ShOMyOnBNtqQZlcccxqqjKgSmJwhDXtKLyL_cmeZcBm4U5nlnba93CWppE6gcGG0u6oHjTiEJ-lslJshPEhuoKbBHLGmGz/w300-h400/20220725_124911.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/09/ay-now-am-i-in-arden.html" target="_blank">On my second visit</a> this September we sat in the sun by the River Sherbourne at Charterhouse, watching the bees in the Himalayan Balsam and eating ice cream. Angela was as indefatigable as ever, planning a huge vintage fair to raise money for a new treatment that isn't available on the NHS. As I was hoping to go, I thought there was every chance I'd see her again, but a dose of Covid (mine) and Angela's cancer colluded, and although the fair happened in November, another visit wasn't to be. <br /><br />So it goes. Solstice feels like a good time to write this. The year has turned, and we're all heading towards the light; it's just that my dear determined friend has beaten us to it. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjno9Mk-7JNUmyMoOfo1ytk5tqnRu_P5gkUUPdtmH-CI2eR5T4jmufBra-UPGLOkiDLlDV5mMVgFJ9UB4Y1MdPNzngIGezsOkxX5ImEFCWIEc8UKbBOUmmi5y5-ZkRcvwILkRJi7va99dff4gPaHuZxaAIwl6YxxMpFTlC2Xo6enJlH3hV-kP9vo8rVX4Bf/s2364/20230910_151439.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjno9Mk-7JNUmyMoOfo1ytk5tqnRu_P5gkUUPdtmH-CI2eR5T4jmufBra-UPGLOkiDLlDV5mMVgFJ9UB4Y1MdPNzngIGezsOkxX5ImEFCWIEc8UKbBOUmmi5y5-ZkRcvwILkRJi7va99dff4gPaHuZxaAIwl6YxxMpFTlC2Xo6enJlH3hV-kP9vo8rVX4Bf/w400-h300/20230910_151439.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-89696300518843768232023-12-14T21:44:00.007+00:002023-12-15T06:14:42.268+00:00Driving Miss Millie: A Three Red Kite Road Trip from Wiltshire to Wales<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today was set aside for a road trip, taking Jinny and her dog Millie on the first leg of her journey to New Quay in Wales, where she's very sensibly decided to spend the worst of winter. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The first leg of my journey was to Avoncliff Station car park, the nearest parking place to where Jinny was moored on the Kennet and Avon canal. Except there weren't any empty spaces there, at least not at first; eventually a couple of boaters appeared and drove off into the just about daylight, and I managed to mano</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">e</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">uvre my car into the gap they left, which was good, as it meant I could wander across the aqueduct and help Jinny carry the things she needed during her stay - clothes and lots of work materials - from her boat to my boot. I could also enjoy the stillness of the canal, the quirky birch next to the cottages, and the trickling song of the wrens in the trees on the towpath, clearly audible above a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">full and very roary River Avon. </span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZuGH1t55Nk_B8LYyFSPo-LOVRf1tmMy86s3wCPxdm2yTSlD90fyrSlVSYleesmYC3tnm7aDD26FEmmz5HvvWU9qRodYnl7xqOJn3k3H9q1pf1uD8i0yMPY7QlbDMVC87BpuIQCmW9HvMNclc22FJ7_a4Fs21kK1KHtuha7F2KUQpLlKEgCtjuFYhnNRfK/s2364/20231214_080234.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZuGH1t55Nk_B8LYyFSPo-LOVRf1tmMy86s3wCPxdm2yTSlD90fyrSlVSYleesmYC3tnm7aDD26FEmmz5HvvWU9qRodYnl7xqOJn3k3H9q1pf1uD8i0yMPY7QlbDMVC87BpuIQCmW9HvMNclc22FJ7_a4Fs21kK1KHtuha7F2KUQpLlKEgCtjuFYhnNRfK/w400-h300/20231214_080234.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There was a moment of real beauty, deep into Wales, as the weather cleared and sun lit the rusty, bracken-covered hills up ahead at the Taibach end of Port Talbot, plus the sighting of a red kite at the very moment Jinny and I were talking about how much <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2022/04/remembering-beauty-of-chris-palmer-1952.html" target="_blank">Jinny's late wife, Chris</a>, loved Bwlch Yr Nant Arian and <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/search/label/Bwlch%20Nant%20yr%20Arian">the unforgettable spectacle of hundreds of kites being fed</a>. And the joy of a calm and happy dog on the back seat who wasn't my Cwtch, but Jinny's Millie enjoying her first long journey since she arrived in Britain from Macedonia last spring.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nOX5ys4Kad48y4FXUUiUwdjsCaC6gYBP0nBFsYUAVVyNPSolFyp4_yVwTif83qiHdy8rrFTFNzYV2rRUx9E5y-siElYwjYmdHNpZc89AYihUsq9ygEg-o3N-WnGSTyZm6R8PE0gVqlb8QZb00AJsq4HB_lataoOU3XHYca1cpYe5pQoMCCrSFnD1wbIE/s2364/20231214_094303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nOX5ys4Kad48y4FXUUiUwdjsCaC6gYBP0nBFsYUAVVyNPSolFyp4_yVwTif83qiHdy8rrFTFNzYV2rRUx9E5y-siElYwjYmdHNpZc89AYihUsq9ygEg-o3N-WnGSTyZm6R8PE0gVqlb8QZb00AJsq4HB_lataoOU3XHYca1cpYe5pQoMCCrSFnD1wbIE/w300-h400/20231214_094303.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I parted ways with my travelling companions at Pont Abraham, returning with a bag of goodies very kindly given me by Jinny's parents, who were driving her and Millie the rest of the way to New Quay. I'd had the notion that if there was time and enough light, I might stop off at Neath Abbey on the return leg, but the traffic was already getting quite heavy, and then Son the Younger rang to say he was really quite poorly and needed some provisions, so in the end I drove straight home. No matter: just before Bridgend two more kites flew over the car and they, along with spending time with Jinny, were enough to make the day really special. </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-41962042143664008712023-12-07T14:18:00.000+00:002023-12-07T14:18:18.881+00:00Frost and mist and fire<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimP6AA7KbyRCM4eCdjSIOjKkeF4YJ3TEZx8wTgSmdv22caf4V0aTgL6Mx6i6pQN2JjChRWfYq3WIdYRerzgoLbT-3FUVsQm2RD-XMDgWc1yWTBe_lxy4nXBduzLwoGr96CZYV_3g5L6A1cZTqmaR_3gcHFFoZwUtoe5vVWU4h818pqG5310Tz_4UB1fsr8/s2364/20231202_151832.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimP6AA7KbyRCM4eCdjSIOjKkeF4YJ3TEZx8wTgSmdv22caf4V0aTgL6Mx6i6pQN2JjChRWfYq3WIdYRerzgoLbT-3FUVsQm2RD-XMDgWc1yWTBe_lxy4nXBduzLwoGr96CZYV_3g5L6A1cZTqmaR_3gcHFFoZwUtoe5vVWU4h818pqG5310Tz_4UB1fsr8/w300-h400/20231202_151832.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLiDBT-2UK8qsX3PCx9p91upQIgKAMS-kG42suj3WQ-VIzNqFx3SMpK3QdZIxf60c-tMCCaZKzPXws068TlBhMH_jIqEitooFIGzjqgUJYfrNn_0GzGvctxH-PEG9Vmg1eM4MmEB3KJt8bRGa3dz7Ccm0vxsLDxYyNGDsW3bmUkvlIhQwxu2pEHp1_GJWJ/w400-h300/20231202_155255.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The next day was wet and dank and we'd definitely come back through the wardrobe, but with photos to prove it really had been that beautiful. </span></div> <p></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-53133706154759735742023-11-29T15:00:00.000+00:002023-11-29T15:00:05.254+00:00The 2023 Kennet and Avon Canal Christmas Floating Fayre<p> <span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And so to Bradford-on-Avon for the Christmas Floating Fayre on the Kennet and Avon Canal. We could have gone on Saturday, which was a cold but sunny day enhanced by the winter's first frost - a Frost Fayre! - but someone had football to watch, and so we found ourselves east-bound on the M4 on Sunday, in pervasive mist and drizzle. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fortunately it was - well, not clearing up exactly, but at least not quite as wet by the time we arrived, found a parking place on Trowbridge Road and walked to the wharf. And although I've made enough winter visits to friends living on the cut to know that it's the most unromantic of lives, up to your arse in mud on the tow path, the last few autumn leaves reflected in the water, the coloured boats and woodsmoke did look very picture-rescue, as someone I know said without a trace of irony the other day. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6WtLW6HcUeSKxGYa-ET-_Rt0kmSUQ7_Dok9MQWC8pCvs1c3aLmwHXjuJJ2mF5BsAHSaJVBL10XbMGOt3IdweMxQ6X2THYGXDBsjl8zpCjhO9GhtHNip5ZalOXuz_7vAvKwge2Q1d8bGdKAFIvGcdjZozL_wL-DLiMME3GBjYm0IIgDrOVFdyCFTqtKFO/s2364/20231126_114010.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx6WtLW6HcUeSKxGYa-ET-_Rt0kmSUQ7_Dok9MQWC8pCvs1c3aLmwHXjuJJ2mF5BsAHSaJVBL10XbMGOt3IdweMxQ6X2THYGXDBsjl8zpCjhO9GhtHNip5ZalOXuz_7vAvKwge2Q1d8bGdKAFIvGcdjZozL_wL-DLiMME3GBjYm0IIgDrOVFdyCFTqtKFO/w400-h300/20231126_114010.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">First, a quick chat with Dru, who was in pole position on the Lower Wharf visitor moorings, doing a roaring trade selling <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/DruMarland" target="_blank">her art and poetry books</a>. As usual, I'd bought enough of her calendars for the people on my present list who appreciate them, but had forgotten to get one for myself, so I needed another of those. I also couldn't resist a pack of cards featuring a frozen-looking heron on Widcombe top lock in Bath. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLtm9wP-b-OyzZIp2QRgJwb09BeAmmL4oHo1SJLbUHGTFunTBQgITfNbNFKjWMmJJXVnZoPc3mOO82l56jNlnIqUi0DZ00Pefx3m307GhgnXVxeK2na3pgmyc9E-MgGDmVLg6n8w9DZcyFX7UuSYkKe_FntL3FycLLW09mGlOrZhsPG1fg-0BfKkfVCvq5/s2364/20231126_114042.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLtm9wP-b-OyzZIp2QRgJwb09BeAmmL4oHo1SJLbUHGTFunTBQgITfNbNFKjWMmJJXVnZoPc3mOO82l56jNlnIqUi0DZ00Pefx3m307GhgnXVxeK2na3pgmyc9E-MgGDmVLg6n8w9DZcyFX7UuSYkKe_FntL3FycLLW09mGlOrZhsPG1fg-0BfKkfVCvq5/w300-h400/20231126_114042.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Looking down at the River Avon</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWv_UhQkBhzYmiQFh1XvuDCsAttympEVgz76d8_sayV0TFxaL1TqinS5ov9Av2LSKd3jqsPUhmtbNxgG9uQ2HwU-sSs7bcQPUeq041g5oSmtO0VDjlaK8LK7MKhSv_vWQ2cPjYXCO8RFdugaFt-tFMfycV1UIXlRKZ6n2dFK5AfuhWhWgrVWV5SCP3zQJ/s2364/20231126_114141.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQWv_UhQkBhzYmiQFh1XvuDCsAttympEVgz76d8_sayV0TFxaL1TqinS5ov9Av2LSKd3jqsPUhmtbNxgG9uQ2HwU-sSs7bcQPUeq041g5oSmtO0VDjlaK8LK7MKhSv_vWQ2cPjYXCO8RFdugaFt-tFMfycV1UIXlRKZ6n2dFK5AfuhWhWgrVWV5SCP3zQJ/w300-h400/20231126_114141.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I have to say, I remember the ones from my childhood being just red and white, and have laboured all my life under the impression that the red represents blood. No idea, then, what bodily fluid the blue might stand for.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7iMbVEM0bpWbjTk9R0Ze3TsklTmNULygh16Be2COKCaB0qFeO6TuwmPGt0LqqE1R4LUOUNyDyhl8beQPa9uU4myS4YCC9WRSafyxyND5-xMnloK2pHzZ0O0pzXVyNUdJVw1_5BkLkxz8TBremJYeEVzNQqewZdHH3RMYCg8hYpJ2G3V2-ywZdyqpuSkh7/s2364/20231126_132311.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7iMbVEM0bpWbjTk9R0Ze3TsklTmNULygh16Be2COKCaB0qFeO6TuwmPGt0LqqE1R4LUOUNyDyhl8beQPa9uU4myS4YCC9WRSafyxyND5-xMnloK2pHzZ0O0pzXVyNUdJVw1_5BkLkxz8TBremJYeEVzNQqewZdHH3RMYCg8hYpJ2G3V2-ywZdyqpuSkh7/w300-h400/20231126_132311.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxUgFyzfcJn0vi9W0cqECDpzA5hxa5-mz5dJQSyxMFvCVAQd1pEowRxYeEiDUFQ2uKO-lQ4-yLqS25Dz1qOr1YregoeQJgsvr9ifPO6v6fb8vLVRFp_Uhu9_PHqO752g8D4utJ5_Q6CPfuEgXDEz7pb0Wn0SaF1409kPt5Ye0kU3pSn7qakR8SVzS9Wr8/s2364/20231126_132112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYxUgFyzfcJn0vi9W0cqECDpzA5hxa5-mz5dJQSyxMFvCVAQd1pEowRxYeEiDUFQ2uKO-lQ4-yLqS25Dz1qOr1YregoeQJgsvr9ifPO6v6fb8vLVRFp_Uhu9_PHqO752g8D4utJ5_Q6CPfuEgXDEz7pb0Wn0SaF1409kPt5Ye0kU3pSn7qakR8SVzS9Wr8/w300-h400/20231126_132112.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBYaWMZo_8GuJ-z4QwkuSyJOBjo_VaGxsGRNAj_kWlccWG3EguBl3MbQTsO_cHp9bU93_LZXvcCosy7or905QVx-Mt5dXju_3XXp5azIuG0Hth74e_EKYSfle9S4rKobxOzeA-0Ie3lPKjpgFxcM8r-JE2iv-pnmgus0vnKPeAng7qxTDHrqXzIIge_CA/s2364/20231126_132417.jpg" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHBYaWMZo_8GuJ-z4QwkuSyJOBjo_VaGxsGRNAj_kWlccWG3EguBl3MbQTsO_cHp9bU93_LZXvcCosy7or905QVx-Mt5dXju_3XXp5azIuG0Hth74e_EKYSfle9S4rKobxOzeA-0Ie3lPKjpgFxcM8r-JE2iv-pnmgus0vnKPeAng7qxTDHrqXzIIge_CA/w300-h400/20231126_132417.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Back at the Lower Wharf, Dru's stall was about eight deep in customers so we sidled past without managing to say goodbye. A lovely couple of hours out, though, and a welcome change of scene. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-52870231508316154802023-11-21T21:48:00.004+00:002023-11-22T07:56:06.180+00:00In which Cwtch the Collie gets her paws wet <p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/07/view-from-unnamed-road.html" target="_blank">Since the school I work in relocated over the summer</a>, it's felt strange not to head for the part of Bristol I worked in for 24 years. I have been back a couple of times, though - or at least, to the unnamed road the school was on, as it's a good place to park for a walk in Badock's Wood. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The main reason for visiting Badock's Wood, apart from enjoying a change of scene, is to convince Cwtch the Collie it's quite safe, actually, for her to get her paws wet, in this case in the River Trym. This is something I've been trying to do for some time, ever since she was a pup and learnt, abruptly, that <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2021/03/spring-sailing-into-view.html" target="_blank">once ice has melted, water doesn't hold you up</a>. I think it's fair to say that so far, <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/05/spring-comes-to-badocks-wood.html" target="_blank">my efforts haven't met with much success.</a></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMjwUJr17jQ4SuQj_erB_jRTcZ21fWuti80L97vm2yhM87uQBeHUCxDWYZzOc_YRPDbGnikG9qyBS_FAncfsci9YuztyO0UH_G9e8LkBXxSd52HUZUPIt99cn-qiWQ22uHZAT8yJiBPquO6MMQYCvPWViyiACZ9PMX7v4Gdcq2Nl7_rwxq4OMHgb2G0tU/s4608/20231025_124719.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMjwUJr17jQ4SuQj_erB_jRTcZ21fWuti80L97vm2yhM87uQBeHUCxDWYZzOc_YRPDbGnikG9qyBS_FAncfsci9YuztyO0UH_G9e8LkBXxSd52HUZUPIt99cn-qiWQ22uHZAT8yJiBPquO6MMQYCvPWViyiACZ9PMX7v4Gdcq2Nl7_rwxq4OMHgb2G0tU/w400-h300/20231025_124719.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Now it's autumn and the Trym's fuller, I've started wearing wellies, so I can get into the water myself and show Cwtch it's fine and even fun. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Our first visit, in October, she needed a lot of persuasion even to get a claw wet ... </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyktoDMucBmLW4E4Wf0GVUBoxsZRrqAAkZFknrQzp3ycqulFBXEpqn-ni7TES6U9Df6l_lS11IpuvoDwV5V8Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... but on our second visit, three weeks later, she ran on ahead to the little beach where it's easy for the less than nimble to scramble down to the water's edge and waited for me to join her, for all the world as if she'd decided to enjoy this game, and as I crossed from side to side over the stream, she followed me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzO5wggUsqkxZKNegfE0AaSCAA5XsMK295vjxuQBhWgRzmZ3LDOLMUiXuLedi77MzdkpB8UdxsfbnO6UHFHhA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Gotta love the ostentatious shake at the end, as if she's just swum the Channel.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTsTFJyFlAXhArhhiVxEPVN0EG20rInMDfHWt_3QFCwPTf0N-zyBLidjLctgRfQ-rQxe7O2vLVDoSI0S4EtgAl-L1mDRlZMTaBtZH9V9UNpl-NGXhddrD84koNlb5tZ8jP7g74GiStt6XVtgKfdQB3BeoWB1KeHI3oV0vYHEeLMJK5M7vHwQ5Ba8rmzgVO/s2364/20231115_122256.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTsTFJyFlAXhArhhiVxEPVN0EG20rInMDfHWt_3QFCwPTf0N-zyBLidjLctgRfQ-rQxe7O2vLVDoSI0S4EtgAl-L1mDRlZMTaBtZH9V9UNpl-NGXhddrD84koNlb5tZ8jP7g74GiStt6XVtgKfdQB3BeoWB1KeHI3oV0vYHEeLMJK5M7vHwQ5Ba8rmzgVO/w300-h400/20231115_122256.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She still likes the bridge best, though.</span></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As well as Cwtch's progress, I've been well placed to watch the progression of autumn, from green mostly ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzrrNgQqulSTXCCJcnzOgQptZu4XcQ9DPavCmxllktGNEw7P4-ElJeDQqLpkkCQ6pjh8pvA22zvzLAPH9jbmQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... and there's an array of fungi. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Unlike where we usually walk, there are lots of beech trees in Badock's Wood, and it's a tonic to see their lovely colours as the leaves turn ...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4IID3pGTeH6HL3dshd8UldLnyn_qxB6C0OaFpPdQMR1icpZOeMIk01XQBlVvHjaKoCdmaPfMW5l9gqD0cN5btLf5EkPGdRxpdlO25ioG6ET73QVNih2FLfZXI3_YAqApKVa9ibCGILCYFT2eCvqcdAJbxflSy3dzCI64wA1c0B1NiriuU8kxhpAMRSPw/s2364/20231115_121441.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX4IID3pGTeH6HL3dshd8UldLnyn_qxB6C0OaFpPdQMR1icpZOeMIk01XQBlVvHjaKoCdmaPfMW5l9gqD0cN5btLf5EkPGdRxpdlO25ioG6ET73QVNih2FLfZXI3_YAqApKVa9ibCGILCYFT2eCvqcdAJbxflSy3dzCI64wA1c0B1NiriuU8kxhpAMRSPw/w300-h400/20231115_121441.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Standing about in shallow rivers can give you a whole new perspective on the familiar. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Y0qU0TkznrFDRoC0oEB6FbwTXN1xZQ9vMfDsAta98Yuf5hgbrlrcNBTI0_TjCebCtU83kx8AKE14PCJm7oX7oh8oDCHqK0E-2RDZCpwkfxQE2JKvUV0Vj4ruG7jiFm_WCTT7YovopU97hIjQEtH6qlfFPFZ77C1kok2I9Kf4hXi74IPomY8McULYeps_/s1440/20231115_120454%20bank%20voles.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Y0qU0TkznrFDRoC0oEB6FbwTXN1xZQ9vMfDsAta98Yuf5hgbrlrcNBTI0_TjCebCtU83kx8AKE14PCJm7oX7oh8oDCHqK0E-2RDZCpwkfxQE2JKvUV0Vj4ruG7jiFm_WCTT7YovopU97hIjQEtH6qlfFPFZ77C1kok2I9Kf4hXi74IPomY8McULYeps_/w300-h400/20231115_120454%20bank%20voles.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-90187218902031919562023-11-14T21:34:00.002+00:002023-11-14T21:34:58.427+00:00Bonfire Days<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The last time I posted about the edgelands where we walk most days it looked as if this year's late, slow-burning autumn was about to catch alight.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1KHGbzo5EVrOTHLRjQzHa0UyB9l5cSLnM6hnAvnMTBs_72g10zdG1JI1s3b2lu0Yw7CAy1QSgjm3ILgclhjlPoalMzy8erp3keoiHBE_nnvBurZpXIGnrNb5637tCClsTObb4RLnw0VAHZzhehjZNGcBpTR_yzC0PpfhvZ4JmjZanNPimYtK7844ePRoe/s2364/20231028_121839.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1KHGbzo5EVrOTHLRjQzHa0UyB9l5cSLnM6hnAvnMTBs_72g10zdG1JI1s3b2lu0Yw7CAy1QSgjm3ILgclhjlPoalMzy8erp3keoiHBE_nnvBurZpXIGnrNb5637tCClsTObb4RLnw0VAHZzhehjZNGcBpTR_yzC0PpfhvZ4JmjZanNPimYtK7844ePRoe/w300-h400/20231028_121839.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JAI4GL47VldmlzuByxp55jPHBF-K1pDeuY04q1lwWBY8_H3vJZG-PwW2Yw9rKpX96uaoyOD4NW5a0bmikWYQm6KynfbSgIUYLdvxWLMrj3VOZbisR_UzbQjs-5SQ5-K0jsfjDmw5VJj28PYEb3yzPz9-bpkFEdzldmiqOvzx7NY_M05VWj4iYH1l2uTk/w400-h300/20231026_094705.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Then I got Covid and didn't go anywhere for ten days - literally, in fact, as my partner omitted to catch it at the same time and, since he's self-employed, was keen not to miss work. So I sat in the bedroom for most of that time, with only a walk-deprived collie for company. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">While we were in seclusion, there was some wild weather, including storm Ciaran, so when we finally rejoined the world, it was a wetter one. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaELaZCrn9pUVZdm5UI67bRP3xMqTjIFHH5b8FiF725rqFGqIUk4JqOnFrCDGgNoSQL9xKRUu5z4N05aW475m8XoyRC3m3RImub9cgOjmFSjAeVd30D0mR1e-crJcpe_9dvy2WhLGOZLviH5Jb0IYTc6t0Cg5lnMhI5j_3pzQ6iejWCif7kSukj_WhoAt/s2364/20231027_155227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijhWiIAuTjph8ELOp1cDP_tIt_E8G3alu2-5XsW33K2bg6m1Zfi2pKW4eWWk9DsYx3xf9jzsGigFF-5LjhTwt2NwsYv5Se6nGTuQBiw6Q1uY9lRj9NRjssLStwBL4j1r1sptbTqNitpWf4NepGHiiuIaw_RhqJbYkg6M8a2hSr6hl0B6jLExSrHkrWzw30/w300-h400/20231112_122304.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And since the rain has continued, Cwtch and I have spent some time exploring The Small Dark Wood of the Mind, which affords some shelter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUAl4_TjIciIhLW-A0iRKBmDF4gOrbV5-0dXaJsklfw2aSmo-tqp0wyy07rcGT_z5_n6jjYy-KEAsi2iMppWoqf9oKVkuugyG8M4ko8ebNt8U5v0ttwEgj_J_TJxKm39tH2A0-OPh7sbZ4VSaO_OthX5bOEC5mgfs_6B8fJAgOnmRFPl13qJc4nDqvcUu/s2364/20231112_115227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxUAl4_TjIciIhLW-A0iRKBmDF4gOrbV5-0dXaJsklfw2aSmo-tqp0wyy07rcGT_z5_n6jjYy-KEAsi2iMppWoqf9oKVkuugyG8M4ko8ebNt8U5v0ttwEgj_J_TJxKm39tH2A0-OPh7sbZ4VSaO_OthX5bOEC5mgfs_6B8fJAgOnmRFPl13qJc4nDqvcUu/w300-h400/20231112_115227.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Small Dark Wood of the Mind is a feral, largely untended wood
that wasn’t where it is now in the 19</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century. Along with the Field of the
Hollowing Oak and Rooky Wood to its east, it’s part of the edgelands sandwiched
between the golf course, a housing estate, Charlton Road and the Airbus campus. The trees in the above photo grow on top of a bank or dyke alongside the footpath, which clearly isn’t a natural feature of the landscape and also doesn’t feature
on the Victorian map. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s another similar bank, also marking the boundary
of the campus, where the rookery grows. You can see it <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/10/every-days-dog-day.html" target="_blank">in the recent video</a> I took of a muntjac running up and down the wood. <br /><br />I’ve been trying to work out why and
when these earthworks were undertaken. I wonder if, because the factories have
been used to build aeroplanes (or parts) and weapons for decades, they were put
up during the war to make it harder to infiltrate the hangars and workshops.
(Presumably the footpath would have been blocked for the duration.) I like this
theory but haven’t been able to verify it online. Maybe I’m using the wrong
search terms. And the people I might have asked who worked there - my father, my godfather, poet John Terry - are all dead, although someone on Facebook did suggest they might be bunds, designed as blast protection walls, also during the war. </span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPl-UPkY_n1CYLGPZIaCHQzB5X-K0qBYnsGe_dZj-ND91DIPGmP_7vPFmPplq36-kukjZ-PVEPUHVYXLmFMDKUKz_7OdmTxJ9SjliuLgf6U6tjN8TNdxP1jWm1YuYsf_cmUo258UXx2u3JgFnZ3WQqGekVnX-beGsMPvMJk7K4_QvXoJ26CEsezl-o2-L4/s2364/20231112_115623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPl-UPkY_n1CYLGPZIaCHQzB5X-K0qBYnsGe_dZj-ND91DIPGmP_7vPFmPplq36-kukjZ-PVEPUHVYXLmFMDKUKz_7OdmTxJ9SjliuLgf6U6tjN8TNdxP1jWm1YuYsf_cmUo258UXx2u3JgFnZ3WQqGekVnX-beGsMPvMJk7K4_QvXoJ26CEsezl-o2-L4/w300-h400/20231112_115623.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i>Haws barring the way to the Grove of the Silver Chair (and Ruby Crown)</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirmr9VjQwjiAqv9SYHfdP56sYmoc9NGNqTHWQ-oIzDhwj8o3aM2xcfXn0WXnUA6k1ogC65jKuiBZhHhkBU40Is_54Fe0rXimiP2QlmR9XPoU3Cs7yn0xygzuXMoB599EqhmQYglI5h-0fnwVRsTY7vqP_jKukSxxr5S76fapOEJ_TKfeTsm-fzg0Ln4zE/s2364/20231112_120011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1619" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiirmr9VjQwjiAqv9SYHfdP56sYmoc9NGNqTHWQ-oIzDhwj8o3aM2xcfXn0WXnUA6k1ogC65jKuiBZhHhkBU40Is_54Fe0rXimiP2QlmR9XPoU3Cs7yn0xygzuXMoB599EqhmQYglI5h-0fnwVRsTY7vqP_jKukSxxr5S76fapOEJ_TKfeTsm-fzg0Ln4zE/w274-h400/20231112_120011.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i>Cwtch in the clearing where <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/01/all-change-in-edgelands.html" target="_blank">so many trees were felled</a> about a year ago</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjft6oCr9QMl1FdJ_m8AX0Ax6ZBOvHe-UWQrthF_JFxOxCi791FphBeLmWaIAFLeMREuA-FrO9yNJi8ssJedMjcyBQ2XTtGJ_txnQdIFe4ajyQZlfvS7YqnmrcN69M5sSuYvJ94E6IYho8iXHCe87g_rg1zLDPOVU7h9RMW8y6K6IKhpBDi-FJOQNLWVNUn/s2364/20231112_120726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjft6oCr9QMl1FdJ_m8AX0Ax6ZBOvHe-UWQrthF_JFxOxCi791FphBeLmWaIAFLeMREuA-FrO9yNJi8ssJedMjcyBQ2XTtGJ_txnQdIFe4ajyQZlfvS7YqnmrcN69M5sSuYvJ94E6IYho8iXHCe87g_rg1zLDPOVU7h9RMW8y6K6IKhpBDi-FJOQNLWVNUn/w300-h400/20231112_120726.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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though there’s a fence with razor wire and keep out notices running through the
part of wood on the factory side of the footpath, paths running through it
are still routinely blocked with branches at the junction with the footpath,
presumably to deter German spies still. Doesn’t stop Cwtch and me having a
nosey about every now and then, though I’m mostly interested in fungi and
feathers, and she squirrels.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD42FZXXQlzvjPVsNdHaCVS0e87lL7aaNr4COkQELde2ogA0dby_TgYFssLY_TkV9an4k6dJPKHh9meOYMelNpflv596jpwCoZfvSCgKfCXrMWRQQ6u1wttK-wljH_EACixYtoT82QAiT4KHkFE8BmBsv_0SfA8rqc29Owm6yzVbI8MmO9zZAWYr-vCKXE/s3508/MixCollage-14-Nov-2023-08-15-PM-9935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2479" data-original-width="3508" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD42FZXXQlzvjPVsNdHaCVS0e87lL7aaNr4COkQELde2ogA0dby_TgYFssLY_TkV9an4k6dJPKHh9meOYMelNpflv596jpwCoZfvSCgKfCXrMWRQQ6u1wttK-wljH_EACixYtoT82QAiT4KHkFE8BmBsv_0SfA8rqc29Owm6yzVbI8MmO9zZAWYr-vCKXE/w508-h358/MixCollage-14-Nov-2023-08-15-PM-9935.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of fungi, there are a few, most of them brown. I'm not skilled at identifying them, but might hazard, clockwise from top left, inkcaps x 2, milkcap maybe, candlesnuff fungus, waxcaps x 4, potato earthballs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As for feathers, the falling season is over, apart from woodpigeon feathers. There are always woodpigeon feathers, and no sooner have disparaged them, than the God of Fallen Feathers says hey, these are beautiful too. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1WGC5jmRLOEN35gVdx_DzUyvEZtiuS1tRsRs2Lh9DYM9qT9LdqqPeHaaJllprsNA02i0bbtbcTdJ2TOf39N8_nKSmC45PwiQ2NYy6jI665Fd0a8-OPUMRvKVIrJA_3ENl6peLBI-28WVbMCSfropNaRA98SbQNFZksrKONxsGNb6gx2BOhrQk_c8HL6-/s3508/Collage%20Maker-27-Oct-2023-06-03-PM-4017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1WGC5jmRLOEN35gVdx_DzUyvEZtiuS1tRsRs2Lh9DYM9qT9LdqqPeHaaJllprsNA02i0bbtbcTdJ2TOf39N8_nKSmC45PwiQ2NYy6jI665Fd0a8-OPUMRvKVIrJA_3ENl6peLBI-28WVbMCSfropNaRA98SbQNFZksrKONxsGNb6gx2BOhrQk_c8HL6-/w515-h365/Collage%20Maker-27-Oct-2023-06-03-PM-4017.jpg" width="515" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, my most fervent admiration is for my beacon tree, the hollowing oak.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZi_5X285gsIjWpm3dNcNppNGfcwt-Gqdk5w2ergeRToA28w_Z0_AhQZG3ImZxXMrr-_91iJHcibkgd4UStu6y4DhUBbNE9IBzo0vNlvDB6Tg-4Qza6xgNuIIt72bO7bkyMzqfwP4Cq5OpGUKlW2Yr02J-PVGwjexhZ87ds7UIZ7NbB2-QkhH-4ZEG_pR/s2364/20231110_144209.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilZi_5X285gsIjWpm3dNcNppNGfcwt-Gqdk5w2ergeRToA28w_Z0_AhQZG3ImZxXMrr-_91iJHcibkgd4UStu6y4DhUBbNE9IBzo0vNlvDB6Tg-4Qza6xgNuIIt72bO7bkyMzqfwP4Cq5OpGUKlW2Yr02J-PVGwjexhZ87ds7UIZ7NbB2-QkhH-4ZEG_pR/w300-h400/20231110_144209.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU1DeyFMda-B6olTnegwVykq4knRw7ubxrMyaGSXUgTHFQhlZsf2uZRKw33um29MQ2p7JM1QJfa16rSe5mAx05_615jQUOvVXZDQQaapHLSZpdyHkskLlNNU_TOPwKDdwYCSRZRl-VvwiTa9zVsf9BeTV-UR14mYMldDyN9gCje-P8WPqNo2omrr-YR62G/w300-h400/20231110_144731.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">One other big change during my absence ... the golf club has removed a
wooden fence and an entire hedgerow at the top of the lane. It now looks like Colditz, instead of a
lane with the occasional vestige of its rural past. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6V3b1zbQfP25nQ5ldUkny9B-i7opjBDaLb0AEmLeyrCZJ7wN-B3c6xTSqRLf33flDy_1pz95F1O-_TQJ90Hnslf32Qw9VG9yQ1mLvRnR91J8M2nGzmrGcbkEhQLvcJpE1-RN2VtH9T2hKlJLce5uOu_UimgS_LnPYEiX5lj_fyWeuoYro5Qd1_DcLNyY/s2364/20231111_104925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6V3b1zbQfP25nQ5ldUkny9B-i7opjBDaLb0AEmLeyrCZJ7wN-B3c6xTSqRLf33flDy_1pz95F1O-_TQJ90Hnslf32Qw9VG9yQ1mLvRnR91J8M2nGzmrGcbkEhQLvcJpE1-RN2VtH9T2hKlJLce5uOu_UimgS_LnPYEiX5lj_fyWeuoYro5Qd1_DcLNyY/w300-h400/20231111_104925.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2yA4XYT5XJBYP9LmMzJOmwivmFuDqJCYoVcQMghHnibqxjCzhbgTDawg9u3-kxmh0RzDjtBl4oRLozCs7hTM52_f8udLvKuG7KLQYywFpCW9eb2rCrZyoso6B2uLNDoo1p89xwynTNNJUt4FidmTHskCbq1pGeGMEo5Av7DDcFRONGiNhKPwkmv5Vv6ZW/s2364/20231111_114331.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1852" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2yA4XYT5XJBYP9LmMzJOmwivmFuDqJCYoVcQMghHnibqxjCzhbgTDawg9u3-kxmh0RzDjtBl4oRLozCs7hTM52_f8udLvKuG7KLQYywFpCW9eb2rCrZyoso6B2uLNDoo1p89xwynTNNJUt4FidmTHskCbq1pGeGMEo5Av7DDcFRONGiNhKPwkmv5Vv6ZW/w314-h400/20231111_114331.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we were leaving, we watched a jay pick up an
acorn, perch on the fence and drop it a little further away from the tree.
Nature will prevail, in the end.</span></span></div></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmf97BkSAorg-vI6GVzQuPxI984yiYEOhm1foieE1WwVGr-Qq1cyftOQ8Gw7ojxUCaBUNBQ5Lex1-emY1NOtT84BriR8rg48X0NeO4H-7IAsK2nvfATZNyXE0AzMSzaLbrjNHMVmhYV5MKAyalA9QgUU-1IVrgrZTWD-hOYE3Q-6hxmFpOZYt5Zt7aDuNa/s2364/20231109_122251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmf97BkSAorg-vI6GVzQuPxI984yiYEOhm1foieE1WwVGr-Qq1cyftOQ8Gw7ojxUCaBUNBQ5Lex1-emY1NOtT84BriR8rg48X0NeO4H-7IAsK2nvfATZNyXE0AzMSzaLbrjNHMVmhYV5MKAyalA9QgUU-1IVrgrZTWD-hOYE3Q-6hxmFpOZYt5Zt7aDuNa/w300-h400/20231109_122251.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-76110334590967215992023-11-05T14:30:00.002+00:002023-11-05T14:31:44.465+00:00On the Edge VIII: Another year in sunrises (plus the occasional sunset, and a spooky moon)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A year's worth of sunrises from the house on the edge, with a view east to the Cotswolds if you lean out of the window and crick your neck. From April 2022 to April 2023. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdi7zj4nXZqdg2YRxTxaEzDLseFiOvjk2ER1n2j4rhNNebUl7JhuXQf0WkxG-McIRZnhMXvJs6mL8nh5zNFHRxmPhtEw40O71mOxH1M71lyo7_wNvNft5KmTGZ_rUZvpj1wK_WrI_poQVtu5mtuGkmiQTOCHWYlJYJ0UBaMOUapxUeH4vyIryOL2aFtu3l" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdi7zj4nXZqdg2YRxTxaEzDLseFiOvjk2ER1n2j4rhNNebUl7JhuXQf0WkxG-McIRZnhMXvJs6mL8nh5zNFHRxmPhtEw40O71mOxH1M71lyo7_wNvNft5KmTGZ_rUZvpj1wK_WrI_poQVtu5mtuGkmiQTOCHWYlJYJ0UBaMOUapxUeH4vyIryOL2aFtu3l=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>18th April 2022, 6.14am</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghgL1KLf_TnM-BzMpjCphmUBmZet7baZbt9kqCFedzVDe8Vf3TVQFD1SaRLL_JojdJP4-cgF9_vK216vzOEXCprLurPdZ8x_VUO6XzOP3B-IOi_oE8Q-RCqqT7Nq_g7jwMhwGrWj5ct7pPzTsfMuBPNww3T9QO_yZEdzNcbfXk8Sdjpd6ko4wqlXXsLugP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2953" data-original-width="4449" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghgL1KLf_TnM-BzMpjCphmUBmZet7baZbt9kqCFedzVDe8Vf3TVQFD1SaRLL_JojdJP4-cgF9_vK216vzOEXCprLurPdZ8x_VUO6XzOP3B-IOi_oE8Q-RCqqT7Nq_g7jwMhwGrWj5ct7pPzTsfMuBPNww3T9QO_yZEdzNcbfXk8Sdjpd6ko4wqlXXsLugP=w400-h265" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">17th May 2022, 8.52pm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfU6lj3oUvsxkSt-bpNPrA_dlg48TfZH3MEFTg3CNlsnqzhIPuZNLyi4sXfGd2QJtfQfjdRmCeWKCQ9tA4jLufEaGAfo2O6OOy_xwCkGKaqpx-gaibqG9enf8nsJag7eLsg7Dv-fTcD5gvXLjmpCDGj_XWENqNdSbyjvRjuoYy0bmydJ_46QnlJ7GjQ-Iu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfU6lj3oUvsxkSt-bpNPrA_dlg48TfZH3MEFTg3CNlsnqzhIPuZNLyi4sXfGd2QJtfQfjdRmCeWKCQ9tA4jLufEaGAfo2O6OOy_xwCkGKaqpx-gaibqG9enf8nsJag7eLsg7Dv-fTcD5gvXLjmpCDGj_XWENqNdSbyjvRjuoYy0bmydJ_46QnlJ7GjQ-Iu=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">27th May 2022, 04.37am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">with a faint storybook moon</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcGKZRQYSoNLe5lYdaZALR022Df_8PXnsNk2qgi0n3UHCLWvvw3XFUlwpna0K3BKcD-gwBmc91YoxaRpMAOb908yW4h8kRj3snZ7jC6-IFIm8mXYTYWbDZOm9BgPIdZEPrcCCc0yzspxeHsLNDAiusEDF-B75mwtOcPHSKmOauIQoM2oG8yVnzaEpX6_3s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcGKZRQYSoNLe5lYdaZALR022Df_8PXnsNk2qgi0n3UHCLWvvw3XFUlwpna0K3BKcD-gwBmc91YoxaRpMAOb908yW4h8kRj3snZ7jC6-IFIm8mXYTYWbDZOm9BgPIdZEPrcCCc0yzspxeHsLNDAiusEDF-B75mwtOcPHSKmOauIQoM2oG8yVnzaEpX6_3s=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">28th May 2022, 4.32am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Moon more visible this morning</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmTDH4r9XaoFK254FlO2_-0YoVF9xH9KY3a-svkyLcHWs4zafWnETQ1br9C2Ywb5m8HsgAn8kIrEAozrPNVTgfRhomDGR6HjfMiJgJy4LqaP6lpAaAlaRMIqxJcKGQqJ0FAzn6bk_vq_PCfVOW3gH6e5_BNS0tKZNwwQZzMDkL7Ra81Ixf40eqFAGYAEe4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmTDH4r9XaoFK254FlO2_-0YoVF9xH9KY3a-svkyLcHWs4zafWnETQ1br9C2Ywb5m8HsgAn8kIrEAozrPNVTgfRhomDGR6HjfMiJgJy4LqaP6lpAaAlaRMIqxJcKGQqJ0FAzn6bk_vq_PCfVOW3gH6e5_BNS0tKZNwwQZzMDkL7Ra81Ixf40eqFAGYAEe4=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">7th June 2022, 05.12am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwlTU-x4vbhMlekvF7cyrlNgEQjiIDnUXUKN8ddgTftjD_fwBFHS9yzjImj4sDdHmuZc4bCqkJJHpR18dUhWWs5oWHUcwKx2hCX9_RfNkg5qaSU3KNYWieMOzvbz7vI-oTm63z48fwJVvv7fBnj_OAC_meH3-dm2jZUdA1KIMcvW53I1jLAkn4SRg_Oa3V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwlTU-x4vbhMlekvF7cyrlNgEQjiIDnUXUKN8ddgTftjD_fwBFHS9yzjImj4sDdHmuZc4bCqkJJHpR18dUhWWs5oWHUcwKx2hCX9_RfNkg5qaSU3KNYWieMOzvbz7vI-oTm63z48fwJVvv7fBnj_OAC_meH3-dm2jZUdA1KIMcvW53I1jLAkn4SRg_Oa3V=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">19th June 2022, 9.40pm</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sunset with bat at 10 o'clock</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUHhks6gO_6RF7LessOPV7kVH8e7YHUGMIXoViQBGJoK5FAcJ7OxZ1YiBD2_0GAaRP11kTtCLGCbZ6oRsIGLOJgouL_Y0cx2njFlvKr2z_UMrxARz3oeV-TZPHfOZDCHFhhNkk_aMrFYO5QXyReieXk85EwLhQbrLIfpbNDJhoYhliBzIYRtiwOnof-wGb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUHhks6gO_6RF7LessOPV7kVH8e7YHUGMIXoViQBGJoK5FAcJ7OxZ1YiBD2_0GAaRP11kTtCLGCbZ6oRsIGLOJgouL_Y0cx2njFlvKr2z_UMrxARz3oeV-TZPHfOZDCHFhhNkk_aMrFYO5QXyReieXk85EwLhQbrLIfpbNDJhoYhliBzIYRtiwOnof-wGb=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">20th June 2022, 3.55am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDOvV8WnHGRQQvFqZ_JpAsL4TEu0VmWPuz82ulKdFR8buEZ2-a_7AgKBRCf23_Vzdour7Dc-MaabfNMxEtOlfVteivIzHA10YDBWu0Xa-0RQKzjIecD2W5BOZ6Px9oe_R1xgHNJYtZpuo6T0IoaXkFJcO6O0kEBMLEQhEuG9PXcVym1P4ShxrGmJjjcvnY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3309" data-original-width="4413" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDOvV8WnHGRQQvFqZ_JpAsL4TEu0VmWPuz82ulKdFR8buEZ2-a_7AgKBRCf23_Vzdour7Dc-MaabfNMxEtOlfVteivIzHA10YDBWu0Xa-0RQKzjIecD2W5BOZ6Px9oe_R1xgHNJYtZpuo6T0IoaXkFJcO6O0kEBMLEQhEuG9PXcVym1P4ShxrGmJjjcvnY=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />4th July 2022, 5.06am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRMGjlqS6UavnYKomuCkWiIJvIKhvtvSPs4_hUQNzzgweJ80pRkYgGls7h_IsS6YDN9N9xthEEKLDlWykCTlC5h7y4Ci8ZyNCcON9iOQXFTDsowNXvFBLbYh6IRlpSc1tdh3aRi2haBjkvqFShIWlP3Fijs9VDBeeg2UbZKJRNviSolJjv58OgfNknDMV7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRMGjlqS6UavnYKomuCkWiIJvIKhvtvSPs4_hUQNzzgweJ80pRkYgGls7h_IsS6YDN9N9xthEEKLDlWykCTlC5h7y4Ci8ZyNCcON9iOQXFTDsowNXvFBLbYh6IRlpSc1tdh3aRi2haBjkvqFShIWlP3Fijs9VDBeeg2UbZKJRNviSolJjv58OgfNknDMV7=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">13th September 2022, 6.33am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">coat of many colours</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU6SLhzZW97Fdw4KmIA8yQSKb33lxUBGtgjLrxo6Ko3KEj9Q_dydwQnoU7T2vYls4F2w5rYiPtgKCT8D7-6N42_Ml3lCrFsLl8eKU910Uo2SpM6SvTfXFiS4VWeIUTIgeiD0QglqARXJl88tPmMHdmdYeIs8w7r4puVE_mo_FondEyTasq3Bks9LoQLTEz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhU6SLhzZW97Fdw4KmIA8yQSKb33lxUBGtgjLrxo6Ko3KEj9Q_dydwQnoU7T2vYls4F2w5rYiPtgKCT8D7-6N42_Ml3lCrFsLl8eKU910Uo2SpM6SvTfXFiS4VWeIUTIgeiD0QglqARXJl88tPmMHdmdYeIs8w7r4puVE_mo_FondEyTasq3Bks9LoQLTEz" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">28th September 2022, 7.11am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUMVKcD2EABn43EMC0JWXwdstLo9cBBd_UBss3DFWlKtSjBzxWvnMk6mlM17AhhlWZW_zjNa8YONBpy_yKHUso2IigBDhs6RH4JMHO6UGHsXQCSmT94ylaWVR7_CMHYCwokipOQ4llKqewtEnLfFugNxLs1ObjupPyH3whiebA5nfwv6U-gajjx5fM5pbw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUMVKcD2EABn43EMC0JWXwdstLo9cBBd_UBss3DFWlKtSjBzxWvnMk6mlM17AhhlWZW_zjNa8YONBpy_yKHUso2IigBDhs6RH4JMHO6UGHsXQCSmT94ylaWVR7_CMHYCwokipOQ4llKqewtEnLfFugNxLs1ObjupPyH3whiebA5nfwv6U-gajjx5fM5pbw=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">30th September 2022, 7.13am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpoSpUB0opo8N3UYTV_rODNSVAgvwNl39vr42nlwZqOMhWQTFyGCpPJjJGsOMkON2Ijip_C2ZODcX3DIwdUgJJgJQ9FfIZCHdeglkux3CnlWXUd0GWBJmRiLltmvu1PKl1jhdabHrJat5Bxs9320lwZAzxVq2weGS7TLTFHyT9ltueicCnCxzCCFuEz6jV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpoSpUB0opo8N3UYTV_rODNSVAgvwNl39vr42nlwZqOMhWQTFyGCpPJjJGsOMkON2Ijip_C2ZODcX3DIwdUgJJgJQ9FfIZCHdeglkux3CnlWXUd0GWBJmRiLltmvu1PKl1jhdabHrJat5Bxs9320lwZAzxVq2weGS7TLTFHyT9ltueicCnCxzCCFuEz6jV=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>3rd October 2022, 7.06am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">sunrise like a slice of Battenburg cake</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5nS2f6q8pv134b8quufj32BGymFzAhkWZ81P-l9Ns87ci2vtXzZJaPX3Vxp9gBwM2WaHO-SS9ZOgNB6J2wqvrplQQpv-ZctRmAa8xYm5-8CwV37kXMpAm9eh1qi-1KEiwj1iKm9nOeYRiiQbNys_P7nYYONa5DjJf86gv_yDVRf1m7Ti1pVNvgMvJL8O0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5nS2f6q8pv134b8quufj32BGymFzAhkWZ81P-l9Ns87ci2vtXzZJaPX3Vxp9gBwM2WaHO-SS9ZOgNB6J2wqvrplQQpv-ZctRmAa8xYm5-8CwV37kXMpAm9eh1qi-1KEiwj1iKm9nOeYRiiQbNys_P7nYYONa5DjJf86gv_yDVRf1m7Ti1pVNvgMvJL8O0=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />7th October 2023, 6.53am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">a bit of window ledge and drainpipe for context: the sun is rising just past the wind turbine at Hinton now, and will soon be off to Hades for half the year</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfyVuzk1rj4DjFdcL65S-ebsWbf16jIZiwNPMM2I1NbNwylNxDehIb9S52_AWf-j2EJR0LEOsJ2mNSmrlDe6iQtWwYREKiVneuNMy4VZF02dkkwUgjrWH1fOhKfer3Q7WEJ0NOynCEJNKnJK2okdf-6FAv30NUOCQJptUeUYOokMWhSX3JBg1hri3nDTv8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfyVuzk1rj4DjFdcL65S-ebsWbf16jIZiwNPMM2I1NbNwylNxDehIb9S52_AWf-j2EJR0LEOsJ2mNSmrlDe6iQtWwYREKiVneuNMy4VZF02dkkwUgjrWH1fOhKfer3Q7WEJ0NOynCEJNKnJK2okdf-6FAv30NUOCQJptUeUYOokMWhSX3JBg1hri3nDTv8=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">15th October 2022, 7.35am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZFV9v7A1e1AiAbP7B_HtzKJ2tJqxbtdToZ2u4Ecv5Gj4_9EC3N8lCJJa2cvPiS43JfAGbgOgq5YfZ2N8iF_dpfcO2LZ79cGnICc1Nn1PeN-z-fcrZHe5CJoFJFt78aWTephuP6WB9bEQrM6ttOO-rsFAxZPb6LFcqWxu-EcdNOXJWck7uHB6SvwpDNTsB" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZFV9v7A1e1AiAbP7B_HtzKJ2tJqxbtdToZ2u4Ecv5Gj4_9EC3N8lCJJa2cvPiS43JfAGbgOgq5YfZ2N8iF_dpfcO2LZ79cGnICc1Nn1PeN-z-fcrZHe5CJoFJFt78aWTephuP6WB9bEQrM6ttOO-rsFAxZPb6LFcqWxu-EcdNOXJWck7uHB6SvwpDNTsB=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">16th October 2023, 7.39am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">all change for Morning Town</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1oI6BJOPPXI_B2xr2rRUgfnDDGQukS44Y-RaX_pZNA3HbaSw4ZxotG2IGHmhrg-BmfpPdgV0ED1V0_g47SzSwDj_AY24b43cACkBPbfkncjhbw9UA50vFwDoOz8DKEqz-Dp4s7QBb3cJYgtUYkx-Myyt8k-vdoNbxqbn_v9F9IBCXjlPhI6KtZ9hbUWIy" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1oI6BJOPPXI_B2xr2rRUgfnDDGQukS44Y-RaX_pZNA3HbaSw4ZxotG2IGHmhrg-BmfpPdgV0ED1V0_g47SzSwDj_AY24b43cACkBPbfkncjhbw9UA50vFwDoOz8DKEqz-Dp4s7QBb3cJYgtUYkx-Myyt8k-vdoNbxqbn_v9F9IBCXjlPhI6KtZ9hbUWIy=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">22nd October 2022, 7.50am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">mad-tailed magpie</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN5MAMnZStPoAAtBiQYVdtB7Cgn7PUAE1VVz_yJeJNmohVI8SfkzPxqrbtPuYHHd9M_4Mj3DoMoUBb0Vuhld2BASDjdqkVidgmnHDCL11aZr-lQr7lXbtGKDMokm34-PqPfLUG7rl79FztPph1QFcIDLf5o4dN72IGqHnE5VcB6U5J4f28YysIPOuWKVFE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN5MAMnZStPoAAtBiQYVdtB7Cgn7PUAE1VVz_yJeJNmohVI8SfkzPxqrbtPuYHHd9M_4Mj3DoMoUBb0Vuhld2BASDjdqkVidgmnHDCL11aZr-lQr7lXbtGKDMokm34-PqPfLUG7rl79FztPph1QFcIDLf5o4dN72IGqHnE5VcB6U5J4f28YysIPOuWKVFE=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">24th November 2022, 7.37am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5pK_fGlShTGk_EOmqmyZSPLlLaXAv8dHMKJYeFs0WCwbbbZ7ZK6pHX2h1WdAVA5rTc9DYqRxGMjZZOF3ybMpUJPcFPUcHxEkYpuwJ9XEi2PGP8DHPUTnqzxzx3tmeFi5xvPDxaPmKLlHUddDn-WQH1GJSrnlvk9MHc183QOlbGSx45x1UlDxds6mm1AeI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3377" data-original-width="4503" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5pK_fGlShTGk_EOmqmyZSPLlLaXAv8dHMKJYeFs0WCwbbbZ7ZK6pHX2h1WdAVA5rTc9DYqRxGMjZZOF3ybMpUJPcFPUcHxEkYpuwJ9XEi2PGP8DHPUTnqzxzx3tmeFi5xvPDxaPmKLlHUddDn-WQH1GJSrnlvk9MHc183QOlbGSx45x1UlDxds6mm1AeI" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">10th December 2022, 8.06am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a sky to warm your hands on</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-JOgKj7T1pjMGScTP13EBMC9SyED-KJG1qPbZKknpwZUWz_1uAQ85QYjrA1rEkjaWprjbXMs_0xYzk8m4p8-diRNmwV66ptYn_MjODdydzoK56bZtoE4pdZdXLTCME6y4g7RVtih0PcVQ2PR0iTOUh9KKs07VGgejRR4iXUC4Z3niuecdjzvLSXBYd27j" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-JOgKj7T1pjMGScTP13EBMC9SyED-KJG1qPbZKknpwZUWz_1uAQ85QYjrA1rEkjaWprjbXMs_0xYzk8m4p8-diRNmwV66ptYn_MjODdydzoK56bZtoE4pdZdXLTCME6y4g7RVtih0PcVQ2PR0iTOUh9KKs07VGgejRR4iXUC4Z3niuecdjzvLSXBYd27j=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">15th December 2022, 7.55am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">bedroom window frozen shut</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlVa10ujPUHEqZwgHJJVQWacuGXE_nMpB5vK2YiwNYgTgd9pd1slKhaWu1nkVptw1uaewdtR6PRwmJFhwt2L822d_fIhTYV2Rrzwshk1F-rEI16ChGYF5ky7ocALCfedrZFbhKwV1Jabw5xeZA9KM-Fpz_v7yAXWawgiAvqNgN2GkoJlOYw63TcUCgc1RG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlVa10ujPUHEqZwgHJJVQWacuGXE_nMpB5vK2YiwNYgTgd9pd1slKhaWu1nkVptw1uaewdtR6PRwmJFhwt2L822d_fIhTYV2Rrzwshk1F-rEI16ChGYF5ky7ocALCfedrZFbhKwV1Jabw5xeZA9KM-Fpz_v7yAXWawgiAvqNgN2GkoJlOYw63TcUCgc1RG=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />16th December 2022, 7.51am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_U0Aj3UD0GMYcbA-aYUU0LTrLzNn4ovyTHeNerefyhur6lINTGIXuIuzRGUUizcgczDdB8_mZ7W-QBjkPpZUIOaR7zp_s-awB9XjykHts_X5cR8WmWzsL2pc4KqvN-OfU7eMlhXR7yrhKF65a8Rkmi2bE1pH0S2lGv5tBr-ZXIYfZcNCebBTcvYjDkS1Q=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">24th January 2023, 7.21am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcL-bm2qbFtYOUrVU3n7Gb_P6DsHXIRm_YUz3_Z1f25OVl_sqmgw0w7LBYlw_Qfq9_W1VYPqlVQ2iMpb19ZymXZbQD0HZXeE4C8Bmvq1rS9ANCiA0hShIXNozVr8Dpdfk6DEzQICFnIQo4QxVgLhkxDkJbXoiHofdNKV3LnmDUI8LmswWEZu6fpFLafZlA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4nOumkzvPCsi0kaoLFXoWWDS4sNC7cnOH3WtGg5n6DBFQZhZaSuXqDdJxxaUahD0lvCCE_kzCbp2xC4UytJdfrneF_wjo9p0wohU00WsTxmZSE-S27CTkhzk7H30kpBJxmCzOSJ0Qdf0MVirGTMJnemcyjYJIp_DqdJ1N2GhKzRPIU0SobcLewyZ7NQ2D=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">5th February 2023, 7.22am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbxtH64ZTaewqwja5vtkGV_jJlLjK_duczqIiwFd5Iee-iwgEvCMADm8YTp5mGOIfem3FyGGmIzu2sGuQ7skyU5S7m0U9BuVlpY11x8KXwmloQhuBV8WLhYZ7c_FcAMb4vjbWSfFAS4wrc2UJRsPhPfi_cqJT6OUS7RWOMX2iNhAPgPqzhVQ-2Zza3mWQV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbxtH64ZTaewqwja5vtkGV_jJlLjK_duczqIiwFd5Iee-iwgEvCMADm8YTp5mGOIfem3FyGGmIzu2sGuQ7skyU5S7m0U9BuVlpY11x8KXwmloQhuBV8WLhYZ7c_FcAMb4vjbWSfFAS4wrc2UJRsPhPfi_cqJT6OUS7RWOMX2iNhAPgPqzhVQ-2Zza3mWQV" width="400" /></a></div><br />6th February 2023, 7.21am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdoV02srD-Zfqu0jSLTDaEHmmC1dlu9ycPP7NWBZdwAWtip49o_voQcgu93s20SD6qK7s0PTwXTbLkXkWSzHqJVqG2vExdftfr3GKHAHDjtmvvqwCrhLNEZZY__WRO40C6XufQH36k4l4vdgjEzKjRjrsSEAsJMVXnqv6OgDUGOQqNopugbfoCLx6OU280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3365" data-original-width="4487" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdoV02srD-Zfqu0jSLTDaEHmmC1dlu9ycPP7NWBZdwAWtip49o_voQcgu93s20SD6qK7s0PTwXTbLkXkWSzHqJVqG2vExdftfr3GKHAHDjtmvvqwCrhLNEZZY__WRO40C6XufQH36k4l4vdgjEzKjRjrsSEAsJMVXnqv6OgDUGOQqNopugbfoCLx6OU280" width="320" /></a></div><br />7th February 2023, 4.30pm</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">looking north-east towards the Cotswolds</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">not a sunrise, not a sunset</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0arSkC5v0yvzrf0w2DH00MM5OFQikGLA9oHtbr473OVxBWXSbSTq5dtxvviSLsot2twL9zcSlzpBXff6aezYOhS2pVhnWwtEfbL_JnvDacL2xxHG4DG8b0pzbAPK7ZYczq6QYIpaAzVET3BpheOne3plgSygGdGbZlubUL8k3ktglGrRUp5PsHIr54dbg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0arSkC5v0yvzrf0w2DH00MM5OFQikGLA9oHtbr473OVxBWXSbSTq5dtxvviSLsot2twL9zcSlzpBXff6aezYOhS2pVhnWwtEfbL_JnvDacL2xxHG4DG8b0pzbAPK7ZYczq6QYIpaAzVET3BpheOne3plgSygGdGbZlubUL8k3ktglGrRUp5PsHIr54dbg=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>8th February 2023, 7.06am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">mist up the Frome valley<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbgL3trBmS0sAbhDkod6I6iCiSYRTUjdV8gtqloo4F4npbcXimSdAex1HVK6yiUUeLJmP4EfYTTAemHwvx9kldcElWU4FfKpqJLuKpgyrHcu87YxXyyJ5meF_5EbhTy-3PAmi4FXaS_8-geJNoLGryCT2D-zH5LI3Uw8BW0iBAYex066HZ6FkoAP0avn9h" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbgL3trBmS0sAbhDkod6I6iCiSYRTUjdV8gtqloo4F4npbcXimSdAex1HVK6yiUUeLJmP4EfYTTAemHwvx9kldcElWU4FfKpqJLuKpgyrHcu87YxXyyJ5meF_5EbhTy-3PAmi4FXaS_8-geJNoLGryCT2D-zH5LI3Uw8BW0iBAYex066HZ6FkoAP0avn9h=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br />10th February 2023, 7.20am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Daybreak like a trumpet</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiudjON2o2zmrTjFZsbMS8K6SQHGM8CJnMXPKx9uq-SkQkLWfB_1QWcrwo3dz9BBwM2nMJehDKmpbk7Y8gi4JZOV-WLLLL9CMT49pCtHdUMMhSBtmZnNedDhXf6_XlRxR0qwUl3XB5Sb-bTu5kzFfqG7X5rNR9Mx9okmgrH62X7ggJ3RWwEoB1BGOm7aX7h" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiudjON2o2zmrTjFZsbMS8K6SQHGM8CJnMXPKx9uq-SkQkLWfB_1QWcrwo3dz9BBwM2nMJehDKmpbk7Y8gi4JZOV-WLLLL9CMT49pCtHdUMMhSBtmZnNedDhXf6_XlRxR0qwUl3XB5Sb-bTu5kzFfqG7X5rNR9Mx9okmgrH62X7ggJ3RWwEoB1BGOm7aX7h=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">8th March 2023, 7.22am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">just when you think winter's done</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9DPaR2vh1yqGxfdIzr_0Sqk7Bq1bfE4DEwqjueEujZEPCX0fgQLucGQqQeVgbOKi55O70srR1AX3SiB-GCnnySfKEUvuoXpOmORsg8Zye6dUN1H-VrF-JPP4kWyhksmSuteRq935IJZowCsGimDjMf5ja21vjwlPecHXqHdMjJ6TEFNDs8-nwo9Kz95mN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9DPaR2vh1yqGxfdIzr_0Sqk7Bq1bfE4DEwqjueEujZEPCX0fgQLucGQqQeVgbOKi55O70srR1AX3SiB-GCnnySfKEUvuoXpOmORsg8Zye6dUN1H-VrF-JPP4kWyhksmSuteRq935IJZowCsGimDjMf5ja21vjwlPecHXqHdMjJ6TEFNDs8-nwo9Kz95mN" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">14th March 2023, 6.49am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">glimpse of the sun</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCkOKpuO14DjP9RVGvvHcCUUBBSWBxVI3VcuYYtE2Sgihwq7AUHxHwCxUtqYon40RmPYX1ERLOBP482ALSuJ77gGsdRTn1X0OZrVVbmBildjUqzOLDFUG1GPhL3_gsl3sFyWHHP81zIvjNXDx-BsdqsLjE2MYLEPzhDwZWqx88dt04oeHDF42cznPJWPcg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCkOKpuO14DjP9RVGvvHcCUUBBSWBxVI3VcuYYtE2Sgihwq7AUHxHwCxUtqYon40RmPYX1ERLOBP482ALSuJ77gGsdRTn1X0OZrVVbmBildjUqzOLDFUG1GPhL3_gsl3sFyWHHP81zIvjNXDx-BsdqsLjE2MYLEPzhDwZWqx88dt04oeHDF42cznPJWPcg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">15th March 2023, 6.12am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibnrv6FlBOVQzAmRoOMz3xqR1kArvdNaha7MPQgUYSFkxG_Hn7T_tPvbEHEpzod7JE9JtI2iQFoy4yqmR7i_39nty2mFeyfnjOcYjAVVjVDumC9CaKJ7Qitmsz2Vw8HnOUvJOjw4u2H2hezRENdf8RdO2SKx5t3ld1ia0lfrhSbJIx_LnaZWkyHxsRNiyr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibnrv6FlBOVQzAmRoOMz3xqR1kArvdNaha7MPQgUYSFkxG_Hn7T_tPvbEHEpzod7JE9JtI2iQFoy4yqmR7i_39nty2mFeyfnjOcYjAVVjVDumC9CaKJ7Qitmsz2Vw8HnOUvJOjw4u2H2hezRENdf8RdO2SKx5t3ld1ia0lfrhSbJIx_LnaZWkyHxsRNiyr=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">23rd March 2023, 6.14am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">David Cassidy's magnolia is in bud</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(we live next door to David Cassidy)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih4EQpnVHzIqBlmCipSSurMboBn5yDaB83vvdfckVT6CV6PV91BLQ1Z4v0jX4DKWHchHYyntrXODTB72iOWmFQfsY4rQ-VaCwi-M3TKqHnK856yky_BCbCz04y4EYZdbFPrgoGLURtjqHYZgwd2jB1HRne43zwyymvE_nPOMdkeyJ-WM7KR9tHtWXlxP7L" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1535" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEih4EQpnVHzIqBlmCipSSurMboBn5yDaB83vvdfckVT6CV6PV91BLQ1Z4v0jX4DKWHchHYyntrXODTB72iOWmFQfsY4rQ-VaCwi-M3TKqHnK856yky_BCbCz04y4EYZdbFPrgoGLURtjqHYZgwd2jB1HRne43zwyymvE_nPOMdkeyJ-WM7KR9tHtWXlxP7L=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br />24th March 2023, 6.12am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a busy sunrise </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It is risen, indeed!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxS69kef6VYTTc4nd01HTZufqUrZ2PBtCD8IEdAAQpHPy2x-6ZkvvaVIQjicslZUW76VL5ZRrb_bJv6Ki0kzLzN9QesbVabe41gyXHX0yeLfcU_OlIHPpHzJ7g54WPwMnOTsfAgX2lpaUBWxaqmoVZ9jVgfC28RiPpiWVBJulzm4vJfBvQwemAb1z9n2g3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxS69kef6VYTTc4nd01HTZufqUrZ2PBtCD8IEdAAQpHPy2x-6ZkvvaVIQjicslZUW76VL5ZRrb_bJv6Ki0kzLzN9QesbVabe41gyXHX0yeLfcU_OlIHPpHzJ7g54WPwMnOTsfAgX2lpaUBWxaqmoVZ9jVgfC28RiPpiWVBJulzm4vJfBvQwemAb1z9n2g3" width="320" /></a></div><br />11th April, 2023, 6.35am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirK7r5MABosxJq5JPf9KM2C_eKW7Ea4iY_-hZMurS54fuJ3v6dSBYHUHYk_Tb4V1LY6zVwKdc8STscNp_mNhtmQg8EMek5kx6TXbKfhjg8DDiL_LqkktqShqgQYPfZgUFPanXbT-GHvrrlP92hUBUTTbMlpyN3zx-Zi6M718_ZJ5j8q1atj1lYyIihW9UT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirK7r5MABosxJq5JPf9KM2C_eKW7Ea4iY_-hZMurS54fuJ3v6dSBYHUHYk_Tb4V1LY6zVwKdc8STscNp_mNhtmQg8EMek5kx6TXbKfhjg8DDiL_LqkktqShqgQYPfZgUFPanXbT-GHvrrlP92hUBUTTbMlpyN3zx-Zi6M718_ZJ5j8q1atj1lYyIihW9UT=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">12th April 2023, 6.32am</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></i></span></div></i></span></div><p></p>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-16821633535473419242023-11-02T11:17:00.012+00:002024-01-07T09:28:40.316+00:00Poems like falling leaves<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Usually the end of October sees me charging around trying to absorb as much autumn colour and light as possible before the long slump into darkness. This year I'm experiencing a strange sort of half-life, lived mostly upstairs, while the Northerner stays down and tries to keep his distance from me and my Covid germs. The night the clocks went back saw me tossing and turning the extra hour away on my fever bed with only the dog for company; it was truly as long as the night Odysseus arrived back in Ithaca from the Trojan War and was reunited with Penelope, but almost certainly a lot less fun.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>So, trips I'd planned around my son's schedule have been put off, first because of his Covid and now because of mine, </span>and I haven't been anywhere. Time, then, for a poetry round-up, considering the occasional triumph, both modest and more modest, the first of which - completing the Sealey challenge of reading a poetry collection a day through August - I'm pretty proud of, as maintaining the focus required for attentive reading isn't something I find easy.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPIXlNuAv4nCse89bHAPpaEeMUfnbk8kRUVHvWMHfCnT3FPNRW0XJ37vQ-0xScLB9QW_GcIVmHvTGxfZ1LAXKEDR9-M-kyZ_AfR30YGw84VOcLY5Ktr46DMto_-8Z6xaHaJyJB3YqbNRxYgXr3BqY4CRlI3o7kTaSNxpRPvr-UjDrXt5fz0ONERvSkKNv/s2048/372988596_24642914588640904_6082655889846961886_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="2048" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPIXlNuAv4nCse89bHAPpaEeMUfnbk8kRUVHvWMHfCnT3FPNRW0XJ37vQ-0xScLB9QW_GcIVmHvTGxfZ1LAXKEDR9-M-kyZ_AfR30YGw84VOcLY5Ktr46DMto_-8Z6xaHaJyJB3YqbNRxYgXr3BqY4CRlI3o7kTaSNxpRPvr-UjDrXt5fz0ONERvSkKNv/w564-h284/372988596_24642914588640904_6082655889846961886_n.jpg" width="564" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some of the books I wished I'd had longer to linger over, and I've already picked one up again, to reread once I recover my concentration, and it's 'Jackself' by Jacob Polley. It took me a few poems to get into it, but what a strange, dark narrative it is. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIDIgMAZ_NWExT1FkoVJUPYTxx6IXNnnaF7dJmGtBExeFvpasL5Pv1SfrE09a3UpU_kdUDsVYM2pRT7k5g6gk2xcwqg13QkU1erpJTOANlG7R6bQYpl2FTiZtcS78_DRtjkXwtKdNN5igWevARFlRc0Z3tKWPbwgJHvN6TMTBw6jyHmjoviVSAkt5ofNKh/s2048/391682376_24925131863752507_2138289176383931559_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIDIgMAZ_NWExT1FkoVJUPYTxx6IXNnnaF7dJmGtBExeFvpasL5Pv1SfrE09a3UpU_kdUDsVYM2pRT7k5g6gk2xcwqg13QkU1erpJTOANlG7R6bQYpl2FTiZtcS78_DRtjkXwtKdNN5igWevARFlRc0Z3tKWPbwgJHvN6TMTBw6jyHmjoviVSAkt5ofNKh/w561-h373/391682376_24925131863752507_2138289176383931559_n.jpg" width="561" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's another book of interesting narratives, although with only a couple of poems in. (They are mine, however. 😎) <br /><br />It's always great to have a poem or two included in one of Jane Russ's nature books, published by Graffeg, the latest of which, The Crow Family Book, is now available and would make an excellent Christmas gift, because let's face it, most people love a</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> crow, unless they once pretended to wave a stick at one, ever since when generations of corvids have passed down tales of this misdeed to their nestlings, who are thus primed for attack the instant this hapless miscreant sticks their head out of doors. Yes, that's what crows do. Luckily, our local tribe at Asda recognise me as Friend because I feed them, and just crap on my car roof instead. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And here's another tome I contributed towards, this time with a review - the mighty Tears in the Fence, issue 78 of which appeared in August. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSy1FQcx8scK3W0E-w8-ggrv9pHUXyUocWkJ2ZMQwlMvGWNA_euNzADXqzyJUFZW1XRTRU13aoqnUTZVocuiaJmsVQEIdX4P_Wdp7rKIgEDis4NE-V4se_Ew9_jhqXMnZAlbUZMrd85JGQ5FOXZSY1lUp4cG9kq_UHjdI5Q6fv-vOpUhCZQPrj2Oblx8Q6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSy1FQcx8scK3W0E-w8-ggrv9pHUXyUocWkJ2ZMQwlMvGWNA_euNzADXqzyJUFZW1XRTRU13aoqnUTZVocuiaJmsVQEIdX4P_Wdp7rKIgEDis4NE-V4se_Ew9_jhqXMnZAlbUZMrd85JGQ5FOXZSY1lUp4cG9kq_UHjdI5Q6fv-vOpUhCZQPrj2Oblx8Q6=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br />Some of my more recent poems, which will be <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/08/love-albatross.html" target="_blank">published in a collection</a> by Indigo Dreams next autumn, have been making their way in the world, finding lodgings in both real life and online journals. I'm expecting my contributor's copy of Artemis Poetry some time this month; in the meantime, here's some links to online poems in <a href="https://www.crowstepjournal.com/deborah-harvey" target="_blank">Crowstep</a>, <a href="https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/09/london-grip-new-poetry-autumn-2023/#harvey" target="_blank">London Grip</a> and <a href="https://www.amsterdamquarterly.org/aq_issues/aq38-macro-micro/deborah-harvey-a-family-history-of-refractive-errors/" target="_blank">Amsterdam Quarterly</a>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, one poem has returned to its roost twice recently, each time with a tattered laurel leaf or two in its beak, having been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and then achieving runner-up status in the Frosted Fire Fourth Annual Single Poem Competition, for which many thanks to judge, Angela France. Since the later accolade includes publication in the competition anthology, that is the end of its journeying until the collection's published. Well done, doughty poem, you've earnt your rest. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG5MolpQ4SgGp34N6SpkgutyotyKgkB7RtWlyXySCrTGJ3kR6nxupVp2rRxY4hp5K6A9xFULc2B7kV7cg0rzlynYrbaJvoSeoASzVjwT57zRaV8ij4UmCqGBGzXDDUQoLLXmT1MI1bYhIlXWC8TBaBqjU1qTWVTvNyxDn5YPUHVHWh6bT47jnd60NJF3Ic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="1290" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgG5MolpQ4SgGp34N6SpkgutyotyKgkB7RtWlyXySCrTGJ3kR6nxupVp2rRxY4hp5K6A9xFULc2B7kV7cg0rzlynYrbaJvoSeoASzVjwT57zRaV8ij4UmCqGBGzXDDUQoLLXmT1MI1bYhIlXWC8TBaBqjU1qTWVTvNyxDn5YPUHVHWh6bT47jnd60NJF3Ic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy-WKB2vCVDPeFIJRu0_2gtSm-wpys9X2Dup4lEI3eTevEbcAkNTwI38YHkz-r4lkuHd_-Rejul4mg0TjuvlA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-72254428443819269082023-10-24T17:41:00.013+01:002023-11-14T21:30:32.618+00:00Every day's a dog day<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was mid July when I last posted about our place where we walk on the edge of everywhere. I haven't been ignoring it - I'm up there most days with Cwtch - but I've had a busy summer and there's been lots of other things happening that I've wanted to set down. There will now follow a little writing about my favourite place and A LOT of photos because we all know the agreed ratio of words to photos. </span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Unpleasant stuff first - the development of land beyond the field for Brabazon continues apace, and is creeping closer. We knew this was going to happen, but each depredation is painful. I've taken to reminding myself that nature knows nothing of time. It's already witnessed huge changes over millennia, and one day in its not-too-distant future it will conquer the 'new playground for Bristol's next generation'. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A couple of weeks back I finally ventured over the other side of Fishpool Hill, where the road-building is more advanced. Luckily I approached it from Catbrain Lane, rather than the old familiar route past Elm Farm, which would have made the sorrow worse. <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHgv-FZEVJamv2_ss676C_xtbze1nZXkCgoOpeT49XPu76vBlo3Sp1VBieeg0Es9OSaFFFulQ96lZ8Ta23ibq9_jfNd_6WKLnsjE8BDtdjIam9fcCLBHahNwKZb-iI_VNfUq164JPZfi4y59zBRFmF5I5SCEtkyI91wO8PsOSCDD7ef0cMpKkUzOqBH1U/s2364/20231005_103455.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHgv-FZEVJamv2_ss676C_xtbze1nZXkCgoOpeT49XPu76vBlo3Sp1VBieeg0Es9OSaFFFulQ96lZ8Ta23ibq9_jfNd_6WKLnsjE8BDtdjIam9fcCLBHahNwKZb-iI_VNfUq164JPZfi4y59zBRFmF5I5SCEtkyI91wO8PsOSCDD7ef0cMpKkUzOqBH1U/w300-h400/20231005_103455.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The field which had the bottom hedgerow removed some months ago, with the pond and the abandoned shopping trolley that would take unwary passers-by in a death roll given half a chance, and the Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2021/12/walking-into-winter.html" target="_blank">the field that used to look like this ...</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWswb3-HzyDdSkeKVCJqi7_YWXCrkcr2iazl1CSDmj-mGwz0z8yR4xRtliOIWJPKx8TdvRiBR6law0V4H5Af6PmRDUbFFzEhm17LhOqUOh5vXPbgNgHj3BqBIDEmpg1OByRHAznOjhpUEhuWlGVp8Khq3AT7qeySF-5P6l655ctP3VecBzBd7iqk4ESm98/s3508/Collage%20Maker-24-Oct-2023-07-50-AM-2576.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWswb3-HzyDdSkeKVCJqi7_YWXCrkcr2iazl1CSDmj-mGwz0z8yR4xRtliOIWJPKx8TdvRiBR6law0V4H5Af6PmRDUbFFzEhm17LhOqUOh5vXPbgNgHj3BqBIDEmpg1OByRHAznOjhpUEhuWlGVp8Khq3AT7qeySF-5P6l655ctP3VecBzBd7iqk4ESm98/w521-h369/Collage%20Maker-24-Oct-2023-07-50-AM-2576.jpg" width="521" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... now looks like this. Clearly we need more housing, especially affordable stock (though why some housing is unaffordable when a roof over your head is a basic human right is beyond me.) But leaving all that aside, it's hard to bear.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm1ky_6Feq2_jl04iNxCs7BpmTzRnFUfdjTTT3_AKYrU2o2YAAzfjiSKcQY8yWCenBRVlpKjO6AQdKCOLyeRC26wtFcOQVaioRZNXIjE9CdSsYeOn41tongcN5jVYph5J9Vmg9DIZncNrJQh33unrbeJnR8JO01XojQi7Ukw1NHYiVty_hGhq4DHOn1mq7/s2364/20231005_103704.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm1ky_6Feq2_jl04iNxCs7BpmTzRnFUfdjTTT3_AKYrU2o2YAAzfjiSKcQY8yWCenBRVlpKjO6AQdKCOLyeRC26wtFcOQVaioRZNXIjE9CdSsYeOn41tongcN5jVYph5J9Vmg9DIZncNrJQh33unrbeJnR8JO01XojQi7Ukw1NHYiVty_hGhq4DHOn1mq7/w400-h300/20231005_103704.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZobgFKGbmPWQInw2oNMB4sAHls3F8fmhVpSPVtH8uHFlSt7XcOibm4MguaDlKbsCJElQd0fZsSLD8BzDXAAV6DHVRBND38DAczyZzRulVukbTpsm7hq7QNfPhFh7l9nspTvB6KG0NOtIah-agkL4sWiX8LrXyInqbicLn5WkYKdxVD2sK-mSg_GB_h2T/s2364/20231005_103659.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZobgFKGbmPWQInw2oNMB4sAHls3F8fmhVpSPVtH8uHFlSt7XcOibm4MguaDlKbsCJElQd0fZsSLD8BzDXAAV6DHVRBND38DAczyZzRulVukbTpsm7hq7QNfPhFh7l9nspTvB6KG0NOtIah-agkL4sWiX8LrXyInqbicLn5WkYKdxVD2sK-mSg_GB_h2T/w400-h300/20231005_103659.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Closer to home, Charlton Common is now a 'site' and sections of the Skylarks Field have been fenced off. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7xBfg3YDUp1T2RbJ8QkOvxl86F6u1lvnXTnzuKgqJcF3tu8zsGwr9aUY0g2i-SnVzW2mFeXg54SkUI1ixigbjETN1CKf9Rh7Ke-ZysT9p3tPDeCLJQHwNpCafyMh0hn1VXXmk9HjtN4RoTDU-YpWKgjS4WzuguZk8lIVVM5x4EOY-OmH5ClTwkmxWuKE/s2273/20230801_105815.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The houses already under construction where the buses turn are more advanced than when I took this photo in mid-September and now have roofs ... <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdrAtNRHrrytpXdSLGWcepc5SOEzo9wp-KBR6xSA11rf7bHyU2HctrjSPNoSkivYh9yAK2gw8Scx2qKPKIhGRr3K2gYnso-2fj1qWNXtNYNDmPcM3SZu_qm7qvKK9NHNzIsnypQktgIQesjUIG2aMDmYWBawlDLwSAhp_tQJ8igBms6hmHUomnYqDDgl3/s2364/20230917_095757.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdrAtNRHrrytpXdSLGWcepc5SOEzo9wp-KBR6xSA11rf7bHyU2HctrjSPNoSkivYh9yAK2gw8Scx2qKPKIhGRr3K2gYnso-2fj1qWNXtNYNDmPcM3SZu_qm7qvKK9NHNzIsnypQktgIQesjUIG2aMDmYWBawlDLwSAhp_tQJ8igBms6hmHUomnYqDDgl3/w400-h300/20230917_095757.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... while the bosky edge of the common that looked like this at the end of July ... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLh4hAKFFd8vMcsaFHci4TK-tGNoijJqiULUVWi2ko9Nh6_lvv4SJUXqW3crg91989c5KDldGgWJ4FjugRzscSHGY1ySJtMfP_F0UPttozGrSvd8Du5PJFLJq2DWXa9HpzgMz53Tob_4A0GoMKmfBYC6Q41ZcNZJIt-UGqkQWKyQjnhpQLpRmobf66OCtA/s2364/20230727_144112.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLh4hAKFFd8vMcsaFHci4TK-tGNoijJqiULUVWi2ko9Nh6_lvv4SJUXqW3crg91989c5KDldGgWJ4FjugRzscSHGY1ySJtMfP_F0UPttozGrSvd8Du5PJFLJq2DWXa9HpzgMz53Tob_4A0GoMKmfBYC6Q41ZcNZJIt-UGqkQWKyQjnhpQLpRmobf66OCtA/w300-h400/20230727_144112.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... has been stripped of trees and brush in readiness for the widening of the road.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHOhdHYeqaCDz7XTJ3ZTm1ySOY0exjW_iWppBnLVRUwIgzxOPHZI9GJER_rrKTED0_FlRq2ydPk1OmmgqTu-JayeeuCnI6dPehvbwIZFsGReWCFWnRoEh63wNJoR5Db5vw2JE0qw-2f26WOOzPV3CYTLilhicAwLv4FMwVYbCVVo2_Vrd3396KWQ1HMSU/s2364/20230929_121342.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHOhdHYeqaCDz7XTJ3ZTm1ySOY0exjW_iWppBnLVRUwIgzxOPHZI9GJER_rrKTED0_FlRq2ydPk1OmmgqTu-JayeeuCnI6dPehvbwIZFsGReWCFWnRoEh63wNJoR5Db5vw2JE0qw-2f26WOOzPV3CYTLilhicAwLv4FMwVYbCVVo2_Vrd3396KWQ1HMSU/w300-h400/20230929_121342.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Worst of all, several sections of hedgerow around the Skylarks' Field have been cut right down. The kissing gate onto Far Field, which looked like this in September ... <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3oaCZtXJD_ACuHZurjmXXfplfiqZ6R4wfKo5q07zT2WO7hNMYL1UXglgjo5DvA0637Zj_JY_lseciOdUpbRWz2VBLR5__ytNnjMavVXQ0A0iMdwqsq5QVd12vje3piYuBR8dg60s5BJLl1hnBWiODACx50p0zr2-nH7Fzkl6br22kPGtiddN-Dis1Odm/s2364/20230920_115956.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD3oaCZtXJD_ACuHZurjmXXfplfiqZ6R4wfKo5q07zT2WO7hNMYL1UXglgjo5DvA0637Zj_JY_lseciOdUpbRWz2VBLR5__ytNnjMavVXQ0A0iMdwqsq5QVd12vje3piYuBR8dg60s5BJLl1hnBWiODACx50p0zr2-nH7Fzkl6br22kPGtiddN-Dis1Odm/w400-h300/20230920_115956.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... now looks like this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3C1I8_KbZmJhQWb9eMDaJklZK7yNw9Qj5t87nfUrdd0fAJLLlmQfm5Nps2JIbcHUoEslf0-y8OE67iboY0QHeGZ9j4mfD6K-dvfK6U3LL5PRj_kbS9w_QKK-QnyGrLMsTgJOLR8R1fBf1vNvoDMIn3XDGjpXECUoWa4DStr3-Z5HTSq8KqJLn12LZhhN/s2364/20231018_085739.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3C1I8_KbZmJhQWb9eMDaJklZK7yNw9Qj5t87nfUrdd0fAJLLlmQfm5Nps2JIbcHUoEslf0-y8OE67iboY0QHeGZ9j4mfD6K-dvfK6U3LL5PRj_kbS9w_QKK-QnyGrLMsTgJOLR8R1fBf1vNvoDMIn3XDGjpXECUoWa4DStr3-Z5HTSq8KqJLn12LZhhN/w400-h300/20231018_085739.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2174" data-original-width="1630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRW2pfC31BpW3EshVWH2KBp1BzoLE9ZwASdPnmGo3p7pXhrQ2GMoODYVyo9Z3zgElBbq2NqEwb7bwpxotsNjPt9byTDK6XfW05v_GI3QVLZrRe8RsPGu17RIjt0xj_YJQICTJ3jFXmpNwRx2lNbccZL8SCBiqZ_A5vvJJoGDFOqM-gPoI5TcHKILEEm6HF/w300-h400/20231026_095407.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... while this hedgerow, pictured on the left hand side in May and so old you could walk along it on the inside, has been cut to the ground in places. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia95OzMy3IOrXD8YhoLUKqRfMXFHabO9ZNxjFVFxP_Ix5kQmcKO0ilFboyEXBKx5E49-E8CgelZhG9MjmCNbDRh5K3KvkeV_i9DYf3Q_9-vPjVwe0-5ag5CPfJ8ghubb9L6Pb35s6ovC_Nle8b8aKAS4l4HjBI4G23TsqZG9XNpvKb3Nd1qyWp86Gih703/s2560/Collage%20Maker-18-Oct-2023-11-16-AM-1409.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia95OzMy3IOrXD8YhoLUKqRfMXFHabO9ZNxjFVFxP_Ix5kQmcKO0ilFboyEXBKx5E49-E8CgelZhG9MjmCNbDRh5K3KvkeV_i9DYf3Q_9-vPjVwe0-5ag5CPfJ8ghubb9L6Pb35s6ovC_Nle8b8aKAS4l4HjBI4G23TsqZG9XNpvKb3Nd1qyWp86Gih703/w528-h297/Collage%20Maker-18-Oct-2023-11-16-AM-1409.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Since they are clearly marked on the plans, I'm hoping they might be allowed to grow again, but the trees are, to all intents and purposes, lost. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here's some photos of the as yet untouched areas; so glad I have this blog to remind me of their beauty.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJmnIUEgfxlVyIRzp2_ufa1gbwGtjVZkCmWzzoFrqUZr2GROdG4JB5mJL7EEDjLD4F64yJv0ZYwGN-XSdLRPPQyw6hapkJw-YdGxnLMQ4T-J49XLfNsivgyBK9_u5LS1HPJkOKIKzNCZhqV7OXAkyZ8YWf_dbdEUiqHX3FwPFi_n2qf3xk4-pe4OrRrNO/s2364/20230807_201208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJmnIUEgfxlVyIRzp2_ufa1gbwGtjVZkCmWzzoFrqUZr2GROdG4JB5mJL7EEDjLD4F64yJv0ZYwGN-XSdLRPPQyw6hapkJw-YdGxnLMQ4T-J49XLfNsivgyBK9_u5LS1HPJkOKIKzNCZhqV7OXAkyZ8YWf_dbdEUiqHX3FwPFi_n2qf3xk4-pe4OrRrNO/w300-h400/20230807_201208.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOu2ujzuqIExV72siEggSeroVZ4A-EwoJPYPiHPqhzGTe96YRptqxhy3azr6wwundUtc1LRgbG0oSmP-_OmXO_AMr9uJzLn3xPnF0fz_GQVLeURMfKKo5rtY1CDNiRCe6-oN7AvmluczjbMKmYsoF5oGHieWJNzwjopagGnHgEx5ysKNvl6wBS4C_pmyNy/w300-h400/20230724_205723.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But that's enough of that. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After the drought of May and early June, it was a wet summer, but there were some beautiful days too in the Field of the Hollowing Oak, when it was lovely to have the excuse to spend an hour and half every day out in nature. (Hooray for dogs and their need to be walked.) <br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjZRWhUZQnnI8zBpe54xvH73NvZuA2eC_pog1pBlcHK9Jg4H8MqcnE22uZyg_3WVGODqcwEWZkCI2HZvk2wl8S6F3Clk18unG_ofE4g3jT2KLNypMDAHmllgVS7Et8vVyLxhnCTMIPWsfMCr3irXYD78rIJwhOhfdT3iGP5zQnPyWRg02x-t58VqQV-Ht/s2311/20230616_080104.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2311" data-original-width="1731" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhjZRWhUZQnnI8zBpe54xvH73NvZuA2eC_pog1pBlcHK9Jg4H8MqcnE22uZyg_3WVGODqcwEWZkCI2HZvk2wl8S6F3Clk18unG_ofE4g3jT2KLNypMDAHmllgVS7Et8vVyLxhnCTMIPWsfMCr3irXYD78rIJwhOhfdT3iGP5zQnPyWRg02x-t58VqQV-Ht/w300-h400/20230616_080104.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcSBoLfDzcWLTpLm5vXa05I0WZ7Kl8GXnKpD1voGcmI1vwwowRqmSOReValhu6JVnTKsOv7U-0IC4D3xFLOziVbJkf1Xbc1JA0HJkp3oMHKjHSekLBBC-Fju4qFDgZ2VNPAMTTOwYPtIapohUDFRRlEB-Qa5k8zRXA2n8KF6Kc4N9LVHckHrmcUqu_hpPO/s2364/20230702_202517.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even the Small Dark Wood of the Mind was fecund and lovely, and clearly I wasn't the only person to think so as someone draped a pair of ladies' drawers on the Silver Chair in the Grove of the Silver Chair (and Ruby Crown), presumably as an offering to Aphrodite or Freyja.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXdiwY1sXgi8u_kH6camdbZ_G3Ms8uAitIUJQgbZVh_VMvIY1qkDT1-bU_oKZOopz-HN3-cpUzjnVn5mZxRDdaS_UM4hyKZoT12_YVtd50pwSe-SWDv-CNo0Nu4UJDR91f0TBfs2udkbQpOi6ehjQ0rvHIrFflpInx9Z8oeeVbp0Eufij2g1aexg2HHkrZ/s2364/20230824_103507.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXdiwY1sXgi8u_kH6camdbZ_G3Ms8uAitIUJQgbZVh_VMvIY1qkDT1-bU_oKZOopz-HN3-cpUzjnVn5mZxRDdaS_UM4hyKZoT12_YVtd50pwSe-SWDv-CNo0Nu4UJDR91f0TBfs2udkbQpOi6ehjQ0rvHIrFflpInx9Z8oeeVbp0Eufij2g1aexg2HHkrZ/w300-h400/20230824_103507.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The rain meant that some flowers and trees didn't blossom or fruit as expected. It was a good year for yarrow; not so much for hogweed or carrots.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even so, there was a display of the latter, which always amaze me by the individuality of their blooms. I likened them to fingerprints; my cousin said 'no, they're like snowflakes', and she's right, it's the better analogy. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FETdDAqGjWws4a8uDIYmA9uLeesfdRH7EPdAvCVrE_CQE8L_RzMmSvArUsPlA_vuGeOVIPkAEVTF1D9IcM3zDnePUMAmMwDJgS8XLp0P0kePngAzBBBMJG0HsAO_4rZzKpDIJz9spXOATow6OwPapUl_3i9LY2rtOEGwzGZNATdyX-SMIfL0qOjYVuYU/s3508/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-05-56-PM-8447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6FETdDAqGjWws4a8uDIYmA9uLeesfdRH7EPdAvCVrE_CQE8L_RzMmSvArUsPlA_vuGeOVIPkAEVTF1D9IcM3zDnePUMAmMwDJgS8XLp0P0kePngAzBBBMJG0HsAO_4rZzKpDIJz9spXOATow6OwPapUl_3i9LY2rtOEGwzGZNATdyX-SMIfL0qOjYVuYU/w528-h374/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-05-56-PM-8447.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Back in July, the burnet saxifrage was flowering prolifically...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhRmdgHyhvEKFfoASWbvBL-GhzsGTXSku55A0tHhsWadyrmkft7DzwOMQV50-1K7WV2qvdokhU3QgWUznWKnQY70oHkUqGU_44tzKMGcPGSs0AorpGjtH80cygVsIFU5Migy-xgQbJRYucw70b8O6C5zChLmWY9kbcPHDL60PqInybWJrTMMe88wfod8W/s2364/20230713_143659%20lesser%20burnet%20saxifrage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqhRmdgHyhvEKFfoASWbvBL-GhzsGTXSku55A0tHhsWadyrmkft7DzwOMQV50-1K7WV2qvdokhU3QgWUznWKnQY70oHkUqGU_44tzKMGcPGSs0AorpGjtH80cygVsIFU5Migy-xgQbJRYucw70b8O6C5zChLmWY9kbcPHDL60PqInybWJrTMMe88wfod8W/w300-h400/20230713_143659%20lesser%20burnet%20saxifrage.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... as was the betony in the middle of the field ...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBDzxP9y6tXR9aeNsXRLaFL33h5XpmYzro11fi8CPM1HyCUf2YlED376nWwdYQ1Qk6E8VcEy0pp6qE9OoMLPm862lOOAxbhGvKvgd1IbaXDMNGbiRzf-2rcyOmzvaeegJnmfnQWh1Ecyx1odgJu6MZQwge7itJotnNqYpM4G_JDr1PbIpjGgqgraKpFp-/s2364/20230713_145730%20betony.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1772" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBDzxP9y6tXR9aeNsXRLaFL33h5XpmYzro11fi8CPM1HyCUf2YlED376nWwdYQ1Qk6E8VcEy0pp6qE9OoMLPm862lOOAxbhGvKvgd1IbaXDMNGbiRzf-2rcyOmzvaeegJnmfnQWh1Ecyx1odgJu6MZQwge7itJotnNqYpM4G_JDr1PbIpjGgqgraKpFp-/w300-h400/20230713_145730%20betony.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... the great willowherb, bright against stormclouds ... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXZflWh7IAMq9lrBZ1hv_IcEWaZhlOwGTs6UeoHSs4J9y9XACvF2NnwRQR7jG5RkDeuFAxlY0axqqeqyyovRvj_hHeW-ItFnlZVvXJILmN_rAH4m0SJGkSSBdML-0USv6yRy-9j4VdhL8-C4r8V7P7rI8N-iuq7uuL94wSuu7f9hlJbLPB6iQXDURXMNw/s2364/20230725_204652.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJXZflWh7IAMq9lrBZ1hv_IcEWaZhlOwGTs6UeoHSs4J9y9XACvF2NnwRQR7jG5RkDeuFAxlY0axqqeqyyovRvj_hHeW-ItFnlZVvXJILmN_rAH4m0SJGkSSBdML-0USv6yRy-9j4VdhL8-C4r8V7P7rI8N-iuq7uuL94wSuu7f9hlJbLPB6iQXDURXMNw/w300-h400/20230725_204652.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>... plus (clockwise from top left), hemp-agrimony, tufted vetch and bindweed, rosebay willowherb, scarlet pimpernel and knapweed, yarrow, tufted vetch and ragwort, chamomile, stone parsley, wild clematis, poppy, cyclamen, teasels and double buttercups ... </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFEqe0VcckWp8nqibfJt1_3wh2o2qgksCSEetkTWlU0AGN0bbCZOQUSkEU5vKuEzyiKOb8c3c7MHXNus3azROUz3XR1V69Ycm-fdTMS3JolQciYBzxWGoTZnCXZvRPUueWMgtfSgctBGLqmTVtz5Hx9AjbxYvq__tcmhm90GWcnrUKBh5ZdY82m_X5pQL/s2560/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-06-36-PM-1776.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFEqe0VcckWp8nqibfJt1_3wh2o2qgksCSEetkTWlU0AGN0bbCZOQUSkEU5vKuEzyiKOb8c3c7MHXNus3azROUz3XR1V69Ycm-fdTMS3JolQciYBzxWGoTZnCXZvRPUueWMgtfSgctBGLqmTVtz5Hx9AjbxYvq__tcmhm90GWcnrUKBh5ZdY82m_X5pQL/w515-h290/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-06-36-PM-1776.jpg" width="515" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>... and (also clockwise) purple loosestrife, red bartsia, red clover and fleabane, escaped crocosmia and purple toadflax, pink purple toadflax, mugwort, agrimony, lady's thumb (redshank) and wild basil. <br /></i><br />Oh and this October, one of my favourites, Michaelmas daisy also showed itself, the first time I'd seen it in the Field of the Hollowing Oak. There's a photo of it below, with the most beautiful bee on it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One fruit I was sure we'd be picking a lot of was damsons, since the blossom, although late, was extraordinarily thick, but the subsequent weather conditions clearly didn't suit the developing fruit, and like the cherries up the park, which were virtually non-existent, we decided to leave what fruit there was for the birds and badgers. On the other hand, there were a lot of blackberries, which seemed to give Cwtch the zoomies. <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzg9kve2xBTRO0OjV6n87BDdSD2pE3oAvctxp-j0s0T8-RylU-ni85XEiCbpcdQlrPpTj_4TMg5I53lQEXLDw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the end, she took to picking her own. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw35IM4JGM41Xo4KxuBI9YHp64yANguNkR1KokLhcb-YRpVgWlbyQpejNqHvpSCmIm9HzNA_qJnTqH5ElVItg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another seasonal anomaly: so prodigious was its flowering that I confidently predicted the hollowing oak was going to produce<a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/05/april-elsewhere.html" target="_blank"> a mass of acorns</a> for the first time since <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2020/09/there-is-world-elsewhere.html" target="_blank">our old collie, Ted, died</a> back in 2020, but it hasn't. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_FQi0zZYKP4h6HVcgyJ0iw227H_Fyyr_zAh6g14Ata3YXaOd6_AAl4wC9edV837mjBQnRu5H3WAGd6ny3H8X8byT1iMBRMTfgJ-lSQ7Zz2nSek6EbHYFd4bq45Rulhmk6qxvVuv_vDfMsuwR5HFRgjBN2yH2RWkCi6dcK4CQJnazgD7TXn4MfJWlDWmW/s2364/20231022_162409.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_FQi0zZYKP4h6HVcgyJ0iw227H_Fyyr_zAh6g14Ata3YXaOd6_AAl4wC9edV837mjBQnRu5H3WAGd6ny3H8X8byT1iMBRMTfgJ-lSQ7Zz2nSek6EbHYFd4bq45Rulhmk6qxvVuv_vDfMsuwR5HFRgjBN2yH2RWkCi6dcK4CQJnazgD7TXn4MfJWlDWmW/w300-h400/20231022_162409.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Some of the other oaks have, though, and I was intrigued by the anomalies to the central and right hand acorns in the photo below, which have been visited by the splendidly named Knopper Gall wasp and Oak Apple Gall wasp respectively, the other two excrescence being Robin's pincushions on dog roses, of course, courtesy the Bedeguar Gall wasp. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">There's been a lot of discussion on Twitter as to whether it's been a bad year or a good year for insects. My feeling was that there were fewer to be seen, but my memory for such things is unreliable. So here's a few insects I saw <i>and </i>managed to photograph.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5PJFJJ8dmxDlUCdx1lswkkbHGOy4dF63Q0nzq6syQqiedf9HvUJu-m9WUrwbeChDNIilh87C8e7oqMMq8-8w2mvbSVDPZwFg4KM9jU1tQcT5qVPsAVV33WQAfMbn_4x-awiEGDIiHTrItwRpZyhQHaF6ijEwZZiVXMEqfJSb1dYoAI_3OFImQf-jpOEI/s2560/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-39-PM-821.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5PJFJJ8dmxDlUCdx1lswkkbHGOy4dF63Q0nzq6syQqiedf9HvUJu-m9WUrwbeChDNIilh87C8e7oqMMq8-8w2mvbSVDPZwFg4KM9jU1tQcT5qVPsAVV33WQAfMbn_4x-awiEGDIiHTrItwRpZyhQHaF6ijEwZZiVXMEqfJSb1dYoAI_3OFImQf-jpOEI/w507-h285/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-39-PM-821.jpg" width="507" /></a></div><br /><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Clockwise, from top left: one of the tiger moth caterpillars?, meadow brown, comma, two photos of one brown argus, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">small heath and cinnabar moth caterpillar,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> speckled brown, green-veined white, red admiral, holly blue, common blue, gatekeeper female and male, large white</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A couple of weeks ago I had the joy of seeing ivy flowers covered in a haberdashery of red admirals, plus one comma butterfly. I managed to capture one of the former sunning itself within reach of my camera phone. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw7uj5HMyeWvIBMV-nCpZhTJMTJ9RNLW7bKPGdIaiwp3u3-tLUHS9ywri7jk5O_PRqHttkvG8izXOT_cIT-Wg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This creature - the Silver Y moth - gets an extra-large gallery to itself because it was new to me when I saw it and have you ever seen such a stunning moth? Look at its determined little face in the third photo!</span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3739S1omnz44kJQ-OwG3VdzwO7qabbi-RuLbULINpKsz1zqmqwsYiDznvdHzTlVTahiapB87iMKqAmmo8gIsznUMFuJH20547PjXixuR6dfob-EAOSS9Zz1wX6_d1-mbOe0Bh1wPLM9iGHuD7x-v-YQ-6ZAnxr0E0nXxbPksNS7oIoc0iK5b8_ql3qzME/s2560/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-26-PM-8491.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3739S1omnz44kJQ-OwG3VdzwO7qabbi-RuLbULINpKsz1zqmqwsYiDznvdHzTlVTahiapB87iMKqAmmo8gIsznUMFuJH20547PjXixuR6dfob-EAOSS9Zz1wX6_d1-mbOe0Bh1wPLM9iGHuD7x-v-YQ-6ZAnxr0E0nXxbPksNS7oIoc0iK5b8_ql3qzME/w560-h315/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-26-PM-8491.jpg" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also spotted a couple of bees that were new to me. </span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs3BiGzvN-RwWAvTX-zv-WFFYk0PxjQQR3KAQ1lFoVcOFE1Gai2sAvFrszonlLhOjnY39ob1sYvz90mk4BoZvPv5P4WzgnJWxzatiJRFV6IMOWHmpLTHHScqeqBuFGmQV13_gUwctJXdP3OxCGP8_ovbVnyj4Noi_0_CCB1rqKMWx9rLtF004u54ouwaaZ/s3508/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-11-PM-5064.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs3BiGzvN-RwWAvTX-zv-WFFYk0PxjQQR3KAQ1lFoVcOFE1Gai2sAvFrszonlLhOjnY39ob1sYvz90mk4BoZvPv5P4WzgnJWxzatiJRFV6IMOWHmpLTHHScqeqBuFGmQV13_gUwctJXdP3OxCGP8_ovbVnyj4Noi_0_CCB1rqKMWx9rLtF004u54ouwaaZ/w489-h346/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-11-PM-5064.jpg" width="489" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">TOP: 1 & 2. Buff-tailed bumble on tufted vetch and bindweed 3. Red-tailed and common carder on betony 4 & BOTTOM 5. Common carder on betony and red clover 6 & 7. Tree bumble on clover and tufted vetch 8. A hornet </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Oh and look at this beauty, a native wild honey bee on those Michaelmas daisies I mentioned above. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGIxJKlW7MWVgt6nSHCpt7tWF_s-3V3yYJla1RxVjcznISKPye1X6CV0rdBf7-syFHsldBOE0UQNQic1sqzqZXDrrqkT24HHa2fwy4goXGaA5syvcENVi7qf424t3PnUUitpQnavMJWlh1DPladBhIav1o4GzUVKoLxFvMlWrQBfsWrziVpj1CU8qIpkfo/s2364/20231008_101948.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGIxJKlW7MWVgt6nSHCpt7tWF_s-3V3yYJla1RxVjcznISKPye1X6CV0rdBf7-syFHsldBOE0UQNQic1sqzqZXDrrqkT24HHa2fwy4goXGaA5syvcENVi7qf424t3PnUUitpQnavMJWlh1DPladBhIav1o4GzUVKoLxFvMlWrQBfsWrziVpj1CU8qIpkfo/w300-h400/20231008_101948.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmG4kj0WcR4HD-HTxPHO8G9zOHTTBekn_InGedrVqvO0fy_3396-EQ7BIfHeq-uFgTn0xbKD8nobA_gl4XMCHR-i6u7C8HkSbuoKr8aEpRV_MXmgvLp9moUpfXip2btQeFKLYV19LIzCePgmU1KzUmQt2Xrz2kI0cMA4OpC_Bpp7DAuweIIyq4csvizLvU/s3508/Collage%20Maker-24-Oct-2023-08-34-AM-3779.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmG4kj0WcR4HD-HTxPHO8G9zOHTTBekn_InGedrVqvO0fy_3396-EQ7BIfHeq-uFgTn0xbKD8nobA_gl4XMCHR-i6u7C8HkSbuoKr8aEpRV_MXmgvLp9moUpfXip2btQeFKLYV19LIzCePgmU1KzUmQt2Xrz2kI0cMA4OpC_Bpp7DAuweIIyq4csvizLvU/w400-h283/Collage%20Maker-24-Oct-2023-08-34-AM-3779.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And some sundries ... <i>TOP: 1. Definitely far fewer red soldier beetles this year, probably due to the comparative scarcity of hogweed; here's some on the less favoured yarrow 2 & 3. A mottled grasshopper, and one shedding its exoskeleton 4. Greenbottle BOTTOM: 5. Green stink bug and its nymph (above) 6. Daddy-long-legs 7 & 8. Ladybirds</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lastly, the annual '</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="text-align: center;">¡No pasarán!'</i> of Common European spiders with a penchant for building webs across the footpath. (I do try very hard to avoid them, but each time I stray, Collie Cwtch comes barrelling back to harry me onto the straight and narrow, and as often as not, charges straight through them.)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRz0CIhc794VM7ni_BTAxKJMczdpjNxmlR6l_XdxhrtaHoFEjqBwbZaLdsOeG8JHhsfMXji_zNvvXEoyiX9hcLOHRZtaaCUiZ0oRG1EHTtAXX1j8NQwSA61ik1cVHvi_vMGM62zZtGAuMalHDp7vCWqPDu6cZblOuWat8YVR9veN7MnrCefDJEmm46L7N3/s2560/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-15-PM-9241.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRz0CIhc794VM7ni_BTAxKJMczdpjNxmlR6l_XdxhrtaHoFEjqBwbZaLdsOeG8JHhsfMXji_zNvvXEoyiX9hcLOHRZtaaCUiZ0oRG1EHTtAXX1j8NQwSA61ik1cVHvi_vMGM62zZtGAuMalHDp7vCWqPDu6cZblOuWat8YVR9veN7MnrCefDJEmm46L7N3/w537-h303/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-07-15-PM-9241.jpg" width="537" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As for bigger beasts, a recent foray into </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the Grove of the Silver Chair (and Ruby Crown)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> revealed badger latrines; t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">hey also spent much of late summer marking the paths around the field, as usual. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NBXpAKDZbhBEey0sAORsyQE8SPK5V072eyF763QAYcCVLjTezg2vroWWMO5e_FcyWIEFH0s6SqXS8blF9sE9369HvyfeXSE2jMB8ONFSLoIXFSVvAZEP9UqLngVC0cEpgil56fzVAlDtM-OsP-Wg6qV1TiCS4oTgcnyAGoI4VBH5lo9WQJG_w18taweM/s3508/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-04-59-PM-7388.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0NBXpAKDZbhBEey0sAORsyQE8SPK5V072eyF763QAYcCVLjTezg2vroWWMO5e_FcyWIEFH0s6SqXS8blF9sE9369HvyfeXSE2jMB8ONFSLoIXFSVvAZEP9UqLngVC0cEpgil56fzVAlDtM-OsP-Wg6qV1TiCS4oTgcnyAGoI4VBH5lo9WQJG_w18taweM/w400-h283/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-04-59-PM-7388.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rather more subtle are the prints the roe deer leave around the field and through the Small Dark Wood of the Mind. They're still mostly out on the farmland, though, as the diggers rumble closer. <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hyphenhyphenrfcbQRivvTTMJnt2eg2YDucXsXm7garyDibuEjTxEnnTgR0OjESy1fISPxl6051Nv-0pEY7VGwoJex8YcDWfy0KKGe9QMdOmhMibV3Nd3_FGrhlEGT0ZeuonBEwz7xDHE53LxYrnjVV3ThETNYSbCpjRebPfAoFZ1zvA0UtKpKAFss0cmzdyl5MvJE/s1773/20230804_094142%20roe%20deer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="1773" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8hyphenhyphenrfcbQRivvTTMJnt2eg2YDucXsXm7garyDibuEjTxEnnTgR0OjESy1fISPxl6051Nv-0pEY7VGwoJex8YcDWfy0KKGe9QMdOmhMibV3Nd3_FGrhlEGT0ZeuonBEwz7xDHE53LxYrnjVV3ThETNYSbCpjRebPfAoFZ1zvA0UtKpKAFss0cmzdyl5MvJE/w400-h300/20230804_094142%20roe%20deer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxVRFD-pQRcj48_LcCUHsbrMudTlChNqDPdyJUpGWsbjcO6LIaEqhYeDihPvIi7_2XFfGpI-dQnnYxAy1lnQQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, for the first time the muntjac, long rumoured to live alongside dragons in the thickest thickets of Charlton Common, have been more in evidence, doubtless as a result of all the disturbance. Colin and Cwtch saw one near Goat Willow bus stop, and several times I've heard and glimpsed one running to and fro along the bank in Rooky Wood.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwlfd2nEEbWj1iP1t0IaUIEEWEbi44bKQGhZQfQPvjxrtPO95Tu2OYeJSved8fUJ4xK4r247moo5aX6ByxOXg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The rookery is starting to fill up at dusk, as the rooks and jackdaws return from their summer holidays and use it for their winter roost ... just in time to harrass this poor kestrel trying to secure itself some tea. <br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxhxC7u3HvLKmZUzI6an77Ry0-FbWJGmpqRN63_58wqfRMyGOk1EmUG79Xl_jue4ZaMQk-EARRWDRAwpHsJKA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Early August brought evidence of a very late clutch of blackbird eggs out in Far Field ...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_XJLO0OSRBrcif08RVOhXM-oEoyENgnBg1lzxjX5WOiPeYb76A5vBobRcaIgF75rtbPITXabZyWUOSUbOeRJlHbU0qeu1qRKzno6qYiYL-d1cb3tiJyJQh16pQ90GKYUU7GD3A5ePR1F0P4Iyw1KqWPprdif5KwhPT3u1J7RxUFFoQFqmC5c-jf0RaFI/s2364/20230801_114947%20blackbird's%20egg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_XJLO0OSRBrcif08RVOhXM-oEoyENgnBg1lzxjX5WOiPeYb76A5vBobRcaIgF75rtbPITXabZyWUOSUbOeRJlHbU0qeu1qRKzno6qYiYL-d1cb3tiJyJQh16pQ90GKYUU7GD3A5ePR1F0P4Iyw1KqWPprdif5KwhPT3u1J7RxUFFoQFqmC5c-jf0RaFI/w300-h400/20230801_114947%20blackbird's%20egg.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... but my greatest avian-related joy has been an exciting haul of feathers, which has more than repaid the constant checking of endless woodpigeon feathers in case they turn out to be ... a jay feather, whoop whoop!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveJ4bcVWMo7mNfpk95Wlbj4xGF2z_ZPmef-LnZ2et6m7UnjTJnLQwiC2hRuzbK2-I_VxxEFOORuShRrX1tq4cC5RzevbFyE1Eq35bMQuoxaKSIY1zwy1y2OUIRFrFmf6nqzXdDrumxHawh7hAd-NTUrKQhIUOn4yES_jlhpLQqvaT_qrn_4vcMqQRRtMq/w530-h374/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-04-47-PM-8594.jpg" width="530" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A representative selection includes <i>TOP: 1 & 2. Magpie 3. Magpie and blackbird 4. Crow BOTTOM: 5. Feral pigeon 6. Herring gull 7. Goldfinch 8. Great tit</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNLPQXI1BgsnSQ_mJiZU5ADEC8WHr1nU_srpgRSbqI6Q0k6sni7z422-3xSbLa37Xhg-frWrRsiLm-0L_9d4k2OtHZn3agnm4OSPgJBKq_ujcPAYQ_8etNPNIKCGbHAKJM4_06rhsZkUcaab-7qG5MCMNkQCL0LYthmckgBXePcXdrzS9ymDO6Ff0Q9C3/s3508/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-04-43-PM-2404.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNLPQXI1BgsnSQ_mJiZU5ADEC8WHr1nU_srpgRSbqI6Q0k6sni7z422-3xSbLa37Xhg-frWrRsiLm-0L_9d4k2OtHZn3agnm4OSPgJBKq_ujcPAYQ_8etNPNIKCGbHAKJM4_06rhsZkUcaab-7qG5MCMNkQCL0LYthmckgBXePcXdrzS9ymDO6Ff0Q9C3/w529-h373/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-04-43-PM-2404.jpg" width="529" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Two very scruffy tawny owl secondaries ... </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDq5kP3pLcihIYp5KdGHxpCQ3NigcPt80KB0k8wNb2c8Z66ZmqsNd-B9FNT1aheu9VW7DonzsLtYjuJ9jxLn-kAzI98-n_IluftkgSXq8-KBUcB6Dp8VG_rNwj-hKaB_9qF_wDhMlJGlspX7fH60wzWZWfc2O24ohf1pgc2PyX1aiae5DQoiej_vQGO05/s2048/20231011_barnowl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZDq5kP3pLcihIYp5KdGHxpCQ3NigcPt80KB0k8wNb2c8Z66ZmqsNd-B9FNT1aheu9VW7DonzsLtYjuJ9jxLn-kAzI98-n_IluftkgSXq8-KBUcB6Dp8VG_rNwj-hKaB_9qF_wDhMlJGlspX7fH60wzWZWfc2O24ohf1pgc2PyX1aiae5DQoiej_vQGO05/w300-h400/20231011_barnowl.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... and four barn owl feathers, found together in Dead Deer Field, days after I'd invoked the God of Fallen Feathers with the suggestion the season was over. (It is now.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The sun has set its way back south, along the hills of South Wales, and has now left the arena until next March. Here's a few of its best efforts. </span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9X5yJttM1H3cgb-hlSihJlZKuDumDYh4XdA3Tvg1CMuCdHlCIN7wclUPM7DVwpz7pMSk1FTEpDZ-ngz-MWwlqvTbH9vrWmC524AwFdB81kVjG9h9c7SkqUXBTdsbj6C0nm-Ujs-bTGph-Ky55KDfsnOdZQ-6LVZqApFDwCskWYWCEH4LuPEypZvcYySqf/s2364/20230716_204852%20elephant%20clouds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9X5yJttM1H3cgb-hlSihJlZKuDumDYh4XdA3Tvg1CMuCdHlCIN7wclUPM7DVwpz7pMSk1FTEpDZ-ngz-MWwlqvTbH9vrWmC524AwFdB81kVjG9h9c7SkqUXBTdsbj6C0nm-Ujs-bTGph-Ky55KDfsnOdZQ-6LVZqApFDwCskWYWCEH4LuPEypZvcYySqf/w400-h300/20230716_204852%20elephant%20clouds.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">elephant clouds</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCGaOwgklDI0-HHaRb1wa2fpqQGGuKibLvupFAvgv-c-97m9qvvAQeMybfiv8MUs8VJtsYMhCjPX3XTVtflR8mS5PItUFbQ1to9Z8hoKDa3RFh_I0FimpBmvlg7fmYgTZGYaCEJ3rqph4Q_3PFjh9N60zZBHx6kX6dCxIeR35M9SIO90s0Nvkuy795PPZ-/s2364/20230725_204236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCGaOwgklDI0-HHaRb1wa2fpqQGGuKibLvupFAvgv-c-97m9qvvAQeMybfiv8MUs8VJtsYMhCjPX3XTVtflR8mS5PItUFbQ1to9Z8hoKDa3RFh_I0FimpBmvlg7fmYgTZGYaCEJ3rqph4Q_3PFjh9N60zZBHx6kX6dCxIeR35M9SIO90s0Nvkuy795PPZ-/w400-h300/20230725_204236.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWB6gmXaFzAjRrD-rliYETjY1NqKMOWcmIe67h42676M5nSmHsKvMK6Z0RcwO4DJ6eNSsIYZkEl2_anJuJfb61HZxocvXBfrBo14rrK9mgSZS63d-EJrJiKvB8xpggDtcnp_D2Zo72qYfwAIZXmMRyMiDU88vSOoUyHg8iwKUe3KHKqR8j6B3NHDenRH9Z/s2364/20230731_200135.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In common with this upsidedown year, autumn seemed to be sparking in August, only to burn very slowly indeed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxjaCo-gBFfwJ3HpmzigRTpjHSYUqv-4fXEilgLMcugmkhupqTdCQ9Gt7O3OpHNTsmQADFWGGnJFS8BAxieDK6yQO5lIuRQ167SfT8_wDhdOPJzRmLucdjmqwp5JZsDzi3E942Kzx_RDZpTR8tBaXJkVR8FTrJ5Go0RwTr5OiUIQUV9Bjs6LBFYqemh9g/s2364/20230815_195347.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxjaCo-gBFfwJ3HpmzigRTpjHSYUqv-4fXEilgLMcugmkhupqTdCQ9Gt7O3OpHNTsmQADFWGGnJFS8BAxieDK6yQO5lIuRQ167SfT8_wDhdOPJzRmLucdjmqwp5JZsDzi3E942Kzx_RDZpTR8tBaXJkVR8FTrJ5Go0RwTr5OiUIQUV9Bjs6LBFYqemh9g/w300-h400/20230815_195347.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">1</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;">st</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> October light</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJwy0ZBIvnVVrCJxf0rvkxW3FDkVqo5Ixhk3hgIgRzOeB4b8v1GJPn5DHOR4hOQtc-ON6w1WHSHQnUuD0ehP4gWKy4KLrtO408EN9tp8beiLei0_BZSCGWgkaf1YUShbkgkhcpNfknpdRq6_qpDFsIxp0CdRaIlG4F6iZf-8Mf1jaxawUdCsFpcfDmqG0s/s3508/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-06-06-PM-2465.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJwy0ZBIvnVVrCJxf0rvkxW3FDkVqo5Ixhk3hgIgRzOeB4b8v1GJPn5DHOR4hOQtc-ON6w1WHSHQnUuD0ehP4gWKy4KLrtO408EN9tp8beiLei0_BZSCGWgkaf1YUShbkgkhcpNfknpdRq6_qpDFsIxp0CdRaIlG4F6iZf-8Mf1jaxawUdCsFpcfDmqG0s/w540-h382/Collage%20Maker-23-Oct-2023-06-06-PM-2465.jpg" width="540" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm not great at identifying fungus, but here are inkcaps, shaggy bracket, waxcaps, field mushroom, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">turkey tails,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> little brown mushrooms, plus two I named myself, bottom row furthest left, Cream before Jam (of course) and Mouldy Omelette. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBQaZecOqq5VNEZHQEasbs4_j5pCglr1nt4Xg71Pc_4uHkdgIwTnj9RPNKNFDg3byttEb2kYs1G36U6fFa3icXXmzBvQelPB9fz4tZZtT0tdKS2c8UoLw7mWjxzQut4x5cwK1EeTOo60j0EvdG4aS7nRwYLQD7-MF6hnKggNNoFuQbApXEFx1wUan_pBt/s2364/20231023_111024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbBQaZecOqq5VNEZHQEasbs4_j5pCglr1nt4Xg71Pc_4uHkdgIwTnj9RPNKNFDg3byttEb2kYs1G36U6fFa3icXXmzBvQelPB9fz4tZZtT0tdKS2c8UoLw7mWjxzQut4x5cwK1EeTOo60j0EvdG4aS7nRwYLQD7-MF6hnKggNNoFuQbApXEFx1wUan_pBt/w400-h300/20231023_111024.jpg" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wouldn't this bark make the most brilliant inspiration for a knitted jumper, or even a cast for a broken arm? </span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0l8HkdPl_D-_Cv17i_muPAY8I5TD3FRJ0Jn4LZ2e0Ki97cvL1QtF8nrm0dl3CQ5S8FkBh6byPyiiWMdknG-5ClnaVIcwYwlpJZiCQsJsWa6HpwXjUSNr7g9MoAe-qgSpo3fB50fXV3W7KDl7TfXNZYhyphenhyphenMbCAdq2cik9HtdLRPJ4dQqwjg73C-F_tP6s4a/s2364/20231023_111059.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0l8HkdPl_D-_Cv17i_muPAY8I5TD3FRJ0Jn4LZ2e0Ki97cvL1QtF8nrm0dl3CQ5S8FkBh6byPyiiWMdknG-5ClnaVIcwYwlpJZiCQsJsWa6HpwXjUSNr7g9MoAe-qgSpo3fB50fXV3W7KDl7TfXNZYhyphenhyphenMbCAdq2cik9HtdLRPJ4dQqwjg73C-F_tP6s4a/w300-h400/20231023_111059.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And look at the dance lessons for beetles printed on the inside. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChEq9iE9qXsVCNnWG_sSBPLdvye-60Nr7sHkryx5M93ZP8tVof7yW3_YLdNbbPwoErmgxTpLFLwKA2CzTrPmYNXEKaEf_gITar1LTJQ3OPJigkaqqBcsyPU9uCMU7wK8xjk2B9Mcl4zJGtROMV2GetBZLBEGw3IsnythRED2w1YQbmAUPEOFIUDbEIovz/s2364/20231021_123556.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgChEq9iE9qXsVCNnWG_sSBPLdvye-60Nr7sHkryx5M93ZP8tVof7yW3_YLdNbbPwoErmgxTpLFLwKA2CzTrPmYNXEKaEf_gITar1LTJQ3OPJigkaqqBcsyPU9uCMU7wK8xjk2B9Mcl4zJGtROMV2GetBZLBEGw3IsnythRED2w1YQbmAUPEOFIUDbEIovz/w300-h400/20231021_123556.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... there are fractal raindrops. Which just goes to show it's we who wreak the chaos, not nature. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeMo8LTFKkQkPPpSKmikhQFMP_UckfyybZ78sWPchqFcCWdTkbfNYy8rHp188b5mDf-QHtdB2ncQa33khS2KJKKpo8_jsFVp3-ML9TvODDcitdNbZ9w_GH7YKUUXcj7_BllT5tih0l5sEXMTOXejgWGthVleE6p0ub5QStjxNST36QfX0wkP_bpaQDSya/s2364/20231022_162140.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeMo8LTFKkQkPPpSKmikhQFMP_UckfyybZ78sWPchqFcCWdTkbfNYy8rHp188b5mDf-QHtdB2ncQa33khS2KJKKpo8_jsFVp3-ML9TvODDcitdNbZ9w_GH7YKUUXcj7_BllT5tih0l5sEXMTOXejgWGthVleE6p0ub5QStjxNST36QfX0wkP_bpaQDSya/w300-h400/20231022_162140.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimMNvGTZasXwWFULdY4uLzceEtJp48TWYhunkPm1n2Vszz8yQO9vczwxTepKHmlRexAcIIiZe7ts5to4tPEodiMJWNffB6IGii4GoJ9rskci6HRS-jaiEiduVZjc5W8856_Ou2U_AGXVXRQmq5PMoh2XurIRR15DrYYK6zq6_-j6WOAsV21mWCI930KbTs/s2364/20231022_162633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As it runs wilder with each year, I tell myself the Field of the Hollowing Oak is remembering itself as a field, and then the grasses die back and I see how the sapling oaks and thorn trees have grown, and realise it's remembering itself as wildwood.</span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ftYJlcXMyZaLptKaH42FrGDDOY9aL1bfa5GEVp_09PertU-BnEyv4nbky_krc61XYVeEGNNQVGjQRnVL0KCATfEIH_jQVWDCT1QaKeR9UybXjXoF2PDjnI-A9Ktvwg24dRt7S9JkCvB6GhfUqjWzzrLVPeLgFcAkCenUz92EB8cleeLtLURRq7C1bFt7/s2364/20231022_163411.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ftYJlcXMyZaLptKaH42FrGDDOY9aL1bfa5GEVp_09PertU-BnEyv4nbky_krc61XYVeEGNNQVGjQRnVL0KCATfEIH_jQVWDCT1QaKeR9UybXjXoF2PDjnI-A9Ktvwg24dRt7S9JkCvB6GhfUqjWzzrLVPeLgFcAkCenUz92EB8cleeLtLURRq7C1bFt7/w300-h400/20231022_163411.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br />The edge of the Small Dark Wood of the Mind</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwCWryBngy0tgSX7ltv-KDygRaRopwuuiduClcfMKjDA078vIWYJVozCiZf3US5VMS354bzf_smQDB_Gmqb3LZoS4OEErn5-uBhFZZvnEJpLxRdm35wJJE2JDxA9I7etnZIKpIJFN3QsSbbd6kmJpJvC5p4rvGdQU4l1-oSyRn6cLGxhJ6HMNTULBSD9q/s1436/20230812_202442.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1436" data-original-width="1077" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwCWryBngy0tgSX7ltv-KDygRaRopwuuiduClcfMKjDA078vIWYJVozCiZf3US5VMS354bzf_smQDB_Gmqb3LZoS4OEErn5-uBhFZZvnEJpLxRdm35wJJE2JDxA9I7etnZIKpIJFN3QsSbbd6kmJpJvC5p4rvGdQU4l1-oSyRn6cLGxhJ6HMNTULBSD9q/w300-h400/20230812_202442.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jDAOGsZ-WKUF1jZEdDDWHjcDKoOq6KEVoM4bhO4klv30NBalF2DpXMVAvXNvO_rtUO0lmUs9Awgw9JmGo7ZeDwO8ulVcFiwlEpTztW3L-wlDitYax78ZtlskPjNEX5TY70PDxdyt8WwyhdE9d_KCQZhh7_4Jw_UnNwy5HAihzapBQmcoVbgl68OE01e4/s2364/20230815_193840.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Timed tickets booked and paid for in advance are a bit tricky when you have to drive 180 miles to get to the place in question, especially when part of that journey involves the M25, where I spent <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2023/05/when-day-trips-to-brighton-turn-bad-and.html" target="_blank">a happy four hours in stationary traffic</a> with my sons and our dog back in May. <br /><br />This time, though, all went to plan, and as I drove across the easternmost end of the South Downs to Saltdean, I began to imagine that my daughter, Jenny, and I might even complete an ambitious itinerary that involved a visit to Alfriston Clergy House, followed by a pub lunch, followed by the all-important timed ticket at Monk's House, the rural bolthole of Virginia and Leonard Woolf at Rodmell. <br /><br />Alas. It turned out the A27 south of Lewes was closed for the weekend because of roadworks, the traffic along the coast road was worse than anything I'd ever seen in the height of summer, and our eleven mile drive to Alfriston was going to take an hour, according to the sat nav. As we approached a Sainsbury's Local in Peacehaven, I turned down a side street and hastily parked. Time to get some emergency rations in case the pub lunch was off. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_f5qIom0Q1nh9pCOkelD9pl7InlPgcIakAEbFMuPpERXKCZ8-pr-Dz2Uc9kqrvQo79L9sO00au3K4vIw6o-kznLv780F15nCwEbJUPWd1LGE3kb0JF3KjldhUD9sXyk_u-K687yFh-mWj0C1W_QphRgqbMhakM6jjWEjyHnsxx76tMUzreIiElv9KYnI/s2364/20231014_130602.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_f5qIom0Q1nh9pCOkelD9pl7InlPgcIakAEbFMuPpERXKCZ8-pr-Dz2Uc9kqrvQo79L9sO00au3K4vIw6o-kznLv780F15nCwEbJUPWd1LGE3kb0JF3KjldhUD9sXyk_u-K687yFh-mWj0C1W_QphRgqbMhakM6jjWEjyHnsxx76tMUzreIiElv9KYnI/w300-h400/20231014_130602.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br />Eventually we reached the ridiculously quaint village of Alfriston, and made our way from the car park, along the River Cuckmere to the Church of St Andrew, a large cruciform building constructed, it's thought, during the 14</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> century on a pre-Christian site, of flint and all in one go, by persons unknown. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04dKervwWni7iEfDWxuto3cLpjPRynblgEXFYBKZBuF1XyfBflT-71a40NrBxn12ZMO8AvaaW6kBVa9jpXVVvinDPlFaP0ISdvQArX1e5WZIJ6LKTTVv9OIsy1tLOCJsAnsLYQWKE5iG2gIq8b-rR53ChH7uOY5wTPpUP4FBvKPqkgbVFyIrhwbQRVOjo/s2364/20231014_135054.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04dKervwWni7iEfDWxuto3cLpjPRynblgEXFYBKZBuF1XyfBflT-71a40NrBxn12ZMO8AvaaW6kBVa9jpXVVvinDPlFaP0ISdvQArX1e5WZIJ6LKTTVv9OIsy1tLOCJsAnsLYQWKE5iG2gIq8b-rR53ChH7uOY5wTPpUP4FBvKPqkgbVFyIrhwbQRVOjo/w300-h400/20231014_135054.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: medium;">On the south porch wall, a scratch sundial ... </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0KLTVJNtCn1drL7liM1rJffk_wq40_LYF2ZbqBKwPNGR0lWxmJPUqj2AyzIOeTg8duawSP1jSgKDBFoMjfJ_bT5d1qnlyULnp-pVaHStzV-APzq4m5JlfXT0S1wfWINw3vTFCQbffBPzVpb9U3gMXrApkZ3ujbX3tbyroA1uD6IqEvKhiv0nLUTTyhks/s2364/20231014_132245.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv0KLTVJNtCn1drL7liM1rJffk_wq40_LYF2ZbqBKwPNGR0lWxmJPUqj2AyzIOeTg8duawSP1jSgKDBFoMjfJ_bT5d1qnlyULnp-pVaHStzV-APzq4m5JlfXT0S1wfWINw3vTFCQbffBPzVpb9U3gMXrApkZ3ujbX3tbyroA1uD6IqEvKhiv0nLUTTyhks/w300-h400/20231014_132245.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; 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font-size: medium;"> ...and this more modern dial, about which I could find out very little, other than there appears to be an indentical one in nearby Alciston churchyard. Maybe they are waymarks for a modern pilgrimage. <br /></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The interior of the church is spacious and airy, the walls covered with peeling whitewash. Apparently there are mediaeval murals underneath. It would be so good to see them, but, I suspect, costly to have them uncovered and preserved. <br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiry6P95SV0njZ0VBdMOxWpYaR2j-5Ozc01TMKuA6_M0MH8emt1_IRDh4MoKVepPv0XJTafJVWk99XowPFyfOEbZENIeOXhjrUVkbGMdPWOkxYFs4STlMT6FLb2yAyN6KlJY1qx1VCVdFpOzsfW8uaYQ2dpsL8mEL25Mzx6EVk11YgQLurUvoeqakjb2wIb/s2364/20231014_132139.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiry6P95SV0njZ0VBdMOxWpYaR2j-5Ozc01TMKuA6_M0MH8emt1_IRDh4MoKVepPv0XJTafJVWk99XowPFyfOEbZENIeOXhjrUVkbGMdPWOkxYFs4STlMT6FLb2yAyN6KlJY1qx1VCVdFpOzsfW8uaYQ2dpsL8mEL25Mzx6EVk11YgQLurUvoeqakjb2wIb/w300-h400/20231014_132139.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3EfEHDg7Dol1Zj42rmfhSwoIvOZl3uk3G9Z1xL3_3Yg4d_fbA8pilQniRK5gqGRQINbxe8ltNpWR9uWjd2pJeg6jqhVkrs6ZPzYeMUGx1bbrDIGnIqOulHKh0XBiN4iWJtxfJZT1ZKwVctPxyoX5zJvlslE_5CTFZjs9Xc00kOHs2coGVe6UelVjTEhR/w300-h400/20231014_132008.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Early mediaeval font </span></i><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... a window depicting the Tree of Jesse, designed in 1914 by Charles Eamer Kempe ... </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I also like this Arts and Crafts-influenced memorial to the 23-year-old son of the Vicar of Alfriston, William Beynon. Beynon also played an important role in the story of the nearby Alfriston Clergy House, which I'd wanted to visit for many years, ever since I'd first become interested in William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was Beynon who involved Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, along with the mewly formed National Trust, in the campaign to save this early 15</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: xx-small;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> century building, which was in danger of being demolished. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3qWb_UGSujeG_rm3xX8pzl44k-aaCGP1ODTUo0rzKRTMLcgu8vZQiNyVF8PibNhlixLQZiFrPPXqpVqNMx-_2oXeGsaIzfw0Fo9f4fNCKHQ1DHDHoOLaSaL8JrOEZAPZVoYGB0JC01i6B5iF8EO-kf2EpSjX9MU7bUpjHEaelFZqhV002pfH0ep0Ytr8/s2364/20231014_135005.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV3qWb_UGSujeG_rm3xX8pzl44k-aaCGP1ODTUo0rzKRTMLcgu8vZQiNyVF8PibNhlixLQZiFrPPXqpVqNMx-_2oXeGsaIzfw0Fo9f4fNCKHQ1DHDHoOLaSaL8JrOEZAPZVoYGB0JC01i6B5iF8EO-kf2EpSjX9MU7bUpjHEaelFZqhV002pfH0ep0Ytr8/w400-h300/20231014_135005.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLQ91AVP-IPK_k9bW67Ypbv_1joYXDsEEC-qfizH2QURQzsIe447MfjCvhnKTtTtr3b_JFMt3A2kaQtnoo0YTlTog6A31ZKJFKZ3Mjc0cBTP5gENdvhyq-ynNOgGBIwv1Ja8SLoZlXvK4jX1EyarEcCP-Xl9AMmJBKfjDRD2LJ3Dy28cT8CwqBW4r40hR/w300-h400/20231014_134836.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was so taken by this beautiful old house, mainly because unlike many mediaeval houses with huge draughty halls, it's on just the right scale to imagine living there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyFZpO1MJvVMbMvaL8K17FPS2qGSejvXavEQaia0MBSd9ZGOWBI1ZsZoPexGh9R9NDhtgwk4SLYSxwrz2iQScWR_VXSQSJTLoMcnyxAIsVjJ63QD64qvm3WNH3MODgOkwD84lxufos90FgHgAZUJ4lbu_xPdSC_JpnuBN4M0NqVic-LN4ZYa-oCmjY3PBv/s2364/20231014_133400.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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in fact, we only just made it to Monk's House by 3pm. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDc-r8yeet9pXO4sMnwk9GdPjD3bJT8kGQp2eq1mDq7grYSr5z_iYg2UU1Ym_P2osMKYfbIO8MobNA7IJYtTt2_GMxWcjEuaSdDEtZiQdYoFUHRhjhQrTB8YEmPkgN7oMB5WcZMFEuwE5iU0Hp6-tckCJ34I1INZVLypq3ihb6F5Q_r8N1-5aOxbSpfU9V/s2364/20231014_154305.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDc-r8yeet9pXO4sMnwk9GdPjD3bJT8kGQp2eq1mDq7grYSr5z_iYg2UU1Ym_P2osMKYfbIO8MobNA7IJYtTt2_GMxWcjEuaSdDEtZiQdYoFUHRhjhQrTB8YEmPkgN7oMB5WcZMFEuwE5iU0Hp6-tckCJ34I1INZVLypq3ihb6F5Q_r8N1-5aOxbSpfU9V/w400-h300/20231014_154305.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Once inside, I was immediately <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-shock-of-familiar-charleston-and-st.html" target="_blank">reminded of Charleston</a>, the house seven miles away that belonged to Virginia Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, with its paintings, tiled fireplaces and decorated furniture commissioned from the Bloomsbury Group, although in this house visitors are permitted to take photos. <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZnsr9suPF0sXn3pHNIgSrNwecKPmcDJntoGBc8KLietFRtgwJh7Ycwq0RiwzYAk3yegMYiTJJSj-9MaeGHBGlMF24XJqDLfg_wFYDaJzojm3A0hqLy-Kfzc6afPpiwTaiCG5UHYmbi8krMO27jXZXjOkls9zNQYjspyjpL3IRBPfchVOu4eCMhtUxPpG/s2364/20231014_150357.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZnsr9suPF0sXn3pHNIgSrNwecKPmcDJntoGBc8KLietFRtgwJh7Ycwq0RiwzYAk3yegMYiTJJSj-9MaeGHBGlMF24XJqDLfg_wFYDaJzojm3A0hqLy-Kfzc6afPpiwTaiCG5UHYmbi8krMO27jXZXjOkls9zNQYjspyjpL3IRBPfchVOu4eCMhtUxPpG/w300-h400/20231014_150357.jpg" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span>In spite of the difference
in eras, wealth and class, there was a moment when I felt Virginia and
Leonard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Woolf might have been kin. <br /></span></p> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLnPufGqEougbDwZ9ohW173d4fqEjESphuZJnJEk_rdoXBBqWx3_KUgznNeKZoNWoIZ1lap0L9qD2NicDDBlMcMB66sFm0D_cJ00xe_qK3yi32nayrzpXvEfdI7-z_s-QWUxRHFwPyxX2fT_VDQ02qyQ-qyPXodKj2kwluMzKNQ1xUsOl3AgwnlpxEL8M/s2364/20231014_150834.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioLnPufGqEougbDwZ9ohW173d4fqEjESphuZJnJEk_rdoXBBqWx3_KUgznNeKZoNWoIZ1lap0L9qD2NicDDBlMcMB66sFm0D_cJ00xe_qK3yi32nayrzpXvEfdI7-z_s-QWUxRHFwPyxX2fT_VDQ02qyQ-qyPXodKj2kwluMzKNQ1xUsOl3AgwnlpxEL8M/w300-h400/20231014_150834.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Needlepoint mirror frame ...</i> <br /></div></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqpFdhEqqOC_a6ZI7KesPpfUakmDg2yaOtAYuryZ8oo_WiQ9xdwaTC7p3o0aq9T7ySiPZX77JsnJkQjiuOI4b5VM5LjSiUQZN_aUfxP1MRYMXY6J3Ym-xAAHdhSfqTSYg5WjNxY_j8iNls4JzxSLyB2Bq-cHuD0_2cqGPxgWY8BSHFwQx1WGazu1yD_Ot/s2364/20231014_150858.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDqpFdhEqqOC_a6ZI7KesPpfUakmDg2yaOtAYuryZ8oo_WiQ9xdwaTC7p3o0aq9T7ySiPZX77JsnJkQjiuOI4b5VM5LjSiUQZN_aUfxP1MRYMXY6J3Ym-xAAHdhSfqTSYg5WjNxY_j8iNls4JzxSLyB2Bq-cHuD0_2cqGPxgWY8BSHFwQx1WGazu1yD_Ot/w300-h400/20231014_150858.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">... and chair backs </span></i></span><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujrKwlhyphenhyphenL0obE70sWqNmfY82kbwQNl1qvUArCregqwH4QNAZ5CvYaK2Q0dUe2sQYiJmFGToXEnUyhPnMa_tbysOg0N5XJOad5QIJSdFeXLMEmLPcSSggI5WjbpCF3dwVtW3IlsqhieDGQiHmiiqAxktThyWg2jbM2yPtgAp7U1wfmTo0sD3d7s_QQCRae/s2364/20231014_151051.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujrKwlhyphenhyphenL0obE70sWqNmfY82kbwQNl1qvUArCregqwH4QNAZ5CvYaK2Q0dUe2sQYiJmFGToXEnUyhPnMa_tbysOg0N5XJOad5QIJSdFeXLMEmLPcSSggI5WjbpCF3dwVtW3IlsqhieDGQiHmiiqAxktThyWg2jbM2yPtgAp7U1wfmTo0sD3d7s_QQCRae/w300-h400/20231014_151051.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Portrait of Virginia by Vanessa </span></i></span><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguI6p1i1AoRo4zlcczTuCG6jtuocmHiotupEm-jxbYL8ZkFxyr3mrYcjYu2d9RWQdecqVlurQqOGxP9Pg0KCGiBMePJ0BlWLzan9BQQR_kjZ08Pt0FsAidX2NsK0NZe8jG-lkYiY8mDoGiYBQF3-aAybrlpACrP7-L4BX0tG7e7WHURObgzk6WUNz2PW-J/s2364/20231014_151525.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguI6p1i1AoRo4zlcczTuCG6jtuocmHiotupEm-jxbYL8ZkFxyr3mrYcjYu2d9RWQdecqVlurQqOGxP9Pg0KCGiBMePJ0BlWLzan9BQQR_kjZ08Pt0FsAidX2NsK0NZe8jG-lkYiY8mDoGiYBQF3-aAybrlpACrP7-L4BX0tG7e7WHURObgzk6WUNz2PW-J/w300-h400/20231014_151525.jpg" width="300" /></a> </div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The house is a lot older than
it appears, at least from the outside. It was actually built in the
mid-16</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> century, and I really loved the brick steps that show the
passage of many feet.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfN9ZtStZX5zSFFBRXpjmyyNCrynQWYJYi1N6tT93jzdn0pYbmhvplAUbJ6Xtv9Q-XiAwTsXCrFfiwIECKz7JxCAnkaxBYpw6sz-eylSo-GoAIWQaGV4KXIuIc3zPfFl-dpQCQDuwciur0dyHjZK3LjqsMzzCEe7P8C88mciaB_IkHDdnqzsrwo0rYwBPw/s2364/20231014_151901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfN9ZtStZX5zSFFBRXpjmyyNCrynQWYJYi1N6tT93jzdn0pYbmhvplAUbJ6Xtv9Q-XiAwTsXCrFfiwIECKz7JxCAnkaxBYpw6sz-eylSo-GoAIWQaGV4KXIuIc3zPfFl-dpQCQDuwciur0dyHjZK3LjqsMzzCEe7P8C88mciaB_IkHDdnqzsrwo0rYwBPw/w300-h400/20231014_151901.jpg" width="300" /> </a></div></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><i>Virginia's bedroom</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuzVCVDrjIVveiw3nM5qaBljQXRKqhQl7aUvBGEu__MeEsWUkIPkXROHGQ2DK-8dNvYptacRkSDP0U5OE-nZ6TuoCRnnQcc-8TEvZHRRG9EkcnB-9BmAKItSRAEv2qt9VoftviFIx69_FzQaAJmGx70wazknCCNZC2bOpcHRbc_BYphB3IB314xB5CARn/s4608/20231014_152440.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuzVCVDrjIVveiw3nM5qaBljQXRKqhQl7aUvBGEu__MeEsWUkIPkXROHGQ2DK-8dNvYptacRkSDP0U5OE-nZ6TuoCRnnQcc-8TEvZHRRG9EkcnB-9BmAKItSRAEv2qt9VoftviFIx69_FzQaAJmGx70wazknCCNZC2bOpcHRbc_BYphB3IB314xB5CARn/w300-h400/20231014_152440.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> </div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Virginia and Leonard were both buried in the garden, Virginia in 1941, following her suicide, and Leonard in 1969. </span><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq0rhdnLYRMnnTbGOUWBSFhMPUucxnF0F6-oiFgXIhKkyYqSsqoNgNt19vOe53w6uoIcYOixYDbPaXQQ45OxhZUE2DNSfFQJmkJyzoxsCrx11MOwOa_CfTPhnUsc6U92u6aUYJgxTv7PQCGmMOQAWjZyyZZyi8XZlHUm5SgoleQ6IwBD012Xr45rY2VF8e/s2364/20231014_152658.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq0rhdnLYRMnnTbGOUWBSFhMPUucxnF0F6-oiFgXIhKkyYqSsqoNgNt19vOe53w6uoIcYOixYDbPaXQQ45OxhZUE2DNSfFQJmkJyzoxsCrx11MOwOa_CfTPhnUsc6U92u6aUYJgxTv7PQCGmMOQAWjZyyZZyi8XZlHUm5SgoleQ6IwBD012Xr45rY2VF8e/w300-h400/20231014_152658.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPgAYje-yVA29kyG1nwbsp7X7gWE5_5PdWn3PgnKduwgyuPeQheSEbOhL16pSbcf6rWQRSYLDdPOuBk4Y1GB9sFEpVsg64wZJkSXDdYedo_1mykSJ6j4csIZN6rLB4c_dMoul0G1Ik6eUtMKnUTM2BQIlj7O5PswfzqCfHr-ZPiyGKzZEY11EvNI1tGVg/s2364/20231014_152759.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnPgAYje-yVA29kyG1nwbsp7X7gWE5_5PdWn3PgnKduwgyuPeQheSEbOhL16pSbcf6rWQRSYLDdPOuBk4Y1GB9sFEpVsg64wZJkSXDdYedo_1mykSJ6j4csIZN6rLB4c_dMoul0G1Ik6eUtMKnUTM2BQIlj7O5PswfzqCfHr-ZPiyGKzZEY11EvNI1tGVg/w300-h400/20231014_152759.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">In </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Virginia's
writing room at the bottom of the garden, something ethereal was
happening with the light,which illuminated her chair and the balls of screwed-up
paper on her desk ... <br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilB7HXRc1vPLSKxDeJsqMrgjPB7-SIsaqK8PJiiTYdNjmBGIciGLmPddYtfnRgv72duBFuZ4rl-4Wj18usl6gp5Et5bLvuaDkgPwXSxWOrp9vIoLP3I4Mx1VjSFgbbwnz7a-Y3FPnOReglCjpU9kEk-s65MBzMHSbRw8Y8H7XzjwyUAYB5b3dcd3i-ZG3D/s2364/20231014_153516.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilB7HXRc1vPLSKxDeJsqMrgjPB7-SIsaqK8PJiiTYdNjmBGIciGLmPddYtfnRgv72duBFuZ4rl-4Wj18usl6gp5Et5bLvuaDkgPwXSxWOrp9vIoLP3I4Mx1VjSFgbbwnz7a-Y3FPnOReglCjpU9kEk-s65MBzMHSbRw8Y8H7XzjwyUAYB5b3dcd3i-ZG3D/w300-h400/20231014_153516.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> ... and while we stood, a little sadly, it has to be said, in that glorious garden set in the beautiful countryside of the South Downs, a rainbow arched over the Ouse valley. <br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-1532760110808253752023-10-09T20:58:00.007+01:002023-10-10T07:00:17.327+01:00Horses on Horfield Common (again)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Every now and then I fall down a rabbit hole into the past, sometimes more than once. <br /></span><span><br />All these years later I remember what a treat it was to spot <a href="https://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2011/12/yesterday-christmas-came.html">horses on Horfield Common</a> just before Christmas in 2011, and last Friday there was an echo of that visitation when I saw more horse-drawn vans making camp on the common, alongside the rather more mundane motorised vans, caravans and camper vans that line Kellaway Avenue in these days of scant social housing. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>I was on my way to the reading by Alice Oswald and Kim Moore in town, so couldn't stop for a closer look, and since I was due to drive to Oxford the next day to take Son the Elder to a roboteering event, I concluded, sadly, that I probably wouldn't get a closer look at them. But in the morning, as luck would - or wouldn't - have it, my car started making disconcerting juddering noises before we'd even got as far as the M4, which meant the trip was off, and having driven it rather gingerly to our garage in Redland, my walk home took me straight past the Common and the new camp there. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYhbRsqSgY6QjB1PaM1-ZourvMcbCF5agnciofe80UbG_WT0epbGkh9T2BAJqlEcggGcgXP4mhj79RtQrhj3eTSrQkgZL_eQqP2yC40-ECLu7lHmMsHXY9CnwHnprzXS1gB-D_-sHVmG3ifxlIJVfZoX89LYrrrBzGnR2lPMZP3VHkiQn_i3ARD9DPval/s2364/20231007_100156.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghYhbRsqSgY6QjB1PaM1-ZourvMcbCF5agnciofe80UbG_WT0epbGkh9T2BAJqlEcggGcgXP4mhj79RtQrhj3eTSrQkgZL_eQqP2yC40-ECLu7lHmMsHXY9CnwHnprzXS1gB-D_-sHVmG3ifxlIJVfZoX89LYrrrBzGnR2lPMZP3VHkiQn_i3ARD9DPval/w400-h300/20231007_100156.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuGkaREDMEjBtETBKO83ZkpyFUyto0CiBg7cXsz9lGEjw7Vg1fH5HFDkrvimo4gZfsPXyiI94hBQUuuHgdl9GnADCDNf8ac6A9cSuaAfbODAO5MJoq5aRcGcDBYDzcXLdrzKoles7igoWqxzehcBgujrYjVKi6NxUEZe5Kx0cc00nIvKEimiIaLtWu1lCI/s2364/20231007_100113.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuGkaREDMEjBtETBKO83ZkpyFUyto0CiBg7cXsz9lGEjw7Vg1fH5HFDkrvimo4gZfsPXyiI94hBQUuuHgdl9GnADCDNf8ac6A9cSuaAfbODAO5MJoq5aRcGcDBYDzcXLdrzKoles7igoWqxzehcBgujrYjVKi6NxUEZe5Kx0cc00nIvKEimiIaLtWu1lCI/w300-h400/20231007_100113.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbCbKrOcpx2gdO7tuIZsaWEp0r2TXbUhEURbi1vWwWwYgyiFitPIzr0bNtfpFdS-AsxLiVrGy7Mr9EXeaOxB2EXV-_N1RlhGqrNhGJn7mPiB9-IvZdTVAzbih5vCSAnpjmX5yf7Gj4xFs8v0pmLf9pEnXOPh4OGP4e_soIBNsr5DZ5SGZyc8ELdt0tq9Z/s2179/20231007_100314.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2179" data-original-width="1678" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbCbKrOcpx2gdO7tuIZsaWEp0r2TXbUhEURbi1vWwWwYgyiFitPIzr0bNtfpFdS-AsxLiVrGy7Mr9EXeaOxB2EXV-_N1RlhGqrNhGJn7mPiB9-IvZdTVAzbih5vCSAnpjmX5yf7Gj4xFs8v0pmLf9pEnXOPh4OGP4e_soIBNsr5DZ5SGZyc8ELdt0tq9Z/w308-h400/20231007_100314.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WVzNPmuUI4RzmvVOZDVzpHOmMcqWEzCa5wYzwBZXwYsc1T2CjDa0hz2-tY07ObKd87lgVvzB1hq5MSR5OCSNVvLOqA71lsU34UH9SKIklvC-hL85ILEOZWLOec3lk6h2ne-Z92D8JGq__YOvugFKhQaFdxBE6dQCGp_bvTxwOZt4IdEHZm2JC-YzwhaF/s2364/20231007_100236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WVzNPmuUI4RzmvVOZDVzpHOmMcqWEzCa5wYzwBZXwYsc1T2CjDa0hz2-tY07ObKd87lgVvzB1hq5MSR5OCSNVvLOqA71lsU34UH9SKIklvC-hL85ILEOZWLOec3lk6h2ne-Z92D8JGq__YOvugFKhQaFdxBE6dQCGp_bvTxwOZt4IdEHZm2JC-YzwhaF/w400-h300/20231007_100236.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Important, I feel, not to romanticise hard lives; nevertheless, both I and the little girl who used to hang around outside the blacksmiths at the bottom of nearby Bishop Road in the 1960s in the hope of seeing a horse in need of shoeing (but never did), felt all kinds of happy to see horses grazing the common. </div><span><br /></span></span></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9172073561662646900.post-80857152266220006252023-10-06T16:25:00.003+01:002023-10-07T13:48:10.555+01:00Early October at Southerndown and Llantwit Major<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another day, another rail strike. (Solidarity.) Faced with the prospect of two round trips from Bristol to Cardiff through heavy traffic, I decided to spend the day with the dog on the Glamorgan coast instead, and having dropped The Northerner at work, set off for Southerndown, which I last visited 40-odd years ago. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYA15b67BYfnvxmBt2v3aN9r-M4zyNkP1vD0aaeWM6cvnWTKb-Rt3KItdxF7R_PO5hteypCWi3wyPUNFThcmk_q6B72ZajrpLZpJ2J2M2qXFR0U1Hg-fBM8JkIj414A8nlukKc5cK478ytZKDCt5MLBPf4gMYtYx1dcpS_-9jb6er8rPq0JtQbZILrvG0h/s2364/20231004_113633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYA15b67BYfnvxmBt2v3aN9r-M4zyNkP1vD0aaeWM6cvnWTKb-Rt3KItdxF7R_PO5hteypCWi3wyPUNFThcmk_q6B72ZajrpLZpJ2J2M2qXFR0U1Hg-fBM8JkIj414A8nlukKc5cK478ytZKDCt5MLBPf4gMYtYx1dcpS_-9jb6er8rPq0JtQbZILrvG0h/w300-h400/20231004_113633.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It was high tide when we arrived, so we walked up through Slade Wood and across several fields to the edge of the village of Southerndown. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1KNEWxOEFK093EyUXZMy1CWc_9tqJjzYByKU3TBvjtIzmGR_TOrnVUGZs4pVjrrWB2JeLNsusQoxEg_AMJ8zI392QbDocdeUUPjFlLcXSpsDzS2SuR8mD6vef3peMOwoTuwOmFI0Vo78RTCQMJJsV34XNzoZYHPYlLaZSspzMtlkSPcr1v_LwwKUR7Tu/s2364/20231004_102746.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP1KNEWxOEFK093EyUXZMy1CWc_9tqJjzYByKU3TBvjtIzmGR_TOrnVUGZs4pVjrrWB2JeLNsusQoxEg_AMJ8zI392QbDocdeUUPjFlLcXSpsDzS2SuR8mD6vef3peMOwoTuwOmFI0Vo78RTCQMJJsV34XNzoZYHPYlLaZSspzMtlkSPcr1v_LwwKUR7Tu/w400-h300/20231004_102746.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the way we saw this tree, which appears to be flourishing despite clearly having fallen some time ago ... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4zdUDRkLlGRMMAae1i21vnN0oTr49vm3bAVqct-zDdrW9UJu-wKmPs_Mmnq6SUTFPfElvEuU08jupNld7oEdNK6A-lb_WSGcFx5qzndvHsd-mpXcvDBAxG7_pxOVpQhvuvsevZf-vtwHcXqdVGOJ51KupA1w_oarU1cV4_cAx9qSdwl4DtexqFR14b-J/s2364/20231004_101832.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw4zdUDRkLlGRMMAae1i21vnN0oTr49vm3bAVqct-zDdrW9UJu-wKmPs_Mmnq6SUTFPfElvEuU08jupNld7oEdNK6A-lb_WSGcFx5qzndvHsd-mpXcvDBAxG7_pxOVpQhvuvsevZf-vtwHcXqdVGOJ51KupA1w_oarU1cV4_cAx9qSdwl4DtexqFR14b-J/w400-h300/20231004_101832.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... plus these intriguingly wind-warped whitethorns.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKi302t3G-lsm18ULaXg5bj2YbtmJvT9ShOXxVC2HjgQanmX1E91lopZiqV4Z0dtWgSH7RnWIVSf89znmjeDOaaD5FKY9dY8jUKxPVdlGmnMWA6DR-5c_rT_OM9JfZ7lWsVKqrPXDllhLDtbA8XxGOKd2fFc51u3rujYDIH1UgOfPfn8gOc_tEX2OrEta/s2364/20231004_103057.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKi302t3G-lsm18ULaXg5bj2YbtmJvT9ShOXxVC2HjgQanmX1E91lopZiqV4Z0dtWgSH7RnWIVSf89znmjeDOaaD5FKY9dY8jUKxPVdlGmnMWA6DR-5c_rT_OM9JfZ7lWsVKqrPXDllhLDtbA8XxGOKd2fFc51u3rujYDIH1UgOfPfn8gOc_tEX2OrEta/w400-h300/20231004_103057.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2favjE6w4atBGRTayz1OZWdtneFj_lkDFMfllwZuRcsMsC3wT6z5sb5xoqP4ddAltLtBM9v6i-yWkVUR3wlNK5JsOYsq6gSsJFaBVJpGRf8LYUE8GAnlqWy8rDVuOPZEE1796_obVejyBrY1xueWO3Dq55638plRLpHhgC8Xzu2uh17MP9o168JL-jrb/s2364/20231004_103244.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2favjE6w4atBGRTayz1OZWdtneFj_lkDFMfllwZuRcsMsC3wT6z5sb5xoqP4ddAltLtBM9v6i-yWkVUR3wlNK5JsOYsq6gSsJFaBVJpGRf8LYUE8GAnlqWy8rDVuOPZEE1796_obVejyBrY1xueWO3Dq55638plRLpHhgC8Xzu2uh17MP9o168JL-jrb/w300-h400/20231004_103244.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBToBlyMXzQZCaHBthYtkVYo3XMvgVk0idwdI_PEum_aDPU93gNwSevEC1qAVkNa-wbHg_C76ziGVDYOvNjrdSdI_8c9pZyQPN22pD4Uwmqn9Gttol-7iGCI1tef_twrbSpDgtvl3YGebpVRJuic_BOZzbx1NFp1nMSM4d1B4MKZ3DdFCM5_QBuqlnuMR9/s2364/20231004_103503.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBToBlyMXzQZCaHBthYtkVYo3XMvgVk0idwdI_PEum_aDPU93gNwSevEC1qAVkNa-wbHg_C76ziGVDYOvNjrdSdI_8c9pZyQPN22pD4Uwmqn9Gttol-7iGCI1tef_twrbSpDgtvl3YGebpVRJuic_BOZzbx1NFp1nMSM4d1B4MKZ3DdFCM5_QBuqlnuMR9/w300-h400/20231004_103503.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">... </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and a bent old kissing gate (always more picturesque than the modern variety) ...</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8v_lE39e3qlHYecDpfyrXLn_lrfmkwEbwyCDmDjhqtG8IgnkFtfQEspPh1lJI8yL9KYgfGLzeLX5uOfiv6SafIUKziq3JZDMD73dsYJ-Xu1DWMb6WayAdJUH3tAvbCe1iK8OK42VaVV8BYpzwJ7_b2B7ejVp-BqjNBYac5DKhkpfPj5RzAB5_4Lq-z2pC/s2364/20231004_104058.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8v_lE39e3qlHYecDpfyrXLn_lrfmkwEbwyCDmDjhqtG8IgnkFtfQEspPh1lJI8yL9KYgfGLzeLX5uOfiv6SafIUKziq3JZDMD73dsYJ-Xu1DWMb6WayAdJUH3tAvbCe1iK8OK42VaVV8BYpzwJ7_b2B7ejVp-BqjNBYac5DKhkpfPj5RzAB5_4Lq-z2pC/w300-h400/20231004_104058.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">... although this newer one wins the prize for best tune.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxZnP-npoyoMn30jtA067SBjuq1wJL-WFhq9DibOUKxFIO5rWqpplnkuK58kt4a7xwWD7KszqC_KaogXxn36w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The return leg of our short walk took us along the cliff edge, with views along to Porthcawl ... </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArGVblKUTs-ofzaxNBLoqhworG9UkSg3XvyLwO7mh6jmDZkeIXyT4fFGKhgHVWn94wuPG_mbLYcZUnpUZPErlme1D4sGWy26XQ2jHvxp0G9FkmZZN-s_oWdQ2kBLEN4J0sX7OZiYnShGfQ3J5OTKttjq1vRKRi-sSPJwIeY82Ut-XoHOo59L7ciHLBRuS/s2364/20231004_110054.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArGVblKUTs-ofzaxNBLoqhworG9UkSg3XvyLwO7mh6jmDZkeIXyT4fFGKhgHVWn94wuPG_mbLYcZUnpUZPErlme1D4sGWy26XQ2jHvxp0G9FkmZZN-s_oWdQ2kBLEN4J0sX7OZiYnShGfQ3J5OTKttjq1vRKRi-sSPJwIeY82Ut-XoHOo59L7ciHLBRuS/w400-h300/20231004_110054.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">... and ahead to </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the cove of</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Southerndown, which also goes by the name of Dunraven Bay. Poor Cwtch was kept firmly on the le</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ad in case she</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> tried to chase a seagull over the cliff edge.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVcmApwl_qpsYz_hb_Idr-QK3ZiQDmz6dT8K0JvqBV_YYKUyhak7m5DAzxFxSnWSDJuUryXk2R5LmqkyVLBJJoqhtIhPmgG84rG8SoVOFmBxPC5yFXGuoA1EKhqPPgwPfmciSoVYYBRA9mOkf2465wLvcIVnp2yWisOrLcp2VGj_mY7IeSZLL_Nb3ykdD/s2364/20231004_110406.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVcmApwl_qpsYz_hb_Idr-QK3ZiQDmz6dT8K0JvqBV_YYKUyhak7m5DAzxFxSnWSDJuUryXk2R5LmqkyVLBJJoqhtIhPmgG84rG8SoVOFmBxPC5yFXGuoA1EKhqPPgwPfmciSoVYYBRA9mOkf2465wLvcIVnp2yWisOrLcp2VGj_mY7IeSZLL_Nb3ykdD/w400-h300/20231004_110406.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9guSXaKjuYluGg-4mnck_RRoxubd_5zEBFqFNarsZpkL5pOOUA6H-ErEYuRD-7V9lKiHpXNJLmkTf1psFYBLtuYbFiFoX61qzqj2oxwSrrU5SBa5Ka7kgMY-KXq6heqEh5zL3uj9VP2TKWhQtB22WdlTWFE5YCbQke_O8Ct_XhqVh0mjynBCRBIntwrI/s2364/20231004_110305.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9guSXaKjuYluGg-4mnck_RRoxubd_5zEBFqFNarsZpkL5pOOUA6H-ErEYuRD-7V9lKiHpXNJLmkTf1psFYBLtuYbFiFoX61qzqj2oxwSrrU5SBa5Ka7kgMY-KXq6heqEh5zL3uj9VP2TKWhQtB22WdlTWFE5YCbQke_O8Ct_XhqVh0mjynBCRBIntwrI/w300-h400/20231004_110305.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">En route I found these young puff balls, but decided to leave them for someone else to have a fine breakfast once they'd grown a bit bigger.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxlcLL7gwJ96nbMfOvtlUMfd4H4eu4kb7AzWJuPRS3sk1Ga6-kI7tOLABtsuVJa-3Ozlp9e9RwwaVZ-TpJg_LAFPKXjNAMgbGym7bNU0qXzqoQV3JFXwVAqS-2Z62_N2HXOraBPAaQbQEUeET6L5iAj374TrJkMTtJBdJSDPnwjcDwERjk1vavDP2u7hci/s2364/20231004_110616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxlcLL7gwJ96nbMfOvtlUMfd4H4eu4kb7AzWJuPRS3sk1Ga6-kI7tOLABtsuVJa-3Ozlp9e9RwwaVZ-TpJg_LAFPKXjNAMgbGym7bNU0qXzqoQV3JFXwVAqS-2Z62_N2HXOraBPAaQbQEUeET6L5iAj374TrJkMTtJBdJSDPnwjcDwERjk1vavDP2u7hci/w300-h400/20231004_110616.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As we descended to the car park, you could see Dunraven hill fort on the opposite cliff and so-called Dunraven Castle, which is really just a manor house that was castellated in the 19</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">th</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> century. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisc10gVmEwNyqVCYIvripBGdpVcm1a2JievfO95bLaHJw_44Jw4YlePPH7jKeQSSfrlx102Z8j6Rjx1-PHnK9sE5qMr_CSc45KJWEtdqameW6Zo6mIXpu3Wjt0CBX8HXlY1Uk9inKDct76_YATQHUNoVNMHLb9VKKgVaUc2gHJSP1Jx0RwYtmFYElLCAE1/s2364/20231004_112413.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisc10gVmEwNyqVCYIvripBGdpVcm1a2JievfO95bLaHJw_44Jw4YlePPH7jKeQSSfrlx102Z8j6Rjx1-PHnK9sE5qMr_CSc45KJWEtdqameW6Zo6mIXpu3Wjt0CBX8HXlY1Uk9inKDct76_YATQHUNoVNMHLb9VKKgVaUc2gHJSP1Jx0RwYtmFYElLCAE1/w400-h300/20231004_112413.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cwtch and I decided against labouring up the long flight of steps to the fort and set off for our second destination, Llantwit Major. Having last visited - </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">inadvertently - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">at the end of May, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">during the summer dog ban, I was looking forward to letting Cwtch run on the beach, but just three days into the season of the dog, there were diggers on the beach and it didn't feel safe to let her run. Instead we climbed up the steps up the cliff to Castle Ditches Camp, a second iron-age hill fort.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGfXcLQD452qaUG69dgsTXXBC12E89qhVCGfZtqKCmL1JP84hqJsoTdGUTFD8FFF8khmlYld-uKhf2z_Do-PfC3e3unAOsCcqfYF8lVxbAmjbagWLlPow9YjC8xIuTKrLBiNLjWcDdWGLI2q42TVw_GLIOg0AfFnFkdjHejZkcllfquXIsXZy-RrGtC6-/s2364/20231004_122529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGfXcLQD452qaUG69dgsTXXBC12E89qhVCGfZtqKCmL1JP84hqJsoTdGUTFD8FFF8khmlYld-uKhf2z_Do-PfC3e3unAOsCcqfYF8lVxbAmjbagWLlPow9YjC8xIuTKrLBiNLjWcDdWGLI2q42TVw_GLIOg0AfFnFkdjHejZkcllfquXIsXZy-RrGtC6-/w300-h400/20231004_122529.jpg" width="300" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From here, we could see <a href="http://deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2018/06/nash-point-lighthouse-and-st-donats.html">the lighthouse at Nash Point</a>, where I walked with Son the Younger, his then dog, Lucy, and my old collie, Ted, back in 2018. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzv8MeykO9NgM1BxPyL_GoSwxbRPf0zvl-qa6-CrG2GdeQvmW2cECmxTcdjFJprZIpOAaHqREetlFrccKSGevehd2Ad_6goo8DLmEbutl46yPsZ0Q-GZ1UqHiGMLiFeNZtbDiPYTlzC1NjP_6zs9BtTZB5j0Z1zBtiTFkwO2gi2yDnKUbDvgJ4I4Z9Nydx/s2364/20231004_123303.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzv8MeykO9NgM1BxPyL_GoSwxbRPf0zvl-qa6-CrG2GdeQvmW2cECmxTcdjFJprZIpOAaHqREetlFrccKSGevehd2Ad_6goo8DLmEbutl46yPsZ0Q-GZ1UqHiGMLiFeNZtbDiPYTlzC1NjP_6zs9BtTZB5j0Z1zBtiTFkwO2gi2yDnKUbDvgJ4I4Z9Nydx/w400-h300/20231004_123303.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1773" data-original-width="2364" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeP2-GYKzm7_MTT26NQfFvK2QZodQH-rpr5AhBAREGnQSZb5I2gfcXR77pKhUBHxhMuzqlfFPDb1haDrBZ6vrWBymmbA4VFrjHHXPV5Zn2xvmcnK59Zp6-sESCeKpRgYc0qMLIxDpUHBL69L4cRvmulg_ftR9UGxGxju82DnCS77NmLqPK5FCDUnZqeqkW/w400-h300/20231004_123716.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The coast path took us up and down over the ramparts of the fort and then along the edge of a large arable field. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTcuXp6DxGR6vRBWekZXlmsuYbT5nBvJeALsBVLpO6ixoRs4QkGL0yhmpdH8sFbhu4ao9B76ceJzSbKEFnt7G3F28cWkYJ9B50WHY5WRQ27d0fvAVD5yN92_y9ur2lzKbBqX3zM93Ug38Tj2PXnKzhVlqRN0moM3HZ1gyUEYwxz2HDZy0itz-TY25Qrgt/s2364/20231004_123822.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We eventually found a way out and back down to the sea, following a footpath that ran alongside the little River Col-huw. All the whitethorns that were still just blossoming back at the end of May were now clotted with berries, with dashes of white provided by Old Man's Beard.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSP6OtrtNub9vTUBK3vks0ZDk3SUnFwVHd_ZO-UODoI2mjHFXT_D_b34KUKsQf2o4XAA28x3EKmaEit1Ablp5a8BqYQghnRaezMxdaOp4eTs_tUzV2ZfgzqoxhGQ-RZXGE0MTLahN2tAEj0_XoAmCdv3uR6hMpftTL4ErNS-8533ZuL_aIXnqK2Peb5FTG/s2364/20231004_135512.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2364" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSP6OtrtNub9vTUBK3vks0ZDk3SUnFwVHd_ZO-UODoI2mjHFXT_D_b34KUKsQf2o4XAA28x3EKmaEit1Ablp5a8BqYQghnRaezMxdaOp4eTs_tUzV2ZfgzqoxhGQ-RZXGE0MTLahN2tAEj0_XoAmCdv3uR6hMpftTL4ErNS-8533ZuL_aIXnqK2Peb5FTG/w300-h400/20231004_135512.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Another day our in Wales brought to you by the RMT union and ASLEF, but a far better and cheaper prospect than spending twice as long sitting in heavy traffic. I hope they get a resolution soon. </span></div><div><br /></div></div>Deborah Harvey Poetryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17023927527337407685noreply@blogger.com0