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So these were the penultimate days to a year of lockdowns and I feel them heavy. Heavy because there was so much stillness settling and and opening in those early days of the big still burgeoning still fetid and alive with a promise that things may be done differently if we only gave them aContinue reading “Thursday 11 – Saturday 13 March”

Double digits today in March, we are nearly at the year threshold of the new time. I did a figure of 8 in the Glen this morning, 9-10 am, making 4,595 steps, covering 3.5 km, and my step length, my phone tells me, is s 57 cms. I’m not sure if I trust the mathsContinue reading “Wednesday 10.03.2021 numbers and circuits”

I came looking for greens today, too late for the light I found mainly greys. Lichens know their margins and, sensing one another, they know how to play out into form, growing purposefully towards their their own edges, forming respectful boundaries between one another, in this way making statements on the bark I feel IContinue reading “Monday 9.03.2021 green fades to grey”

I went into the Glen today plugged into a podcast of a sonic walk commissioned during this lockdown by the /centre Cultirel Irlandais. “6 March – Rachel Ní Chuinn, sound artist – Scotstoun, Glasgow“ I was curious to experience how our walks might interweave and layer into one another. I hear Rachel talking of her surfacingContinue reading “Sunday 7.03.2021 sonic layers”

Another cold March day that warms only as dusk falls. I have company on my walk today as we take the chance to visit the park on the way to the shops. It’s late afternoon as we cross the bridges and I see the little white cloud on the other side and so we stopContinue reading “Saturday 6.03.2012”

In response to Julies beautiful photo of the accommodation of the barbed wire by the growing tree, here is another image of welcome and incorporation by a willow tree. One branch feeds the roots of the mistletoe, while another support the weight of a boy. The time frames of all are different, but they areContinue reading “Accommodations”

its after 7 and dusk is falling as I enter the Glen. The air is moist and chill, more so here in the valley. I take the path west before the bridges, thinking i will do a loop clockwise for a change, and get the most of the dying light. Now that I know thereContinue reading “Friday 5.03.2021 silhouettes and hollowness”

I circled the border where Tom has planted his trees, they are very well camouflages against the hedgreow where Gorse steps out and has begun marching across the field. Last year’s oak leaves are still keeping form in the masting and mulching. The park is quiet, subdued even, his evening and I cross the bridgesContinue reading “Thursday 4.03.2021 leavings and heapings”

Meeting with the cluster today to look at sites for bins and benches and mark the dark places which need some TLC. F of the wheelbarrow was entering at the same time with his dog for walk number 3 of the day he says, waiting on a friend at Sunview East. I strode on inContinue reading “Wednesday 3.03.2021 meeting and mapping, dark reflections”

Two walks today one on whatsapp to our family in Farranree, it’s intense to walk and talk and see and show and hear all at once between 3 speakers and a tearaway family – our call was cut short due to my phone being glitchy and A’s running out of battery so overstretched in allContinue reading “Tuesday 02.03.2021 cleavers”