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Getting close to solstice now, and because of the stretching shadows making eggs of the rounds I count them and note the barrier holds thirteen discs – all the moons of a year The hazard tape is a festive cordon around a work in progress. The concrete square anticipates the arrival of the industrial sizedContinue reading “Thursday 17.06.2021 discs, spots, circles and holes”

I met a little friend at the hatch today, our little dipper with his semaphore eyelids, blinking at me wary but not afraid, I had come for a soothing, to rest my belly on the concrete and feel the river pass below and this little guy kept me company for a while, until I movedContinue reading “Wednesday 16.06.2021”

A day of small collisions. Coming downhill into the Glen I see a pair of deck chairs at the Snake and a large lifelong carrier bag which looked like it might contain a picnic. The chairs are odd because they aren’t properly opened, like dropped umbrellas, giving the impression that the picnic had been interruptedContinue reading “Tuesday 15.06.2021 Sidetracks and collisions”

Monday Downy still with willow fuzz balls flattening into the asphalt, red leaves responding to something – pretty but could it be weedkiller? Gothic architecture of trees and skin rippling over muscle on the Big Scycamore, Fleischmann gateposts, a patch of blue, shadows of trees, pine fingers, lowlight in the branches, gorse in its wizenedContinue reading “Monday 13 -14.06.2021”

Saturday In the flower stakes Hawthorn has gone to brown and Elder is taking up residence, plants and trees jostle among each other – Alder and Hemlock at the hatch and the wall leading the way west, giant stone nestles in the bracken and long grass gulleys carved by walkers canine and human. Some debrisContinue reading “Saturday – Sunday 12-13.06.2021”

Friday I return – it feels good to take the downward Path from Sunview East and enter The Glen, a homecoming. The grass is high now under the Hawthorn and Birch the Oaks and the little plantation of trees set this spring. I go to where the Gorse was popping this time last year andContinue reading “Friday 11.06.2021”

Hiatus. Ten days since I walked in the Glen. Nettle stings got me on the last clean up and then a visit to a pond and a perfect storm for infiltration of nasties and my leg swelled and swelled from toes to knee. At my age I think nothing of nettle stings, from childhood timesContinue reading “Monday – Thursday 31.05.2021 – 10.06.2021”

It’s turnout out nice on Saturday evening and a set off to do the messages, getting waylaid in the Glen en route. I am seduced as always, and the pull is west along the valley (instead of cutting North across it to the shops) . Willow fluff floats through the air, catching the light likeContinue reading “Saturday and Sunday 29-30.05.2021 Mappings Meadow, steps and bridges”

Wednesday I go very late it’s been a busy day beginning with a trip to the orthopaedic with R after yesterday’s fall, feeling the jitters of the full moon, The Swanp Cypress are greening up and golden in the low light, I pass over a furry friend and find strange fruit in a tree atContinue reading “Wednesday – Friday 26-28.05.2021 making Place for Space”

I go for a walk as the day has cleared from dismal to blue, though still a little chilly for May. I am drawn how can I help it to the May blossom and it’s spreading out sending its feelers across the undergrowth of bracken and nettle, who is owning who I wonder, a bitContinue reading “Tuesday 26.05.2021 flower creatures”