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Showing posts with label Cotswolds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cotswolds. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark

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Its mouth is stopped with bramble, thorn, and briar Cwm, corrie, cirque . Geography lesson rote learning that has stuck. The same ety...
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Thursday, 28 May 2015

Reverie in tranquil industry

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Like much of the surviving relict remains of the explosion of industrial activity in Britain in the late eighteenth century and the Victo...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake

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I've recently watched A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake , Jeroen Berkvens' 2002 documentary that I came across via the Dange...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

The Dig: a bleak midwinter read

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No end of year list this. Just a short recommendation of a short, stark and arresting novel: a bleak midwinter read. The Dig is Cy...
Thursday, 4 December 2014

Where is the (human) life of the fields?

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After a two month lay-off due to a ruptured Achilles tendon I am glad to be back out roaming again. A day of late autumnal brilliance ...
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Friday, 3 October 2014

Who speaks for the old stone ways?

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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Soft Estate: Edgelands as wilderness, or the new Picturesque

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M2 Medway Services Eastbound 2013 Oil on shellac on linen 180 × 140 cm; Edward Chell Soft Estate  is the title of a fascinat...
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Saturday, 4 January 2014

On lynchets

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Hinton, South Gloucestershire Anyone with an interest in landscape archaeology and landscape history will know well the earthworks, mou...
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