Back to back, fresh from 2 hours sleep for two nights, First Light festival, packing in an opportunity to explore, be curious, an invitation from Simon Raven to Doggerland in the private Benacre woodland was intriguing. Simon Raven and someone from Natural England were our guides (each professing ignorance but experience and interest) along the… Continue reading Simon Raven’s invitation to Mesolithic Walking – Benacre aka Doggerland
Category: Woodland
Martin Wolf
Second day back from Australia, Jo casually mentions, a friend of yours is very ill, you know the organic farming man in Metfield. Martin Wolf. Blast, oh why did i not find time to see him before I left? Regret is huge. He kept being put off my imperative list, because he was something I… Continue reading Martin Wolf
Grimston’s Oak at Epping Forest
The pride of [Epping] Forest is its hornbeams. There is no larger forest of hornbeams in England, nor perhaps in the world. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England Difficult to imagine now, where I am in little India, Forest Gate, was once the entrance to Epping Forest, and where I run each morning, Wanstead Flats, was the southern… Continue reading Grimston’s Oak at Epping Forest
Trees and woodland in the British Landscape by Oliver Rackham
The cover is of Loch Beninn, which belies the East of England predominance I've gratefully encountered in the book. Gifted to me by Jon Illes for my 60th birthday, in time for his recommendation for our book club (woods the theme), it is book club which drives the read, as like Jennie says, it's like… Continue reading Trees and woodland in the British Landscape by Oliver Rackham
Out of kilter
UN Climate change meeting ends on Bonn today and it’s way down the pecking order of news on Radio 4, well after the usual headlines of Brexit. This particular morning I fell so profoundly that my tribe is so distracted with endless Brexit squabbles, and is missing the big picture, and thereby so am I… Continue reading Out of kilter
Black & White – Bill Jackson
Cut Loose September 2017
Michael Lasky and Dean Parkin 'Good-morn-ing-mr-park-in' One of us sing songs like we did back at school when the teacher arrives into the classroom. We’re off We’ve got a new student with us, nicknamed Fogel (some connection to Muppets in the 80’s which I’ve missed over time). He has coloured hair and works in Beech… Continue reading Cut Loose September 2017
Rupert, bread, wine and churches
DRAFT Biking from Diss this time, catching the rain only at the end, Rupert rocked up at East Lodge with wine and bread in his panniers on a Friday September afternoon, infinitely felxible to fit in with what ever was happening, with a book (Jim Crace?) to hand in case of time to find. During… Continue reading Rupert, bread, wine and churches
2016
Brexit, Trump and Allepo Brussels bomb, Paris bomb. Mosel. Bob. Then Toby, Imo, Pat Rain, Anne Wolf, all died. and in the greater world, David Bowie, Howard Marks, Peter Maxwell Davies, Victoria Wood, Andrew Sachs, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson. After a month or so of morning for Bob, a road trip with Louise, woke me… Continue reading 2016
From Rob and Christine
Email from Rob, after their visit to the woodland and Scud LOVED IT ALL! The lodge has huge potential. Is it Edwardian? Parquet flooring. Super garden. What about your wood? WOW! Treecreeper. Ponds - walking the sleeper bridges. Hornbeams, wood makes good mill wheel teeth. Lunch. Yummee potatoes. Chervil. I, alone, ate the ham. Juice.… Continue reading From Rob and Christine
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