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the Greylag and Arcadia
The landscape in lines, left to right as you walk under the railway bridge at the edge of the town: 1, railway line on a brambled embankment ; 2, damp pasture with reeds and sedge and a shallow lake in … Continue reading
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notes on bird hides and on rewilding
Four Fields, Tim Dee, p. 51 A new sort of alienation has already been devised: the tristesse of the bird watching hide. I can feel it now in the strange log cabin that has been erected on Tubney fen. Nothing … Continue reading
like a little black book 