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anyway – I was going to say – in usual fashion I lay on the sofa and quickly constructed a little essay about the tulip, T. orphanidea in Parnonas – then it immediately seems like a chore to actually write … Continue reading
I forgot the whistling duck
.., and other things besides – (see the last post) – did I tell you about the whistling duck before? The pronoun question has to be asked of ducks too of course; I don’t want to say ‘it’, and I … Continue reading
Arcadia 2, etc.
On the meadows by the river, I’ve seen this three times: a couple approaches a small group of heifers, quietly, slowly, a little cluster of three or four curious but wary animals, and then someone reaches out towards one, it … Continue reading
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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A dream come true (and an easy walk)
Yesterday, a sunday, I took the train in the gloom to Lakenheath, one stop on the line to Norwich, not counting Shippea Hill, which according to the map is about five metres above sea level. Lakenheath station is a couple … Continue reading
Easy Walks No 6, at home and abroad
Last year I kept wondering if I’d ever be able to walk all the way up Mount Olympus in Greece. I’ve been half way up, to the first refuge, and come down again that same day. Could I stay at … Continue reading
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Cherry Hill, contested land
To anonymous on the love ely facebook page: Cherry Hill is not quite farmland, not quite park, not quite ‘wild space.’ One half of it, separated by simple post and rail fencing which is easy to climb over, looks like … Continue reading
Ely Diary
ONE August 16. A notice advertises a visit to a ‘secret garden’, the garden of the old Bishop’s Palace, it doesn’t say what the tickets cost, but since it’s organised by the Cromwell’s House business it won’t be cheap. Just … Continue reading
Easy Walks No 3, down to the river
East along Ely high street, past one of England’s finest concentrations of charity shops, and, appropriately, the medieval almonry where charity was distributed to the poor and needy, stopping off at Londis. I fancied drinking a can by the river. … Continue reading
like a little black book 