May 27, 2020 My Dearest Boy, As a child my favourite fairground ride was the Carousel. It combined a longing for a connection with ponies, the comfort and safety of being held tightly on the saddle by my Daddy and the tinkly music hall songs that my own Grandma and Grandad used to sing when…
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In the Time of the Skylark – Listen (7)
My Dearest Boy, What a thing it is to stop and listen! To a young child, given space and time, this comes naturally. It is one of the ways in which we learn. In this time of the skylark’s song I have been reminded to cherish this gift. Ah, my dearest boy, I tried to…
In the Time of the Skylark – Hope (4)
16 April 2020 My Dearest Boy, I once heard a writer tell how she overcame procrastination. She explained that she sat at her desk, picked up her pen and wrote the words “Once Upon a Time”. In the same way, if I unroll my yoga mat I’m likely to practise yoga and if I step…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY : The Stones to the Wheel – Cerne Abbas to Dorchester
Up early from posh accommodation (because J with me) ; quick visit to see the newly chalked Giant (I had met someone in a café what seemed like a lifetime ago back in Devizes who had been one of the volunteers) and we were on our way. The Wessex Ridgeway continues westwards from Cerne Abbas…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: The Stones to the Wheel – Ansty to Cerne Abbas
18 September: It took me a while to get going this morning. The proprietor’s dog decided to follow me for the first mile and despite lots of pointing and several shouts of “casa”, she refused to obey and return home. So I had to walk her all the way back to the farmhouse where I…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: From the Stones to the Wheel – Market Lavington to Bratton
Thursday 12 September. Market Lavington to Bratton. Weather forecast a bit changeable today and there looked a few interesting villages en route so I came off the Downs again to explore them. I soon left Market Lavington and was out in the fields and woods. For the first half hour I came across a few…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: From the Stones to the Wheel – Devizes to Market Lavington
Wednesday 11 September: Resumed the Wessex Ridgeway from the end of The Quakers Walk, Devizes and walked along the Southern side of the Kennet and Avon canal. Weather was a bit drizzly and I only passed one hardy couple. There was a slight detour where the towpath was closed and a trek along the A…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: From the Stones to the Wheel – Avebury to Devizes
Monday 9 September. Left Talbothays, travelled via the bookshop in Marlborough where we bought “Dig, dig, digging” and arrived at a peaceful home in Trusloe, Avebury. Incense, affirmations and crystals added to the energy inherent in this landscape. The Neolithic stone circle is the world’s largest and the Dalai Lama, is said to have declared…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: From the Stones to the Wheel – Introduction
I am ready and prepared to begin my walk through Ancient Wessex tomorrow. I have called the trek “From the Stones to the Wheel” because I am beginning at the immense stone circle at Avebury that lies inside Britain’s largest henge monument and finishing at St Catherine’s Tower in Abbotsbury. St Catherine was, of course,…
WALKING BY THE FLEET IN SPRING
For several weeks I had been feeling the call to be in Hardy’s Wessex and this delightful circular walk from Fleet to Langton Herring and back alongside the tidal lagoon was an apt reminder of what I had been so deeply missing. I have lost count of the times I have visited Dorset and can’t…
