21 May 2020 My Dearest Boy, What glorious weather we are having and what a special birthday I had! I did not wake up to the magnificent view of Katerina de Aragon’s Alhambra; nor did I fill my cup with the sensous fragrance of Giverney; nor even did I walk again that old familiar…
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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 – Index of Posts
The Wessex Ridgeway – Avebury to Abbotsbury In September 2019 I am planning to walk from the stone circles at Avebury (“The Stones”) to St Catherine’s Chapel in Abbotsbury. St Catherine being the Third Century martyr tortured and broken on a Wheel (“The Wheel”). The route will take me from Wiltshire, across Salisbury Plain and Cranbourne Chase…
Wessex Heights
I completed a long held ambition today. “There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crises when I stand, Say, on Ingpen Beacon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly, I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be. In…
