Driving from my parents’ home to mine takes me from a region known in Thomas Hardy novels as ‘Outer Wessex’ in the extreme west to one that is too far east to appear on his map. This distance which encompasses the entire landscape of 14 novels takes me a mere 2 and a quarter hours.Continue reading “Neither Here nor There”
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The path less travelled by
Cultural institutions once beckoned ‘tolle, lege’; now, they wave ‘tl;dr’.
Birdsong and burgers
‘You see that very green field over there?’ she says, pointing at it with her finger. ‘I hate to point the finger, but that’s my neighbour’s field. It’s just rye grass, which makes it look a lovely colour, but it doesn’t support an insect population, which means the songbirds have nothing to eat.’
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