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This is one of my favourite areas. You see very few people climbing Cnicht, and I’ve never seen anyone walking the lakes below. I used to think it was pronounced nicht, like nicked, but in fact the C is not silent. Here at least, it could be changeable depending on the word; I don’t know. […]
I’m thinking of meadows after reading about them. These are the best, they say in The Times, for good summer walks. Different parts of England, Scotland, and Wales. The person who wrote it is not speaking from experience but finds them on the internet. That means two things. There will be better meadows inevitably, and […]
There is something about winter which pares all living things down to their essentials – Moya Cannon It learns…something – Lex Fridman talking with Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet, and envisaged it as a utopian democratic space. We all did, excited with the new technology. Talk to anyone, reason together, […]
In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public […]
But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it – Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong I’ll ask the interweb – Lance, Detectorists A few years ago I read about Amy Liptrot when she lived on Orkney, was preparing a book, and using a GPS sky app. I investigated and found there […]
Philosophically interesting photography
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we! – William Shakespeare I watched the Detectorists for the first time a few months ago. Then again, and a third time, and I’ve now watched the Christmas Special twice. When the jokes arrived I smiled on two levels. At the joke, and with the recognition. I laughed […]
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories ― Carl Jung Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities – geography, autobiography, and metaphor ― Robert Adams It can stay silent a lifetime. Who knows anyway what it is, that wild, silky part of ourselves […]
There is something about winter which pares all living things down to their essentials – Moya Cannon, Winter Paths There’s quite good local walking where I live. River, woods, lake and nature reserves within reach. Kestrels occasionally, kingfishers rarely but memorably, perhaps once a year. There are owls in the woods. In the pandemic lockdown […]