Category Archives: Landscape

Though they may not know it… Stuart France

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

* The One animates Spirit with Light. Spirit animates Soul with Love. * Continue reading at The Silent Eye

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The eye of the sun

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

Three weeks before the Full Circle workshop, Stuart and I had headed north to Cumbria on our ‘recce’ trip. Stuart had been ill for a couple of weeks and shouldn’t really have been going anywhere. But you can’t run a … Continue reading →

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Rainbow’s end

Posted on November 16, 2018 by

I drove into a landscape lit by a rainbow, with crows and kites wheeling overhead, their wings carrying them into the light. I remembered the legends and stories associated with those ribbons in the sky that seem to emanate from … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: In face of history

Posted on October 18, 2018 by

We could hardly spend so much time in the churchyard at Rudston without visiting the church. While the Monolith alone was worth the long detour from our route home,  we were quite interested to see what kind of place had … Continue reading →

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North-easterly: Sidetracked and gobsmacked

Posted on October 13, 2018 by

We had chosen to take a very long route home for one simple reason… there was something we wanted to see that was never going to be on our way to anywhere. So the possible three hour journey took us … Continue reading →

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Notes from a small dog: IndieAni Jones II

Posted on October 6, 2018 by

If I thought the first part of the adventure had taken ages, the next bit seemed to take even longer. She says it didn’t, and that I was just getting a bit excited… but I don’t know so much. The … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXXVIII: The horse and the crop circle…

Posted on September 21, 2018 by

As we drove through Avebury to our next destination, we were more than glad that we had been prompted to stop at the Waggon and Horses instead of our usual port of call. The Red Lion, crammed full of people, … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXXIV: Dog-sick with ice cream

Posted on September 17, 2018 by

By late afternoon I was flagging. We had been on the road for a mere six days, and although we never rush and we take our time at each of the sites we visit, we don’t stop either. It is … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXXII: An unexpected encounter…

Posted on September 14, 2018 by

We took to the backroads again, nodding to Drake’s statue as we passed through Tavistock once more and climbing up towards Dartmoor. On our way south, the mists had closed around us completely and we ha seen little more of … Continue reading →

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A Thousand Miles of History XXXXI: Second time lucky…

Posted on September 13, 2018 by

Three days and countless ancient places earlier, our attempts to visit the Cheesewring with Alethea and Larissa had been thwarted by the roiling mists of Bodmin Moor. Mists or not, we were determined to try again on our way home, … Continue reading →

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