Reading the story of this place can be delicate work

From argleton

I love to find bits of writing lying around. There haven’t been an awful lot on this trip; perhaps I’ve been looking too hard. Cultural historian of the ‘very recent past’ Joe Moran has been luckier, as his latest blog post indicates.

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Random Harvest

Looking again at the random pictures I took on the way to Warwick

I think they do reveal some things about the walk, which the deliberately-taken ones do not:

Things I wouldn’t choose to make a picture of, like the forbidden snap of wood panelling inside a National Trust house, the black inside of a tunnel, [...]

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Destination: Argleton! Visiting an imaginary place

Google Maps show an imaginary place near to where I live: a town with the ugly name of Argleton. This has been commented on elsewhere, with theories that they have simply got the name Aughton wrong (though Aughton appears as well), or that it is a deliberate mistake, designed to catch out unauthorised users of [...]

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Something That You Don’t Know: Lapworth to Warwick

“I’ll tell you something that you don’t know” wrote Dorothy Osborne in 1654, in a famous love letter: “that I am your Valentine and you are mine.” If I understand the story correctly, Dorothy cut out Valentine missives for three people and a random selection assigned her to her sweetheart and future husband: an early [...]

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As we pass on – Beacon Fell interlude

A quiet weekend, mostly spent feeling sorry for myself with the onset of a cold – though we did manage to get out to Beacon Fell today.

Old snow and ice still hadn’t entirely disappeared up here

and new snow was on its way in a heavy sky.

G*d willing, will continue the walk next week, hopefully to [...]

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