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Fossilised time: Breakfast at the Twirl of Hay

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Awake early having slept since 8pm, having had strange dreams perhaps caused by reading Alan Garner’s Thursbitch, a powerful novel of overlapping time, set in Cheshire, deep in the language, mythology and geology of the place. Morning reading somewhat lighter – ‘At Your Leisure with Premier Inn’, a free magazine left in the room. Although [...]

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In My Blakean Day: Chester: Station to Premier Inn

Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged , , on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Before setting out this morning, I watched a recording of the Red Dragon movie. As I like to follow trails of coincidence as well as physical routes, in Chester I looked for some William Blake in Waterstones, one of the shops in the medieval Rows, a sort of upper storey to the streets. (The title [...]

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Now with added photos…

Posted in Memory, tagged , , , , on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Home now, with leads aplenty, I’ve added pictures from phone and camera to the interweb, for your viewing pleasure.
To whet your appetite, there’s a rather painterly shot of a crane in Leeds.
Moving on, pictures of the Parkgate-to-Chester leg of my main walk are in a set on Flickr.

And in another set,  images in and around [...]

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Transorbital: Parkgate to Chester

Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged , , , , , , , on March 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I’m writing this on Easter Saturday, an in-between-time in the Christian calendar, G-d’s absence made official for a day. I’m in a hotel at Heathrow, a place that exists mainly to be part of the way to other places; sited just within the M25, the imposed city boundary explored by Iain Sinclair in his book [...]

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