“IN the pale moonlight, the Wanderer lifted the latch of the field gate and crossing a meadow, passed through the woodland. The day had been an eventful one, the times were unsettled, the markets unreliable–verily it was a comfort to a tired mind to walk the meadows at nightfall.” So begins A Romance of Burscough [...]
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A romance without Burscough Priory
Posted in sidetrips, Whithorn Unbelieving Pilgrimage, tagged burscough, edge hill, hop vine, ormskirk on October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Walking Home to 0Z
Posted in Memory, References and signposts, tagged baum, edge hill, wizard of oz on September 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
In 1900 a book called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published. Author L. Frank Baum stated that he intended to write ‘a series of of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with…horrible and bloodcurdling incidents’. Despite this intention I found the film version terrifying in parts [...]
Satellites of Love: Harbury to Edge Hill
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged all saints, amod3080, avon dasett, burton dassett, civil war, edge hill, fiesta, gps on April 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Sometimes everything just comes together. Today’s walking was as perfect as I can imagine – great weather, interesting discoveries, fantastic views and the green of spring flooding in. Blossom scattered on the path. A day bursting with life – even though I was headed for a battleground. Today’s walk aimed for the small hamlet of [...]
Riverwalker
Posted in References and signposts, tagged chris haven, edge hill, msu, patricia clark on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I met two writers visiting Edge Hill University, Chris Haven and Patricia Clark, both based at Grand Valley State University, Michigan. Not wanting to meet them without having some idea of their work, I tracked down some of their writing in advance. I enjoyed Sitcom Mom by Chris Haven, an adventure in unreality of [...]
Simply some snow
Posted in sidetrips, tagged #uksnow, edge hill, edgehill, ormskirk, ruff wood, snow on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
forking paths in the park I walk through on the way to work the hunched roofs of Ormskirk, which never fail to remind me of H. P. Lovecraft’s Dreams in the Witch House for some reason (?) at work, another trip to the roof garden – I seem to be the only one ever up [...]
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