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walking
Listening in on the walk!
I experimented with posting a sound and pictures account over on the 2012 walk blog, but if you fancy listening to our short audio logs from the three days, they are here. I have been very inspired by the inimitable Ramblings programme, created for Radio 4 by Clare Balding and I want to work on […]
Walk 2012
Mark had the idea some time ago to design a walk from Weymouth – his hometown, and the location of all the Olympic and Paralympic sailing competitions – to Stratford in London, where the rest of the Olympic Games will take place. The idea is to walk the route during the time of the Olympic […]
Feasel & the Bear
I am not sure when Mark started calling me Feasel* or when I started calling Mark Bear, but time has consolidated the myth of Feasel & the Bear into several drawings, many little stories, and finally, a piece of knitwear. Exhibit # 1 – a drawing by me Exhibit # 2 – a drawing by […]
Cow slipping on ice
concentric circles of echoing harmonics with many thin tones built up on each other… The cow that slipped was this one, and I saw it when I was walking in Ditchling this time last year. This is Ethel Mairet’s sign, which hangs in the Ditchling Museum, just around the corner from where she had her […]
Frost
Walking on frosty pavements; the occasional slip in the rhythm of my steps as I slide. The marble-like qualities of a frozen surface… a hard clacking sound.
Swaledale sea socks – a maritime yarn
This is the first sock I have made in which sound was an influence, and I think it may well be my very favourite sock. Last year when I was staying in Sussex, Kate and I took a walk on the beach and I found myself comparing the gorgeously light crunch of the seashells and […]
Autumn Blisses
Happy Halloween! I know that technically it’s tomorrow, but there is to be a small party over at Ruth’s tonight and since I love Autumn more than any other season – and Halloween more than any other holiday – I thought I’d make a whole weekend of it, starting today. Celebrations require music, so I […]
Sloe socks
Currently on my knitting needles I have: Mansweater: 90% finished (after 3 ripping-out sessions, one unsuccessful placket steek and several Bad Knitting Math errors) Massive own-design UK Sheep celebratory garment: 45% finished, currently languishing on sofa awaiting for me to complete mansweater and pick it back up again Colourwork Beret: 100% finished, however adjustments and […]
Chicken Walk
The name of this post refers to Hasil Adkins’ song, Chicken Chicken Walk – which you should definitely check out. It also refers to my day yesterday during which I attended a ‘hen party’ with my parents, and walked along the route I used to take home from school when I was at secondary school […]
Avenues
Today’s proposed walk was not as extensive as I had planned since I was feeling domestic rather than intrepid and I have two knitting projects that I just can’t put down at the moment! Additionally my bedsit is enjoying a period of relative order, which means that I like being in it. In other happy, […]
The A4074 walking project
When a traveler asked Wordswoth’s servant to show him her master’s study, she answered, “Here is his library, but his study is out of doors.” – Walking, a lecture by Henry David Thoreau I am reading many good books and I thought I should share them here. Thoreau’s Walking has some important ideas in it. […]
I SPY Oyster mushrooms
Yesterday morning, walking near Nuney Green, I SPIED some Oyster mushrooms, growing on a branch! According to my vintage I SPY book, in August 1962 this fungus was also spied in Cranwell. The emphasis in the I SPY book on Oyster mushrooms having a distinctly grey or black top left me feeling slightly doubtful about […]
I SPY / I HEAR
Does anyone else remember the old I SPY books? I have recently taken to collecting old I SPY books via ebay and I must confess to having become mildly obsessed. There are several reasons for this. I SPY books are immensely well-designed objects. The clear instructions, unfussy typefaces and excellent illustrations are genuinely useful for […]
An experiment in podcasting…
A podcast by Felicity Ford exploring the various imaginative ways that one could create garments out of the landscape and history of London. This episode is entitled Episode 1 of The Wandering Maker: Singing Aplacas and Various Buttons.
Map Addict
I have been reading Mike Parker’s Map Addict and it is very inspiring (and surprisingly funny) in its consideration of the wonderful world of maps, and – in particular – Ordnance Survey maps. Amongst lively discussions on the politics and history of mapping, Parker’s prose rhapsodically celebrates the speculative journeys afforded by maps, and the […]
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