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Posts Tagged ‘walking’
Katesgrove and Reading Bricks
I have learned from my copy of “Waterloo Sunrise” that the district in which I live is called Katesgrove, and that this area of Reading once housed three kilns from whence the many bricks required to build the town’s Victorian terraced houses came. Our search for the redbrick history of Reading begins at Katesgrove Lane, […]
Biscuitopolis & The Mad March Hare…
A couple of Sundays back, the Sticks’n’String knitters plus some Bluestockings came over for a yarn-swap and a tasty feast. The rules were simply that everyone should bring some kind of local fare for the table plus some yarn to swap. Everyone bought amazing things to eat – pies, sausages, cheeses, cakes, chutneys etc. – […]
The wind that shakes the barley
The first things I did after moving in with Mark and redecorating our bedroom involved 1. creating a sock-knitting area in the bottom of my wardrobe and 2. curating a shelf-load of books on my side of the bed themed around adventures and journeys. I organised my books and my sock-knitting books/yarns etc. in tandem […]
31.14 miles: the A4074 walk part 1
I have written several times here about a project I’ve been developing that I’ve referred to as The A4074 project. The A4074 is a road that lies between Reading (where I live) and Oxford (where I work) and I drive it very often – sometimes 3 or 4 times a week. To make a conservative […]
Good weekends
I’ve had two good weekends on the trot now, and it’s made me think about what makes a weekend good and what things I love doing on the weekend – especially when the weeks are extremely busy! Last weekend it was Lara’s birthday and so after my day spent at Didcot Railway Centre recording the […]
Site specific socks
I really enjoyed reading Kate’s recent post on walking and how we build up imaginative representations of places as we patrol them. It made me think about my familiar routes, the places which I habitually visit, the things I note along the way, and how I remember places. Pigeons in the snow in Palmer Park, […]
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 […]
Walbury, Combe and Buttermere
On Monday we went walking. The extent of our forward planning involved me impatiently hunting for the densest patch of contour lines on the map and then directing Mark to them. Walking in The Highlands has given me a thirst for hills and although Walbury Hill is comparitively very modest at 297m, it is the […]
Perfect Bank Holiday Weekend…
After spending Saturday morning in a vague malaise online and editing sound-recordings, I decided to stop kidding myself that I was going to get any work done on the podcasts when I could plainly see whole families playing together in the sunshine outside my house. I tidied my bedsit, and headed off into town to […]
Mark Vernon & Pause Buttons
As I mentioned before, I visited with Mark Vernon the weekend before last and we talked at length about his amazing collection of amateur tape recordings, approaches to composing and the whole relationship to sound that develops when you get seriously interested in recording it. I really value the opportunity to talk to other artists […]
20 miles
I was very excited to discover this sign. I felt creative Nirvana was evidently up ahead. Alas, it refers instead to boats on the Kennet and Avon Canal. But I made Mark take a photo of me experiencing All Craft Elation anyway. Before yesterday I had never knowingly walked 20 miles in a day. Driving […]
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