Obligations have taken me away to working in other places and the gold and black of November walking has brought me along the concrete pavements into and away from the city centre and away from the deep spell of the Glen. I am once again picking up my foothold, Saturday in the cold rain andContinue reading “Saturday & Monday December 4-6.2021 – returning”
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Good Friday 2.04.2021 Egg hunt and purple spraint
We planted 30 clues and about 50 egg deposits about the Glen
Monday 29.03.2021 a walk for a hunt
Began the day despondent and unmotivated, by 2 I kicked myself out the door, a walk with intention. This one to explore sites for an egg hunt. So to begin at the Western end and look for nooks and crannies where fragile things might lie for a wee while blending in enough but also standingContinue reading “Monday 29.03.2021 a walk for a hunt”
Tuesday 9.03.2021 Laurel
I’m early, before 8, and my mission today is to check out the laurel temples at the back of the Fleischmann place, I want to make sure those branches in the Pencil Factory haven’t come from there, and I was dreading seeing the tyre marks on the way so I meandered a little, I passedContinue reading “Tuesday 9.03.2021 Laurel”
Friday 26.02.2021 pockets, rails and memories
My habitual Friday afternoon walk, has become 4 pm and here I am into the Glen, its grey and not warm but the shots are very much in evidence – everywhere new growth, the green blades rising from the water, the yellows of celandine and daffodil flowers. I head West along the North bank forContinue reading “Friday 26.02.2021 pockets, rails and memories”
Thursday 26.02.2021 Gothic Orchard interventions
So today I get out earlier and swoop into the Glen immediately bumping into M the dancer on the bridges with Corey, we pick each other up and talk and walk, M pauses often and our walk is a series of movements without momentum, we catch up on a week of meetings and interactions, stoppingContinue reading “Thursday 26.02.2021 Gothic Orchard interventions”
Thursday 18.02.2021 Rabbit holes and hoof prints
It feels like spring but there is a chill too, that kind that only comes when the year is new and beginning to warm up. I took myself through the Glen on my way to a shopping expedition. Looking out for today’s signs I go and visit my now decidedly woody oyster mushroom, while gettingContinue reading “Thursday 18.02.2021 Rabbit holes and hoof prints”
Wednesday 17.02.2021 meetings and duos
A morning that had the feeling of Easter, hares, chicks, daffodils and all things yellow…The Glen has become our meeting space, walks with E this morning ranging the perimeter down to Spring Lane and up along the unofficial park edges, talking about expansion, interactions and access rather than development, which is hanging over us withContinue reading “Wednesday 17.02.2021 meetings and duos”
Monday 16.02.2021 walk with L
A grabbed walk – Monday midday with L – I had hoped for a quiet walk and wee friendly shoulder and some in person time with my bright as a button friend. Many vehicles were exiting and entering the park as I turned into the alley, and I remember noticing the depot gate was stalledContinue reading “Monday 16.02.2021 walk with L”
Sunday 14.02.2021 Valentine
Valentines day started with a downpour but opened up to be a beautiful breezy spring day and the park was full of strollers by midday when I went. The river was brown and gushing the banks were covered over and the wetland was in its glory. On land there were mud sprials in the grass,Continue reading “Sunday 14.02.2021 Valentine”