Now the rain is melting the snow, but a few days ago everything was ice. The pavements were ridged with glass, the roads thick with compressed snow and criss-crossed with tyre marks. I went again and again to the woods, down through the tree tunnel, where the branches curve over the sky at every levelContinue reading “19/12/22 – Snow melt”
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Mawddach Residency – DAY 12
Today we swam from the steps, walked down into slapping water, opaque and almost milky. Somehow the cold clutched tighter with the sudden descent, but the waves were low, and we swam out to Jeff, buoy number two. Emily had to be forsaken for the day. When we got back everything disappeared in grey. LowContinue reading “Mawddach Residency – DAY 12”
7/11/22 – Water like Guiness
Last week my brain was full of words, so I stepped outside for a walk. I was staying halfway up a wooded valley, on a steep hill, and the path I took went down. The sky was blurred out by beach trees and turning leaves and I could hear the river rushing down in theContinue reading “7/11/22 – Water like Guiness”
22/10/22- Rutting season starts
A week ago I went for a walk in the woods. Not my local woods, but the woods of a big old country house I used to visit as a child. There were deer there, casually clustering under oak trees near the car park, where people gather at a distance to take photos, sometimes gettingContinue reading “22/10/22- Rutting season starts”
Bonnie Radcliffe 