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Friþgeard enthusiast & tree-liker | Sub-national localist | Keep your mind in hell and despair not
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You need to be thinking sub-national.
You need to be recreating Friths.
You need peace, protection, safety, security, freedom. You need a refuge. A Frith should give you this.
Create for yourself & others a Friþgeard, a place of sanctuary.
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What a fitting find for 1st of May.
Clearing & levelling an old shrub bed ready to sow wildflower seed & this clunked itself between my fork tines.
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Section of a now-metalled ancient drovers way across the Dales that was likely in use before the Roman Conquest.
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'There's an abandoned farmhouse up on those moors that's meant to one of the most haunted places in Northumberland' said a local walking his dogs, so off we headed up.
For a mile or so the lane is metalled & surrounded by beautiful mature trees, many likely veterans.
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Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.
Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
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The bluebells have gone to seed, the cow parsley & foxgloves continue in full bloom. Hedgerows swell.
Thickening woodland canopies bathe everything below in a hundred different shimmering shades of green.
High Summer is a-coming.
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🧵Holystone walk including two holy wells, a diverted Roman Road, a shrine to a British woodland god, and the repurcussions of taking pictures with a faulty phone.
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Spectacular views of the Dales this morning.
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The Song of Wandering Aengus
William Butler Yeats
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in
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'Past English oak, through pastures new,
wherever you lead I shall follow you,
for you are my England, you are my home
and along your country lanes, my soul shall forever roam.'
Chris Plows
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir
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My favourite season: early summer, May into June, when the woods seem full of nervous energy.
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Uncanny light permeating the woodland valley bottom. This is one of 3 substantial woods within a 15 minute walk from our house.
It's the one nearest busy roads & vast utilities infrastructure and associated noise but also the spookiest, even in early summer.
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I'm a big fan of beechwoods & beech trees so it's been a fantastic holiday up here with so many veteran specimens everywhere.
These ones in the woods at Kirkcolm village, Loch Ryan.
#thicktrunktuesday
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He's had a bath & a scrub. Made from a light porous concrete cast.
We think the old shrub bed was planted in the late 70s early 80s.
Quite a bit of wear on nose & cheek so maybe been in the ground a fair few years.
He'll be staying at our house now👍
What a fitting find for 1st of May.
Clearing & levelling an old shrub bed ready to sow wildflower seed & this clunked itself between my fork tines.
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Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
...
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I'm all about beechwoods now we're into autumn. Here's another Galloway beast for
#thicktrunktuesday
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There never seems to be a great deal of 'crown shyness' amongst beech trees. It makes me think that they're possibly a rather sociable & easy-going tree species.
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Hefty lumps of quarried gritstone now providing safe homes for a multitude of critters.
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A perma-recommend from me is Aurochs
One of my favorite pieces I have written so far. Eliffer is endlessly fascinating, but almost completely unknown.
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There are definite autumnal tones and tinge to the world this week.
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None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state props of well-being disappear and are transformed into omens of destruction...
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Top tip: don't go to see the ancient Christian carved stones at Kirkmadrine on an afternoon of blazing sunlight, you won't be able to make out the inscriptions, let alone get to take any decent pics.
This was the most important early Christian site in 5th/6th century Galloway
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Autumn woods and the distinct impression that the doors between this world and other realms are starting to slowly open again.
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Yesterday I checked on a failed wildflower area that I reseeded in early May. Good mix of species, but dock, bramble & bindweed recolonising, so I spot sprayed & cut back.
None of the residents seemed too bothered about picking the apples, plums & pears which were just dropping
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The foxgloves massed choral is only heard by the bees.
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'Excalibur! Is it true?'
'The Lady of the Lake. Take it. Take it quickly!
There are infinite worlds within the coils of the Dragon. In one of them, which I have not travelled, the sword was forged. I only know that the King is returned to us through the instrument of his power.
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The Ruin
Marvellous is this masonry, through fate
Has ruined and destroyed the city buildings,
The work of giants crumble, and the roofs
Have fallen in, the towers have tumbled down,
The barred gate has been borne away as plunder...
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Your local beechwoods will soon require your autumn attention.
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This is that Green Man I dug up out of that old shrub bed all washed & scrubbed. Even though the top of his head is missing I do like the lad.
Now on my Shelf Of Curiosities That Are Allowed In The House in the little room.
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When all institutions have become equivocal or even disreputable, and when open prayers are heard even in churches not for the persecuted but for the persecutors,
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Top 5 things to stare at for indefinite periods of time:
1. Clouds/the sky
2. Woodland shenanigans
3. The sea
4. Rivers/streams/brooks
5. Washing machine washing clothes
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Chillingham Castle, Northumberland: a pictorial thread of OTT morbid & downright ghoulish displays of dusty tat & vainglorious pomposity.
*10/10, would recommend a visit 😁
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Humans seen in 6 hours: 5
Humans interacted with: 3
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Grape hyacinths colonising a former lawn.
I've never had the chance to see this in its full glory before.
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Inside this copse is The Lady's Well, where St Paulinus was said to have baptised 3000 Britons & Angles one Easter 1500 years ago.
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High quality summer pasture, Harbottle, Cheviots.
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I always feel so much better for a day up the woods
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This huge thread is incredible & well worth the time of any British history buff.
What is the longest historical monumental boundary in Britain?
Is it Hadrian’s Wall or Offa’s Dyke? There is another mysterious and forgotten structure built by powerful ancient Kings roughly 268 miles long…
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Until the 16th century this was another local wood famed for its high quality oak timber that was sent by barge down river, used mostly for church buildings including Lichfield & Lincoln cathedrals.
Now it's mostly sycamore & ash.
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The last open clearing access to Loud Brook before it dissappears into impenetrable bramble thickets & then down into culverts in the valley bottom on its way to the Derwent.
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Mayposting my favourite spot for picking wild garlic.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... And some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
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We found the place serene & incredibly peaceful, the abandoned gardens magical, the views across Northumberland stunning.
We spent a fair few hours up there. I even ended up having a nap under the trees.
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Things I ate today at the Stranraer Oyster Festival:
1. Loch Ryan oysters. Never had them before, thought they were alright. Would have again.
2. Fresh local lobster. Cooked in butter. Expensive but lovely.
3. Haggis & cheesey cheps. Pogged me up. Then I was full & fat.
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I need to wait some weeks longer to witness the local beech tree cathedrals change the colour scheme of their vaulted ceilings.
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The last days of the Lancashire boggarts
By David Swann
They were maybe on their last legs
even when Manchester first stuck its fingers
into the wound and began pulling out peasants.
Poor old monsters, who had clung
to their hosts’ dark places! What a wrench
to see those
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Ancient hedge ditch & bank remnants, including hawthorn & oak.
This is summer pasture, so the bluebells are still able to flower & thrive along the ghost line, as they likely did for the many hundreds of years the hedge was maintained & in use.
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'A little lane - the brook runs close beside,
And spangles in the sunshine, while the fish glide swiftly by;
And hedges leafing with the green springtide;
From out their greenery the old birds fly,
And chirp and whistle in the morning sun...'
John Clare
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Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled,
Green wheat was yielding to the change assigned;
And as by some vast magic undivined
The world was turning slowly into gold.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Sheaves
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Se anweald næfre ne biþ god, buton se god sie þe hine hæbbe.
Power is never good, unless the one who possesses it is good.
Old English translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, attributed to King Alfred the Great.
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What fascinated me the most was the remains of a garden utilising the large rocks around the site.
Clumps of flag iris, ornamental grasses & Sedum still thriving amongst batteted cherry trees & rhododendron.
Stone steps still visible.
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Other day I helped a Nana out with an ongoing problem & went about my day.
She saw my van parked back up on the estate and come & found me to give me these as a thank you.
How nice of her🏆👍
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Bluebells are still revved up for flowering. The scent was intoxicating.
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I'm quite fascinated by relic hedgerows. There's a lot of them about.
I think it'd be great if many more were regenerated.
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This indicates how far the law has become dubious. People have a sense of being under foreign occupation, and in this relation the criminal appears a kindred soul.
Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
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Well, that was quite a spectacular sunset.
Photos taken at 17.43, 17.46 & 17.50.
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Blawearie means 'Tired Of The Wind'. Built in the late 18th/early 19th c it sits in a relatively sheltered spot, shielded from the elements by large exposed outcrops of rock.
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By the point where the old Roman Road from Trimontium to Bremenium diverted suddenly at an angle as it crossed the River Coquet there is a copse of ancient trees just to the north of the tiny village of Holystone
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A North Country maid up to London had strayed,
Although with her nature it did not agree.
She wept and she sighed, and so bitterly she cried,
How I wish once again in the North I could be!
Oh the oak and the ash, and the bonny ivy tree,
They flourish at home in my own country.
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May into June is the greatest part of the year
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Storm-battered & sheep-ravaged veteran hawthorn, Turf Knowe, Cheviots, Northumberland
#thicktrunktuesday
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Judging by the stacks of chairs underneath a newly-built awning & the evidence of a well used stone-clad fire pit, I'd say it's a well-loved local place for get togethers.
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I wrote an article for Institute of England &
@TowerofAdam1
had a tinker with it and now it reads quite well.
Here's the latest from Paul Bindweed (
@paul_bindweed
) on ambling in the Dales. He gives the best ambling tips to go out into your local countryside.
Read it at the Institute of England
@InstituteOfEngl
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I spent part of this week getting empty 'void' properties fit for human habitation. The garden bits, that is.
Several gardens were just used as extra bin space.
Here, the tenants emptied what they didn't want out of the windows before they left.
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Cavalry forts have special requirements and the castlemount and the wide haughland between the Tweed and the Teviot provide all of them...The ancient Celtic name of Roxburgh Castle was preserved and... it was called Marchidun: in Old Welsh, the Horse Fort.
Alistair Moffat
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At no other time than autumn does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth
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Woodland tones & shades are changing now we're into July.
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This cross shaft in the grounds of St Werburgh's is meant to date from 870AD.
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A Dunskey Glen beech doing an impression of his favourite Tolkien character for
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Easily in my top 5 of trees. If I was King of Mercia I'd insist on all remnant ancient hedges & hedge gaps replanted with hawthorn, & standing copses created with hazel, etc instead of shitty municipal/car park species.
Beautiful bright green Hawthorn leaves 🌿 reaching out across the River Lagan in Belfast.
In Ireland the Hawthorn 🌳 (Crataegus monogyna) is one of our most important trees when it comes to sustaining wildlife.
When the last of the previous year's 🍒have finished sustaining
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Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things.
Laurie Lee, Cider with Rosie
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How often we have to thank the sense of beauty of some former country worker for sparing a sapling when cutting a hedge or taking a slip of some doomed tree and setting it 'quick i' the earth' to bloom for those who have come after.
Adrian Bell, A Countryman’s Summer Notebook
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I hope I live to see the day when a multi-part film adaptation of the (upcoming) 5 volume book set of the Brythonic Heroic Age by
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@p5ych0p0mp
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Gabrán and Áedán appear in a corrupted genealogy as the grandson and son of Dyfnwal Hen of Alt Clut. Of course this is an error, but it does possibly give more credit to the idea of early Dál Riata acting as a client of Alt Clut, reneging on the deal, branding them "Traitors"
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Foxgloves giving way to the new blackberry stems, which are already covered in flowers.
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Probably after experiencing such modern wonders such as running water & electricity, the family never moved back in after it was decommissioned in 1946.
There was nothing spooky or unpleasant about the place when we wandered the old grounds, quite the opposite.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
The Autumnal
John Donne
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Local lore claims this gritstone slab bridge has been in place since at least the reign of Henry VII.
It's clearly old, but I have no idea if it's actually that old.
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... , at this point moral responsibility passes into the hands of individuals, or, more accurately, into the hands of any still unbroken individuals.
Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
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You eventually swing SW from the highest point & take a farm track back down towards Old Berwick.
You hear nothing but the wind & skylarks.
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This was my old account, I'll be using this shiny new one from now.
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You keep going up & up the lane which turns into a rough & rocky farm track. Eventually you leave it to carry on NW on a path through the heather.
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Good evening sitting session amongst the herbaceous.
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@LaocoonofTroy
She's my favourite. A comedic genius and an incredibly beautiful woman.
Carole and William Powell in My Man Godfrey made one of the best comedy films ever.
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18th century grave stones & other remnants in Kirkcolm Old Kirkyard.
The old kirk was demolished in the early 1800s.
I think the fact this Kirkyard is round & the old kirk sat on a mound is likely evidence how ancient this site is.
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I just opened the shed door & it didn't magically tidy itself overnight.
I really can't be arsed with it.
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Blawearie was taken over by the War Dept. in 1940 & the family relocated elsewhere. After 1941 it was of little use for the military & left empty, starting its decline.
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