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upside down in cloud: wild times on the canal

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Monday, 20 July 2015. Wild times on the canal. Dawn near Semington. The roe hind raises her head and sweeps the horizon with the radar dishes of her ears. The fox is a red periscope surfacing from the thistles. A wood pigeon porpoises across the gulf of meadow. Fax and teletext messages burst in turn from the skylark and sedge warbler. The hind examines a pair of cock pheasants who are quarrelling; she leaps back when they remonstrate with her; retreats a few paces, then edges forward again. The hind app...

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upside down in cloud: Kultur wars on the canal

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Monday, 27 July 2015. Kultur wars on the canal. When I was a lad, I’m sorry to say,. My chance to join the Navy sadly slipped away. I worked instead selling clapped out motors,. Safe and sound a long way from such dang’rous waters. Safe and sound a long way from such dang’rous waters). Safe and sound, I say, till, upon a whim. I bought a boat cos I’m a fan of Rosie’n Jim. He bought a boat cos he’s a fan of Rosie’n Jim). A marina berth I swiftly found,. And my gangplank very soon was rooted to the ground.

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upside down in cloud: poetry of Idris Davies

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Monday, 6 July 2009. Poetry of Idris Davies. There doesn't seem to be much of Idris Davies' poetry on the internet, so I've uploaded these, some of which are in "This World of Wales - an anthology of Anglo-Welsh poetry", ed. Gerald Morgan, and others gleaned here and there. You might also like this poem. By Meic Stephens, about colliery hooters; I do! And here is Alabaster Thomas. My own Valleys poem). Do you remember 1926? That summer of soups and speeches,. Do you remember 1926? Do you remember 1926?

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upside down in cloud: competitive cycling on the canal towpath

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Sunday, 5 July 2015. Competitive cycling on the canal towpath. I was walking with some friends along the canal at Bradford on Avon. So wrapped up were we in talk that we didn't notice the rather striking chap in tattoos and lycra, advancing on his bicycle. "SOME PEOPLE DONT SEEM TO LOOK WHERE THEY'RE GOING" he exclaimed, in what I can only describe as a petulant tone, as he forced his way through the group. I didn't hear your bell. USE YOUR BELL YOU NUMPTY! I called after his receding form. Http:/ www&#4...

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upside down in cloud: May 2015

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Sunday, 24 May 2015. Wild times on the canal. Up by the Sainsbury bridge in Bradford on Avon, a flight of steps ascends from the towpath to the road. I was heading up that way, and about to insert the front wheel of my bicycle into the ramp that allows you to get bikes up and down, when I saw a slow worm wriggling its unhurried way down. And its tail came off and wriggled furiously. The brats were persuaded to deposit the creature in the grass, and led off crying. Links to this post. Monday, 18 May 2015.

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upside down in cloud: keeping the light

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Friday, 7 August 2015. The English and Welsh Grounds lightship. Some ships are bound for Newport Docks, and they pass to the west of us;. And the Sharpness and the Bristol boats sail safely to the east. And the flood tide that sometimes roars enough to fright the best of us. Uplifts us, but it will not shift our anchorage the least. There as always is the chimney of the Uskmouth power station,. Lined up with the transporter bridge and distant Ysgyryd Fawr;. Tab nabs - snacks. Conny onny - condensed milk.

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upside down in cloud: January 2015

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Saturday, 31 January 2015. Happily for these folk, the move towards construction of such an arena continues apace, with the shortlisting of five designs. As Chief Architect of Gert Macky Enterprises (publishers, bicycles fettled, a song a dance a merry quip, oh and arena designers to royalty), I drew up some plans of my own, as you see from the picture. Sadly, despite the optimism of The Bristolian. We'll paint it green if you like, to make it even greener! In this year of Bristol, Green Capital. As you ...

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upside down in cloud: July 2015

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Monday, 27 July 2015. Kultur wars on the canal. When I was a lad, I’m sorry to say,. My chance to join the Navy sadly slipped away. I worked instead selling clapped out motors,. Safe and sound a long way from such dang’rous waters. Safe and sound a long way from such dang’rous waters). Safe and sound, I say, till, upon a whim. I bought a boat cos I’m a fan of Rosie’n Jim. He bought a boat cos he’s a fan of Rosie’n Jim). A marina berth I swiftly found,. And my gangplank very soon was rooted to the ground.

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upside down in cloud: April 2015

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Sunday, 26 April 2015. The title of this post comes from the anglo-saxon poem The Seafarer. Bearwas blostmum nimað,. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 160;                . I draw pictures. And sometimes fix Morris Minors. And bicycles. And toilets. You know. View my complete profile. Ann Wood-Kelly flies under the Clifton suspension bridge. Available as a print) Ann Wood-Kelly was an American pilot who came to Britain in 1942 and flew for the Air Transport Auxiliary, fe. On the Sweet Track.

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upside down in cloud: a morning badger

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Saturday, 4 July 2015. I put the kettle on, then steeped over to the open galley hatch. And froze. There on the bank opposite was a badger, drinking from the canal. Presently it turned and ascended into the wood, becoming invisible almost immediately in the undergrowth and the half-light of the early morning. For some time I heard it slowly truffling its way through the wood, in the general direction of home. This time it was my specs. And so home, to the second shower of the day. View my complete profile.