GenX Mongrel Male High Church Atheist, Walks (Berks/Hants/S.Oxon/Wilts), an occasional satirist (poor) and even worse poet. Centre-left/sometimes right.
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29 Jul 2020
Just so I can pin this to my feed. We sent Mum off in style. Laughs, tears, one ‘sod Covid’ hug between two tearful Sons - and a beautiful afternoon on the 25th.
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Evening 1 of my conference - a success.
10.40pm and I deserved this!
6 am start. Speeches to hone, polish and decorate with the occasional gag.
I can do this.
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Morning all. No long walk today as am prepping for 3 days of business. But nice here though….
Thames, East Reading .
Had to go past hordes of students at 5:30, must the the ball (shocking lack of dress sense….imho 🤣)
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PART 2 - 1/3 So it carried on going something like this. I headed up from the Kennet Valley (the holy combination of A4, River, Canal, Brooks and Great Western Railway!) to look for somewhere to have a cup of tea.
(Homer brewed, no one was open at this hour!)
Have some trees- I liked the combination of alive and dead!
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2/3 to St Mary’s at Beenham. 1/2 mile down a track and not a through road. Here’s the history too. Ancient spot - if not ancient building….(3 fires!)
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3/END The tea was good! As were the views the other side.
And so too (I’ve just finished it) was my breakfast.
Have a lovely weekend folks - the weather is doing its best to recover!
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1/n So it went something like this - or to be more precise, it didn’t….but we recovered eventually to find horses, hares, deer, a fox, plenty of rabbits and a dawn chorus that lived up to the name.
First trying to cross the Railway line with one very annoyed angler! And this at 5:30am, Theale.
Blocked! And that chap was a train driver trying to reach a train on the left somewhere - and unable to get through either!
I gave up but caught sight of a fox on the little lane down to the western line….
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5/n Opened up at the top - and first hares I’ve seen for a while. Through the undergrowth!
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6/END Back down via Bottom Lane (fnar, fnar etc) and down to cross the river again.
Part 2 later!
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Don’t you just hate the fact that the BBC feels as if commenting on Hockney’s sexuality and the importance it had across the world in influencing attitudes - had to be given by their “identity correspondent” rather than just a journalist, friend or artist who simply knew about his life. About which his sexuality was a part.
But apparently any such comment or reference has to be ring fenced for their “identity” specialist. Without whom, I presume, we’d be completely and utterly clueless.
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What on earth is @BBCPM doing giving Damien Lewis’s 2nd album free advertising on PM ?
“My school was inspirational etc.” (I paraphrase) “I’d go/busk around Europe and make enough to camp/exist.”
Yeah.
It’s what all Etonians do, after all.
Gap bloody Yahr.
Come on, BBC…..
(I have no ire for him, just the idiot who thought we all needed to hear this).
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RIP Hockney. Visited this exhibition some 10 years ago. Inspirational - particularly to my artist daughter who does trees.
As I did (if less colourfully - the b&w is from my teen years!)
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Morning all. Reading Graffiti. And, I suppose, reading graffiti.
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OutsideContextProblem 🍷 retweeted
I’m steaming!
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