…We just sit tight while wind dives / And strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo. / We are bombarded with the empty air. / Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. – Seamus Heaney, ‘Storm on the Island‘
Author: baronvoncrow
Weather Eye
I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. – Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
April Showers
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote… – Geoffrey Chaucer, the ‘General Prologue’ to The Canterbury Tales
Adventures
As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh
Sand and Water
To see the world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower – William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence‘
How to walk 34 km: lessons we learnt today
Pasture and Pavements
I’d love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well. – Hugh Bonneville
Cornwall gets out the bunting
At Zennor one sees infinite Atlantic, all peacock-mingled colours, and the gorse is sunshine itself, already – D H Lawrence, letter to Katherine Mansfield and James Murray, Feb 1916.
Portheras Cove
The Odyssey Begins
All experience is an arch, wherethrough Gleams the untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. – Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’
Longships lighthouse, Land’s End
