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High in the Orrels above the Goosepool
High in the Orrels, when there were still geese around the Goosepool, they have nested longer than anyone can remember. They were the noisiest and most…
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Ghostly Landscapes
Either side of the train, flat black soil, landscape at its purest – land, and a scape unbroken until it met the sky. Regular ditches to drain the black…
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Wild Camping on Dartmoor
We sat on the wooden bench in the morning freshness putting on our hiking boots. They were made of leather; our rucksacks of canvas with leather straps…
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Eel Breeding
Eels are found in many parts of the world, from Europe and the USA to the Far East and also Australasia, though they are absent from the west coast of…
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Peasants
We were all talking about peasants. Sometimes an ordinary word can flip and start to seem extraordinary, or funny, and find a place in schoolboy slang…
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The Sporting Life
The River Teme, the course of only 80 miles, flows through Powys, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcester on its way from Bryn Goch, the Red Hill, to…
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Bonnylands
Meadow Waxcaps, a gentle blend of the colours you might see on the belly of a fallow deer, and the glistening bright Yellow Waxcaps and Scarlet Waxcaps…
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