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post SWS21 29 Jul, 2021

Introducing Sound Walk City · prelude

Together with Cona, we are both proud and pleased to introduce Sound Walk City · prelude, a festival of sound walks, performances and sound works, coinciding with Sound Walk September 2021.

post 19 Jul, 2021

A Pandemic Peripatetic

A Pandemic Peripatetic April 2021 Well, I am alone, self-isolating, And here I must remain, This kitchen window my prism, Reflecting and refracting the sunlight, But also, the past, present and future, In a virtual peripatetic. I start my imagin...

post 14 Feb, 2021

EVENTS | Urambi Hills Artist-in-residence

Originally posted on Treecreate: Over the next twelve months our founder Tracey will be an artist-in-resdience at Urambi Hills, invited…

post 08 Jan, 2021

Virtual Walking for Foodbanks

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #9-#13 Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert Wallingford to Cholsey Sunday March the 15th Beware the Ides of March – but I’m a long way from the tidal reach...

post 17 Nov, 2020

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #8

Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust Abingdon to Wallingford Abingdon to Wallingford March 12th 2020 Sunrise 6.20 Sunset 18.00 Carbon count: 413.78 Pre-industrial base 280 Safe level 350 14 miles Start 11.20 Arrival 15.25 The day after the budget...

post 14 Oct, 2020

Arts and Healing Series for WEAD

As part of the WEAD Arts and Healing series I will be doing …

post 28 Jul, 2020

Interview with Groundworks

Really excited to share that Groundworks has published an interview with me about …

post 04 Jun, 2020

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #6

Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert Newbridge to Oxford 14 miles The Windrush joins the Thames at Newbridge, Flowing beneath the elegant Taynton stone bridge, Once a port of call for...

post 13 May, 2020

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #5

Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert Lechlade to Newbridge 16 miles I walked past Shelley’s Close by the Church … Where Shelley wrote his ‘Summer Evening Churchyard’, Crossed the bridg...

post 25 Apr, 2020

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #4

Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert Day Two: Cricklade to Lechlade 11 miles William Cobbett visited Cricklade in 1826 on his Rural Rides: ‘the source of the river Isis … the first branc...

post 07 Apr, 2020

Rough Musick

ROUGH MUSICK When we bang our pots and pans in the street, When we clap our hands in harmony, It’s not just an expression of sympathy, Nor some sort of collective empathy, It’s also the revival of ROUGH MUSICK. ROUGH MUSICK: A community PANDAEMO...

post 07 Apr, 2020

Walking The Thames To London #3

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #3 Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert And on Thursday 6th February, I started the first day On my Thames Path Food Bank Pilgrimage: Day One Thursday 6t...

post 23 Mar, 2020

Virtual Walking

KEEP FIT WHEN SELF-ISOLATING by pretending to walk the Thames to London. Join me for a virtual walk and measure your steps inside your house. As many of you know, I have been walking the river piecemeal towards London to raise funds for the Trussell Tr...

post 18 Mar, 2020

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #2

Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists’ group from The Prince Albert So here I am walking from Walbridge in Stroud, Along the Thames and Severn Canal, To Trewsbury Mead and the source of the Thames, The prologue to m...

post 08 Mar, 2020

Terminalia Beating the Bounds of Rodborough

It was a pleasure and a privilege to have the company of Alison Fure of the Walking Artists’ Network join us on Sunday. Here’s a link to her insightful wordsmith weaving: https://alisonfure.blogspot.com/2020/02/beating-bounds-at-rodborough.html B...

post 26 Feb, 2020

WALKING THE THAMES TO LONDON #1

Raising Funds for the Trussell Trust In association with the cyclists group from The Prince Albert I'm walking the Thames to London, Not in linear sequence: Flooding prevents that - But in an act of near nominative determinism, I present the famo...

post 20 Feb, 2020

Radical Stroud Walks programme 2020

Some walks confirmed – others will have dates confirmed on this website – others more tentative – walkers may need to check social media etc or Good on Paper for precise details. After discussing it with Radical Stroud members, we can’t do Saturdays, I...

post 08 Feb, 2020

TOADSMOOR WALK

Friday 17th January 2020 Radical Stroud Walk The Descent of the the Toadsmoor Valley: From Bisley Church to Brimscombe Port (and thence via the canal towpath to Stroud) Approximately 4 miles. Mostly footpaths. Some styles and steep descents. Cer...

post 27 Jan, 2020

“Beating the Bounds” of Rodborough Parish

Radical Stroud Terminalia Walking Festival Sunday 23 rd February 2020 “Beating the Bounds” of Rodborough Parish In honour of the Roman God of boundaries we will walk around the limits of the parish of Rodborough. Parishes were once very importan...

post 11 Nov, 2019

Prehistory: Why is it so entrancing?

Circles without Class Ceilings Why can prehistory be so entrancing? Why do some people find prehistory so entrancing? Why do they become so spellbound When walking by, let’s say, a long barrow? How do they become so transported in time and space? ...

snaffle, snoodle

These fanciful-sounding words have no definitive origin: They probably just sounded right to someone who was sauntering, which is what they both mean. An Oxford English Dictionary (OED) example from 1821 describes someone “soodling up and down the street.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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