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#DayOffAdventures
I wanted to visit one of the sites described in the book while reading it, & I've driven 2½ hours to Castlerigg by Keswick, Lake District. Even with tourists here (of which I'm one) is a special place. A natural amphitheatre on a colossal scale which my photos can't do justice to. Sounds of crows, tweety birds, lambs and the occasional car, engine struggling up hill. The people are quiet and respectful, as befits the setting 😌

"At the close of the last Ice Age, over 12,000 years ago, people walked to a place that would one day become known as great Britain."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Reading about neolithic monuments, folk traditions and the re-enchanting of the British landscape, & Julian Cope appears in the Avebury chapter, so I'm listening to his albums Jehovahkill & 20 Mothers, which have a high quotient of lyrical & musical relevance to these topics. Julian was well into his Modern Antiquarian phase with these recordings, including songs and poems about stone circles, henges and paganism. It's a mood! 🪨🛸
#BooksAndMusic

I like reading about other people getting their exercise. You keep walking weird, I'll keep reading weird!
I might've expected the hardcover to be a collection of articles from the zines of this collective of ramblers through the British pagan countryside, but I didn't think of it, so now I'm less sure about collecting all the zine issues, but that petty quibble aside, this is a lovely book in the tradition of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian.

I read a review for this album last week in Weird Walk #4 zine, and listened to it on Bandcamp. It captures the artist's (Charles Vaughan) impressions of walking through the British countryside near or in sight of electricity pylons.
The listener may either find this a pleasantly relaxing and atmospheric experience (me) or "about as musically interesting as listening to the compressor pump on the fridge" (my wife).
#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude

“Who owns the British countryside?“

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

My daughter bought me this zine, Weird Walk: A Journal of Wanderings and Wonderings from the British Isles, which focuses on “walking [as] an active engagement with the British landscape and its lore“. This is issue 4, dated Imbolc, 2021.
There are essays about the intersection of British Afro-Carribean culture and British folk traditions by broadcaster Zakia Sewell, ⬇️