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Coddiwompling as a way of writing: To walk is to experience the landscape – and myself within the landscape – as different, fresh, and peculiarly alive to that moment in space and time…

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Soak-walking

My eyes search hungrily for the fish-kisses that fat raindrops make on the water, sounding out desire. Transformed from its usual sluggish drawl, the canal is come to muddy life, its surface respiring and dancing as it pocks and heaves, fumbling for rhythm with bubble-jumble.

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Recent Posts

  • Soak-walking November 5, 2019
  • Winter. February 5, 2019
  • Dipper January 11, 2019

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Path-finding

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings)

Coddiwompler Likes

  • Fences on Harvesting Hecate
  • In the Spotlight on The Dorset Rambler
  • Annoying the neighbours on The official blog for the North York Moors National Park

Walking & Writing

"And what a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness... When I relive dynamically the road that 'cimbed' the hill, I am quite sure that the road itself had muscles, or rather, counter-muscles." (Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space)

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