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  • Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

    Brushing Shoes and Mindfulness

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you considered brushing shoes and mindfulness? I ask because as I have played with the brush, to clear dirty mud off my shoes I have noticed that this is a time consuming task that always takes several minutes, if not half an hour to complete. People stigmatise leaving a muddy trail…

  • When Rain Doesn’t Show Up

    When Rain Doesn’t Show Up

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThey forecast rain and I looked forward to going for a walk and having clean shoes as shoes are washed by the rain keeping shows slick. The rain didn’t come so my shoes got muddy and I stood by the tap trying to get the mud to drain away from between the…

  • A Call for More Cycling and Walking Paths

    A Call for More Cycling and Walking Paths

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI walk or cycle almost every day across five or six villages per walk, and more on bikes. During these walks and bike rides I see that there is a chronic lack of safe walking and cycling routes, if you want to go for any distance. Almost every village has five, six…

  • The Season of Muddy Shoes

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe are in a pandemic and I like to walk away from people. To do so I need to walk along muddy paths by the sides of roads, motorways and fields. In the process my shoes get covered in mud and I need to find ways of removing that mud. The…

  • A Weekend Walk During a Pandemic

    A Weekend Walk During a Pandemic

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for my daily walk and I saw a shape. I thought, “That looks like a fox” and as I approached i had a doubt about it being a dog and I felt fear but I continued forward anyway. Eventually the fox noticed me, looked at me and then fled…

  • Stormy Skies Near Nyon

    Stormy Skies Near Nyon

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe weather was finally dynamic today. The storm warnings were flashing towards Hermance, on the French side of the lake. This gave a nice contrast between the yellow of the Colza fields and the dark threatening clouds behind. At moments I thought that rain would begin to fall but luckily the doppler…

  • Spoonley Wood Roman Villa and Mosaic

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRoman remains may be found and excavated but sometimes nature reclaims them. These ruins were discovered in 1882 but nature returned and hid them safely away again. Such tweets should inspire archeological departments, and film and TV or BA Media Studies to document the process of re-excavating these ruins, with photogrammetry…

  • Scotland’s Roman Wall – Tweet

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I started writing about the Roman civilisation in the summer of 1996 content was still new on the web. Wikipedia didn’t exist and we still relied on books and encyclopedias. We still had to visit ruins and more. Today the web has matured to such an extent that you can…

  • Frozen Fountain Water

    Frozen Fountain Water

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough the name of this blog post is bizarre it is inspired by the site of a fountain with a big block of ice, serving as a mirror to the tree, and sun, in front of me. The weather is still nicer, more springlike than it has been. More people are out…

  • Spring And Self Isolation

    Spring And Self Isolation

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a walk and it felt warm enough for me to skip on wearing a layer. It was warm, around six degrees, and sunny. It felt like Spring, and it feels as though cycling could almost be considered. The cycling season is nice. I speak about cycling because I…