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Food Insufficiency

November 12, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m not sure why a trawler and a lighthouse on the horizon made me think of an allotment. But my mind drifted to sustainable food production while we were enjoying a sunrise walk along Dun Laoghaire pier this morning. The allotment in question was somewhere in Kent. I only remember it because of the conversation about North of England trophy fishing I had with a man who was planting potatoes in his well tended section. We talked about other things too. Unusual things like farming and wineries near Otago. And The Knowledge, the legendary taxi driver test in London.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: co2, hawkdun rise, james lovelock, julian baggini, london loop, matt ridley, new zealand, photos, sustainable food, travel, viking program, walking

Yo Ho Ho Etc

September 6, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

A reader asked about a photo in my recent article about a shrew I met while walking in London. The photo was originally posted to WhatsApp, a great tool that I use to broadcast photos and the odd note to attest to my continuing safe progress, remaining both vertical and mentate. Cold Blooded is another photo from the same wet walk.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, kevin barry, london loop, photo, rspb, thames, walking

On A Shrew’s Passing

August 31, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

About a year ago, while walking around London, I saw snails massing on the tarmac path in the rain. A short time later, I saw a shrew on the pavement by my feet. The little shrew then left the pavement to walk across the road only to be clipped by a passing car.

I wondered if it was my fault. Had the shrew fled from me? Then again I didn’t build the road, I didn’t build the car. I had just walked and encountered the shrew.

Snails on the pavement in the rain.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: bram stoker, karl marx, london loop, photos, st catherines dock, tv, walking, william shakespeare

Walking Story

July 2, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

You’d have had a London plan if you visited us when we lived there. We’d likely have joined you on a vintage train ride to Windsor, visited Harrison’s clocks in Greenwich, toured the Natural History Museum, driven out to Shaw’s Corner or visited the Chelsea Physic Garden. There was more, so many more things you introduced to us.

We’d have shared our knowledge and access to the British art of artefact concentration in institutions like the V&A, The Tate galleries, the British Library, the Science Museum and the Royal Academy. It’s hard to condone some aspects of such collections but the fact is that they are there in London. Public. They would have been all the more interesting because you probably chose to coincide your visit with a specific exhibition or event. There were so many things available in London that the days of your visits would have been filled with wonder. The evenings and nights would be packed too; some plays, a few musicals and lots of good dining.

When you weren’t with us, we were just as busy. Lia might have spent days in research in the London Library, for example, while I was indulging my passion for long distance walking.

2018/9 Walks from London – ManRom21 segment in red may be done next year
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, capital ring, iain sinclair, london loop, photos, rivers, thames path, tom bolton, walking

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