Today, still staggering about suffering from the heat, still needing to find somebody to look at a seriously non fitting door when good fortune fell in my path. A works van pulled across the pavement in front of me to park. Long story short the lovely chap, Graham, is going to come and look at the door. Thing is, he said, plastic doors swell in the heat! Tell me! I thought.
This sculpture called Water Cut suits the mood of the morning, I find it uplifting and remember well the day I hiked up to see it high above the River Eden in the Mallerstang Valley in Eastern Cumbria. June 30th 2013.
The space carved between the two vertical pillars creates the shape of a meandering river in the sky and provides a ‘window’ onto the real river in the valley below. It also symbolises the power of the river Eden cutting through the rock on its journey through East Cumbria and our own human journeys through the rural landscape and through life.
Rivers?
held in a direction
by the banks
in dynamic opposition.
A positive thing.
Uh! And it is raining again – those rivers will rise and run fast. Let’s see now, the weather forecast for the rest of the week. Sunshine and showers it is.
Advice for hill walkers: Watch where you’re putting your feet.Alfred Wainwright. And good advice for everybody else who might be feeling a bit unsteady given the interesting times we are going through in Britain and Europe, and the rest of the world actually.
This video was recorded while walking in the North Eastern part of the Lake District. I refer to some advice Alfred Wainwright would repeat regularly, “Watch where you’re putting your feet”! Good for the fells and good for the rest of one’s life. Oh and I also mention Blencathra also known as Saddleback. Sharp Edge forms a section of the walk to the top. It looks sharp and it certainly looks like an edge! To my eyes rather daunting however my walking advisor says I could do it given what we did on our Great Gable ‘adventure’. I’m almost ready to write about that jaunt.
