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The Two Moors Way: Part 4

Posted on 24/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life; not a … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 3

Posted on 20/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Continuing our 117-mile walk across Devon, coast to coast, in 2013. Part 1 can be found here and part 2 here. In Medieval times Chagford was a Stannary town, one of four in Devon where locally mined tin could be … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 2

Posted on 17/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

Continuing the story of our 117-mile walk across Devon, coast to coast, in 2013. Part 1 can be found here. From our stopping place just north of the River Dart we set out across the moor towards Grimspound and Chagford. … Continue reading →

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The Two Moors Way: Part 1

Posted on 16/05/2020 by Bobby Seal

In May 2013 I took a walk with three friends travelling from Wembury on Devon’s south coast to Lynmouth in the north. Our route took us across Dartmoor and Exmoor on a 117 mile long-distance path known as the Two … Continue reading →

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The Flow of Time: Lockdown, Day 24

Posted on 16/04/2020 by Bobby Seal

Allied to the bottom of the river rather than the surface, by reason of the slime and ooze with which it was covered, and its sodden state, this boat and the two figures in it obviously were doing something that … Continue reading →

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October 2018 Reviews

Posted on 22/10/2018 by Bobby Seal

Books Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast – Tom Bolton (Penned in the Margins, 2018) Think of Essex and what comes to mind? For many it will be Norman Tebbit, Teddy Taylor and that peculiarly Essex-led brand of working-class … Continue reading →

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Waterland: Memories Dissolve

Posted on 08/03/2017 by Bobby Seal

A bridge that divides. Border country, and in my mind I’m so close to the edge. But fly-strewn water fills my mouth, and drowns all possible words. Cold pellets of rain beating a tattoo on the gore-tex fabric of my … Continue reading →

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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin

Posted on 07/10/2016 by Bobby Seal

The flâneuse does exist, whenever we have deviated from the paths laid out for us, lighting out for our own territories. Lauren Elkin is well-qualified to write this book, not only has she lived in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo … Continue reading →

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October Sky

Posted on 01/10/2015 by Bobby Seal

October sky grey above – Sun glow claws at southern edge. Daggers of rain cold, vindictive. Leaf blown, withered. Slick wet paving mirrors sky. Grey on grey.  

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A London Safari

Posted on 10/01/2015 by Bobby Seal

My plan was to simply walk and talk with as many different people as possible.  The idea was that these walks would become a kind of interview in motion, and that walking through this urban landscape would spark more tangential … Continue reading →

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