blewbury new tracks

defleaing my balthazara, left the house with signs up restricting her to the basement whilst the stuff spreads to the whole of her body, another 5 hours or so and she'll have the run of the house again, but i won't see her for another 2 days, maybe she'll have forgiven me by then.

came home to blewbury for the weekend, london was grey and cold as i left, blewbury was beautiful and bright when i arrived,

took a walk up the hill, saw our next door neighbour with his huge but nice dog, chatted awhile, the sunlight coming in really low, my shadow huge, looking down at the ground was like looking at the surface of the moon, each tiny stone with a long shadow, carried on up the hill and got a little nervous about the cows, climbed over the fence onto the triangulation point, gazed at the world, sun low but not yet setting, realised that the gap between the fences had been widened, so i started walking between the fences in a direction i rarely walk in, maybe once before i've reached that copse there, picked my way through, quite steep covered in stinging nettles so hard to judge where my feet go...

got down the other side of the hill & i could see this ridge that i've often thought about walking, no longer a public right of way but i decided to check it out, had to climb over a barbed wire fence to get there, then i was walking in a curve towards the crescent moon, at the bottom of this ridge, scrambled up to the top about halfway along, found a track and followed it, the further i got from the road the more off-world it seemed, particularly with the sun hidden behind the hill, strange light, a massive field with perfectly combed dirt, made me think of jupiter...
aerial view with map, i was walking between baldon hill & riddle hill
slightly nervous as i was on some farmers land, hoping that the track i was on would lead eventually back to blewbury, but the only track that led off without heading back where i'd come would have taken me too far out before i could loop round to where i was headed, so i followed my original track and it looped round back onto where i started, sun gone now, i phoned E who is looking after niece & nephews feeling worse for wear and i started really walking fast to get home with some light in the sky, countryside dark is so much darker than city dark, crescent moon that was pale before now golden, made it back to a lovely meal with the family...

i like the idea of gradually increasing my local knowledge of geography round here, incrementally over decades... 2 more days to go out again if i want, also want to play this piano, that i learnt on, go see this local music figure about my voice, see M if i can and hang out with K & D, & mum & dad...

blessed time of year to be here, (to be anywhere)

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