Comments on: Along the Ridgeway https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Fredro https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-1315486 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:45:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-1315486 Nice post!

]]> By: jeannette https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62809 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:56:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62809 They would not guess how early in
Their supinesupine On their backs stationary voyage
The air would change to soundless damage,
Turn the old tenantry away;
How soon succeeding eyes begin
To look, not read. Rigidly they

Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
Of time. Snow fell, undated. Light
Each summer thronged the glass. A bright
Litter of birdcalls strewed the same
Bone-riddled ground. And up the paths
The endless altered people came,

Washing at their identity.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177058

to sit here in new mexico and walk along the ridgeway with you is almost unimaginable. thank you.

]]> By: Susannah Walker https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62711 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 08:36:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62711 I first walked the Ridgeway more than ten years ago now, and was back up there again last week. I’ve never found another path that has demanded to be travelled in the same way; it’s good to find a kindred spirit.

]]> By: Sara Waterson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62623 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:27:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62623 This is racehorse country – the Ridgeway skirts the Downs high above Lambourn away to the south, and wanders right along the edges of the gallops from up near Swindon to the west over by Chilton. It’s exhilarating to be there at first light, as the strings or horses come over the hills, and the birds wheel in the skies. And everywhere you turn there is evidence of our prehistoric ancestors.

So close to London, we have the thoroughbred racehorse to thank for the preservation of the Berkshire stretches of this amazing landscape. A more quintessentially English place you cannot find

]]> By: Paula PM https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62483 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:19:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62483 One of my favorite posts. So beautiful in both pictures and prose.

]]> By: hamertheframer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62472 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:16:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62472 This is inspirational. You write so well and such beautiful photos. How is it possible to maintain such quality day after day? I’m pinning you to my list of favourite websites. I hope our blog will grow up to be as good as this.

]]> By: Mondo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62418 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 12:19:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62418 We’ve been going to this area – well, further north to Stow-on-the-Wold for years. And it hasn’t changed in all that time. I think it was Roddy Llewellyn who said – you can look around and there are no signs of the 20th Century. All true

]]> By: Hardy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/09/03/along-the-ridgeway/#comment-62391 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:36:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=69873#comment-62391 It’s exhilarating to read and as you look at the pictures you just want to lace up your boots and get going. Like your soul brother Richard Jefferies you give us glimpses of the story of your heart. More please.

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