Monthly Archives: Nov 2017

Walking from East Ilsley to Stanmore. Blue sky and a biting cold wind. Chalk clay is milky and the soil composed as much of stone as of earth. The fields, with autumn-sown crops looking fragile and sparse, are speckled with turned over bedrock. From the gnarly skeletons of winter trees, the flint-sharp grating of fieldfares’Continue reading “On the Downs”