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After a week of Christmas meals, concerts, Nativities (yes, both
schools where I am a governor had one despite the usual media stories)
and exceptional traffic on Wembley Matters caused by the Kensal Rise
Library controversy, I felt the need for quiet contemplation this morning and enjoyed a walk from Wembley to Kingsbury via the meadows and woods of Fryent Country Park.
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was food for the soul in winter sunshine on the eve of the Winter
Solstice. The subtle winter colours and beautiful tree shapes revealed
by the loss of leaves often stopped me in my tracks and the wide blue skies lifted my spirits.
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Going for a walk looks like dereliction of duty to me, Martin. I just hope you can live with your conscience.
ReplyDeleteBut if you're into this sort of thing and you haven't completed your list for Santa, yet, ask for 'Scarp' by Nick Papadimitriou a very interesting character who lives in a council flat in Childs Hill and writes beautifully (and very originally) about walking (and thinking) in the rural edges of NW London over the last 30 years.
Mike Hine
Beautiful! Thank you, Martin. Fryent is a hidden gem that deserves to be more widely known - the Hampstead Heath of north-west London.
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