I’m just back from a week’s holiday in Pembrokeshire with my family. I’ve been walking, swimming in the sea, fishing for mackerel and identifying wild flowers. Pembrokeshire trees, especially the hawthorn, are often attractively distorted by the wind: so here’s some crooked timber for the site:
:-) I wonder if this is comparable to the particular pleasure derived from reading someone like Tom Stoppard when you are clued in on the references. Landscapes are pleasing for being beautiful — just as Stoppard is enjoyable for being funny and touching — but you get something extra when you know what things are.
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