Who could resist writing a children’s story in a Lakeland scene like this? Beatrix Potter couldn’t. As she said:
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.”
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Wordsworth and the Lake District are inseparable. Add the names of Coleridge, Beatrix Potter and Alfred Wainwright and it’s no surprise that today’s visitors flock here in their thousands. But not in more remote Eskdale and its dramatic neighbour Wasdale (above).
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It’s nearly Christmas. The snow has fallen and we are in a quaint little street in the centre of 18th century Gloucester. A lone figure leaves his shop and walks home through the snow. There are all the elements for a story here!
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A Listening Heart 