As autumn arrives in historic Ludlow, Shropshire, the Norman Castle shines in the autumn sunlight. Those blue remembered hills in the distance wait beckoning us.
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Tag: Sussex
Sketches of Rudyard Kipling’s Sussex
A few of my own rough sketches of Sussex-by-the-Sea with its glorious downs and sea coast, loved by Rudyard Kipling. His Sussex writing reveals a picture of a ‘much storied’ England of the past.
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This is the story of our local Angmering Park estate, here on the South Downs, coming back to life – still very much farmland, but with a rapid increase in wildlife and biodiversity. And the wild grey partridges that in 2002 had dwindled to 5 pairs are beginning to return again along with much of the farm’s traditional wildlife.
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As I sit listening to the eternal sound of the sea I can hear another song in the air over the fields nearby. It has been the music of the open English countryside since the Neolithic age. Set between these two timeless sounds my spirit rises to the skies with the flight of the skylarks.
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A Listening Heart 