Diary of the Plague Year: Day 78 1 June 2020: On the way back from Froe – evening

Such a beautiful evening walking back. Horses in a field, honeysuckle, cow parsley, wild roses and not a soul on the road. A little stone bench by a waterfall. And downhill all the way.

Diary of the Plague Year: Day 78 1 June 2020: On the Radio – Michael Tippett Concerto for Double String Orchestra LSO/Daniel Harding

Diary of the Plague Year: Day 78 1 June 2020: Quotidian Poetry: W.H. Auden (1907 – 1973)

SONG XII from TWELVE SONGS

For something a bit different – here is SONG XII set to music by Benjamin Britten.

Peformed by Karen Coker (soprano) and Eric Jenkins (Piano)

Diary of the Plague Year: Day 77 31 May 2020: A walk to Froe

The last day of May.

I decided to walk to Froe to collect some veg from J who lives in the Hobbit house.

The heat, even at 4.30, was blistering, and it is quite a steep climb, especially for a fatty like me who has not done a great deal of walking during this lockdown. Every day, I see the same people walking past the house on their constitutionals and keep thinking to myself that I will do the same.

The walk to Froe winds up a hill through woods and next to a stream for some of it. Three cars passed in the hour it took me to get there. All I could hear was birdsong, insects, the wind in the trees and a sudden waterfall. There were two horses in a field full of yellow flag and cow parsely. As I climbed higher, I looked back and the sea had appeared in the distance.