Roots do not hold you down (Hedge wisdom)

Nighttime on Still Waters

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The hedges are ablaze with colour and they call to us of lessons that we have long forgotten.

Journal entry:

2nd September, Saturday
“At the edgings of the day.
A delinquent V of geese
Transect a sinking sun.
As they reappear
Another flight has joined them.
They continue in a loose straggle
North.

A cool whisper of air
As we round the base of the hill.
Distant voices float across the water.
As the sun sinks below the west
The chant of jackdaws.”

Episode Information:

In this episode I read extracts from:
Tristan Gooley’s (2018) Wild Signs and Star Pathspublished by Hodder & Stoughton.
Sharon Blackie’s (2018) The Enchanted Life published by September Publishing.
William Carleton (1830) The Hedge School open access text.
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Anna V.
Sean James Cameron
Phil Pickin
Orange Cookie
Donna Kelly
Mary Keane.
Tony Rutherford.
Arabella Holzapfel.
Rory with MJ and Kayla.
Narrowboat Precious Jet.
Linda Reynolds Burkins.
Richard Noble.
Carol Ferguson.
Tracie Thomas
Mike and Tricia Stowe
Madeleine Smith

General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.
Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Journal entry (00:00:44)

3. Welcome to NB Erica (00:01:25)

4. News from the moorings (00:02:16)

5. Miles Hadfield (1950) on September (00:02:54)

6. Cabin chat (00:11:56)

7. Roots do not hold you down (Hedge wisdom) (00:16:28)

8. Excerpt from Tristan Gooley's Wild Signs and Star Paths (00:20:30)

9. Excerpt from Sharon Blackie's 'Enchanted Life' (00:23:25)

10. Excerpt from Wiiliam Carleton's 1830 account of Hedge Schools (00:27:56)

11. Signing off (00:35:41)

12. Weather Log (00:35:54)