I learned that Canning Town contains a miniature wood. I also learned that I have a (very) vague connection to the area via Mansfield College, where I was a lecturer (the kind that tutors, not the kind that lectures) for a bit.
Ah: Wood Discovery Weekend! On Saturday we discovered a Woodland-Trust wood to the north-west of Eynsham, and walked along riverside paths tracing the route of the Evenlode that, from their disrepair, hadn't seen two dozen humans this year. We saw a muntjac in the distance and rabbits surprisingly close.
(Bizarre we've only just spotted that wood. I suppose that's what an A-road does to a place's psychogeography: slices it in two. Whining about the visual effect of too many signposts in these quondam cutesy Cotswold villages is very much not seeing the wood for the trees.)
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Date: 2008-06-16 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-16 01:38 pm (UTC)And I didn't know you used to tutor at Mansfield, so that's an extra interesting thing for me. :-)
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Date: 2008-06-16 04:09 pm (UTC)(Bizarre we've only just spotted that wood. I suppose that's what an A-road does to a place's psychogeography: slices it in two. Whining about the visual effect of too many signposts in these quondam cutesy Cotswold villages is very much not seeing the wood for the trees.)