Monday (June 15) we went to BelleIsle to visit Doug Brown. It was time to get our bicycles serviced, and to ride the Middle Road. No-one home, so we continued on to Annapolis Royal.
As we entered town, we passed the Dunromin Campground sign. My comment to Heather, was ‘we are done roaming the world’. Stopped at the Brown Dog Café. The Annapolis Royal library was open. It is one of the libraries NOT closing.
I picked up Raynor Winn’s book ‘Landlines’. From the cover ‘Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live’.
It describes long distance hiking trails in Great Britain from the West Highland Way, to the Pennine Way, as far as the South West Coast path. It is a Sunday Times best seller. I am half way through the Pennine Way. For each trail, it describes the landscape, wildlife and random encounters with other walkers. The sub-text is the impact of long-distance walking on Moth’s health.
From the back cover:
‘“Thousands of feet over thousands of years have trodden many of same trails we have, tracing their passage on to the landscape, imprinting their memories in the soil. What remains are not just paths, they’re precious landlines that connect us to the earth, to our past and to each other.”
Back to electronic reality, we received a phone call from Bell Canada that they intend to replace the router on our Internet service. Not sure if this is real or not. Must wait to see if a technician comes to the house.
Today, Grant McBurney arrived with four copies of our property survey. One for each neighbour, one spare and one for the safety deposit box.
Reference
Raynor Winn. 2022. Landlines. Penguin Random House, UK.
Acknowledgements
Grant McBurney and Lloyd Lombard for their good work.
Edward has been away painting, plein air in Parrsboro this week. No graphics or links.
Ernest Blair Experiment 