Saturday 22 April 2017
oxford, footpath revisited, gail's bakery, americano, clematis and graffiti
Working in Oxford today.
Walked a footpath - from the Fishes in North Hinksey to Osney trading estate - that I hadn't been down for what, seventeen years.
You don't actually reach the trading estate but veer off before the sub-station along the stream that flows under the bridge that I wrote a poem about the other week.
The walk is leafy and secret and I loved the shadows of the nettles on the bridge just below the pub.
Later, nearing Gail's Bakery in Little Clarendon Street and an Americano, the clematis and other climbing plants were out along the stretch of the Oxford canal opposite where the old Lucy's iron works once stood. There are flats on that site now. I don't know who did the planting but the effect of flowers and graffiti is striking. Though I imagine the aim is that the plants will eventually cover the images.
A mad week at work, catching up after the Easter break. Roll on 4 pm!
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