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| Goring - our destination |
On Monday, Doco and I took our first train ride, from Oxford south to Goring – half an hour straight down the Thames – for a visit with my Watney second-cousin, Fiona Sutcliffe, and her Irish hydrologist husband John (twinkly, like Seamus Smyth). Fiona is the cousin who began Celtic harp shortly before I did! Until this fall, she and I had only met twice, decades ago. But in October, on a visit to her grand-daughter Rachel (doing a MSc in Zoology at UBC), she came to Wiltshire Street for a harping lunch. And now (after an historic "field trip" around Goring, a delicious lunch and much conversation) a brief taste of harp in her home. I wish we were closer!
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Doco and "field-trip" leader, Fiona, on the Thames footpath at Goring Gap,
where the ancient west-to-east "Ridgeway" crossed the Thames
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| great blue heron on the Thames |
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| Goring lock, quiet in December |
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| over the mill-race |
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| 15th(?) century flint barn (most of the village is post-railway, 1880s) |
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