{"id":1145,"date":"2010-05-23T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:22","slug":"wytham-wandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/wytham-wandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Wytham wandering"},"content":{"rendered":"
The purpose of trees is to provide blessed shade as you stroll along on a hot summer’s afternoon. Any other purpose is useful but secondary. Put enough trees together and you get woods. Put the woods on a hill overlooking Oxford and you get\u00a0Wytham Woods<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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It’s an access-controlled SSSI, and even though I don’t think there are any reasonable bars to anyone getting a permit, it makes it just a bit more peaceful and remote than, say, Shotover (despite the best efforts of our friends from Brize Norton to bring a little low-level noise into our lives). Every now and again you turn a corner and suddenly find yourself with a panoramic view of the dreaming spires, and wish you’d brought the proper camera rather than just the phone.<\/div>\n
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The phone camera also failed to do full justice to the hitherto unknown pastime of caterpillar bungee-jumping.<\/p>\n

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That glowing blob is not a crack in space-time: it is in fact a small green caterpillar about 3cm in length, dangling in the middle of the road by a strand of silk so fine it seems to be levitating. Closer up:<\/div>\n

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And there were a lot of them. Whether they were trying to get down or up or just dangling to pass the time of day, I have no idea. However they do it at about face level so it’s a good way of grabbing the attention of passers by.<\/div>\n
Current reading is\u00a0Avilion\u00a0<\/em>by Robert Holdstock, last of the\u00a0Mythago Wood series<\/a>, which gives all sorts of added resonances to walking through a piece of undisturbed ancient woodland, and makes you realise that living somewhere like this:<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>… could be a very bad idea indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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