Nighttime on Still Waters
By Richard Goode
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A narrowboat-based audio journal on canal life, living aboard, the elements, and the night. Perfect late-night listening for dreamers, insomniacs, night owls, nocturnalists, drifters, and nomads. For lovers Fagen's 'Nightfly', Auden's 'Night Mail', Hopper's 'Nighthawks' and the 'drifting sea-dark streets' of Dylan Thomas. For all those who used to listen to the transistor under your pillow, love the sound of distant trains and rain against the windowpanes, canals and drover's tracks, lost music, splashed puddles, fireflies and bats, hares by moonlight, windsong among pines, owl-light, the shipping forecast, and all the wonderful, terrifying, grand and tawdry avenues of the night. Cosy listening for bedtimes.
| Episode | Date |
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More Raven than Rook (The clock-winders)
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May 17, 2026 |
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Evensong of the Wild
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May 03, 2026 |
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Finding Erica (On choosing a boat)
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Between the Borrowing Days
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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The Seeds of Spring ('Somewhere, right now')
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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An Under-Sung Companion (to the canal)
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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The Seventh Word (Reflections on canal-life - 2)
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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In the Belly of Winter
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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The Sixth Winter - 200th Episode (Reflections on canal-life - 1)
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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Canal Life (Now and Future)
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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The Remarkable Tale of Bertrum Crane (A story for Christmas)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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An Advent on the Canal
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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The Night Speaks with its Silences
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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The Colour of Storms (Storm Claudia passing through)
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Morton's Rise (A canal story for Halloween)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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A Common Thread (Sunday at the moorings)
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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That Very Particular Joy of Friday Nights (and crisps)
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Down to the River (On this blue and grey September day)
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Under a Canopy of Trees ('Your word')
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Back from Blacking (And the ingenuity of drydocks)
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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With Tom Rolt on the North Stratford Canal (Summer Readings)
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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A Summer Wind among the Alders (Speaks of Lludd and Llefelys)
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Unsettled at the Still-Point (Of the year)
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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A brooding sky and mirrored waters (Fen Country)
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Erica's Place
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May 25, 2025 |
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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 4
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May 11, 2025 |
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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 3
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 2
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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A Totally Worthwhile Risk - 1
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Cloud Herder (Won't you spin us one last story?)
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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On the Leading Edge of Spring
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Winter Readings ('The Great Frost of 1895' and 'Day of the 'Iceberg'')
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Orion Still Looks Down (On the land my shadow knows)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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The Changes that Come
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Wrapped in Freezing Fog
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Into the Silence (The Undreaming)
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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Practically Speaking (Listeners' questions - 7)
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Winter's Whispers (The wisdom of the long nights)
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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The Days of No Shadow (... and then a deer barked)
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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"Stretched into Tales that Leave a Mark"
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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The Long Village (Villages and tribes)
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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A Touch of Autumn (Apple picking time)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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The Consolation of Ducks
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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It turned a bit wet (Afloat in Hiroshige's rain storm)
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Shot through with wonder (First glimpse of the sea)
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Holiday Interlude (& the Cap'n's Dad)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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Meursault's Walk & Mine (Dad's ashes)
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Spun by Wonderment (above Hemel Hempstead)
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Living inside the Seasons
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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The Children of the Children of Lir
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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A Sunday Morning in May
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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First Impressions (On canal life)
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May 12, 2024 |
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The Dusts of Winter (Spring Cleaning)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Just shadows on a summer lawn
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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On Surveys and Winter Warmth (Listeners' questions - 6)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Walking Home (In fading light)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Rough Crossings
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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I Felt the Anchor Shift (An Update)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Christmas Eves of Childhood
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Afloat with Maggie (Listeners' questions - 5)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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When Mum married Dad (95th birthday edition)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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When Mum met Dad (95th Birthday edition)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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The Battered Landscapes of our Edens
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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When Guy Fawkes wore my old dressing gown
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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November Fireside Nights
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Autumn Forest
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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The Rebellious Light of Beauty (The last dandelion of summer)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Words & Music (Listeners' questions - 4)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Swings and Roundabouts (Listeners' Questions - 3)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Under the ghost of a Harvest Moon
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Uncertain Futures (Listeners' questions - 2)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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'No Regrets' (Listeners' questions - 1)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Home thoughts of a Pilgrim (Chasing the wind)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Roots do not hold you down (Hedge wisdom)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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As long as the rain talks (I will listen)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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An August-coloured Evening
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Adventures and Departures (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 4)
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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The New Baby Arrives (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 3)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Crochet by Lantern Light (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 2)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Low along the Fox Paths
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Changes (lessons from a field edge)
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Facing the Fears with Maggie
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Five Finger Widths (above the horizon)
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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These are the Long Days (on Windmill Hill)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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'A Little Clinker-Built Boat' (The 'Kathy' Chronicles - pt 1)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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In Praise of Locks (and lock-keepers)
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The Sun that Shone on Eden (still shines upon us here)
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May 28, 2023 |
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A Nightingale Sang (and the world listened)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Up on the Roof (Waiting for the rain)
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May 14, 2023 |
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The Three of Seven (At the conclave of oaks)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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When blackbirds learn to sing
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Night Swimming (After the snows)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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The Miles We Have Walked (You and Me)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Songs to the Younger Part (Hymn of the Pearl)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Lock Wheeling
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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February Dawning
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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A train in the distance ('Night Mail')
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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One day last summer
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Tuesday Morning, 5.30am (The Voyage of Bran)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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When darkness falls (Skating on 'un-time')
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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The Christmas Heron
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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'Earth stood hard as iron...'
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Those eyes of old (look out at me)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Nightwalk 2 (Moon shadows across the water)
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Rainy town (as darkness falls)
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Stories are for listening: Blisworth Tunnel (Ian Douglas)
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Of cormorants and graduands
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Today I held back time
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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'By badger light and lantern's sigh' (Magickry)
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Autumn colours the tattered garments of summer
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Living in Rehoboam's land
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Rory's episode (Red gumboots and a yellow summer dress)
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Church bells among crow song
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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The Longest Trench (Summer readings)
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Canal Pushers (Summer readings)
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Milky tea and four sugars (Walking with elephants)
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Beside a young willow (in a thunderstorm)
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Hot August Nights (Listening for the thunder)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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The Scent of God
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Down by the Cattle Pond
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Let the Stars Sing out your Stories
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Dog Days of Summer
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Unfamiliar Mirrors (... and a herring)
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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This one unremarkable dusk
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Love Letters (Written in Canal Water)
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Lessons from the Breadlady
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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'I've Got Her Now' (Love and Hawthorn Blossom)
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Caught in a Rhyme
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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On Drying Days (Like This)
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May 29, 2022 |
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The Colour of Water
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May 22, 2022 |
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When David Came (Cruising the Cut)
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May 15, 2022 |
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Banbury Town (Rainy Saturday Afternoon)
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May 08, 2022 |
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'A Gypsy Love of Colour' (Painted Boats)
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May 01, 2022 |
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Entanglements with the Archdeacon
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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No Small Gift
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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I have Heard the Roar of Spring (and it is fearful)
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Steps out of Step
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Skies of Impossible Blue
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Wings of Angels (Cyril)
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Masters of the High Wire
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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The Darkest of Nights
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Riding the Storm (Eunice)
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Windy Days and Nights
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Solitary Stranger: The Wigeon
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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A Dark Alchemy of Words
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Winter on the Moorings
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Echoes of Distant Memories
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Into a New Year
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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A Fireside Christmas Eve
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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The Hill
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Winter Wisdom (Wintrum frod)
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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A Rhythm of Cycles
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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It was a dark and stormy night...
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Traveller's Joy
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Episode Out of Time
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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A Dance of Firelight (and After the Fireworks)
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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By Swede-Lantern Light (Halloween)
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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The Elf of Plants
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Worlds Turning Gold
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Shipping Forecasts and Weather Logs
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Rook Ravaged Skies
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Call of Wild Geese
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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The Gongoozler and the Nomad
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Shrewley Tunnel: Sailing dark waters
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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(Un)Naming of Parts
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' (Summer readings #4)
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Summer Heavy with Fruit
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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At Milepost 16
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Night Walking
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Lucy M. Boston's 'The River at Green Knowe' (Summer readings #3)
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Temple Thurston's 'The Flower of Gloster' (Summer readings #2)
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Hassell and Hollingshead - Early canal writings (Summer readings #1)
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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The Heron's Gaze
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Twilight Blue
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Summer Sounds - canalside
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Fractured Beauties of the Night
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Fledglings
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Rhyme & (sometimes) Reason
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May 30, 2021 |
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Into the Night
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May 23, 2021 |
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The Clerical Heron
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May 16, 2021 |
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May Rains
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May 09, 2021 |
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A Lifetime Ago
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May 02, 2021 |
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Back Home!
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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On the Grave of Winter
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Boat Blacking
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Canalscapes of Childhood
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Man on the Bicycle
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Moving On
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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'Boots as thick as a moderate slice of bread and butter'
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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A Whispered Spring
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Haunted Canals
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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When Ice Sings
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Canal Time
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Snow on Water
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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Deep and Wide
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Morning Sun: Living the dark days of January
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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Keeping Warm
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Greet the New Year
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Christmas Eve
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Winter of 1962/3
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Cygnus
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Nightwalk
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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Waterways
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Down the Cut
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Narrowboat Lockdown
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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Tumblehome
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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The Erica behind the Erica
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Duck calls in the Night
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Oct 04, 2020 |