It looks few listening, but I am now looking forward to this book every evening. It is multi layered, lyrical and meandering, following the metaphors of word, cross referencing history, law, philosophy. He moves easily through different regions of England with good knowledge of the land and nature.
It’s happening still. We’ve got used to it. We’ve become enured to the idea we don’t have rights to connect with nature . Today pretty Patel is expanding law on criminal trespass to include anyone wild caping in van bicycle, kayak is included.
Badger. Peak District. the kinder trespass. Berkshire and Oxford . We roll a joint… followed a badger track to a dell, became friend. Returning to his childhood land, finds roots watership down, Tolkien, wind in willows. Then walking with mother, they were challenged ‘your trespassing’. That is the springboard. He goes into Law and protest . Trespasses will be prosecuted is a lie! Trespass is civil not criminal law. But recently 2005 SOCPA tightened and protest. Language of trespass, roam, wander, deviate, to cross over, transgression that sense of religious like forgive us our trespasses. kinder win as land became national park.
Fox propert abd dominium. Long Island story of fox chase. Who owned the fox? The arch trespasser. Based around the Beaufort hunt. He trespasses and settles down and draws. Babmington house. It is the rutting season. He often meanders philosophy in this case Hobbs, lavithan and property, the prop to lift us out of savage nature. Brutish and short. For lock, land and property an extension of his body and his work. A natural property, animal and man. Contrary to Hobbs. Red fox is a red herring. Gainsburgh mr and Mrs Andrew’s. Sudbury. Cult of exclusion.
Dog. 1968 roger deakin bough walnut tree farm, Mell’s . Henneker family 30,000 acres in east Anglia less now. owned this land. sold common to Wild life trust , and creative permissive paths. ladt hecceker woods . Meander on vagrants gypsys romany . Thurstone oak. When planted poor accepted, When 100 Years Black Death, the poor had power, to work and travel. Challenged by Edward Iii to cap wages, and curb vagrancy. New regulations Cambridge, licence to move, so masterless men, who roamed. vagrancy was vague. Tudor persecuted vagrants with branding. 1531 the Egyptian act Henry vlll. Migrants migrated originally from from punjab called Roma, anew scape goat formed. Mobility challenged and disturbed. Demonise yet want to shag! Raggel taggle gypsy. Enclosures, taming of wild land and women. Hoostraten story.. cartel of aristocratic land owners otherwise known as parliament passed new vagrancy act. Property cannot tolerate mobility. Cow pasture lane, drove road.
Sheep. Arundel. William conquorer carving up England. Lollards which challenged church – personal relationship with god without priest etc. direct threatened church and Canterbury. Tindle translated to English and blew the safe authority. Charity to love. Burnt at stake but 3 years later translated. St James. Forgive us our trespasses. Dukes of Berclue. Midland revolt 1607. Enclosure. contributed to 18 centruty poverty. Montague rewarded. 18 duke of Norfolk still resides arundle, the duke of beclue. Electric shock.
Cow – one wall famed above all, richard earl drax, south Dorset. Charborough Park. Foothill Family money Based on sugar plantations Barbados. slaves part of property, chattels, possessions. Called Black cattle and breeders. famous tower walk, seen by healthy white haired keeper. We like him. Friend First time contravened the 1824 vagrancy act. Sold Barbados for neoclassical piles and politics.
Family Fonthill Splendens, now Alastair John Morrison Third Lord Margadale. Scandle of relationship with earl of Devon’s son, in love. Capital offence. Lived Portugal returned uk and began the wall. And abbey . A glittering waste of idleness. Rewarded not punished. Also Basildon park, result of India possession.
Spider – (it was the Norman William who imported primogeniture, patriarchy, with women as property, before all equally. ) Killed by sorcery tomb Bevoir home of Rutland. No walls just curtains of trees. Women of the commons. Godsips were the women who attended women in child birth. Gossip. Eyes of castle following like Mona Lisa. 1787 Bentham returned from Belarus – recommending prisoners always observed. Women Witches burned by men of power. What women represented, sedition, protest, sexual tumult, predator, free. Trial of Botsford women witches who put curse on Rutland two sons. Hung slowly. Greenham common women. 19 years. Today dog walkers. Climate change women, grow Heathrow. Spider, Arachne, creative diverse, persistent. Because women on common land women had right to be there. Council revoked right by changing property law. Human rights to protest, arrival 10 1953, freedom of assembly. But land trumps, not on private land. London’s public spaces sold to private. Hestletine created new law, women arrested, but as criminal they were heard in court. 2000 women left Greenham declared a failure. Silt thread of the Greenham web taught us about direct action. Licenced to spill, at Tate agin BP.
Cockroaches – Katy Hopkins description of people fleeing refugees. Sacred sun she was welcomed to daily mail. The place is Tom Dacre s pad East Sussex Wadhurst. Wiki refused references from daily mail as being generally unreliable, poor fact checking and flat out fabrication. Language create boundaries, partitions, words inside walls. Swarm, marauding, – from French meaning vagrant. Cockroach, used by Hutu to called Tutsi, to exterminate. 2016 Calais jungle revisited after working there as volunteer. George Orwell on nationalism. CRS, french unofficial police, gamekeepers, menace. Now bird hide for migrating birds! Tear gas. Orwell and nationalism. Collective narcissism, Freud. Polarised by the excellence of their nation. Fixed borders of nation states, recognised after 30 years war. Printed word grouped. Shared language. Reading news like reciting creed. Shared values. Leading up to bexit, daily mail every day migration. Drax, we are full.
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