| Date April 29th  |
Details of walk
and links to web pages Preview walk, up to Ash Wood, back through Pippacott and Whitehll Before the walk started, I went on a Preview walk round part of the Fullabrook Site (April 29th, still primrose time) |
May 7th |
Another Preview Walk, around
Patsford This is the northern part of the Fullabrook Down site. The photo shows Dartmoor visible in the distance, from near Patsford. |
May 12th |
Going
down to Brent Tor and staying overnight at Foghanger I took a number 86 bus to Brentor, visited Brent Tor itself, and walked from there to Foghanger, where I spent the night with Chris and Yvonne Burchell from WIFLAG, the group fighting the turbines there. I walked along small lanes and footpaths very close to the actual turbine site. Go to the Brent Tor page to see this walk, and the start on May 13th |
May 13th |
The
walk started officially at
Brent
Tor, near Lamerton,
site of
a proposal for two wind turbines. Henry Lewis came down from London to
walk the first few miles with me, before dashing back by train to
continue preparations for The Wind Thing. I also walked through Lifton, where a proposal for 5 x 5kw turbines is time-expired, and near Broadwoodwidger, where another wind farm had been proposed. I spent the night at my father`s home. |
May 14th |
Sunday
I walked to Ashwater
and saw two places
where
turbines had been proposed. My father, James Lovelock, and Sandy, his
wife, walked the first two miles with me. Later in the day I filmed my
father. If we can figure out how to do this, films made during the walk
may be able to be viewed from the website later on. The photo is of my father and Sandy, on their way back home after walking a couple of miles with me. |
May 15th |
Into the area of search... if
you don`t know what this is, go to the Devon
Structure plan on the
internet As my walk progresses, I learn more and more that the area of search - the area under threat of industrialisation - is the most unspoilt area of all. The photo is of Ivan Buxton from Ashwater - he and his wife Diane did a "Cameron" with the video camera, etc, from Brent Tor to my father`s and then to Bradworthy.. I walked from Ashwater to Bradworthy, where I spent the night at the home of Marie Hutchings, whose house is closest to the turbines there. |
May 16th |
I
spent the day at Bradworthy,
and also
went
to Wheeler`s Cross, on the other side of
Bradworthy from
the Forrest Moor turbines. Four more turbines have been proposed here,
410 ft high. I met several people with stories to tell about how the
turbines have affected them. And visited AstroAdventures Follow the link to the Area of Darkness, which has much in common with the area of search. I stayed the night at Marie`s again, and heard the turbine noise.. The thumbnail is of a group of us at Wheeler`s Cross, more photos up Sunday night hopefully... |
May 17th |
Before
saying goodbye to Marie,
I took photos of the puppies.
At midday I left Bradworthy, and
walked to Crimp, just
across the border into Cornwall.
I stayed
with members of the Crimp Action Group, where I had a memorable hot
bath with whisky (to drink, not bathe in), and was taken down to
Welcombe
beach to see the location of George West`s painting. George West
is an architect who has conrtibuted two paintings to the website. |
May 18th |
I walked from the Crimp
site
through Meddon and the countryside between there and
Buck`s
Cross.Once again I walk through quiet lanes and find peace almost
unheard of nowadays in our busy land. A large wind farm had been
proposed at one time between Crimp
and Meddon and beyond, and if the Crimp turbines are passed this
other proposal could become active again. I was met on the road near to Buck`s Cross by my friend Rose (Rosalinda Smith) an ART Trek artist. The photo is of her in her studio. I stayed with her and her family for the night. More photos taken the next morning... including some of their kittens. |
May 19th Peppercombe |
Rose
and her husband
Richard walked down to Buck`s Cross village and then I had a somewhat
perilous walk along the coastal path and Peppercombe Beach at
a stormy
high tide. Arrived finally at the Burton Art Gallery and had tea and
flapjacks with Rose, looking at paintings by other Art Trek artists
such as Colin Allbrook. From Bideford I took a No.1 (or 2) bus home to Barnstaple. The bus was very late, and the journey very long due to a hold-up on the Link Road. My son David met me, and helped me carry my bags the last mile or so home. |
| May 20th |
A
rest day, to download photos,
buy more tapes for the film camera, and upload the website. You could
call it a rest, but it was harder work than walking... non-stop from
7am until 9pm, except for a trip to town to buy more video tapes. Back |