I’ve ordered the map which should be with me this week, so lunch anytime from next week onwards? Could also do early supper if more convenient

This would be good for when we go to Suffolk?

That sounds like a very good idea.

Have you any plans to head out West in the New Year, it’s been an age

Thank you, Saskia :)
I see you are winding up for countless Christmas fairs…..

That will be useful but let me do some research first.

No. We were just there for 2 days and everything I saw was via the Marathon route.
I’m taking your advice and going to have a week up there in January. Half running/half photography

Do you mainly go on your bicycles?

Another take on this, and assuming you agree that Reform is simply an English party, is that over 325,000 people are members of nationalist parties.
Sure, very different politics between the 3, but, at their core, they are nationalist parties.

5/n
I don’t know the answer, I have no agenda and if my ignorance or choice of words are unhelpful….forgive. I’m trying to understand.

4/n
But, certainly in the South West of England, gentrification would rule the roost, not so much in Wales.

My question is why is this the case? The industrial scale use of the natural landscape. Resources? Scarcity of alternative opportunities? A proud history of intervention?

3/n There are reservoirs everywhere, collecting (and exporting to the English Midlands) water for distribution.

This is all more so than I’ve seen in the SW of England and the Highlands.

There is also no *shame* about this industrial exploitation. I’m not for a moment suggesting there should be.

2/n
It seems to an occasional visitor, that what they have in common is that they are, both historically and present day, been “worked” very hard by a number of industries. Mining and slate quarrying are the obvious ones buteven today there is a huge amount of timber harvesting (not much replanting)