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A Mr Harding Sort of England (Day 70) June 6th

I arise late; luxuriating in a rare opportunity to have a Sunday lie in. I remain in my room till lunchtime trying to catch up my blog; it is really difficult for me to keep this up to date now and the e mails and further route planning next to

People Run on Pleasure* (Day 69) 5th June

Anne walks with me through the centre of Chesterfield and the bustling market place; I feel nostalgia rising, though I would not go back to the eighties when this market town and its surrounding settlements were reeling from the beginning of the end of the coal industry, still this town

The Jewel in the Centre of England (Day 68) June 4th

American perspective on some innovative UK food projects

Sent in by Kenrick Chin from Dundas in Transition in Canada, this article weaves a story around visits to Wales, Oxford and London by a US-based food writer and activist, Mark Winne. Winne finds many inspiration projects in his whistlestop tour, showing how determined innovation can really make a difference

The South of the North (Days 65-67) June 1st -3rd

Day 65 A Little Piece of Paradise I head out of Quarndon to the A6 which I follow into Duffield; I have known the A6 (which stretches from Luton in the south to Carlisle in the north) as a fast and dangerous road since my childhood in Lancashire, where it

We’re More There than We Were (Day 64) May 31st

I leave Long Eaton and return to the canal path. This time I veer off it and follow back roads and lanes all the way to the village of Shepwell and its many pubs where I meet Graeme Trug and William Barron of Transition Derby and their wives Bronwen, and

Transition Town Tooting – Trashcatchers Carnival & Symposium

Transition Town Tooting has, right from the start, been an innovator in how to design and run an inclusive and diverse initiative. They’ve also managed to create a lot of colour along the way. They now have a really wonderful looking two days of celebration and inquiry – Transition Town