One of the best notes in Roger Deakin’s Notes from Walnut Tree Farm is at the front of the book. It’s about the need for a walk on a bitterly cold day.
Since there’s a need, Deakin goes down to the pub in a neighboring place to meet a friend for lunch. Fueled with cod and halves of Guinness, they brave the weather, just for the pleasure of seeing the landscape and exchanging what they know about the history of a lane running through a place called Ager Fen. You get some social history and some insight into the walker’s different sensibilities.
A book like Deakin’s masterpiece includes some good conversations.
• Roger Deakin, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm; London: Penguin Books, 2009, pp. 2-3.
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