It was cold, very cold on that Friday… just five days ago.
Across the road, people were trickling out of the railway station and along the busy main road through Penrith. Three hours from now it would fill with commuters both leaving and arriving in the small but important Cumbrian town on the main west-coast line to Glasgow.
But not yet…
“Full Circle: Finding the Way Home’ was the name of the Silent Eye’s weekend workshop. The town of Penrith was to be its base for the three days; and the bitter Cumbrian wind was seeing it start in true local style. The land of lakes and mountains was mounting a traditional winter welcome…
Nine of us had Penrith Castle to ourselves and I was standing by the English Heritage notice-board shocked by what I was looking at. The word ‘cycles” had just take on a quite different meaning, and…
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