Tower Blocks
Sunday, August 23, 2009
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A two-and-a-half mile route march before last night's supper (spaghetti and meatballs) with The Boys, down into the Eye Brook valley near Stockerston on the Leicestershire / Rutland border. The footpath goes in front of the orange brick, cedar shadowed Stockerston Hall, standing behind trees and next to the church where we once again sought out the impromptu signatures on the glass. The second leg of the triangular walk took us past these stacked up straw bales, and the thought occurred to me that we don't see this very often now. I don't mind the big round variety, sitting like giant Shredded Wheat in the fields, unless of course they're shrink-wrapped in that shiny black or pale blue plastic. This is how I like 'em, the Unmitigated Bale Out. Straw towers are to be seen, fleetingly, all over the surrounding acres here, and they brought to mind Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings: 'I thought of London spread out in the sun, / Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat...'. We perhaps won't see straw stacks being sheeted down against autumn storms by Gabriel Oak anymore, but here at least is an almost architectural, if only temporary, exhibition to enjoy. (Title: Agri-Cultural.)
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