Comments for Wordsworth Grasmere: sharing collections and stories https://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/wordpress Explore the stories behind things, past and present Wed, 03 Jun 2020 10:29:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Comment on An empty car park by Jeanette Edgar https://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=152#comment-120 Wed, 03 Jun 2020 10:29:55 +0000 http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=152#comment-120 Replying to Sue’s – Empty Carpark post “I am really looking forward to a time when the road is busy again, the car park is full…”

Be careful what you wish for!
Only todays overcast weather is giving the car parks, the roads, the police and the many rangers who have been trying to manage them – as well as the local residents – a well needed rest from the chaos and noise of the last couple of weeks.

Let’s hope for a little more respect in the coming months.

]]> Comment on An empty car park by Susan Allen https://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=152#comment-105 Tue, 19 May 2020 09:16:04 +0000 http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=152#comment-105 What a lovely, reflective piece Sue. Isn’t it interesting how the absence of things (traffic, noise, people) conjures up memories and creates different opportunities, experiences (listening to the birds; chatting to the police; a quiet and sunny bank holiday). Reading this today, ten days after you wrote it, time has moved on again, as guidance changes. Still looking forward as you say to Covid-19 itself being a memory.

Further west from Grasmere & White Moss, towards the Solway, I remember as a child in the 50s my Great Uncle Walter driving us about on holiday jaunts (very slowly, little other traffic) and the landmarks that my Gran used to let us know we were “nearly there” — Drumburgh castle, a tree leaning across the country road “like an old man with a beard”. I live out this way myself now and still find myself looking out for him, leaning across the road!

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