‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/8, Worm Moon 2023:
In pursuit of a route along a brook, I follow a path created by the stormtroopers of the landrights movement – the dog-walkers!
This area of the blog holds videos that feature the local landscape of Banburyshire, and occasionally, elsewhere.
I have always taken photos, but the ‘Banburyshire Rambles Photo-Journal’ arose out of the improving quality and affordability of digital photography twenty years ago. Likewise, the recent availability of cheap, high quality video equipment has led me to make short films of the local landscape. This part of the blog collects those videos together.
Often times my walks videos have no commentary, and may instead have some random music composed in my head on the walk, or a musical earworm that paced me along the way. I don’t really need to talk when the landscape itself can speak more eloquently than I can. Every now and again I may put some seemingly random voice-over to scenes from a walk, usually to convey the thoughts that the scene inspired at the time.
To make browsing easier the videos are split into sections: Below are the five most recent; there are also pages for ‘2021 & Earlier’, and ‘2022 & Later’.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2023/8, Worm Moon 2023:
In pursuit of a route along a brook, I follow a path created by the stormtroopers of the landrights movement – the dog-walkers!
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2022/41, 15th December 2022:
For me, having a day outdoors in the frost and cold is obligatory. Now the north wind is blowing, and it promises a lovely walk!
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2022/32, 9th October 2022:
Autumn’s here, but for me the season really starts with the ‘Hunter’s Moon’ – the first full moon after the Autumn Equinox. So I go off for an afternoon to find it.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2022/25, 8th August 2022:
John Woolman and Banbury’s Quaker Meeting House
In 1772, a Quaker went on a journey through England, visiting the meeting house in Banbury, to preach about the ills of slavery; a journey that would end with his death in York at the beginning of October. The words he spoke during his life are just as true today, and in the context of today’s materialistic society, are even more revolutionary than when he spoke them over 250 years ago.
‘Ramblinactivist’s Videos’, 2022/20, 31st May 2022:
North of Banbury along the Ironstone ridges
A route along the narrow ridges formed from the Ironstone slab, up to 160 metres/525 feet above sea level, meaning that the whole circuit gives wonderful views over the local landscape.