{"id":5664,"date":"2025-08-23T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/?p=5664"},"modified":"2025-08-23T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T11:35:27","slug":"staying-on-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/staying-on-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying on the land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Compared to some recent trips to faraway places, there is not that much to say about this short trip to stay in Suffolk. A few things were interesting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ride over to Dunwich and Walberswick to swim in the sea. It was not a hot day – in fact it was raining when I first arrived – but the sea temperature was fine and it was also fine to leave my large pile of motorcycle clothes on the stoney beach while I took a dip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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helmet on the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I bought a drone a few weeks before the trip to start to record any building work on the land from the air and to plan, and also record, progress – eventually – on digging and making a natural swimming pond. Here’s where it should go. It will be about 12 metres long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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blue marks the spot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also on the topic of swimming, I made a point of revisiting the scene of my sudden realisation a few years back that I couldn’t swim. Beccles Lido. I rode over there and used their single dedicated parking spot for a motorcycle. I swam up and down with many others for half an hour or so and did not panic once – as I did all those years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s the drone: a DJI Mini 4 Pro – or some other combination of words. I’m happy with it but so far a useless and jerky flyer, I mean pilot. There is something breath-taking about that arial perspective. Its something about that human dream to be able to fly – like we do in dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DJI drone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tesco in Diss as usual provided my sustenance and drink. My method was to buy a bag of ice with each visit and rig up a hanging, temporary (until all the ice melts in a puddle on the floor) fridge to keep my meat, fish and white wine cold. I discovered some very nice new gin that came in a metal bottle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a complicated reason I am storing a futon mattress in the barn and have discovered that it provides a much more comfortable night’s sleep than a sleeping mat in my narrow tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, here’s my bike making an appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KT peeking into the barn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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KT at home in the barn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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