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Gouged out of the land to erect those temples of learning, the pits - on this steel-grey February morning, with pale gunk underfoot and a muted palette of earth colours sprouting through the chalk - feel like a claggy bowl of secrets. So, a sort of bastard beast welcomes us into this "bastard countryside" where - as in so much of Britain now - city meets suburb meets industry meets farmland. Then he found that the Junior Oxford Dictionary had purged a host of fairly basic nature words from k its latest edition.

Flora and fauna have recolonised this eerie brownfield - or rather, white-cliff - site. As Landmarks pithily puts it: these days, "for blackberry read BlackBerry". Hidden away not far from the city's border, they now serve as a nature reserve where more than 60 bird species have been identified and wild flowers such as harebell and milkwort thrive. These quarries, "a very, very strange huge white hole in the ground", yielded the stone for some of the Cambridge colleges.

Landmarks celebrates the microscopic verbal detail that clarifies a farmer's, a fisherman's or a climber's view of earth, sea and sky - "sike", for instance, a Yorkshire word meaning a small stream; "didder" being the quivering of a bog as the walker approaches in East Anglia; and "wham" a swamp in Cumbria. He fished out the heroin - a flaky white powder flecked with pastel orange, a sign of shoddy chemical refinement. He mixed it with saline, drew it into a syringe�s plunger and held the needle aloft for inspection.

If you have any thoughts regarding where by and how to use Lithorama The world of stone natural stone quarry, you can call us at our web page. " The quarries now serve as a nature reserve where more than 60 bird species have been identified and wild flowers such as harebell and milkwort thrive (Benjamin McMahon) Out of the woods, we skirt a golfing range where the drone of tractors collecting balls adds a fresh theme to the dissonant symphony of "post-pastoral" countryside. The substance glowed tangerine in the light. You see kids hanging in tea shops, trying to look cool by nodding off and dropping their cigarettes.



If Macfarlane adjusts your focus so that you come to relish this lowland muddle, his aesthetics of intimate wildness began at a higher altitude. �For my generation, if you don�t do drugs, you�re not hip. Apathy and greed A recently retired, high-ranking narcotics intelligence officer, Thura (a pseudonym), told GlobalPost that the Kachin heroin scourge is indeed worsened by ethnic discrimination. � Of course, there are ulterior motives. Around this "contested site", he found swastikas carved into tree trunks - "One of the darkest places I've ever been.

�The high-ranking people think Kachin are pitiful,� he said. Its mighty granite-and-iron barrier stood firm, and was extended in 1816. �I�ve been hooked since I was 15,� said Lah San, now in his late 20s. With those doomed Tonkins out of the way, the prospects of the little port at last began to perk up.