Walking Home: A Poet's Journey by Simon Armitage

Author:Simon Armitage [Armitage, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2013-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

Langdon Beck to Baldersdale

15 MILES

OS Explorer OL31 West Sheet, OL19 North, OL31 East

Saturday 17 July

My daughter says, ‘This is a funny holiday.’ Last night she toured around the audience with the begging sock, and this morning she has tipped out the proceeds and counted the coins and notes into piles and wads, and arranged them on the windowsill, next to my boots which are overflowing with soggy, scrunched-up balls of yesterday’s Guardian and above several pairs of socks steaming on the radiator. In my notebook she calculates that the £207 handed over by the fifty-five-strong audience works out at £3.763636363 recurring per person, and when I tell her that I counted fifty-seven people sitting in front of me last night she says, ‘Yes, but me and Mummy didn’t pay.’ In her neat, exaggerated A-is-for-apple handwriting she has also recorded several other items that found their way into the sock, including one Refresher chew, one magazine photograph of a dipper with the words ‘Watch out for dippers’ written below it, one HP Sauce sachet, two biros, one lavender bag, one page of the Daily Telegraph folded into a small square (with no news items relevant to my project, as far as I can tell), one poem entitled ‘Ten Things Mark Rothko Told Me’, and one pair of silver cufflinks. As a walker on the Pennine Way I think I could probably find a use for most of those items (especially the page from the Telegraph, in an emergency), with the exception of the cufflinks, which on reflection seem like a cruel jibe.

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