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Twilight's coming. And a storm. To be half way up a lonely Peak District moor, off the puddled track, looking down, into a mixed plantation of tall murmuring trees. Scots pine and spruce. Tall, hushing conifers. Veteran stunted oak. And ancient holly bushes. Each tree catches the wind. Transposes its undulating energy into different, and distinctive shapes. Sound signatures.
Between the trees, a paddock. And two sheep, grazing on wet winter grass. And their small wooden hut. For when it rains. Partly obscured. Partly filled with hay. Partly forgotten. But not by the robin. Or the song thrush. Or the watchful rooks.
This forest knows a storm is coming. Like the sheep, busy with their grass, but patiently waiting. Like the robin red breast, busy too, defending his territory. Like the song thrush, perched up on a favoured branch.
Though way up the moor, this place is not entirely out of touch. Planes do pass in that weatherless zone, high above the cloudbase. And Land Rovers do too, engines labouring, up steep lanes, distantly. But to the eye, there really is nothing, for miles. Just an open sky. And steep plunging fields. And green sodden ground, that in the summer months will spring into luscious meadow. And over the waterlogged ground, a trail of empty boot prints, that we left behind as we walked away. Away from the holly tree, and the microphone box that we carefully tied and angled, so it could be an ear witness of this forest, in winter gales, before the storm.
198 Fishing village harbour at night (part 3 - wide open peacefulness)
197 December rain light to moderate (sleep safe)
196 Estuary bleak passing ship
195 Tranquility found on England’s highest railway station
194 Inside a bird hide
193 Slow waves in the night quiet (sleep safe)
192 Remembering summer on the Hoo Peninsula
191 Moorland waterfall (sleep safe natural white noise)
190 St Mary’s Church in Rye
189 Night rain falls on a drystone wall (quiet and sleep safe)
188 Rock seat on Rye Harbour beach
187 Steam train stops at country station
186 Slow forest Wyre valley
185 Onshore breeze on Chesil beach (sleep safe and in hi-def sound)
184 River rilling through Miller’s Dale (sleep safe, hour-long)
183 Upland fir forest (sleep safe and ideal for headphones)
182 Night scapes special - August intermission 4 (sleep safe)
181 Woodland scapes special - August intermission 3
180 Coastal scapes special - August intermission 2
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