The delivery driver put down my groceries on the front step. “There you go, young man”. I looked at him, he was a paunchy guy with a greying beard. It was hard to pin down his age, but he could have been as little as five years older than me. I’ve always looked young forContinue reading “Men of an Uncertain Age”
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Why Do Men Build Walls?
“The heart of the wall is where the unloveliest material resides, shoved in with less artifice to fill out the construction. But this is also a place of refuge, the voids between stones providing cover for invertebrates. As we worked, ants, beetles and spiders would often rush out from within when we disturbed their havens.”
Tom George 