Yesterday, my husband Arthur (who has been doing a heroic job looking after me through the last year while I have been unwell) and I had a private preview of the Deep Time Walk which is scheduled for 1st March, organised and led by Clara Todd. We did this partly for Clara to test it out and partly because I was not sure if I could keep up with everyone for the whole walk on the day. In fact we only did half of it – starting with the formation of the planets (Parker’s Piece) and ending with the beginnings of oxygen-breathing life on Earth, albeit single cell (Lammas Land), in total about 2.2 billion years. That was enough for me, I’m afraid. The framework of the Deep Time walk comes from a team at Schumacher College.
I am writing this to recommend it to you. Perhaps you know it all anyway– but doing it with friends and the opportunity to chat and ask questions (Clara is pleased to take questions and if she does not have the answer maybe someone else will) was fun. Besides which. it is a good excuse for a leisurely walk through our beautiful city.
The walk was designed with 1 metre for 1 million years and we paused at interesting times along the way (Earth Stations) so that Clara could explain what was going on. For example we stopped at ???? (where) for the Late Heavy Bombardment, when there were a lot of collisions going on creating craters on the various planets and moons in our solar system. Clara has some pictures which are obviously artist’s impressions and not photographs. These and her short explanations are very engaging.
We took some photos on the day. The weather was fairly dry but it has been very wet recently. We avoided the puddles on Parker's Piece.
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| Parker's Piece with Gulls - The weather has been very wet though on the day it was mostly dry; the way was muddy in places but the worst was avoidable. Hopefully by March it will be dryer. |
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View of the Cam from near Hodson's Folly. It was a grey day but mostly dry. |
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| I am still not well but Arthur lends me a helping hand when needed. |
I thoroughly recommend this walk to you so do sign up for 1st March.
