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Author archives: Patricia Stoughton

Two Rivers

Imogen Forster …its brown expansefilmy, torpid, featureless.The sandy edge gives wayunder my foot; a man is fishingfrom the log-jammed bank.This is not as I imagined it. Harassed by winter gulls, the archaic bird secures its knotted prey, swallows, and extinguishes the glinting silver string. The self-entangling fish and the glossy cormorant, head raised to the …

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Posted byPatricia Stoughton1st March 202019th February 2020Posted inEbb & Flow

Tugs on the Tidal Thames 3

The distinctive livery of passing Bennett’s Barges and their tugs is sure to catch your eye as you look out over the river.  Part of the Livett’s Group, their tugs and barges are working on the western section of the super sewer for London.      Bennett’s Barges was founded in 1983 and was involved with …

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Posted byPatricia Stoughton16th February 202023rd February 2020Posted inEbb & Flow

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