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<title>British Landscape Club RSS</title><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index.htm</link><description>Landscape news.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2010 British Landscape Club</dc:rights><dc:date>2012-05-08T16:12:57+01:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:51:04 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>All the badges are gone&#x21;</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Members&#x27; News</category><dc:date>2012-05-08T16:12:57+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/30b146887d9bf50f29f6fd5647f1477f-111.htm#unique-entry-id-111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/30b146887d9bf50f29f6fd5647f1477f-111.htm#unique-entry-id-111</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We&rsquo;ve now stopped taking orders for free badges because we have officially run out of them in today&rsquo;s lunge at the pile of membership applications we&rsquo;ve not had a moment to deal with in the last few months.   If you asked for your badge before 4pm today, then it&rsquo;s in the post, winging its way your way.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Landscape Club hiatus</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Members&#x27; News</category><dc:date>2012-05-03T16:29:42+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/a8f3990c1cbb4ea6e3fa3e973c9cc65d-110.htm#unique-entry-id-110</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/a8f3990c1cbb4ea6e3fa3e973c9cc65d-110.htm#unique-entry-id-110</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Apologies to everyone who has been waiting for a badge &ndash; the Royal Mail website has been royally borked in one way or another for some time now and spending an hour to process a batch of badge mailings, only to find the website in apology mode and all the work and fiddling about wasted is disheartening to say the least.   We&rsquo;ve changed to a much simpler system now and the next few hours we get free, we&rsquo;ll get rid of the backlog.   Thanks for your patience.


The website&rsquo;s been a bit quiet also and this is subject to the same mismatch of time and aspiration that everyone in the world feels at one time or another.   We&rsquo;re hoping to liven things back up again soon.   Meanwhile, if you have a snippet of landscape news you&rsquo;d like to share, by all means drop us a line through the contact page.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Britain&#x2019;s Hidden Wonders in Countryfile</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Landscapes</category><category>Lie of the Land</category><dc:date>2011-12-21T11:38:08+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/382d95f085888ecc6d7896fbc392c004-109.htm#unique-entry-id-109</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/382d95f085888ecc6d7896fbc392c004-109.htm#unique-entry-id-109</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Author of The Lie of the Land, the BLC&rsquo;s Ian Vince is in January&rsquo;s BBC Countryfile magazine for January - out now - with a feature on ten hidden wonders of the British countryside.   Ranging from the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in west Scotland to the South Downs of Sussex and taking in Shropshire, a spot of wilderness in the East Midlands and some striped cliffs in East Anglia along the way, the feature ranges over six pages of glorious photography of the British landscape.


For further details check out the Countryfile Magazine website.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>A signed paperback of The Lie of the Land</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Lie of the Land</category><dc:date>2011-12-02T11:42:17+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/75fb40a076174ad3ae8e46e8d035214a-108.htm#unique-entry-id-108</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/75fb40a076174ad3ae8e46e8d035214a-108.htm#unique-entry-id-108</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Landscape Club now has a limited number of signed 1st Edition paperbacks of Ian Vince&rsquo;s The Lie of the Land in stock for the very reasonable price of &pound;9.50 including P&P.


Click the Buy Now button below to order one securely through PayPal.   If you want a personal inscription, send us a note via the contact form and Ian will oblige. 

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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Solstice special:  &#x3c;br /&#x3e;The Day that Stonehenge Disappeared</title><dc:creator>editor@britishlandscape.org</dc:creator><category>Views &#x26; Scenery</category><dc:date>2012-06-21T15:34:34+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/4c1786dde57f0abf3807c4e01b700c7b-101.htm#unique-entry-id-101</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.britishlandscape.org/index_files/4c1786dde57f0abf3807c4e01b700c7b-101.htm#unique-entry-id-101</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Recent archaeological work has uncovered many links between it and other monuments - among them, Durrington Walls and Woodhenge to the east and &lsquo;Bluestonehenge&rsquo;, discovered earlier this year by the Stonehenge Riverside Project next to the River Avon - and these links suggest that the Stonehenge Landscape was, indeed, huge.


...I remind myself that the most spectacular forms on the planet are often ones for which no particular purpose springs to mind, enchanted as we are by the brute pointlessness of ancient lines on the landscape - lines which can only really be appreciated from above.   Indeed, nobody has the slightest idea what it or any of the hundred or so similar features in Britain are actually for; all explanation defaults to a mumble of &lsquo;ritual use&rsquo;, which, Shelley informs me, is an archaeological euphemism for &lsquo;we don&rsquo;t really know&rsquo;. 


...While I mumble about the minimalist Neolithic to myself, my guide takes off across the field, promising to show me something that I would never forget - as if in compensation for showing me something that I could barely see. 


...While it melts sympathetically into views of its immediate vicinity from the middle distance, at close quarters you just can&rsquo;t take your eye off the thing: it dominates the landscape and, moreover, it seems to be following me around now, forever in my peripheral vision in a way I imagine it must have been for our ancestors. 

...Shelley is motioning to me to walk up towards the circle and, as I do, I can&rsquo;t help gasping as the familiar outline of Stonehenge reappears, rising above the grass and thistles in a strange inversion of druidic tradition. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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