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Section 8 And today there was a video mishap. As in, I made a video walking round the section, talking about what a sunny day it was and that at 9.30 in the morning it was quite quiet. There was few people in the park at the beginning of my video but more came throughout it. Including 5 dog walkers and 4 dogs, but none came into my area. The light today was beautiful and I talked about my artist of the day, Monet, the master of light. How Impressionism led to expressionism and how we view things today. I even told how I had been on a trip to Giverny whilst in university and we had spent 27 hours on the coach and half an hour there. I saw deliveries and people just getting on with their life. All this I talked about on my video. Except the video is not there! So I completely messed up! I apologise. I will add my sound recording and talk more of what I have seen too, but no video.
I think I will blame today’s mishap on hay fever and I certainly am feeling the effects of it at the moment whilst in the park. Today once again was all grass, there were no trees or paths and no one came into my area whilst I was there. As I said I did see dog walkers but didn’t get to talk to any today. I saw 16 pieces of rubbish, 1 sparkling wine cork, I pair of glasses, 2 feathers, 2 blackbirds lots of daisies and buttercups.
As I mentioned, there were few people in the park but there were some sitting on benches just taking in the lovely weather whilst there is still a breeze. One woman sitting on a bench wearing a lovely hat, but I feel she had no hair underneath so maybe she is recovering from illness and is enjoying the lovely day and just being. She is smiling to herself and looks happy, it is nice. Another man is sitting, reading a newspaper on a bench. He has walking sticks with him, but I think he lives very close in the houses surrounding the park and he often sits there. In the autumn he plants crocus bulbs over the park so that in the spring the park is even more beautiful to look at if he is feeling ill and is in his living room.
I did have a slight detour which I wasn’t going to mention, but because of the video issue, I think I will. After being in the park I went to see a friend who lives by the park. She was a founding member of the Friends of Stanhope Park and runs a WhatsApp group for people who live round the park. So many people are fond of it. She talked about the history of some areas so I will talk more about this as we reach these areas. She also took me to see another local resident who was Bill Dixon, the former leader of Darlington Borough Council who told me that I should be calling the park Stanhope Green. It was important to him as if it’s a park, it can apparently be shut down but a green can’t. So I will tell you it is Stanhope Green but this is still Park Life!
I will add some pictures of the skies today as they were so beautiful and I had wanted to show you in the video.
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