Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I know that feeling! As you probably know, the OS divides GB into 100km squares, designated by two letters. Rather pleasingly, Herefordshire entirely falls into SO. @mikeparker.bsky.social is not the only "map addict"! 100
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I have a lovely quote from Pevsner (if I could find it!) 000
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Herefordshire is big enough for this to be a challenge, but not too big to make it improbable. Plus, barely no single km square is either urban or devoid of interest. Additionally, we live in Hereford itself, almost in the centre of the county. 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I have rather let it slip this year. In part because what is left is less accessible using public transport (which I am trying to do wherever possible) *and* some is only accessible by walking main roads etc. 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026"The Regiment" as it is known locally is located in two parts of the county, but neither encompasses a full square km. 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026From the map recording my progress, it looks closer to completion than in reality. 000
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I have to finish it first! The county covers 2,350 km squares (including those that are shared with our neighbours). I still have around 180 still to visit. Of which about 20 have absolutely no public access. 000
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026#Archenfield St Dubricius has a second Herefordshire church, at Whitchurch, yards from the River Wye (last visited in June 2025, as part of my ongoing "project" to visit, on foot, every square kilometre in the County) 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026#Archenfield Rather annoyingly I have mislaid my copy of Pevsner's guide to Herefordshire. IIRC it was there that I read that St Dubricius' mother was thrown into the Wye by his grandfather, but she survived. 031
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Archenfield (SW Herefordshire) is "the land of the hedgehogs". This is St Dubricius at Hentland, north of Ross-on-Wye. 1124
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 10/10/2026As I am sure I must have posted many times over the years, this was the first ECM album I ever purchased. On the strength of a review in the NME! 230
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Late to the party on this. Will have a think when I get to the pub! It's that regular Monday beer after a 15 mile walk time!! 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Total overlap, plus Electric Counterpoint. I started a Reich listening session earlier in the week, and it almost ended on the first piece, Come Out. MrsMarches not a fan of that one! 040
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Blimey. Must dig out my copy. It's been far too long since I last listened to it. 110
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cinquecento have been my musical discovery of 2026. 020
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I was a teenager in North Devon, and not many bands (except Hawkwind) toured there. Arriving in Bristol in 1978, my gig going for a couple of years was rather non discriminate. As well as Steve Hackett, I definitely saw Randy Crawford! 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's an album that I haven't heard for at least 35 years (when I sold my vinyl copy). What year did it come out? I saw SH twice: Reading Festival 1979, and in my first or second year at Bristol Poly, so 1978 to early 1980. 111
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026St John the Baptist, Aconbury. Right, coffee and Tunnocks consumed. 10.5 miles to the pub! 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had to "hide" this CD, as I was playing it *too* often. 210
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Out in the Shire on my first walk of the week. Autumn has arrived. It's been a few days of ECM for me, too, as the new Andy Sheppard arrived on Friday. 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@greenmanfest.bsky.social Worst year ever for buying tickets, having attended for the last 15 years. I finally got tickets in the basket, then the checkout was so slow I lost my tickets. 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Could be where you are going wrong... try asking for a pour over, no milk! 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Do a book launch event in Hereford, and we will put you up. And take you back to The Barrels! 100
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🤔 About to walk in Herefordshire... it currently feels like late Summer. 110
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Says the man who's bar bill from the Dolomites hotel (earlier this week) for 7 nights was almost as spectacular as the week's walking 🫣 120
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I can unreservedly recommend Patrick Wright's biography of Johnson which, oddly, I *did* finish, along with biographies of Mann and Proust. I seem to do better reading "around" the subject in hand. 000
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Three books I have started, but not completed: Proust (three times), Uwe Johnson's 'Anniversaries' (twice) and 'The Magic Mountain' (just the once!). 010
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In Turin, and I have just discovered my new favourite digestif. Move over Grappa, there's an Amaro in town. 011
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Wynton not to everyone's taste, but this is a Desert Island Disc. 110
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sorry! My CD arrived yesterday! We saw Kevin interviewed at Green Man two weeks ago... he was delightful. That's me, in the middle... blue t-shirt plus hat. 220
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Starting the day with this. Still get goosebumps from the 12 minutes of 'This is What She's Like' after 40 years. 120
