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Wistmans Wood

A Dark Fairy Tale

_dsc1770If you close your eyes and imagine a wood in a dark fairy tale, what do you see, smell and hear?

In your minds eye do twisted and sinister trees thick with moss and lichens form anthropomorphic shapes in billowing fog? Underfoot do you struggle for grip on treacherous granite boulders? Perhaps a far off stream provides an aural accompaniment with the the odd and inexplicable crack of a twig sounding ominously close. Does a dank earthy smell pervade the air?



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