Product Description
At the time of year when the red deer stags were bolving, days were falling in, and chiggy-pigs had ensconced themselves in the damp dark of cottage squinches, rumours had come, blown in with the draughts, of snow machines, of water-spitting dinosaurs, of hovering helicopters and low-flying jets, of farmers having teddy troubles and of bibblers cuddling grouse. Apparently the ‘Aksmoar’ weasel patrols were proving alarmingly ineffective. Charles Wood heaved himself upright from beside the cold-summered stove. Having washed his coal-grubby hands, pulled a log splinter from his thumb and whinged about a broken toe stubbed on the banister, he made a decision to emerge from behind his warped blue front door and make sure all was still well in the world of jodhpurs, antler men and fishers. His emotion spring had begun to flow again. It was the ‘Ex’ in Exmoor that made things so disconcerting. Long ago he ceased to refer to the place as ‘it’ but as ‘her’. And now, like an old flame, memories of her still burned happily after a lengthy separation. And then, on the other hand, not so happily – like a grockle fire that makes charcoal of heather and gorse. Such are the foibles of the heart – of amour.
About the Author
CharlesWood gave up the legal
profession, and the stress of work in
Libya and Hong Kong, yearning for the
artistic life. For the past twenty years he
has just about managed to avoid wearing
a tie to work or getting grubby. Instead
he has preferred to eke out an existence
in the Somerset custom of self-employment.
As a self-taught documentary
filmmaker he has made over thirty films.
His Somerset the Summerland and
Exmoor - An EnglishWild Kingdom sold in
their thousands finding their way into
many a Somerset and grockle home. His
film Dragons - the Story of a Country Parson
was broadcast on HTV in 1999.And
in 2005 he was the first Englishman to
win a documentary film award in the
Republic of Moldova.
Charles has also found time to be fulltime
Dad of four, a writer of fairy tales,
an illustrator, a part-time college lecturer,
a part-time school teacher, an occasional
broadcaster on BBC Somerset Sound, a
cameraman forWestcountry television
news and have a heart transplant. He
now admits to an enjoyment of poddling
through the lighter side of life's rich
tapestry, relieved that he has never been
bankrupt.
CharlesWood lives with his family in the
Exmoor-edge town ofWiveliscombe.
profession, and the stress of work in
Libya and Hong Kong, yearning for the
artistic life. For the past twenty years he
has just about managed to avoid wearing
a tie to work or getting grubby. Instead
he has preferred to eke out an existence
in the Somerset custom of self-employment.
As a self-taught documentary
filmmaker he has made over thirty films.
His Somerset the Summerland and
Exmoor - An EnglishWild Kingdom sold in
their thousands finding their way into
many a Somerset and grockle home. His
film Dragons - the Story of a Country Parson
was broadcast on HTV in 1999.And
in 2005 he was the first Englishman to
win a documentary film award in the
Republic of Moldova.
Charles has also found time to be fulltime
Dad of four, a writer of fairy tales,
an illustrator, a part-time college lecturer,
a part-time school teacher, an occasional
broadcaster on BBC Somerset Sound, a
cameraman forWestcountry television
news and have a heart transplant. He
now admits to an enjoyment of poddling
through the lighter side of life's rich
tapestry, relieved that he has never been
bankrupt.
CharlesWood lives with his family in the
Exmoor-edge town ofWiveliscombe.
