This morning I decided to take a short spin over to
Girton and then back into Cambridge via
Impington Windmill (a photo of which magnificent building heads up this post). The main reason for going out was simply the desire/need to be outside washed by the cold wind and winter sun after too many days spent indoors. But Girton particularly called to me as a destination because my reading of
Mary-Jane Rubenstein’s truly wonderful, insightful and exciting book
“Pantheologies” had sent me back with a new set of insights/thoughts/questions to the work of one of my own heroes of pantheism, namely the extraordinary, Cambridge botanist and philosopher,
Agnes Arber (1879-1960) whose final book, entitled
“The Manifold and the One”, I accidentally
stumbled across in 2007 whilst staying in Wells-next-the-Sea. (
At this link, should you be interested, you can find an address on her and the book that I gave back in 2017.) I recommend wholeheartedly getting hold of a secondhand copy of the “The Manifold and the One” and also reading through the following paper:
Agnes Arber, née Robertson (1879–1960): Fragments of her Life, Including her Place in Biology and in Women’s Studies by Rudolf Schmid
All photos taken with a Fuji X100F
Just click on a photo to enlarge it
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| St Andrew’s, Girton |
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| Agnes Arber’s grave, St Andrew’s, Girton |
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| Agnes Arber’s grave, St Andrew’s, Girton |
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| St Andrew’s, Girton, looking east |
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| St Andrew’s, Girton, looking west |
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| The Raleigh Superbe outside St Andrew’s, Girton |
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| St Andrew’s, Girton |
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| Houses hard-by St Andrew’s, Girton |
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| Plaque on a bench on Washpit Lane, Girton. Who were these two women who died so young? |
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| The same bench as above, now close to final disintegration |
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| The end of Washpit Lane now terminated by the hell that is the A14 |
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| The end of Washpit Lane with a turn-off to farm buildings |
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| The end of Washpit Lane looking back towards Girton |
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| A winter scene on a footpath near Girton |
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| A winter scene on a footpath near Girton |
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| A winter scene on a footpath near Girton |
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