I was really interested when Kel Portman of Walking the Land posted that he wanted people to respond to the Roman day of Terminalia. Taking a walk along an invisible boundary. I had looked into Terminalia and its more recent version ‘beating the bounds’ but had never done anything with it. My excitement was swiftly curtailed by discovering, on looking at my calendar, that this year’s Terminalia fell on a Sunday – a working day with no hope of rearrangement. Undaunted I hatched a couple of potential plans to enable me to respond to Terminalia in a more limited way. Forgive my limitations and hopefully appreciate the impulse to engage.
If for 8 hours of the day I can’t really leave the building in which I work, then the invisible boundaries which I walked within were those created by my job and its responsibilities.
The thresholds of the building providing the points of escape only possible when responsibility is relinquished.
In walking the floor of the bookshop, I am partially walking floor of Clappens who traded in the oldest parts of the building before us and before the bank. Walking the invisible boundaries of a nineteenth century tailors and outfitters overwritten by a bank and a shop.
These boundaries deduced from a map can be described through Just 3 Words thus…
Piston Glides Quicksand
Hurtles Outpost Trainers
Fatherly Trample Pastime
Alternate Fields Jelly
Gossiping Lessening Bootleg
Asked Mirror Ducks
Coconut Roofer Overdone
Stun Acute Motoring
Workforce Exchanges Decompose
Number Tailed Chromatic
Gets Upholds Litigate
Shuttling Retire Played
Dignity Plea Pads
Auctioned Beakers Conned
Lollipop Coach Luck
Famed Thudding Technical
Opera Buzzing Enlighten
Bend Political Hovered
Self Jeering Swimsuits
Node Guess Reorders
Costly Angers Reputable
Besotted Pulse Aged
Quietest Suffice Jumbled
Once released from those invisible boundaries and in similar impulse in a short action in the name of Terminus, I walked the invisible boundary of the Forge which after several hundred years was burnt down and then replaced by the garden of a house where I live. Using old maps to find it and Just 3 Words to describe it.
Allow Selects Encourage
Tonality Oldest Requested
Diverts Grunt Flipper
Gambles Instead Lost
Remake Vacancies Amount
Retract Household Slices
Defender Beads Left
Vines Medium Hockey
Pesky Functions Bricks
Storybook Ranks Scarred
Pets Reclining Supple
Lighter Newlyweds Summer
Sailors Dives Descended
Geologist Jotting Uproot
Differ Gentle Loitering
Blanked Diagram Overt
Curbed Confining Symphonic
Shark Cope Distilled
Roosters Mammal Order
Acclaimed Scoop Cake
Leads Nips Lost
Allow Arranger Lift
Spoiled Embellish Homewares
Dentistry Sofa Loser
Pigtails Rosette Join
Concerts Knots Unsigned
Post Mainframe Grasp
I thought I could make something of these words,… I did but with mixed success – some words really weren’t helpful.
Oldest bricks differ, left spoiled,
embellish, uproot & retract; encourage
gentle arranger, storybook order loitering leads.
Cope.
Curbed ranks, jotting unsigned.
Concerts symphonic tonality selects
lost functions, instead confining
acclaimed defender, scarred lost.
Beads supple knots.
Household requested homewares lift,
allow reclining sofa geologist.
Join hockey roosters, pigtails, rosette loser;
dentistry grunt, allow. Pesky pets, nips,
scoop cake slices.
Mammal dives, flipper lighter
descended, shark gambles.
Summer vines grasp mainframe post,
distilled medium diverts sailors & newlyweds