242 Kentish landscape time

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Daytime contentedness can be found here. Between the rustling leaves and trees of Folkestone Warren that rolls greenly down towards the sea. We couldn’t have known when we set up the Lento box under hot early August sunshine that the next day of recording would bring such strong breezes. 

This strip of natural Kentish land is made of green plunging wilderness. It has a campsite next to a rocky and sandy beach. There’s a cliff top cafe too, from where you can see France on a clear day. After stopping for a cup of tea, follow one of the steep paths, down into a sea of green. Find a gap between the trees. Try listening for the actual sea. For echoes of children, distantly playing on the beach. For a passing train on the hidden railway. The buzzard. Slowly circling. 

Wind that waves in the branches, shakes and rustles the leaves, may not to the eye look particularly calm. And yet to the ear, these movements sound calm. We definitely feel a physical response to strong undulating breezes as they press and sigh through banks of trees.

This daytime section capturing the sound-feel of this place reveals how time passes here, an ordinary weekday in early August.