Andy Marshall

Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 23 May 2025

Beneath its surface, the meadow seems to live and breath — buttercups, sorrel, long grass — all caught in the current, wriggling and swaying as if in conversation with the stream. I sit beside it and stay for a while.

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 16 May 2025

And so it seems fitting—uncannily fitting—that the man standing in the rubble should bear the name he did. Piper. Pipe. Conduit.

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 9 May 2025

I walk down through the nave, drawn towards a doorway that cradles a rarefied luminescence — a mingling of dappled colour from stained glass, the glint of refracted light on metal, and a hint of the golden radiance that spring has blessed us with this year.

Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 2 May 2025

If the Grand Tour were still a rite of passage, this would be one of its stopping places — visited not for splendour but for its pleasing dereliction.

Genius Loci: Mid-week-pick-me-up

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 25 April 2025

With the full day ahead of me – and feeling like a lord and master over time – I visit all my usual haunts: breakfast at the Naked Man, a browse through the bookshop on the market square, coffee at the Folly on the hill.