Back up Wessenden, second time that year, which the notebook remarks on itself — twice now this year, it says, as if keeping an eye on me. Right shoe, brown, sole coming away at the heel, one lace, sat on a flat stone beside the path above the second reservoir.
The path were running like a beck. That's in the notes, and it's no exaggeration for July 2012, when there were water coming off every hillside. A shoe up on a flat stone while the path itself ran with water is the sort of arrangement I note and leave alone. It were dry and everything round it weren't. That's the record.
Sole coming away at the heel is more condition than the early entries ever gave a shoe. The practice were filling out without me noticing. No photograph mentioned, and in that weather I doubt I got the camera out of the bag. I remember the walk down better than the walk up, both of them wet through.
Written up August 2026, from the notebook.