An intimate embrace
I’ve visited Orley Common a handful of times. I’m fascinated by it because nobody owns it; it’s a true common.
At the far end of the Common are fields of sheep and cattle with a single magnificent Oak at its edge. As we climb the gate to admire it a Common Buzzard sets sail and drifts away. The shade the tree casts is enormous in the morning and evening and intense at midday.
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Next to the Oak is a Hawthorn tree.
![Orley Common - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Orley-Common-The-Hall-of-Einar-3-725x725.jpg)
It’s clinging on in an intimate embrace.
![Orley Common - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)](https://www.thehallofeinar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Orley-Common-The-Hall-of-Einar-2-725x725.jpg)
It’s extraordinary that it is surviving and thriving, clinging on like that to a partner much greater in stature.
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Personally, I think they should get a room.