'Walking around Deddington is not the same as walking round Deddington. For some years after I retired I walked round Deddington and it was a pleasant if not very taxing exercise, with its own peculiar rewards. I was constantly meeting and getting to know people; I could appreciate the drastic reduction in the flow of traffic when the M40 was opened, and then measure with growing apprehension how it was building up again ... A year or so ago I had cause to take more vigorous exercise, so now I have extended my range and seriously taken to walking around Deddington. I meet far fewer people, but there is ample chance to commune with Nature, and on the whole there is no great risk ...'