{"id":95352,"date":"2026-08-31T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=95352"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:20:11","slug":"a-gentle-curve-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/31\/a-gentle-curve-to-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"A gentle curve to the left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline and I were out in Theford Forest fairly early this morning, brainstorming video content, book ideas and more.<\/p>\n<p>The road we followed seemed to have no other travellers and seemed to have a perpetual, gentle leftward curve to it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-95354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-550x733.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-550x733.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6581-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beside us, the forest was seeking to regenerate itself in a way that seemed natural, exciting and hopeful:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-95353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_6584-EDIT-533x400.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time amongst trees is never wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline and I were out in Theford Forest fairly early this morning, brainstorming video content, book ideas and more. The road we followed seemed to<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/08\/31\/a-gentle-curve-to-the-left\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95355,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95352\/revisions\/95355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}