tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post6082048640012558856..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Fit for purpose?Sir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-76675366779722700442012-09-16T10:45:06.420+01:002012-09-16T10:45:06.420+01:00Gimmer - I have replied, at length again, via emai...Gimmer - I have replied, at length again, via email.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-58555750413825158302012-09-16T00:03:40.125+01:002012-09-16T00:03:40.125+01:00i tried to make a comment on your '4' but ...i tried to make a comment on your '4' but connection refused error:80 came up twice and now the essay is in free-floating cyberspace - is there a limit on how long comments can be - it was a masterpiece, of course, and un-recallable now!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-19959588946831003552012-09-15T22:33:28.192+01:002012-09-15T22:33:28.192+01:00Gimmer -CONRAD WALKS has always been peppered with...Gimmer -CONRAD WALKS has always been peppered with non walking posts. Walking reports have mostly had something interesting to say about people met, things seen, or thoughts raised. At the moment I am only doing short local walks which tend to produce little in the way of a story, but if there is something to say I will post - see example,<br /><br />SUNDAY, 22 APRIL 2012<br />A bucolic encounter<br /><br />If that doesn't work as a link in this comment it can be found by trawling through "older posts", or putting in a search on the blog.<br /><br />I have no desire to write purely mechanical reports of routes taken which most people who read the stuff have probably done themselves anyway - I mean this sort of thing: <br /><br /> ”...I parked the car, and set off walking at 9:15 and followed the footpath sign across a field to a stile, turned right, then left, etc,...”<br /><br />Nor do I want to try writing purple passages unless there is a good reason, and I am satisfied that I have had a rare success with the run of my words - I always liked this bit from the Welsh boundary walk:<br /><br />"Interesting walking today with the petro-chemical import industry slapped onto an area of outstanding beauty, within the huge natural harbour of Milford Haven. I crossed, on strange metal bridges, series of huge pipes running in elegant lines leading from tankers moored at jetties. The pipes lead to huge cylindrical storage tanks. As a failed plumber, I have respect for anybody who can make pipes go where they want, and there is a symmetry to all this which I appreciate, but others may not".<br /><br />I enjoy trying to write good English, and exchanging interests and ideas with like-minded people and those are my motivations for blogging. I am sure that my readers with outdoor interests do not confine themselves to that interest alone, and that they will be entertained or maybe occasionally stimulated by my non outdoor efforts.<br /><br />You and I are both frustrated at the moment by being restricted from fully partaking in what we have enjoyed to the full all our lives, and I know that you have gained pleasure from vicarious participation in my outdoor activities prior to the knee op and I hope that it will not be long before more normal service can be resumed for both of us.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-44525450511075278752012-09-15T14:38:53.112+01:002012-09-15T14:38:53.112+01:00I suspect that a 'Y' junction is coming up...I suspect that a 'Y' junction is coming up<br />right ahead for walkers and <br />the other (following on from this post - left field, perhaps), for talkers - what happened to the putative Conrad Talks web-log?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-76596096134938269162012-09-15T01:55:56.254+01:002012-09-15T01:55:56.254+01:00Pardon my faux pas.Pardon my faux pas.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-33226823005848971652012-09-15T00:33:50.251+01:002012-09-15T00:33:50.251+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.com