tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post7191046695830738173..comments2024-03-29T13:05:42.663+00:00Comments on conradwalks: SWCP - Stoke Fleming to BrixhamSir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-24341156559859067942016-07-27T09:29:06.337+01:002016-07-27T09:29:06.337+01:00Dear me, such sensitivity. And the main point I wa...Dear me, such sensitivity. And the main point I was making wholly ignored. Anyway try today's Tone Deaf post (Not quite LEJOG) and get your own back.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-74525462060656114832016-07-25T22:17:54.731+01:002016-07-25T22:17:54.731+01:00I think you have conveyed the pleasures and satisf...I think you have conveyed the pleasures and satisfactions, and balanced the difficulties and frustrations, very well - the undulations, literal, metaphorical or psychological, are all of a piece - who can honestly say that they truly 'enjoyed' hold-less overhangs on cold, wet, limestone at the actual moment of ascent. Yet sometimes, such as on delicate walls of sun-warmed rock, the pleasures are immediate, just like the sudden spectacular vistas you describe. Both give the after-glow bonus, but perhaps more enjoyable - and longer lasting - when difficulties are overcome.gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-25686572467581161662016-07-25T18:04:17.225+01:002016-07-25T18:04:17.225+01:00Gimmer - missing post now sorted.
---------------...Gimmer - missing post now sorted.<br /><br />----------------------<br /><br />RR -Well that right spoiled my breakfast this morning. I have tried to give a balanced view all along and enthused about the coastal scenery enough, I thought, to convey my enjoyment, but I couldn't just repeat the same every day for what are very similar occurrences of natural beauty, and I have tried to have something interesting to say each day.<br /><br />I thought I had made the sausage roll and the tin opener events and others humorous and if they came across as whinging, conveying, as you suggest, that I am not enjoying myself then I have totally failed.<br /><br />We have discussed this business of enjoyment before. Apart from being a holiday in terms of seeing new places, and meeting people it is also a challenge. Ask any athlete if they are actually enjoying themselves when at full stretch. The enjoyment comes from the satisfaction of overcoming the difficulties of the challenge and an inner feeling that one has made the effort to do something worthwhile. Simple enjoyment comes comes from reading a good book or eating a sensational pudding, or in your case dealing with a good Burgundy.<br /><br />--------------------------------<br /><br />Ruth - thanks for your comment. I am still following your progress and now you are back on the mainland I can compare again with my own route, that is until you have finished with Wales.<br /><br />Sent from my iPadSir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-35273443415706912782016-07-25T07:46:46.687+01:002016-07-25T07:46:46.687+01:00Unlike RR, I am very much enjoying the tale of you...Unlike RR, I am very much enjoying the tale of your walk, including the many calamities. I'd forgotten just how up-and-down that section of the path was (the stretch from Padstow to Westward Ho! has wiped all other climb memories from my mind). Can't wait to see what happens next... :DRuth Lhttps://coastalwalker.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-13250457628510758202016-07-25T07:15:03.790+01:002016-07-25T07:15:03.790+01:00I never thought I'd be making this comment.
W...I never thought I'd be making this comment.<br /><br />We have in the past discussed what constitutes a good post and I have - God help me! - suggested that disasters make better reading than unalloyed pleasure. So they do but I should have added that disasters <i>per se</i> are not enough; they need to be treated with with a certain amount of wit (very hard to define) and detachment. Continuous disaster, especially where the events are not life-threatening, runs the risk of becoming a threnody - a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song; now extended these days to a whinge.<br /><br />A threnody invites participation by the reader; that he or she should become as depressed as the writer. There is only so much of this sort of thing readers can take.<br /><br />The solution is to turn disasters into entertainment. One method would be to deliberately understate the shortcomings of the sausage roll; adjectives like "indifferent" can be made to sound much more condemnatory than "damn" and "soggy" or misplaced phrases like "in true baseball style" (no baseball player ever throws anything down a cliff). Better still, the sausage roll could be turned into a symbol: a dish fit to celebrate England's triumphs in the recent Euro-cup (they went out during the pool stage) or to woo back the French post-Brexit.<br /><br />Here's the impression I get from reading between the lines: you're not enjoying yourself and you're beginning to sound like Mr Pooter in The Diary of A Nobody (a hilarious book but the tragedy of Mr P is that he didn't realise he was being hilarious).Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-45169470740058124792016-07-24T22:57:09.594+01:002016-07-24T22:57:09.594+01:00We all thoroughly enjoyed your account of the dram...We all thoroughly enjoyed your account of the dramatic scenery and exciting happenings of your Saturday stage - where was it again - I forget . . . ?gimmernoreply@blogger.com