tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post994389514717290868..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Walking and talkingSir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-68112987489187564502013-10-28T12:55:26.127+00:002013-10-28T12:55:26.127+00:00I'm sure you know he was excoriating and so wa...I'm sure you know he was excoriating and so was excoriated in his turn - and eventually lost most of his friends and his admirers: he seems to have ignored the ancient Greeks' nostrum 'meden agen' until the very last few years, when, apparently, he began to see some, heavily moderated, merit in eg Wordsworth - so we have hope. <br />Personally, I think he was as wrong in this as in his political opinions!<br />Other schools of thought have thoroughly recommended walking as an aid to both thought and eloquence - no Reading Party would be complete without long discursive rambles in the rain - many Double Firsts are claimed to have resulted from them!gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-60146300529037098072013-10-28T12:55:23.200+00:002013-10-28T12:55:23.200+00:00I'm sure you know he was excoriating and so wa...I'm sure you know he was excoriating and so was excoriated in his turn - and eventually lost most of his friends and his admirers: he seems to have ignored the ancient Greeks' nostrum 'meden agen' until the very last few years, when, apparently, he began to see some, heavily moderated, merit in eg Wordsworth - so we have hope. <br />Personally, I think he was as wrong in this as in his political opinions!<br />Other schools of thought have thoroughly recommended walking as an aid to both thought and eloquence - no Reading Party would be complete without long discursive rambles in the rain - many Double Firsts are claimed to have resulted from them!gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-8371495876712236352013-10-27T21:59:35.382+00:002013-10-27T21:59:35.382+00:00Gimmer - don't underestimate us. I am sure tha...Gimmer - don't underestimate us. I am sure that, erudite as he was, Hazlitt must have had some shortcomings.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-475390982097249762013-10-27T21:27:37.456+00:002013-10-27T21:27:37.456+00:00ah, Hazlitt! - the original blogger, it has been q...ah, Hazlitt! - the original blogger, it has been quipped!<br />I suspect our musings were less caustic and less dialectical, but probably, paradoxically, neither so delicately nor so poetically expressed as his would have been. An interesting proposition!gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-19522284939496913692013-10-16T08:17:51.050+01:002013-10-16T08:17:51.050+01:00Alan R - The leaning lean-to, along with other ver...Alan R - The leaning lean-to, along with other vernacular buildings is at Broadgate - approx. SD 180867. We parked the car at the minor road junction a few hundred yards to the south and walked anti-clockwise.<br /><br />---------------------<br /><br />welshpaddler - I hope you will post about your Patterdale trip - have not looked yet this morning.<br /><br />-----------------------<br /><br />affotinthehills - Hazlitt is of course correct if you are walking alone, although I have to admit to talking to myself quite often. If you are with a companion I think you would not have that person as a friend for long if you never uttered a word during a multi hour walk. Hazlitt was a pretty deep thinker, and I think any conversation with him would have been beyond my amateur, occasional dabblings in philosophy.<br /><br />---------------------<br /><br />RR - I've got to say the Neolithics bore the pants off me.<br /><br />Said Simple Simon to the pieman, "what have you got there?"<br /><br />"Pies you ****!"Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-3431712113905453182013-10-15T07:36:36.893+01:002013-10-15T07:36:36.893+01:00Here are some answers:
(1) Neolithics. They were ...Here are some answers:<br /><br />(1) Neolithics. They were on the verge of discovering the wheel and were looking for useful applications of this invention. Simultaneously, and less heralded at the time, they came up with an abbreviation for the word "applications" given it was such a fag to carve it in stone. You'll never guess...<br /><br />(2) The existence of slate.<br /><br />(3) Their delaying tactics were intended to avoid the attentions of clumbering, chattering, over-burdened man-mountains. Seems they failed.<br /><br />(4) If you can't answer this what hope have I?<br /><br />(5) Ask a silly question.... OK, you don't deserve the fruit of my lucubrations. That's enough.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-33980016234011744982013-10-14T19:55:26.243+01:002013-10-14T19:55:26.243+01:00All very interesting Conrad. Perhaps on your next ...All very interesting Conrad. Perhaps on your next walk you can discuss Hazlitt's comment: 'I cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country"!<br /><br />afootinthehillshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06670636358354420373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-55544833909847517912013-10-14T19:53:12.965+01:002013-10-14T19:53:12.965+01:00Your description of you and Gimmer could almost de...Your description of you and Gimmer could almost describe me and my walking buddy known as the Navigator in my blog.<br /><br />We are currently on a week,s walking break in Patterdale and today whilst putting the world to rights mentioned Black Coombe and oddly enough why certain ladies are called dykes!welshpaddlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385863790733204366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-23279921527476197042013-10-14T16:56:41.609+01:002013-10-14T16:56:41.609+01:00I don't think Swinside is too remote and it wa...I don't think Swinside is too remote and it was probably a lot more trees around when the circle was built. I walk that area quite a bit when the higher tops are thick with cloud but i cannot remember where that leaning shed is. <br />Sounds like you had a great day with some unusual topics.AlanRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07180571503542781921noreply@blogger.com