Distant Ingleborough from near Grit Fell |
The climb up to Salter Fell |
The walk followed a large part of the skyline |
Distant Ingleborough from near Grit Fell |
The climb up to Salter Fell |
The walk followed a large part of the skyline |
Lives of great men will remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And,departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Longfellow
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I saw a jolly hunter
With a jolly gun
Walking in the country
In the jolly sun.
In the jolly meadow
Sat a jolly hare.
Saw the jolly hunter.
Took jolly care.
Hunter jolly eager-
Sight of jolly prey.
Forgot gun pointing
Wrong jolly way.
Jolly hunter jolly head
Over heels gone.
Jolly old safety catch
Not jolly on.
Bang went the jolly gun.
Hunter jolly dead.
Jolly hare got clean away.
Jolly good, I said.
Charles Causey - (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.
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You were lucky with the weather on Saturday [nice Fells], on Sunday saw nothing in the rain on Longridge Fell!
ReplyDeleteIt's great you are still putting in and enjoying a long day. Hope arthroscopy goes OK.
Off for a few lazy days climbing in Spain next week.
Gill OK?
One wonders how Mr Patel spends his days off. Perhaps driving down to Tryfan, parking at the layby and watching people fall off the Buttress. Then a little Carl Philip Emmanuel in the evening accompanied by several large Scotches. In Gamesmanship by Stephen Potter there's a character called Odoreida who turns up at that hotel at Pen-y-pass, walks with a stick, talks about "having had his day" and urges the youngsters to go and destroy themselves in Llanberis ("I always thought the west route route on Cloggy would go."). The opinion among other Gamesmen is that this is a dangerous game and sooner or later one of the youngsters, wearied of O's Olympian attitudes, is going to haul him up Cenotaph Corner to shut his babble. Perhaps there's a relationship; after all it's only one alphabetic step between Odoreida and Patel.
ReplyDeleteThank you both for Mrs BB's card.
JP - Those north Bowland hills do have a feeling of remoteness belying their proximity to civilisation.
ReplyDeleteJill is battling on - the due date is 16th October, but it looks more imminent to me.
Have a good trip to Spain.
BB - I shall have to take a fresh look at Mr P's motives - don't you think his preferred taste in music would be Ravi Shankar?
BB - I am familiar with the Stephen Potter opuses, but have failed to find the derivation of the name Odoreida after Googling and Wikipediaing. Perhaps you recognise some allusion?
ReplyDeleteRe: Odoreida. It's just conceivable - the process is called using his imagination - he dreamed it up. However, the Cloggy anecdote may have appeared in the sequel to Gamesmanship called Oneupmanship.
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