Saturday 22nd July 2023
On Thursday, 20th July, along with Pete and Elizabeth Mansbridge we attended the funeral of Mabel Lomas. There may be one or two readers here who knew Malcolm (Sol) Lomas and others from our assemblage of climbers and Yorkshire Mountaineering Club members from the West Riding area back in the late 50s and early 60s. There were over a hundred people at the funeral with a luxury reception back at Cleckheaton Golf Club.
Those early days were good times and then people became married and had families and we more or less drifted apart except for one or two connections that continued over the years.
My walking friend Pete who now lives in Arnside was amongst the aforementioned group and his lifelong pal going back before both of them did National Service was Malcolm (Sol) Lomas and we have all kept in touch periodically over the years. Going back ten years or more when I was closing in on the completion of the Munros I went on several Yorkshire Mountaineering Club Easter meets in Scotland and climbed a number of Munros with Sol. We stayed on caravan sites for those meets and Sol's wife Mabel was a damn good cook and would send tempting dishes of food across to my caravan. All happy memories of a kind friend.
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With Pete and Liz I drove down the A65 to attend the funeral at Elland Crematorium in preference to the shorter in time motorway routes.
On our return journey we had to negotiate the most complex roundabout system I think I have ever come across at Gildersome.
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| Courtesy of Google Earth |
I seem to me that modern life with all its electronic absurdities is mirrored by that roundabout. I would still be on it, running out of petrol and patience.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear of your friend's funeral.
BC - That photo, if anything, flatters because there are almost no vehicles shown, a rare occurrence I reckon in this very busy urban location. Their inclusion would show the normal life situation as much more cluttered and hazardous.
ReplyDeleteAn idea for your next diorama?
ReplyDeleteAdding a terminal "st "to "among" is a no-no in the USA. I was upbraided on several occasions but never got to the bottom of it. Possibly I was thought to be "putting on the dog" - and how long is it since you last encountered that usage?
ReplyDeleteRR - I consulted the Cambridge Dictionary (on-line.) They say with the "st" it is "more formal and less used." I can't explain or identify any gut feeling for my using that version. I wonder if it relates to my Yorkshire formative environment? I will be on the lookout here and there in future for that usage.
ReplyDeleteI cm't remember coming across that "dog" phrase before, and like many such its origins are not immediately obvious, although within your context the meaning is more or less understood.
Among - I tend to think people/crowds/friends centric; amongst - more of things/clutter ie inanimate - but cannot say i've ever analysed its usage 'exegetically'.
ReplyDeleteI had go to Burnley and environs last week - that type of complex and confusing junction seems to be commonplace thereabouts - maybe because they design them for locals (and dismiss the concerns of visitors with that mix of Border/Lancs/Yorks insouciance everywhere) who either become familiar or absent themselves very quickly - the topography may affect engineering possibilities , of course.
gimmer - I tend to agree with the applications you suggest. I don't think I will necessarily stop using the "st" version but will probably stop to think first.
ReplyDeleteI don't envy your tri into suburban Lancashire. "Go North" is my mantra.
Conversations among friends; fight for survival amongst multiple disasters.
ReplyDeleteI've just noticed that the actual image you posted is of what appears to be US so-called 'dual rotor' junction, not the Drighlington nightmare. Knowing how they all stop politely and wave everyone else on (usually leading to everyone starting at once, of course) I wonder if the image was taken before it actually opened officially and fully to actual traffic - or probably, blocked up with rear-end bumps galore. May work at low times, but imagine rush hour!
gimmer - That image came from an images search for my roundabout. So often with "images" searches they wander off showing other only vaguely related subjects with little information about the content. I have deleted that photo and inserted one from Google Earth.
ReplyDeleteGulp: remember when confusion was classed as a symptom of CV-19 - they got it wrong - it was a symptom of trying to use that junction when there was other traffic to follow . . .
ReplyDeleteno other traffic . .
ReplyDeletegimmer - I'm not sure if a simpler solution could have been applied, I am not a specialised roadworks civil engineer, but one wonders. On a more mundane note I hope to post about another recent, baffling roadwork, installed here in Arnside - watch this space.
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