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My blog nick-name is SIR HUGH. I'm not from the aristocracy - my middle name is Hugh which relates to the list of 282 hills in Scotland compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891. I climbed my last one (Sgurr Mor) on 28th June 2009
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Thursday, 14 March 2024
"Extreme*" - (the new buzz-word) photography manipulation by an expert
Thursday 14th March 2024
I am not keen on circulating supposedly humorous views and clips from Internet sources on my blog or by email. As for any other social media platform I just don’t participate, they have far too much to answer for, and on rare occasions when I have had a look they irritate me when I see an unexplained photograph with no backstory and a string of comments usually saying nothing much more than “good photo.”
Another problem is that for any re-posted item the degree of humour is relative to each recipient and what one finds hilarious may not be so much appreciated by others.
Having said all that I make no apology whatsoever for posting this item from You Tube which almost instigated the need for the Heimlich Manoeuvre as I was scoffing my breakfast this morning.
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*I reckon our dictionary compilers will now have to redefine "extreme" as meaning "anything?"
Not that I'm acting as an apologist for Rishi Sunak and his (should we say Gove's) precious committee but "extreme" is a comparative state, not an absolute. To be extreme one has to be extreme relative to a fixed point. And my fixed point may differ from your fixed point. In fact poor, confused Rishi could well reflect on this given the number of Tory MPs either leaving the HoC altogether (66 and counting; extremism extended to infinity you might say) or rushing to join Reform UK for which an armband bearing a strangely familiar symbol may soon be issued.
This blog features mainly my walking exploits interspersed with other random topics
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Cautionary quotes for those who intend to walk with others and other flag wavings:
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail."
"...the man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off."Henry David Thoreau
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Aspirations
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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"Adventure is just bad planning"
Roald Amundsen
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...he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said ”Bother!” and “O blow!” and also “Hang spring-cleaning!” and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously...
Wind in the Willows
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.
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.
LISTS
My UK long distance walks
My French long distance walks
BOOKS
EIGHT BOOKS are available; Each one has a day to day journal and many colour photos.
Conrad Walks Land’s End to John o’Groats (77 days - 106 pages)
Hardback £30.00
PDF download £10.00
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Conrad Walks The Broads to The Lakes (28 days - 92 pages)
Hardback £21.97
PDF download £7.28
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Conrad Walks The GR10 Pyrenean traverse, Atlantic to Mediterranean - (52 days - 107 pages)
Hardback £23.71
PDF download £7
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Conrad Walks The GR5 - Lake Geneva to Mediterranean - (35 days - 113 pages)
Hardback £28.00
PDF download £4.00
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Conrad Walks The French Gorges - (35 days through Provence, the Ardeche, and the Cevennes - 99 pages)
Hardback £27
PDF download £4
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Conrad Walks Wales - (58 days round the whole Welsh border - 237 pages)
Hardback £36.29
PDF download £5.00
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Conrad Walks Coast, River and Canals - (SE Coast, Severn Way, and various canals - 157 pages)
Gave me a lump in my throat! So sweet.
ReplyDeleteAlan R - Ah!
ReplyDeleteNot that I'm acting as an apologist for Rishi Sunak and his (should we say Gove's) precious committee but "extreme" is a comparative state, not an absolute. To be extreme one has to be extreme relative to a fixed point. And my fixed point may differ from your fixed point. In fact poor, confused Rishi could well reflect on this given the number of Tory MPs either leaving the HoC altogether (66 and counting; extremism extended to infinity you might say) or rushing to join Reform UK for which an armband bearing a strangely familiar symbol may soon be issued.
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