To the hills!
Sunday, August 21st, 2005 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthToday I felt a need for fresh air, so I went for a splendid long walk.
There's a bus that runs every 2 hours on a Sunday from the top of the road, through and along the South Downs to Pulborough and back. There were three other people (2 of them children) for part of the outward journey, but I had the bus (and chatty, cheerful, helpful bus driver) to myself on the way back.
Started at Newtimber Hill, a very steep climb through thick woods that brought me out on the brow of the hill, where some vile Young Folk were having a techno dance party. Am all for this in its place, but not on a hilltop (it's National Trust, but there's a fenced-off private bit) on Sunday lunchtime. And loud enough to be audible up to a mile away.
Sulked, and stomped off.
Equilibrium restored about a mile from party. Wandered around a bit, looked at dewponds and attendant sheep, looked at sea, looked at clouds, etc. Wandered down into Pyecombe and back up to Wolstonbury, which may've been an Iron Age fort, or something different. (I summarise about 20 websites.) Lovely, quiet, old. Wandered around looking at tumuli (not actually much more impressive than Greenwich Park's specimens), 19th-century quarrying ('cept I didn't realise how recent they were), earthworks, and a very steep path down to the site of a Roman villa, no longer visible. (There's also a Roman / Saxon cemetery and a Roman crossroads in the area.)
Meandered back to bus stop (complicated by the fact that the A23 was in the way and there's only one crossing-place nearby). Exchanged tales of country life with bus driver. Staggered home.
I am not usually impervious to pain, so I was somewhat surprised (to say the least) to discover my socks stiff with blood and chunks of skin. No major damage, but am amazed that I didn't feel more than very slightly footsore.
Swimming tomorrow ...
There's a bus that runs every 2 hours on a Sunday from the top of the road, through and along the South Downs to Pulborough and back. There were three other people (2 of them children) for part of the outward journey, but I had the bus (and chatty, cheerful, helpful bus driver) to myself on the way back.
Started at Newtimber Hill, a very steep climb through thick woods that brought me out on the brow of the hill, where some vile Young Folk were having a techno dance party. Am all for this in its place, but not on a hilltop (it's National Trust, but there's a fenced-off private bit) on Sunday lunchtime. And loud enough to be audible up to a mile away.
Sulked, and stomped off.
Equilibrium restored about a mile from party. Wandered around a bit, looked at dewponds and attendant sheep, looked at sea, looked at clouds, etc. Wandered down into Pyecombe and back up to Wolstonbury, which may've been an Iron Age fort, or something different. (I summarise about 20 websites.) Lovely, quiet, old. Wandered around looking at tumuli (not actually much more impressive than Greenwich Park's specimens), 19th-century quarrying ('cept I didn't realise how recent they were), earthworks, and a very steep path down to the site of a Roman villa, no longer visible. (There's also a Roman / Saxon cemetery and a Roman crossroads in the area.)
Meandered back to bus stop (complicated by the fact that the A23 was in the way and there's only one crossing-place nearby). Exchanged tales of country life with bus driver. Staggered home.
I am not usually impervious to pain, so I was somewhat surprised (to say the least) to discover my socks stiff with blood and chunks of skin. No major damage, but am amazed that I didn't feel more than very slightly footsore.
Swimming tomorrow ...
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Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 08:13 pm (UTC)Would you be interested in a Tolkien Ensemble greatest hits thing? With added Christopher Lee? We could call it a belated house-warming present :)
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Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 10:27 pm (UTC)You must show me how to get to Wolstenbury Hill (on foot) sometime. I've never actually managed to climb it, though I've been past a bazillion times.
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Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 10:44 pm (UTC)Remind me to find some of those backless trainers ...
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Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 10:52 pm (UTC)Is there a reason for not using walking boots?
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Date: Sunday, August 21st, 2005 11:15 pm (UTC)I'm unlikely to be doing 4+ hours of solid walking any time soon, though!
a Tolkien Ensemble greatest hits thing? With added Christopher Lee?
Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 06:32 am (UTC)Re: a Tolkien Ensemble greatest hits thing? With added Christopher Lee?
Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 09:55 am (UTC)Founded in 95, have made three albums so far (An Evening in Rivendell, Night in Rivendell, and At Dawn in Rivendell) containing most of the songs and poems from LotR. They've got one album to go I think.
It's an eclectic mix of classical musicians, opera singers, musical singers, and folk/jazz musicians and the music ranges from piano pieces, folk-like fiddle songs, to something aspiring and not quite succeeding at sounding like Orft ;)
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Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 10:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 02:55 pm (UTC)Would love a Greatest Hits! Christopher Lee, oooh yes go on. (When are you coming to UK next? Come visit and deliver in person!)
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Date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005 10:35 pm (UTC)