Monday, January 12, 2026

Rambling

 From the Heathen Witch: "I took the road less travelled, and now the f**k  don't know where I am"   Loved it.  There was also good Brian Bilston poem about a plea for a no news day.  

Prayer for Uninteresting Times

Send me a slow news day,
a quiet, subdued day,
in which nothing much happens of note,
save for the passing of time,
the consumption of wine,
and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote.

Grant me a no news day,
a spare-me-your-views day,
in which nothing much happens at all,
except a few hours together
some regional weather,
a day we can barely recall.

As someone who watches Midsomer Murders because of its gentle murdering nature (you know it is not true). I sometimes think I cannot keep up with the adults you find in blogger land.  How can they sit through blood and gore, over-sexed maniacs, and opera, yes opera is a personal hatred and I think I do not understand the human race.  Here by the way, I am talking about the films they watch not what they get up to in Blogger land.

I haven't succumbed to the virus that is going around, though Andrew has been coughing terribly but of course there is still time.  

So what photos today, a Welsh cromlech - Pentre Ifan.  How to find it, just drive down some Welsh lanes out of Newport,  Park in the small layby, go through the gate, wander past the foxgloves and then find truly magnificent stones echoing the bare bones of a cromlech, for it would probably have had soil and stones to bury it.  I see I visited in 2007 my great love affair with Wales must have started from this year.  Here is a description of it. See how cleverly the capstone sits on the upright stones.  Balanced delicately on what must have been worked stones.  You can see this method in other cromlechs nearby.


I forgot to boast.  Got wordle in two this morning...........



6 comments:

  1. I'm glad you are avoiding that virus, I keep reading about people saying it goes on for weeks- sounds awful.

    Agree with you about opera - it's just weird.

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  2. Well done on the Wordle. Having had "the Virus" a month, I can guarantee it is not a good bedfellow.

    I did actually enjoy some bits of opera which kept popping up on my Instagram feed between Christmas and New Year. The popular sort though.

    As for Pentre Ifan - yes been there a good few times, but now living where I do, doubt I will make it over that way again. I can remember the Foxglove summer visits too . . .

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  3. Is Wordle still a thing? How nice. I must try it one day, when I have time.
    What an amazing assembly of stones in Wales.
    Was it you who first informed me of Midsomer Murders being pensioner porn? I immediately grasped the phrase and I can see my future where I will watch pensioner porn, in an armchair, in the afternoon.

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    1. And I will go full on with it, including Vera.

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  4. That cromlech is very much like The Portal Dolmen in County Clare, Ireland - up on The Burren. How the hell did they shift those huge capstones without JCB diggers? I loved the poem by Brian Bilston because the blaring of current affairs can eat into your very soul.

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  5. Yes, we are through the Midsomer Murders. Must be the old age...

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