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...........
I'm glad you are avoiding that virus, I keep reading about people saying it goes on for weeks- sounds awful.
ReplyDeleteAgree with you about opera - it's just weird.
I remember having flu at Xmas when my daughter was a baby, the whole household just retired to bed very ill. I almost died of the Asian flu when I was a child, after a good 6 months of convalescence I still looked like a skeleton. It is British weather that enhances flu.
DeleteWell done on the Wordle. Having had "the Virus" a month, I can guarantee it is not a good bedfellow.
ReplyDeleteI 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 . . .
Flu and viruses ride through this time of year regularly, both are miserable. I hope the antibiotics work for you Jennie. Maybe you will not get back to that part of Wales but you have plenty of medieval churches around where you live now.
DeleteIs Wordle still a thing? How nice. I must try it one day, when I have time.
ReplyDeleteWhat 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.
And I will go full on with it, including Vera.
DeleteEach morning I do wordle, codewords and an online jigsaw puzzle just to see that my mind is still working Andrew. Well when you get to a pensioner's age enjoy old drama!
DeleteThat 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.
ReplyDeleteWell if you have ever seen reconstruction scenarios Neil. You dig a very deep hole, lever the stone into it, and then haul the stone up with ropes. They used wood rollers to move the stones.
DeleteYes, we are through the Midsomer Murders. Must be the old age...
ReplyDeleteAnd luckily Tom as there is so many of them, that by the time you get to series 26, you have forgotten the first episodes and you can start all over again.
DeleteLove the poem - it says what so many of us feel.
ReplyDeleteIf everyone just stopped talking about a certain person Janice, his notorious fame would be much less.
ReplyDeleteI agree with that poem! Too much awful news for sure.
ReplyDeleteThose stones are really something - can't imagine how it is done.
Don't get the flu, Thelma, it's terrible - 2+ weeks and I am still coughing and so tired.
I do enjoy those old reruns of Murder She Wrote and Midsummer Murders.