Out And About.

[Maladict]

Had a choice between going to a folk festival this weekend or going out onto the Wessex downlands, no surprise I choose the later. 

A wise decision 

[Zanza]

Southern Bavaria is just a beautiful place:

[mongers]

Yes, that is rather nice.   

This evening I just had to make do with a ride around the local national park. 

And at little more than 500 km², our Americans friends would think it barley bigger than a city park.

[Eddie Teach]

That is quite large for a city park.

[mongers]

Evening ride to a bit of Dorset I don't visit much, seems I found one of the hillier bits of NE Dorset, rather up hill and down dale.

Went the long way around to Knowlton Church, an abandoned Norman parish church.

Interestingly it sits right in the middle of a large henge, noticeably bigger than Stonehenge. Several other henges around, hence the name 'Knowlton circles.



https://goo.gl/photos/F2MKTWHbpMHg4WX66


Partial map:

[Maladict]

Wow, impressive 
I need to bump Dorset up The List.

[mongers]

Did one of my very favourite things, went for a walk on a rainy Summer's evening. 

[mongers]

Just limiting myself to evening trips out at the moment.

Though I'm thinking of doing a few Tolkien inspired journeys in the 'wild', maybe go and find Balin in 'Moria' ? 

[CountDeMoney]

Don't you have a job?

[Richard Hakluyt]

We don't need any boring old jobs in Brexit Britain 

[mongers]

Had an evening walk around the Wiltshire countryside and then back along the river into the city of Salisbury, a favourite summer stroll of mine. 

Thank goodness we've no had some rain and the countryside is looking less parched.

[Gups]

I like this thread but never contribute. So I thought I'd nick someone else's writing about one of our local events - the Lambeth Country Show. It's a strange event - with genuine country fair type offerings (sheepdog trials, petting animals, folk singers) mixed with the kind of festival (music, funfair, people getting pissed and stoned) you'd expect at a park in a multi-ethnic  inner suburban London neighbourhood.

Anyway, here's the blog entry and the intro

https://deserter.co.uk/2017/07/hot-in-herne-hill/

There's something about Herne Hill on Lambeth Country Show weekend. Something unhinged, as if locals remove their reserve, like a fine cloak, fold it neatly and then douse it in kerosene, set it alight and snort the ashes.

I should have known something was up early doors on the Saturday when I was making my way down Milkwood Road towards Brockwell Park. A woman on the other side of the road waved and called over, 'Can I touch your beard?'

I smiled and nodded my assent, before she added, 'With my vagina?'

It was 11am.

[mongers]

I like this thread but never contribute. So I thought I'd nick someone else's writing about one of our local events - the Lambeth Country Show. It's a strange event - with genuine country fair type offerings (sheepdog trials, petting animals, folk singers) mixed with the kind of festival (music, funfair, people getting pissed and stoned) you'd expect at a park in a multi-ethnic  inner suburban London neighbourhood.

Anyway, here's the blog entry and the intro

https://deserter.co.uk/2017/07/hot-in-herne-hill/

There's something about Herne Hill on Lambeth Country Show weekend. Something unhinged, as if locals remove their reserve, like a fine cloak, fold it neatly and then douse it in kerosene, set it alight and snort the ashes.

I should have known something was up early doors on the Saturday when I was making my way down Milkwood Road towards Brockwell Park. A woman on the other side of the road waved and called over, 'Can I touch your beard?'

I smiled and nodded my assent, before she added, 'With my vagina?'

It was 11am.

We get that quite a bit here as well, Ellingham show,  is a similarly urban influenced show; truth be told the number of people involve in the rural economy hereabouts is vanishingly small. 

Productive land is often given over to pony paddocks, mile after mile up the valley, as I saw this evening.

[Syt]

Part of the Museum's Quarter in Vienna is covered in scaffolding. It's been decorated:

[garbon]

I'm pretty sure while late to work that I saw Ian McKellen!