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BlueGloves B
BlueGloves Jul 22, 2003 07:30:08
Replying to pebblesfromheaven

I found a cupmarked stone last week but it's three measly marks and it's beneath a wall (at 2200 feet).

The correct coordinates for the Hexham circle are posted. It's between the confluence of the rivers and there's a footpath from the roadside at Warden. I'm a little more interested in the circle at Langley but there is also a stone named the Homer Lane Cupmarked rock, not far away (from the SMR).

Ring ouzel's easy as their territorial cry is a single clear tone probably best described as 'plangent'. Nobody seems to try to talk to birds.

Did I say I've watched (from a mile and a half) a huge megalithic cairn get fed through a stone crusher ? I'm hoping that if I find the right words, and get them published, this new shooting owner - the White Sultan - who is worth £330m., will put it back. It was one of the Three Pikes, Knarsdale.

I've a friend on a years sabbattical in Barcelona.

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G goffik
goffik Jul 22, 2003 07:32:14
Replying to BlueGloves

Assistance! ;o)

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jul 22, 2003 08:24:45
Replying to BlueGloves

“Nobody seems to try to talk to birds.”
I do. (well, with a name like Swift…) I can communicate with Rock Doves, I think they’re called, by cooing at them, and it drives them crazy and they sometimes dive bomb me with a screaming sound. Whether it’s aggression or sexual frenzy I’m not sure but it doesn’t matter as I’m not interested either way. It pleases me though as I hate them – they’re Saxon invaders that have only been in this country since the sixties and now they’re everywhere and the wood pigeons have declined. Also, they have an excremental sense of rhythm, and always leave off the final coo that would make their call at least acceptable.
If you’re very very very sad you can get a lot of innocent pleasure watching Pride and Prejudice and hearing them in the background, as you can get to say Tut a lot. Writing to the BBC about it using a purple felt tip is very heaven.