A greener shade of white, to be fair.
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Which begs the question... so which one belongs to yer man Arthur?
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Bit breezy, but so glad I postponed from last year since classic views are to be had here...
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One for the connoisseurs....
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Caer Maurice... or Caer Cadwgan. The choice is yours.
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"I'll catch a rainbow from the sky, And tie the ends together".....
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A shufti at Cerrig Cynant Stone Circle, moving on to the northern of the two Bryn Poeth Uchaf Ring Cairns
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Took a bit of reaching, but wondrous position
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Ridiculed by many.... But not by I. Nor, I would assume, by those that have walked these heights...
For me, guitar playing at its very finest.
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A reminder to always check out the summit of even the lower Welsh hills... you never know,
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Out of sight shouldn't mean out of mind...
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So what do you call a hill topped by a large cairn/barrow? How about Cairn/Barrow? That'll do.
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Just goes to show you never know what's up there, do you?
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The transmitter station is offputting, granted. But then the cairns were here first.........
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If you happen to be passing.. use your loaf: there's a hill fort up there. No, really.
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If you decide to come check it out.... see if you can find an easier approach!
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A monument fit for a king? Nah, it's much better than that.
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Boy did they try... but they couldn't destroy the 'sense of place' of this one....
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Hi, I'm Robert ... with a passion for attempting to understand the lives of the pioneering prehistoric inhabitants of these British Isles, seeking out the remains they left behind in order to ask myself "why here ... why did it matter so... why such commitment?".. Needless to say, I'm still pondering such intangibles. Just as an empty house appears to retain echoes of past humanity... so does the stone circle, the chambered cairn, the long barrow and the mountain-top funerary cairn. Visiting them, I think, helps engender a certain 'connection' with this land of ours, with ourselves - our past, our present and our future; a reference point for those of us perhaps struggling to make sense of this so-called 'computer world' Kraftwerk warned us was a'coming in 1981.... danke, mein herren. And thanks also to those who picked up their gauntlet and ran with it.
Should my posts provide inspiration for others to venture into the Great Outdoors, please bear in mind the hills and mountains of these Isles are unpredictable, potentially dangerous places. Ensure you have map/compass/waterproofs... and learn how to use them. It could save your life. Weather conditions can change bewilderingly quickly - even in high summer - so don't get caught out. Please engage with landowners wherever possible... being a cartoon 'class warrior' might be jolly good fun for the narcissistic 'rebel'... but not for those who may choose to follow.
Joni Mitchell - 'Don't it always seem to go; That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?'
George Orwell - 'The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.'
Martin Gore - 'Like a pawn
On the eternal board
Who’s never quite sure
What he’s moved towards
I walk blindly on'...
Truman Capote - 'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'
Oscar Wilde - 'The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.'
John Lydon - 'It is a reward to be chastised by the ignorant.'
Winston Churchill - '“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” [Perhaps one day people may finally grasp the reality that, for all his many faults, Churchill is the reason we are currently able to proffer personal views today that are not dictated by a totalitarian state.]
Charles Bukowski - “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
Ultravox - 'Taking shelter by the standing stones
Miles from all that moves....'
Catch site videos from the Citizen Cairn at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFk6mRD0QCGTnUXRBlSJ44w
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