Meta tags:
description=Dai s Farewell Tour of the UK, measured out in Cappuccinos;

Headings (most frequently used words):

july, 2013, the, for, them, another, recent, chasing, frothy, bubbles, bare, bones, now, flesh, to, follow, talk, with, friendly, and, wish, farewell, country, easy, livers, linda, in, town, let, trane, take, strane, back, story, adventure, begins, thrillsville, posts, comments, archives, categories, meta, 26, 21, 20, 18, 17, 14, 13,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (234), and (118), for (36), with (34), that (30), his (27), from (24), this (22), but (21), not (18), there (16), was (16), long (15), her (15), they (15), back (14), will (14), july (13), are (13), old (13), what (13), been (13), now (12), you (12), mynd (12), out (11), their (11), 2013 (10), just (10), one (10), can (10), your (10), farewell (9), them (9), time (9), which (9), only (9), here (9), have (8), having (8), more (8), tour (7), story (7), again (7), would (7), when (7), being (7), people (7), few (7), two (7), were (7), days (7), has (7), ludlow (7), might (7), man (7), hills (7), some (7), may (7), down (7), #comments (6), another (6), linda (6), town (6), follow (6), though (6), full (6), home (6), then (6), day (6), even (6), said (6), heart (6), those (6), had (6), she (6), where (6), make (6), way (6), church (6), walk (6), young (6), after (6), like (5), wordpress (5), comment (5), frothy (5), bubbles (5), blog (5), seat (5), into (5), new (5), never (5), round (5), leave (5), along (5), coffee (5), come (5), him (5), birthday (5), lost (5), hotel (5), stretton (5), too (5), called (5), off (5), who (5), say (5), lovely (5), site (4), com (4), write (4), chasing (4), let (4), country (4), dudley (4), late (4), than (4), whole (4), dying (4), later (4), couple (4), call (4), decided (4), see (4), upon (4), correspondent (4), world (4), over (4), bloody (4), measured (4), its (4), next (4), london (4), ralph (4), very (4), night (4), shropshire (4), fair (4), early (4), guest (4), house (4), above (4), celebrate (4), before (4), hill (4), appear (4), served (4), least (4), went (4), road (4), lads (4), grumble (4), email (3), log (3), sign (3), account (3), dailowe (3), take (3), wish (3), west (3), rather (3), wales (3), seen (3), sheep (3), royal (3), cos (3), because (3), done (3), probably (3), deconstructed (3), dai (3), dead (3), owd (3), git (3), older (3), places (3), always (3), got (3), sure (3), all (3), land (3), indeed (3), put (3), wild (3), hand (3), first (3), enough (3), mushroom (3), warwick (3), lichfield (3), age (3), oldest (3), dearest (3), friend (3), once (3), housman (3), stupid (3), meal (3), becasse (3), climb (3), caer (3), caradoc (3), did (3), spring (3), mill (3), nestling (3), manchester (3), city (3), our (3), date (3), good (3), ish (3), holiday (3), blue (3), wait (3), thou (3), memory (3), place (3), how (3), teacher (3), traveller (3), read (3), far (3), watch (3), space (3), sit (3), much (3), hath (3), chosen (3), need (3), fellow (3), quiet (3), author (3), found (3), rooms (3), blow (3), think (3), also (3), took (3), exquisite (3), cappuccinos (3), well (3), get (2), required (2), bar (2), content (2), subscribed (2), subscribe (2), already (2), feed (2), brian (2), delaney (2), recent (2), trane (2), strane (2), easy (2), livers (2), talk (2), friendly (2), bare (2), bones (2), flesh (2), posts (2), midlands (2), starting (2), yes (2), rain (2), same (2), room (2), folks (2), seemed (2), either (2), simply (2), project (2), ditch (2), months (2), don (2), free (2), bus (2), revisit (2), haunts (2), acquaintances (2), wanted (2), online (2), looking (2), claim (2), silence (2), soon (2), wee (2), copies (2), hence (2), bedroom (2), life (2), weary (2), shops (2), child (2), while (2), away (2), stop (2), calendar (2), hiatus (2), still (2), 21st (2), forty (2), spend (2), visit (2), cathedral (2), seems (2), given (2), stay (2), start (2), half (2), photo (2), credit (2), wikipedia (2), son (2), lad (2), retired (2), near (2), treat (2), starred (2), makes (2), middle (2), adorable (2), partner (2), picturesque (2), vale (2), carding (2), valley (2), eastern (2), edge (2), quaint (2), landlady (2), fine (2), should (2), less (2), mists (2), known (2), replies (2), every (2), years (2), says (2), remembered (2), special (2), dinner (2), local (2), heels (2), company (2), became (2), friends (2), strudels (2), nottingham (2), such (2), family (2), walls (2), haircut (2), 1968 (2), grammar (2), school (2), physics (2), parents (2), wilds (2), made (2), hours (2), large (2), most (2), however (2), leg (2), readers (2), button (2), pics (2), inbox (2), coming (2), kitchen (2), wine (2), drunk (2), carry (2), eaten (2), lord (2), sonia (2), missed (2), clock (2), window (2), table (2), enjoy (2), knees (2), beneath (2), tiny (2), fall (2), sire (2), doth (2), within (2), coach (2), travellers (2), mobile (2), shall (2), these (2), modern (2), mwahahaha (2), until (2), bit (2), everything (2), property (2), didn (2), live (2), four (2), goes (2), please (2), tea (2), bugle (2), echoes (2), set (2), castle (2), rest (2), things (2), research (2), bad (2), moved (2), joy (2), path (2), morning (2), high (2), water (2), journey (2), catching (2), train (2), luggage (2), worth (2), setting (2), stone (2), access (2), phone (2), signal (2), dalí (2), lunch (2), chocolate (2), isn (2), garden (2), formatting (2), side (2), attempt (2), croft (2), hampton (2), court (2), simple (2), honour (2), heaven (2), clutter (2), want (2), started, design, website, name, loading, collapse, manage, subscriptions, view, reader, report, privacy, entries, create, meta, uncategorized, categories, archives, search, explained, following, blogette, particular, reasons, beginning, surprising, development, course, appearing, sentence, classic, example, tautology, dribbling, dragging, ends, glassy, stares, nursing, preferable, idea, unseen, unmourned, except, odd, overcompassionate, mountain, founder, ceo, indignitas, dereliction, duty, catapulted, arthur, mile, devoutly, wished, consummation, comes, disgracefully, doing, thing, swell, foop, daunting, prospect, unlikely, lot, ever, possibly, ended, document, mighty, desktop, abode, stones, listing, rough, itinerary, termed, sinatra, esque, grandiloquence, six, trips, glasgow, sunny, stirling, tally, resolve, trump, lethargy, oblomov, buried, father, january, worry, proud, possessor, pass, republic, salmondia, railcard, miserable, curmudgeon, circumvent, harassment, wary, sam, beckett, wrote, stain, fact, somebody, damp, cloth, departed, brought, legendary, book, bordering, dangerously, optimism, thousand, printed, filled, realism, about, thirty, sold, orgy, apparent, generosity, handed, complete, strangers, order, boxes, 2009, dawned, crumbling, reduced, auld, reekie, eliot, spoons, william, butler, yeats, stolen, fro, leap, chase, troubles, anxious, sleep, human, waters, faery, weeping, understand, adventure, begins, thrillsville, meanwhile, trusty, informs, colleague, despite, three, year, tries, address, around, does, remember, non, existent, thus, feel, news, settled, brummagem, black, spare, maybe, lived, decade, birthplace, samuel, johnson, area, right, last, sesquidecadal, woeful, level, fitness, nights, cardio, bursting, climbs, england, left, fixes, celebrating, imaginary, fortieth, dimmed, innate, folly, strudel, mate, wife, absentee, mother, teaching, lives, market, gastronomic, hotspot, sensible, state, penury, unemployability, michelin, alma, mater, summer, solitary, curmudgeonly, plans, bold, caractacus, final, stand, against, rome, 1998, younger, stays, little, interest, cooking, provides, breakfast, terribly, boring, times, sometime, 80s, 90s, professional, takes, job, major, bank, deference, northern, origin, colleagues, promptly, christen, office, proprietorial, soubriquet, becomes, result, conversation, successful, details, drunken, upgrade, champion, someone, decides, funny, bear, silly, pun, champignon, obviously, finally, results, forever, hearts, eaven, eck, pricey, 1994, lowe, believed, studying, somewhere, lancaster, trouble, offspring, fully, deserving, slap, triple, diner, tante, claire, feels, obliged, supper, asks, fifteen, nice, tradition, oblivious, hopefully, obvious, youth, 1983, touring, return, braised, meat, cooked, mrs, noblett, delighted, guests, cookery, training, directions, chippy, exact, terminology, used, composer, vaughan, williams, pronounced, rafe, moment, fairer, dost, realise, exactly, nine, since, master, shakespeare, calls, beast, backs, companion, spin, swiftly, enter, eating, obliquely, reliability, products, rubber, steak, mexicaine, chopped, peppers, sweetcorn, retains, annual, event, observed, successive, lovers, 1973, betrothed, university, fletchergate, espy, establishment, fascinated, menu, tempted, sample, wares, alas, starving, decide, reasonably, priced, visited, occasions, sadly, turn, footsteps, buses, respective, homes, frodo, bistro, october, 1972, barber, shop, york, informed, mine, host, goodly, racing, cancelled, haydock, park, gone, nothing, coiffeur, group, students, kidnapped, evil, means, giving, forms, unwitting, driven, miles, ridge, sustained, beer, swilling, visits, public, houses, cracks, offers, sums, money, reluctantly, likely, ensuing, particularly, sporadic, baffled, necessitate, sort, explanation, inveterate, waffler, bletherskite, loath, launch, lengthy, action, stifling, asides, brief, snippets, relevant, history, memorise, twit, many, survives, air, kills, yon, blows, spires, farms, hit, stories, magically, perfect, guestly, behaviour, composing, blogs, brilliant, evening, bottles, outs, havering, especially, lonely, leycester, offing, tomorrow, plus, lounge, 17th, filler, alive, balti, zoo, staffordshire, oatcakes, penny, australia, kick, starts, cappuccino, dalry, 30am, 16th, predilections, stated, faceth, direction, travel, desirous, beside, revel, glories, nature, fly, wise, noble, perspective, anything, wisheth, placed, perchance, refreshment, without, forced, chin, neither, suffer, privations, possessions, clearance, folding, passenger, use, woefully, inadequate, excessively, technologically, advanced, sanitary, facilities, latter, impediment, enjoyment, seated, furthermore, prefer, disturbed, loud, communications, telephonic, devices, grant, requested, boons, inform, insignia, recognise, throne, aye, f15, aisle, facing, backwards, parlance, term, airline, suitable, short, dull, spirit, verily, speakest, true, believe, exclamation, appropriate, compensation, thinkst, encountereth, unto, today, hot, ludicrously, plenty, stuck, alone, catch, tranes, tapas, matchless, prose, actual, 1979, 1985, neighbour, victoria, street, arriving, meet, drink, drifting, leaving, bobbing, wake, coxed, haiku, avon, guys, fame, overnight, pic, naffisa, grumpy, geezer, johanna, thomas, oken, asked, limerick, bugger, heat, keep, clean, pomes, tennyson, answer, flying, cataract, leaps, glory, light, shakes, across, lakes, snowy, summits, splendour, falls, lowesman, paths, tough, thirteen, easier, needn, heather, lay, whatever, susan, smith, visions, retreat, myth, five, geoff, coombe, bridgford, reach, horizon, shuttle, runs, centre, top, different, weren, cares, cleese, therefore, rhubarb, tart, discarding, wasn, certain, postulated, descartes, principles, philosophy, martha, jemima, streton, stayed, amazing, ravens, wrens, tree, creepers, deceitful, magpies, arse, available, great, companions, cunnery, safety, woodland, welcome, pint, ingrained, reluctance, prescribed, routes, footpaths, maps, common, sense, led, precarious, scrambling, dangerous, straddling, barbed, wire, fences, tiring, track, balancing, acts, trees, rears, distance, third, epic, other, cutting, brekky, struggled, ash, hollow, balanced, camera, bush, hum, somehow, doughty, correspondist, rose, proverbial, crack, stroll, lancelot, capability, brown, rectory, wood, watercolour, block, paints, brushes, occasioned, breaking, rendezvous, sandie, dent, turned, lively, causing, drag, onward, eventually, caught, taxi, undertakers, liefly, sandwich, relatively, instance, friday, shrewsbury, coffeehouse, simon, interrupted, endless, postcards, literary, blogging, forget, notes, jotted, straw, spun, brightest, gold, homebound, piled, readiness, spent, walking, painting, mentioning, blethering, drinking, golden, wedding, party, promised, pearly, paragraphs, remain, unwrit, lied, halt, deliver, lief, laters, lies, moldering, border, troubled, offsprung, style, further, bloggeration, difficult, staying, hamlet, marlow, throw, leintwardine, yet, internet, housperson, hundreds, men, barn, forge, fold, girls, liquor, parts, bye, hold, breath, sojourn, rounded, fatima, better, break, meeting, kid, sister, bangor, roomie, shelley, pickledwilly, station, singing, bailey, sisters, lucy, perth, honours, quality, square, disappointed, named, surrealists, melting, nun, flaming, wimple, breast, exposed, fitted, small, drawer, sudden, change, plan, onto, lite, sidoli, ice, cream, gourmet, wander, antique, emporia, poem, end, closed, craven, arms, wishing, incur, wrath, copyright, gods, copying, refer, show, flowers, treelets, risking, fiddling, swearing, lots, text, neatly, link, gardens, interesting, chapel, picture, stopped, overheating, tracks, stole, twas, portrait, nancy, beatrice, borwick, lady, paul, césar, helleu, drypoint, national, trust, famous, topical, associations, babies, princesses, gracious, owners, unfortunate, midwife, bunny, monday, chums, herefordshire, wonderful, mishmash, maze, river, faux, vieux, original, considering, dumping, handle, newline, image, could, faster, raw, html, own, eminent, gets, restaurant, cocked, bleedin, sophisticated, sunday, excellent, duck, terrine, lamb, torte, fruity, rioja, madrileño, maître, thank, car, bonny, scotland, fill, gentle, stuff, happened, bloggy, diary, philosophical, musings, loopy, press, really, risk, missing, yourselves, chum, base, bromsgrove, previous, cottage, filling, acres, tons, randy, spaniel, cormac, fields, outside, rape, crop, unseemly, ovine, activity, field, constant, threat, fight, powerful, animal, strong, sexual, attraction, legs, yrs, trly, followed, rural, interweb, paint, jug, bough, worms, wisdom, inclusion, herein, jolly, tome, rebours,

Text of the page (random words):
chums took their guest to hampton court the original or at least older hampton court in herefordshire a wonderful mishmash of old and faux vieux a maze a river an exquisite garden and a stone bunny o o o another day another castle this time croft a national trust property famous for its family and topical associations with dead royal babies and princesses one of its gracious owners having been an unfortunate royal man midwife lovely gardens again an interesting chapel and within a picture which stopped your overheating traveller dead in his tracks and stole his heart twas a portrait of nancy beatrice borwick lady croft by paul césar helleu in drypoint not wishing to incur the wrath of the copyright gods by copying it to here we refer you to this link and show you some flowers and treelets in the garden which it isn t worth risking formatting to one side only to spend hours fiddling and swearing lots in an attempt to put text down the side neatly grumble grumble o o o there is a place in craven arms called the land of lost content no this isn t a poem though if it were it would end at least my good friends said there was but they d closed it when i went so in a sudden change of plan they decided to see their guest onto his train to manchester from ludlow after a lite lunch at dalí a sidoli s ice cream from the chocolate gourmet and a wander round the shops and antique emporia lucy from perth did the honours in the dalí tea rooms in ludlow s quality square one is always disappointed in places named after surrealists not to be served coffee in a melting watch by a nun in a flaming wimple with one breast not only exposed but also fitted with a small drawer oh well and what better way to break the journey home than by meeting the kid sister s old bangor roomie shelley of the singing bailey sisters at manchester s pickledwilly station o o o the sojourn is rounded off next morning by coming back to the clock and a coffee from the lovely fatima more will follow probably in time watch this space but don t hold your breath as they say round these parts bye just now 2 comments july 21 2013 talk with them friendly and wish them farewell the lads in their hundreds to ludlow come in for the fair there s men from the barn and the forge and the mill and the fold the lads for the girls and the lads for the liquor are there and there with the rest are the lads that will never be old a e housperson setting off on the road less troubled to celebrate the offsprung s birthday in style at la becasse ludlow it may well be that further bloggeration will be difficult staying with oldest and dearest friend for a few days in the tiny hamlet of marlow a stone s throw from leintwardine there may yet be no access to internet not even a mobile phone signal so if your correspondent goes a bit quiet for a few days think not that he lies moldering in a ditch in wales or just over the border just enjoy the silence as will he laters 1 comment july 20 2013 the country for easy livers where shall one halt to deliver this luggage i d lief set down housman a shropshire lad ok so i lied the whole day was spent walking in the hills no painting worth mentioning got done and the blethering and drinking with the golden wedding party went on so late at dinner those promised pearly paragraphs remain unwrit it was bad enough when every holiday had to be interrupted to write endless postcards home but literary blogging forget it notes have been jotted straw that can but may never be spun into brightest gold at a later and more homebound date is piled high in readiness cappuccinos have been drunk though for instance on friday in the shrewsbury coffeehouse served by the exquisite simon this was occasioned by a journey breaking rendezvous with author sandie dent who turned out to be lively and exquisite company causing heels to drag in catching the onward train but eventually one had to be caught and a taxi from the local undertakers took man and liefly let down luggage up the hill for a sandwich and a relatively early night 0 o o somehow your doughty correspondist rose at the proverbial crack to go for a stroll in lancelot capability brown s rectory wood he also took a watercolour block paints and brushes but no water ho hum then after brekky he struggled up the high hills above ash s hollow and balanced a camera on a bush the long mynd hotel seen here nestling in the trees above the ludlow road caer caradoc rears in the distance was chosen because it is already a third of the way up the climb the path chosen for this epic morning walk on the other hand went down to the bloody road before cutting back up the hill an ingrained reluctance to follow prescribed routes footpaths maps or common sense led to some precarious scrambling dangerous straddling of barbed wire fences and very tiring sheep track balancing acts but ravens wrens tree creepers and two deceitful magpies joy my arse i m not available in joy made great companions before a way was found back to the cunnery road and the safety of the woodland path back to the hotel and a very welcome pint 0 o o martha at jemima s kitchen down in church streton where i wish i d stayed cos the rooms are amazing if this were not a farewell tour one would be moved to say next time the principles of modern day philosophy were postulated by descartes discarding everything he wasn t certain of he said i think therefore i am a rhubarb tart j cleese 0 o o had i known that a shuttle bus runs from the centre of church stretton to the top of the mynd how different things might have been research man research then again things weren t so bad as they went so who cares just carry on along here until you reach the horizon then stop and wait for the rest of us geoff coombe physics teacher west bridgford grammar long mynd 1968 forty five years on this is the heather where we lay whatever became of susan smith blue visions of that long lost day retreat from memory into myth those paths so tough in oh thirteen seemed so much easier back then at least i now can say i ve been and needn t bloody come again from a shropshire owd git by j d lowesman leave a comment july 18 2013 another linda in another town the splendour falls on castle walls and snowy summits old in story the long light shakes across the lakes and the wild cataract leaps in glory blow bugle blow set the wild echoes flying blow bugle answer echoes dying dying dying tennyson ah the old wee place in warwick such a bugger it was to heat and keep clean just a few pics pomes for now johanna at thomas oken s tea rooms asked for a limerick there once was a grumpy old geezer who was served by the lovely naffisa with her pic on his site she found fame overnight now guys fall to their knees just to please her haiku on avon the coxed four goes by leaving bobbing in its wake my drifting old heart linda the lovely and much missed neighbour from victoria street arriving to meet the author for a drink the author didn t live here from 1979 to 1985 which actual property he didn t live in is lost in the mists of memory and that will have to do for today it s a bit too late it s far too hot he s ludicrously too full and there will be plenty of time stuck on a hill at night alone to catch up with everything from tranes to tapas in matchless prose over the next two days long mynd here we come leave a comment july 17 2013 let the trane take the strane and how would the traveller make his way what predilections hath he stated my lord he hath chosen a seat which faceth in the direction of travel and is most desirous of being beside a window that he might see and revel in the glories of nature in our land as they fly by a wise and noble perspective anything more indeed he wisheth to be placed before a table that he may read write and perchance enjoy refreshment without his knees being forced beneath his chin neither would he suffer the privations of a tiny table from which his possessions might fall and which may need clearance and folding away should a fellow passenger need to use the woefully inadequate excessively large but technologically advanced sanitary facilities but this latter need be no impediment to his enjoyment if he be seated by the window indeed sire and furthermore he doth prefer to be within the quiet coach that he may not be disturbed by loud communications of his fellow travellers on mobile telephonic devices and the like shall i grant him these requested boons and inform him of the insignia by which he might recognise his throne aye put him in f15 but sire that seat is on the aisle facing backwards and is what modern parlance doth term an airline seat suitable only for the short of leg and dull of spirit verily thou speakest true i believe the exclamation of mwahahaha is now appropriate at least he hath the quiet coach as compensation thinkst thou so wait until he encountereth his fellow travellers again i say unto you mwahahaha penny from australia kick starts the tour with a cappuccino in the clock in dalry 10 30am 16th july 2013 this is more of a filler blog to say still alive in dudley been to a balti house dudley zoo lichfield cathedral eaten much missed staffordshire oatcakes and been served coffee by the lovely sonia sonia of the lounge in lichfield 17th july but it s far from the perfect guestly behaviour to sit in the people s mushroom s kitchen composing blogs however brilliant all evening when there are bottles of wine to be drunk carry outs to be eaten and havering to be done especially when a long lonely night at the lord leycester hotel is in the offing tomorrow plus two more on the mynd that is long so watch this space hit the follow button and pics and stories will magically appear in your inbox in the coming days leave a comment july 14 2013 back story into my heart an air that kills from yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires what farms are those that s the long mynd you stupid twit you ve been there many a time and once again you ll walk on it if your heart survives the climb a e housman ish it is likely that some of the account in the ensuing posts particularly for this first leg of the sporadic deconstructed farewell tour of the uk will either leave readers baffled or necessitate some sort of explanation now even as an inveterate waffler and bletherskite your world weary traveller here is loath to launch off into lengthy and action stifling asides so here are a few brief snippets of relevant history read and memorise o o o spring 1968 a group of nottingham grammar school students are kidnapped by an evil physics teacher by means of giving them forms for their unwitting parents to sign and driven to the wilds of shropshire where they are made to walk miles along a ridge of hills sustained only by beer swilling visits to public houses along the way after a few hours of this the teacher cracks and offers their parents large sums of money to take them back most do so however reluctantly o o o october 21 1972 in a barber s shop by the walls of the fair city of york a young man is informed by mine host the goodly coiffeur that racing has been cancelled at haydock park and how was the haircut there was no haircut so what had he gone in there for ah nothing o o o july 21 1973 two young and betrothed university strudels walk down fletchergate in the fair ish city of nottingham they espy a new establishment called frodo s bistro fascinated by the menu they are tempted to sample the wares but alas being starving strudels they decide that such a place reasonably though it is priced can only be visited on special occasions sadly they turn their footsteps down the hill to the buses to their respective family homes wait a moment says the fairer of the two dost thou realise that it is exactly nine calendar months since we did first make what master shakespeare calls the beast with two backs we ll call him ralph replies her companion and with that they spin swiftly on their heels and enter the eating house to celebrate obliquely the reliability of the products of the london rubber company he has a steak mexicaine with chopped peppers and sweetcorn he retains no memory of what she had but the meal became an annual event observed even with successive friends and lovers this may not be the exact terminology used after the composer ralph vaughan williams and pronounced rafe o o o spring 1983 a young ish couple on a touring holiday from their home in warwick stay in a guest house in the picturesque vale called the carding mill valley nestling on the eastern edge of the long mynd hills above the quaint town of church stretton they walk upon those blue remembered hills and return for a special dinner of braised meat cooked by the landlady a mrs noblett who is delighted to have guests who call upon her cookery training rather than her directions to the local chippy over supper she asks if they have been here before oh yes replies the man i come here every fifteen years that s a nice tradition she says oblivious to the hopefully obvious youth of the couple but having said that he feels obliged to make good his claim o o o july 21 1994 a man in early middle age with his new and adorable young partner go to celebrate the 21st birthday of ralph lowe believed to be off studying somewhere like lancaster he has been a trouble free offspring and fully deserving of a slap up meal at that london s only triple starred diner la tante claire by eck it were pricey by eaven it were bloody good though o o o sometime in the late 80s or early 90s a young it professional from manchester takes a job in a major bank in the city of that london in deference to her northern origin her colleagues promptly christen her our linda at some later date it is decided the office should be less proprietorial her soubriquet becomes the people s linda as a result of some conversation or successful project details lost in the drunken mists of time it is decided to upgrade her to the people s champion then someone decides it s very funny bear with me to make a silly pun and call her the people s champignon this obviously and finally results in her being forever known in our hearts as linda the people s mushroom it can be terribly boring at times o o o spring 1998 a man in early middle age with his new and adorable younger partner stays in a guest house in the picturesque vale called the carding mill valley nestling on the eastern edge of the long mynd hills above the quaint town of church stretton the landlady is new too and has little interest in cooking but provides a fine breakfast looking up caer caradoc from near church stretton photo credit wikipedia they walk along the long mynd and climb caer caradoc too where bold caractacus did make his final stand against the might of rome o o o summer 2013 a solitary and curmudgeonly owd git makes plans to revisit old haunts even older acquaintances and a few places he d always wanted to see but never got round to to start with he fixes on cel...