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Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 29, 2003 12:03PM
<HTML>OK. I know it's a long shot but while we're investing this six degrees of
connectivity...
Sarah B: Have you ever been dry stone walling by any chance ?
I did it back in '99 and there was a Sarah B there as well.
Just thought I'd ask...</HTML>
connectivity...
Sarah B: Have you ever been dry stone walling by any chance ?
I did it back in '99 and there was a Sarah B there as well.
Just thought I'd ask...</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 29, 2003 11:31PM
<HTML>I read this as 'Dry Stone Wailing' at first. Somehow what I found here disappointed after a build-up like that.</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 30, 2003 09:42AM
<HTML>We did a fair amount of wailing - especially after dropping large rocks on
our feet. Good fun though. A pleasant few days in the Lakes.</HTML>
our feet. Good fun though. A pleasant few days in the Lakes.</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 30, 2003 01:19PM
<HTML>Did you know Pam Ayres wrote a silly poem on this subject, which in over twenty years I have never succeeded in forgetting?</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Ooktavia (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: January 30, 2003 07:07PM
<HTML>No. Go on, you intrigue me strangely.........</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 04:40PM
<HTML>Dry stone walling? No, sorry to disappoint you, but that wasn't me. Any wall I touched would probably collapse nastily within a few minutes (as I seem to recall one so doing last time I was in wales. Oops.)
I wail occasionally though. Otherwise known as singing. But some call it wailing. But then they have no taste...
I'll hear the poem though.</HTML>
I wail occasionally though. Otherwise known as singing. But some call it wailing. But then they have no taste...
I'll hear the poem though.</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Rob (---.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 05:08PM
<HTML>I suspected as much but you never know...
I'm also on tenterhooks re the poem.</HTML>
I'm also on tenterhooks re the poem.</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: January 31, 2003 09:07PM
<HTML>Oh, all right, then, if you really want to...
I am a Dry Stone Waller,
All day I Dry Stone Wall.
Of all appalling callings,
Dry Stone Walling's worst of all.
It really wasn't worth the wait, was it?</HTML>
I am a Dry Stone Waller,
All day I Dry Stone Wall.
Of all appalling callings,
Dry Stone Walling's worst of all.
It really wasn't worth the wait, was it?</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: January 31, 2003 11:45PM
<HTML>-Frankly, no.
Although Ms Ayres did make a rather good debut on JAM</HTML>
Although Ms Ayres did make a rather good debut on JAM</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: All-American-Cutie (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: February 01, 2003 12:03AM
<HTML>dry stone walling must be a strictly British thing...maybe we just don't have enough rocks here to make walls (well, except maybe in New England, but I don't think they hold parties to construct them!)</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: February 01, 2003 12:44AM
<HTML>It's a wall. With stone. That's dry...
Basically, it's the art of piling stones up to make a boundary, without any cement orl aids. Simple as that, although Rob will tell you there's complications and technique involved...</HTML>
Basically, it's the art of piling stones up to make a boundary, without any cement orl aids. Simple as that, although Rob will tell you there's complications and technique involved...</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: February 01, 2003 12:48PM
<HTML>It's always worth a try.
Sometime, someone will realise they know me from somewhere...
I am very impressed with the poem. Sort of.</HTML>
Sometime, someone will realise they know me from somewhere...
I am very impressed with the poem. Sort of.</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Sarah (---.vip.uk.com)
Date: February 01, 2003 01:24PM
<HTML>For a given value of impressed. ;-)</HTML>
Re: Dry Stone Walling
Posted by: Sarah B (---.cableinet.co.uk)
Date: February 03, 2003 06:48PM
<HTML>Absolutely.</HTML>
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