Well, I hope all my fellow UKalians have enjoyed this glorious, I say glorious, weather. (And I hope all the rest of you have had fair skies too, of course).

Yesterday I just sat in the garden, drinking beer and reading Blackadder scripts, and all my troubles were soooo far away .... life can be very simple sometimes.

Of course today I'm at work with its stunning view of (in order of distance) a gasworks, a motorway, and Oldham, but hey, life can also be very dull at times, and if you didn't have the troughs you wouldn't know where the peaks were.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Derbyshire, if you were wondering.



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Question: which bright spark thought it would be a good idea to build a road around the side of Mam Tor (in the Peak District, Derbyshire) ?
A bit of checking would have told them that the local name for the area translates as something like 'wandering earth'.

The road vanished in a series of landslides.....

Not that Mam Tor itself means that, being Celtic for 'Hill that looks like something Dave R would design a bra for'.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

'Shivering Mountain' I believe. Various reasons as to whether it's because of the way the light shimmers off the scree or because, as Skiffle says, the ground's always moving or perhaps because it's bloody cold ??

Anyway, it's a great place. One of the first places to open after foot and mouth the other year.

This weekend I was cycling round the vale of York (I can get there quickly from home - no putting bikes on bike racks involved). I also had young Eddie teaching me how to garden. An interesting method that involved picking up handfuls of muck and throwing them all over the drive...

It could have been worse, he could have been throwing them over you.
Or me.

well, the DIY went badly;
1. drilling into concrete lintels is Not Fun. My drill is v.unhappy.
2. my sander blew up. There was smoke and everything.
3. some fule , when putting the fluoro light up in the kitchen, thought it would be a good plan to have the wire coming out of the ceiling a foot and a half away from the centre of the ceiling. So I bought some more cable, a junction box and stuff. Then removed the strip light and discovered there was about a metre of spare wire coiled in the ceiling. Damn.
4. bought the wooden floor, got it home to find one of the packs is damaged, so I had to waste a lunch hour taking it back to be replaced.

However, the light is now up and hasn't fused anything. Yet. Yay me!

And I've got all my fingers, and my blood is still in me, where it belongs. Double yay with chips on top.

PSD Were you climbing ? Isn't it Stannage Edge that's the famous one ? Is it Gritstone in Derbyshire ?

Did anyone hear the story last week about the guy who chopped the end off his finger in the guillotine at week. He then proceeded to chop the end off another finger while demostrating to his manager how the accident had happened.

He could end up with a Darwin award if he keeps going...

I once put my thumb through a bacon slicer (slicing corned beef at the time so it didn't matter to the customer :o ) it didn't hurt as much as make me go dizzy and have to sit down.
DIY was cancelled over weekend to be carried out on Wednesday evening.

Rob wrote:

>He could end up with a Darwin award if he keeps going...

Well, all I can say is that perhaps he should try chopping *something else* off. People like that really should not breed!

That would qualify you.

Haven't been climbing in the Peaks, but yup - Stannage is one good spot, apparently. As is Froggat edge - and yes, it is on gritstone, which makes it v. painful.

Why do hills get named after female features so often. There's the Tetons, and up in the area I'm studying in Scotland there's the Cleavage Hills and the Paps.



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Becuz things is named by explorers, and explorers git lonesome, and start thinking about the things they left behind. This also explains Toothbrush Creek, Arizona.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Always been amused about 19th century Americans keeping name of mountain range given by French explorer.

Grand Tetons - phnurr !

Doesn't explain Six Mile Bottom - unless we're talking J Lo.



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