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Twin interests are music and prehistory - music obviously includes Mr Cope, but wide variety of other things including Durutti Column, New Order/Joy Division, Billy Bragg, Smiths, Chameleons, Cardiacs, 50s rock'n'roll, etc. Many hols (and every opportunity) spent dragging very patient girlfriend to see vaguely discernable stone lumps obscured by mud and vegetation, particularly in West Penwith, also the Peak District and Herefordshire/Shropshire. Used to live in Yorkshire (Blakey Topping and High Bridestones being favourites) now live in Gloucestershire and pining for stone circles. Have been overtaken in the last couple of years with an obsessive fascination with the high places of England, Scotland and most of all Wales. No car (and can't drive) so sites are mostly visited by public transport and on foot, which is still just about possible, despite the efforts of our beloved government to reduce/stop less profitable services by cutting funding everywhere. An obsession with Wales coupled with a long-held ambition has just seen G/F and I complete the Offa's Dyke Path (north-south) and hopefully the newly-opened Welsh coast path will follow, although it will probably take us 10 years! Appreciate a nice pint after a hard day's stone spotting (particularly in the Tinners Arms at Zennor). May be encountered out of breath and lagging behind Postman.
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Edmund Hillary
"The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body." Alfred Wainwright
"The movers move, the shakers shake, the winners write their history,
but from high on the high hills it all looks like nothing" Justin Sullivan
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