Comments on: Newcastle & Crookham – Day Seven

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:15:44 +0000

We did do rather a lot of driving that day, but it all worked out in the end

By: Andrew MacLaren-Scott

Andrew MacLaren-Scott — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:52:16 +0000

Not sure exactly but I found a website listing various stone parts and stone fort remains and so forth. Will get more specific when I have (or invent) a reason for travelling south.

By: J_on_tour

J_on_tour — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:05:22 +0000

You must have put some miles in on this day as your base, Wallington & the wall are all well spaced out. I managed a photo set of the gardens at the end of last year but unfortunately it wasn’t at its best.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:04:46 +0000

I am usually prepared for all eventuallities

By: London Caller

London Caller — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:55:00 +0000

He he… You know you can never trust the British weather. ;p

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:14:39 +0000

What has captured your imagination for next time you pass that way?

By: Andrew MacLaren-Scott

Andrew MacLaren-Scott — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:17:24 +0000

May be wrong about that though, having just looked online and found a list of good places to target next time I pass that way

By: Andrew MacLaren-Scott

Andrew MacLaren-Scott — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:11:40 +0000

I think the best preserved stone parts may be over near Carlisle

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:28:13 +0000

I have had many visits along the Hadrian’s Wall are over more than 15 years and like you, all I had seen was ditches and mounds, despite the best efforts of my companions on those journeys.

On this visit it was one of the things I had listed that I wanted to do, rather see!!

I had gone off the idea because it was too difficult, but Mr C was determined to find some wall stones for me. How sweet was that

Old houses provide me a reference, they are living history. They educate me more than books. The history behind the old houses is sad and we humans should learn from the mistakes made… But will we ever??

Enjoying woodland walks and tuning into nature is a sure way to get of ‘gloomy gene syndrome’.

By: Andrew MacLaren-Scott

Andrew MacLaren-Scott — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:16:43 +0000

Lovely photos of places I have never visited. My attempts on passing Hadrian’s wall have always just revealed just ditches and mounds, but I should persevere with a dedicated trip to a known good area rather than just a quick and hopeful look. I believe I have enjoyed rather rich Traquair Ale, but have never visited the place. Old houses make me feel very sad about our fragile-quickly passing lives and the doomed hopes and dreams of those who lived there, especially the sad French graffiti of prisoners in Edinburgh Castle – it is an annoying personality trait that I need to tackle. The last old stone window ledge I leant on looking out was the very one Mary Queen of Scots looked out each day to offer prayers not long before her neck was severed by the executioner. That didn’t cheer me up. And neither did visiting Strirling’s clearly rutted from use “Beheading Stone”. Historical Happy House might be the place for sensitive me, or just stick to the woodland walks and the golf courses where the tragedies are less permanent. As I followed a slightly inebriated young lady to the toilet at a wedding recently (innocently) i heard her chanting ‘old stuff, old stuff, old stuff’ as she pointed out everything we passed. I think she had a touch of my gloomy gene syndrome, but could not pursue the issue with her as out paths soon diverged to separate rooms, before the young men regained her attention.