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July 30, 2004

I laughed at those fools

I'm soooooo tired.

Yesterday, in the heat, I walked 15 rough tussocky miles up, and in the vicinity of, Cross Fell - the highest mountain in England outside the Lake District.

It was, more or less, deserted and mostly pathless.

I did take my camera and *some* photographs, but unfortunately I didn't take any *good* photographs - it was very hazy and the mountain is fairly rounded and featureless, so...

I got bitten about twenty times by horse-flies; how I laughed at those fools - for I am not a horse.

Posted by padraig at July 30, 2004 03:56 PM

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July 30, 2004

I laughed at those fools

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[brambles in Kirton Woods, North Notts] February 11, 2005 06:17 PM

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