Today's poet

[stevefoster]

ha ha!......allendale will be enuff for me next year me thinks! have a nice day merry! ps i liked your poem!

Hope you had a nice day too freckle How far and what sort of climb is allendale?

[freckle]

Hope you had a nice day too freckle How far and what sort of climb is allendale?

hi merry

below are details re allendale challenge, this may be child's play to you lot but i have heard it is really quite hard and i would regard it as a massive acheivement to complete it...running and walking it would be the plan if possible:

http://www.northumberlandfellrunners...oster_2009.pdf

i had an ok day but it got to a bit of a bad start when i fell over (landing on both knees) whilst trying to carry a huge box of papers, 5 books and a heavy briefcase...der...my life is a comedy of errors !....

anyhoo, i came across this poem and thought it was very relevant to the cause you are trying to raise money for. Perhaps you have heard of it, written by Segfried Sassoon during 1WW but sadly still relevant for todays young men in the military....i think it describes in an irreverant way the psychological and physical trauma involved in such conflicts so easily forgotten by the rest of us....

Does it Matter?
Does it matter?-Losing your legs?...For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting
To gobble their muffin and eggs.

Does it matter?- losing your sight?...
THere's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the lighht.

Do they matter?-those dreams from the pit?...
You can drink and forget and be glad,
And people won't say that you're mad;
For they'll know you've fought for your country
And no one will worry a bit.

[freckle]

After Larkin:

They tuck you up, your mum and dad,
They read you Peter Rabbit, too.
They give you all the treats they had
And add some extra, just for you.

They were tucked up when they were small,
(Pink perfume, blue tobacco-smoke),
By those whose kiss healed any fall,
Whose laughter doubled any joke.

Man hands on happiness to man,
It shines out like a sweetshop shelf.
So love your parents all you can
And have some cheerful kids yourself.

like what you did here sheep

[Grouse]

Coleridge made the first recorded climb of Broad Stand and didn't write this:

At best one is in motion,
And at worst, reaching no absolute in which to rest,
One is always nearer by not standing still.

[stevefoster]

hi merry

below are details re allendale challenge, this may be child's play to you lot but i have heard it is really quite hard and i would regard it as a massive acheivement to complete it...running and walking it would be the plan if possible:

http://www.northumberlandfellrunners...oster_2009.pdf

i had an ok day but it got to a bit of a bad start when i fell over (landing on both knees) whilst trying to carry a huge box of papers, 5 books and a heavy briefcase...der...my life is a comedy of errors !....

anyhoo, i came across this poem and thought it was very relevant to the cause you are trying to raise money for. Perhaps you have heard of it, written by Segfried Sassoon during 1WW but sadly still relevant for todays young men in the military....i think it describes in an irreverant way the psychological and physical trauma involved in such conflicts so easily forgotten by the rest of us....

Does it Matter?
Does it matter?-Losing your legs?...For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting
To gobble their muffin and eggs.

Does it matter?- losing your sight?...
THere's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the lighht.

Do they matter?-those dreams from the pit?...
You can drink and forget and be glad,
And people won't say that you're mad;
For they'll know you've fought for your country
And no one will worry a bit.

25 miles is 25 miles, always tough no matter how fit you are, you'll complete it freckle cos you have the right mindset and a beastmaster brother or two to train you, crack on, hope yer knees are ok marra
Great poem, love it, if your still alive, there's always something to smile about and live for, it may be a battle to find happiness in life, but its a battle worth fighting

Have to see what i'm up to in April, presuming the 2010 event will be in April, might have a trot round the Allendale meself.

[freckle]

25 miles is 25 miles, always tough no matter how fit you are, you'll complete it freckle cos you have the right mindset and a beastmaster brother or two to train you, crack on, hope yer knees are ok marra
Great poem, love it, if your still alive, there's always something to smile about and live for, it may be a battle to find happiness in life, but its a battle worth fighting

Have to see what i'm up to in April, presuming the 2010 event will be in April, might have a trot round the Allendale meself.

Aw thanx Merry! it would be nice to see you there if you did! glad you liked the poem...my knees are ok, hopefully tomorrow i can avert such calamaties especially as I am now going to try and get on my husband's Claude Butler for a spin ps not sure of exact date think we need to just keep checking website but someone from Northumberland Fell Runners on here might be able to clarify further

[XRunner]

Coleridge made the first recorded climb of Broad Stand

Here is his first recorded descent of Broad Stand.

O God,I exclaimed aloud- how calm, how blessed am I now - I know not how to proceed, how to return, but I am calm and fearless and confident - if this Reality were a dream, if I were asleep, what agonies had I suffered! What screams! When the Reason and the Will are away, what remain to us but Darkness and Dimness and a bewildering Shame and Pain that is utterly Lord over us, or fantastic Pleasure, that draws the soul along swimming through the air in many shapes, even as a Flight of Starlings in a Wind.

Another version by the fell writer Ronald Turnbull:

Ronald Turnbull goes Cole-ridge walking

[sheep]

like what you did here sheep

Ah, not me, no. Adrian Mitchell...

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out.

[freckle]

Ah, not me, no. Adrian Mitchell...

You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out.

I found this incredibly, incredibly moving...beautiful in its own macabre way.

[freckle]

Here is his first recorded descent of Broad Stand.



Another version by the fell writer Ronald Turnbull:

Ronald Turnbull goes Cole-ridge walking

just brilliant!...my soul needs to swim away soon and get some sleep but i am loving the poetry on this thread