Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

I finally made time to have a recce of the AW this week and it was nice to familiarise myself with the route again. It was all in cloud so it was good to give it a go in those conditions and get all my mistakes out of the way. If anyone hasn't had chance to do the same they shouldn't worry though. It is straight forward enough really. I'd forgotten how long the run out is to the bottom of the first climb (don't set off too quick). I'd not remembered how Robinson flattens out at the top. I bottled it at the wrong cairn and turned off left too quick, realised my mistake, then came back to find it. Don't make the same mistake, the top is quite obvious. If you aren't sure that you are there then you aren't. Dale Head has two false summits before the actual one so be prepared for that. For the big debate for left or right of the tarn, I go right. There is grass all the way down. If it is getting craggy then head further right again. Keep your head up going over High Spy and Maiden Moor to see people ahead. There are some nice lines to be found to the right of the main path. Coming off Cat Bells keep to the right off the path and there is grass all the way down.

Don't worry if none of the above makes sense, just wing it. I hope it will be useful for someone though.

[freckle]

I finally made time to have a recce of the AW this week and it was nice to familiarise myself with the route again. It was all in cloud so it was good to give it a go in those conditions and get all my mistakes out of the way. If anyone hasn't had chance to do the same they shouldn't worry though. It is straight forward enough really. I'd forgotten how long the run out is to the bottom of the first climb (don't set off too quick). I'd not remembered how Robinson flattens out at the top. I bottled it at the wrong cairn and turned off left too quick, realised my mistake, then came back to find it. Don't make the same mistake, the top is quite obvious. If you aren't sure that you are there then you aren't. Dale Head has two false summits before the actual one so be prepared for that. For the big debate for left or right of the tarn, I go right. There is grass all the way down. If it is getting craggy then head further right again. Keep your head up going over High Spy and Maiden Moor to see people ahead. There are some nice lines to be found to the right of the main path. Coming off Cat Bells keep to the right off the path and there is grass all the way down.

Don't worry if none of the above makes sense, just wing it. I hope it will be useful for someone though.

Harry you are so generous and thoughtful to put this up thank you....tho i think i may be one of the "wing it" folk, but i bet others will find this really helpful not long now....

[freckle]

hello peeps not been on much recently, started a new job

the last poem if you can call it that didn't appear how i intended it too. I wanted to give the impression of layers with sentence construction, anyway Frecks near enough interpretation memories blurr and wesometimes only remember the crucial or skeletal facts some of it is lost and some remains as a mulch. some good stuff from yourself and HES RECENTLY.

Doodles

In the corners of the page
and spaces
saved for premonitions
are treble clefs because
I like the continuity
of the shape.
In the upper margins
are ammonites
some flat and
some three dimensional
like a pallette of ideas

Nice one............and good to have you back

[Oven Gloves]

Oooooo I like a challenge!


Definitions

Hoo man Mossy,
Wor frecks is belta,
Aye she’s right clivva,
divin’t dis the freckle,
she might get monged
and she is not minted,
but she knaas her Geordie slang,
and “lush” is geet lovely or nice,
but hey ney botha mossy,
I’ll no take offence,
a pint of snecklifter or two,
after the AW,
and all the radgieness will disappear,
all thoughts of you being a Heed the Baal,
gone forever!




voila.........

If Oven Gloves is reading this perhaps you would like to correct me if I have the wrong definition!/have anything to add? your first poem perhaps.....actually you probs running at the club which is where I should be, no wonder i am always right at the back!

http://bannedfromthebeagle.blogspot....die-slang.html

oh and this is really really important! apparently key geordie words like "hinny" are dying out, this CANNOT happen, so i beg you start using the word "hinny" today and tomorrow and everyday!

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north...2703-14019611/

aye Freckle, yee're reet on this one hinny.

Sorry mossdogs, but ya reng wor kid. Geet lush has been a Geordie term since before Adams pips had dropped. Got nowt to dee with wurzel lingo

[freckle]

I know its early on a Wednesday but I seem to have lost all concept of time and so I will ignore the poetry thread watershed.

Continuum

It is the cold truth
Time waits for no man
Instead it taunts us
With its incessant ticking.
And what of us?
We neither eat nor sleep,
Instead we rescue every second
From the mundanities of life
And turn each one to rapture.
Ignoring the ringing phone
Your hands slide up my back
As my fingers rake your hair.
That kiss was the time
We should have taken
To prepare our days
Instead we reclaimed enough
Of those precious minutes
To become lost again
In each other.

It feels like there has been loads of creativity on this thread this week, so much good stuff I can barely keep up. Great to see stevie and hanneke back with lush poems and stef i liked your recent highlander one too. Hes this is really gorgeous, it was nice to read it quickly this morning when i was at work although i was too busy to comment at the time ....

[freckle]

aye Freckle, yee're reet on this one hinny.

Sorry mossdogs, but ya reng wor kid. Geet lush has been a Geordie term since before Adams pips had dropped. Got nowt to dee with wurzel lingo

Aw at last thank you Oven Gloves...i think you are doing the anni are you not? hope to bump into you there for some proper geordie natter like

[Harry H Howgill]

Harry you are so generous and thoughtful to put this up thank you....tho i think i may be one of the "wing it" folk, but i bet others will find this really helpful not long now....

The best rule is knowing who to follow. Look out for Borrowdale in purple or Ambleside in green with a blue stripe, and Keswick in yellow and green.

Being slightly more technical, bearings off the summits are useful.

Off Robinson - 150 (looking for a trod way left of the fence on your right)
Off Hindscarth - 190 then 120 (obvious track though)
Off Dale Head - 100
Off High Spy - 15 for 2k then 50 (obvious tracks)

I'm really looking forward to it too.

[freckle]

The best rule is knowing who to follow. Look out for Borrowdale in purple or Ambleside in green with a blue stripe, and Keswick in yellow and green.

Being slightly more technical, bearings off the summits are useful.

Off Robinson - 150 (looking for a trod way left of the fence on your right)
Off Hindscarth - 190 then 120 (obvious track though)
Off Dale Head - 100
Off High Spy - 15 for 2k then 50 (obvious tracks)

I'm really looking forward to it too.

Oooooooo I am impressed....can i contribute to the tips in one small way?......

LISTEN EVERYONE
don't follow the little geordie lass
who is writing poetry!!!!!

thanks again HHH

[Harry H Howgill]

Oooooooo I am impressed....can i contribute to the tips in one small way?......

LISTEN EVERYONE
don't follow the little geordie lass
who is writing poetry!!!!!

thanks again HHH

ha ha - now that is a challenge. We want to hear a haiku from you all as you cross the finish line.

[Oven Gloves]

Aw at last thank you Oven Gloves...i think you are doing the anni are you not? hope to bump into you there for some proper geordie natter like

I've entered the TWA (should that not have another T in it?) so you will no doubt hear fine anglo saxon never mind Geordie words leaving my lips