Friday, June 12, 2009

 

Rabbits Under Stars

The wild camping season has arrived again. Sleeping under the stars quickly becomes an addiction. Last week Adele and I went walking on the Gower and ended up sleeping on the cliffs above Mewslade Bay, near a stone structure that we decided was a neolithic temple but which actually turned out to be a lime kiln from the 17th century. So our educated guess was only out by about 8500 years! Not bad... The night was full of rabbits on crags silhouetted against the moon. We also learned what an excellent fuel gorse wood makes: it catches fire very quickly and burns for a long time. Much better than driftwood.

Mewslade turned out to be a great place to swim, but also a slightly bewildering one, as there's a sandbank not far offshore. The further out into the sea you swim, the shallower the sea becomes! Lots of interesting caves in the cliffs along this part of the coast that seem worth exploring. Hopefully we're going back to the Gower tomorrow and this time I'll make sure I take my camera along. Depends on the weather, of course, as the brief 'heatwave' seems over already...

Comments:
HELLO, AS THE SORT OF MAN WHOSE IDEAS WOULLD FASCINATE (OR TERRIFY) MOST PHYSICISTS WITH EVEN THE MOST BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF QUANTUM SCIENCE, I HAVE A LOT OF IDEAS. UNFORTUNATELY I AM NOT THE MOST ELOQUENT OF MEN AND I NEED A WRITER TO BE ABLE TO ARTICULATE MY THOUGHTS FOR ME. WOULD YOU BE UP TO THE CHALLENGE? PAY WOULD BE MODEST, BUT SO ARE MOST PEOPLES MINDS. ALL I CAN OFFER YOU IS A SMALL STIPEND, LONG HOURS OF WORK AND AN AMAZING INSIGHT INTO OUR UNIVERSE. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED. I CAN EMAIL YOU SOME OF MY ARTICLES, BUT I AM UNDER INTENSE GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE SO WE MUST BE CAREFUL. YOU HAVE AN INHERENT MIND. USE IT. WAIT.
 
Intense government surveillance is the only acceptable kind, bearing in mind they are using taxpayers' money to fund their repression. Half-hearted surveillance would be a scandal under such conditions!

As for my writing efforts, although I am passionately committed to the intellectual process, I'm even more interested in finding and exhibiting the hidden bittersweet poignancy of flippancy...
 
Still a fine fellow and a mean fiddler and double bass player too. Writing, surfing, kayaking, thinking and reading. Whatever happened Rhys? You were the one thing that would have kept me in Swansea.

harry
 
Hey, what a nice surprise! How are things? You living in London?
 
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