Re: The Destruction of Farms by Encroaching Cities.

On Thu, 16 May 2024 10:55:33 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:

Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 11 May 2024 18:54:04 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
wrote:
 

areas that can feel quite rural
and urban at the same time!

 
I took a Youth Hostel tour of southern England in the eighties.  
The day we left London, I put on my walking shoes intending to change
into slot-cleated riding shoes when we got out into the country.
 
Before I stopped needing walking shoes for frequent stop lights, I
needed them for the muddy trail into Tanner's Hatch.
 

 
Assuming it’s this one?
 
https://maps.app.goo.gl/PQG7RTgmpVLui5UJ6?g_st=ic
 
I pass it fairly regularly and is always somewhat moist that valley!
 

It's been forty years, but the name is right.  I wonder whether there
is still a sign giving detailed instructions for jumping out of a
second-floor window in case of fire.

That was one of only two occasions when I wished I'd brought a camera.

When I saw the trail, I said "we'd better get there before dark; there
aren't going to be any lights."   All the others said don't be silly
there is no such thing as a building that isn't wired into the grid.

Tanner's Hatch *did* have battery-powered lanterns.  Nary a candle or
lamp to be seen; I hadn't been in very many youth hostels before
starting to suspect that there had been a major-disaster fire in a
Youth Hostel within living memory.

Two of the guys got tired of pushing their bikes through the mud and
stashed them in a bush to be picked up on our way out.

We left by a different trail.

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Joy Beeson
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