The fence reminds me when I visited the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland in the early 2000s. I hiked up the trail from a nearby village where the trail ascended and came within a couple feet of the edge. When I got to the top, I found they they were constructing a visitor center, with a massive stone wall far away from the edge to the extent you could not get a taste of the majesty and awe of those mighty cliffs.
Modern governments don't want people in awe, don't want inspirational things. Aspiring people cause trouble.
I highly recommend this man's walks. He isn't one of us and much of his walking is done in my part of these islands.. His ability to point out old England is heart warming.
I look forward to you organizing "Morgoth's Guided Tours of the North East" for your readers so we can come and experience some Tynemouth trendy pubs, a spot of fishing, Durham, etc.
If you'd gone to Durham in term time it would have been full of academics & students, almost all from rich middle class families, none local. When I was there (same time as Dutton) the locals were mostly Norf FC types, the students rahs and hooray henries, so it felt like a theme park where most of the people are in funny costumes and came there just for work.
The Cathedral is classic Norman - brute force, linear, overpowering; but over the centuries it's become just a nice church on a hill.
What I think is the last extant Old English poem was written at and about Durham around 1100, here's Tom Rowsell reading it:
The fence reminds me when I visited the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland in the early 2000s. I hiked up the trail from a nearby village where the trail ascended and came within a couple feet of the edge. When I got to the top, I found they they were constructing a visitor center, with a massive stone wall far away from the edge to the extent you could not get a taste of the majesty and awe of those mighty cliffs.
Modern governments don't want people in awe, don't want inspirational things. Aspiring people cause trouble.
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Thanks for everything you do for our people Morgoth.
Great format. Really enjoyed that.
Excellent.
Thank you.
Incisive, precise and humourous.
I would love to see the face on the average vegetable sat down for the news at ten being confronted with this video.
Thanks James. I've missed doing these.
I highly recommend this man's walks. He isn't one of us and much of his walking is done in my part of these islands.. His ability to point out old England is heart warming.
It's a bit of welcomed light relief.
https://www.youtube.com/@JohnRogersWalks
Very good mate, so diversity really did build Britain, that is, everything was built to prevent diversity!
I look forward to you organizing "Morgoth's Guided Tours of the North East" for your readers so we can come and experience some Tynemouth trendy pubs, a spot of fishing, Durham, etc.
One of your best.
If you'd gone to Durham in term time it would have been full of academics & students, almost all from rich middle class families, none local. When I was there (same time as Dutton) the locals were mostly Norf FC types, the students rahs and hooray henries, so it felt like a theme park where most of the people are in funny costumes and came there just for work.
The Cathedral is classic Norman - brute force, linear, overpowering; but over the centuries it's become just a nice church on a hill.
What I think is the last extant Old English poem was written at and about Durham around 1100, here's Tom Rowsell reading it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgruYWcD8BE
I could spend the rest of my life holidaying around England and the home nations and be happy
Brilliant 👍🏻
The inscription on Prebends Bridge in Durham
"Grey towers of Durham
Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles
Half church of God, half castle ‘gainst the Scot
And long to roam these venerable aisles
With records stored of deeds long since forgot"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scott_inscription_(Prebends_Bridge).jpg
Beautiful and haunting.
I hope the vacation was recuperative.