Camulod Chronicles

Having just thoroughly succeeded in making myself a bit miserable with the previous post I suddenly remembered something which happened at the weekend which was most enjoyable, so here goes.

Over the past few weeks I have been reading a series of books known as the Camulod Chronicles, by a Scottish writer called Jack Whyte who has lived in Canada for the past thirty two years. He has, over the past 12 years, written a series of brilliant books about the Arthurian legends in England, and the development of England as a country.

People more literary educated than myself have written more about his books than I am able to. All I can do is recommend that you get hold of them if you are at all bored with your current reading. They are riveting! Go ahead and buy them today.

As an aside from this - let me get back to the point of what I did at the weekend. I took myself off to the Lake District and sought out the old Roman Fort at Hardknott Pass. This is a stolen photograph of the pass on the right.

Just remember that this photograph (which I pinched off the interweb) was obviously taken during one of the few summers we have here in the UK. When I went up there it was minus 3 degrees celcius and freezing!

The road is very very steep in places and always very narrow. It made for very interesting driving.

I made my way to the pass though another pass called Wyrnose Pass. Below is a photo from the same site.

Not too much to choose between the two, except that it was impossible to drive up Hardknott as it was thick with ice in places, so I never did get to see the Roman Fort. Wyrnose itself had a fair amount of ice on it but at least it was possible to get through.

The point is that the views of the hills in the light during the late afternoon was the most fantastic I have ever seen. I have been to the Lakes many times but have never seen such colour as I saw on Sunday. The luminosity of the clear blues in the winter sun was simply stunning.

You really had to be there to appreciate it.

Needless to say, I went there without my camera! Ain't it always like that?

January 2009

It is - once again - a long long time since I have added anything to this blog. Amazing that I found it again I suppose. It's been a busy time this past few months.

No doubt in due course I will get around to explaining just why it has not been added to since the last entry.

But anyhow, here we are again. New year, same problems as last year, in fact if I keep on writing this I suppose I will get very morose and miserable, so perhaps I should not do anything.

One thing has happened recently which should be a cause of some cheerfulness in my life. My divorce has finally come through. It seems to have taken over my life for the past three years. Hell of a long time to finalise it, but now it seems to have finished. Thank goodness for that.

When I get to the point of thinking clearly about it I might put something down on this blog to try and explain to anyone who was in a similar position to the one I found myself in just what they are about to face in the future.

Or maybe not. Perhaps it is better to put it out of my mind and get on with the rest of my life.
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