Attractive sheep

When walking as a group for 6 or 7 hours you soon find that topics of normal conversation dry up, after all how long can you talk about the weather. At this point the conversation can go two ways, one is to go very deep and serious, and the other is to get silly. The first is easy to understand, you talk about work or relationships, often in a way that you would not in a normal situation, the second is what we term mountain madness and is where the conversation takes a silly turn, like thinking the sheep are plotting against you, i.e. planning a Lambush (Lamb-ambush). As we normally walk with the same people both types of conversation can go on for not just one walk or holiday but gets added to over months and months leading to conversations that to an outsider would sound totally wrong in so many ways. Take Mr X (name changed to protect the innocent), he once fed a bit of chocolate to a sheep and now many years latter is still trying to live down his sheep fetish, with one or other of us continually pointing out pretty (or cute, or even ugly) sheep for him on the hillside, normally in a loud voice while other walkers are passing by.

Picture today is a change from all the views, just in case you where getting board.




----------------
Now playing: Macc Lads - No sheep til Buxton
via FoxyTunes

Comments

JAMJARSUPERSTAR said…
See I would have been at home with that conversation because I have this thing that sheep are actually quite cute!

Have you ever seen the pink sheep of Scotland? If you're ever driving up to Glasgow they're quite hard to miss!
Ciao

Scarlet x
September 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM
aims said…
Ah yes. The joys of good friends and being able to tease them.

I always point out the sheep to my brother as well. It's so much fun!

I love the pic of the day. What interesting angles and the colours...wow.
September 11, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Suburbia said…
That was a suprise, I thought the pic was going to be a sheep!!

Pic much better than a sheep one though:)
September 11, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Ranger Faff said…
Ahhh, the Macc Lads - sublimity itself!

As for the sheep thing, I obviously have no idea what you’re talking about.
September 11, 2008 at 11:23 PM
The Giraffe Head Tree said…
Never bored, always enlightened here.
September 13, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Last post

Image
I wrote this as part of the second days post: “365 different photos, I’m daunted and intrigued at the same time. Daunted with the task of taking the images and writing words to tie it all together and intrigued at what will be here in a year’s time. Will anybody see this? Will it make any sense?” 70,849 words, 367 photos, 3014 comments, and 43358 visitors from 164 countries later and it’s all done, I’m 42 and have the answer to those questions. Yes somebody has seen it and no it really does not make much sense, but that really does not seem to matter that much. I wanted to mark the passing of a year in my life and have ended up with a fantastic record of a year in both words and pictures. More than that it has changed my life, I have gained a confidence I never had, I can write without fear, my photography skill has improve and I realise that you can do nearly anything if you work at it. One of my dreams was that it would become a “blog of note”, I still smile at the feeling’s that hit...
Read more

Blog of note!

Image
You known how it is, you’ve loads to do and not much time, but with a little luck and a bit of careful planning and you can fit it all in and than someone makes you BLOG OF NOTE!!!!!! WOW, Arghhhhhhhhhh!. From around 25 readers to 3451 by the end of the day, and what a post to have on the blog, I nearly did not write it, it was very personal and maybe too private to share, but I known that there are others, like me, out there and thought that if it just helped one person it made the risk worth while, well its shared now. Now this is pressure, writing knowing that lots of people will read this, do I make a grand statement, do I get stage fright and dry up, no I’ll just babble on as I always do, it’s worked so far. First, Blog of note people, thank you, this really means a lot to me, I’ve read most of the blogs of notes since I started blogging and feel stunned to be in their company. Next, if you’re reading this blog for the first time, welcome, make your self at home, there’s ...
Read more

Do it.

Image
Have you ever put something off, that you really should have done, I have, getting assessed for dyslexia. Nearly my whole life I have had problems spelling, and have done every thing to avoid getting tested, why, because I was scared that I would not have it and be told I was just thick or lazy. Well yesterday I got tested, and the results surprised me. First I was informed that my reading ability was good to high, next I was informed that I have an IQ of over 120 (140 and over Genius or near genius 120-140 Very superior intelligence 110-120 Superior intelligence 90-110 Normal or average intelligence 80-90 Dullness 70-80 Borderline deficiency Below 70 Definite feeble-mindedness 70-80 Borderline deficiency 50-69 Moron 20-49 Imbecile below 20 Idiot.) They have changed the lower classification for a more PC wording but this is the original. Lastly I was informed that I am Dyslexic and my writing and spelling were well below what my intelligence suggested (that why it takes me forever...
Read more