Comments on: Days Like This, No 3: Sunset on Caw http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/ ...and a few more reasons for climbing mountains Fri, 18 Mar 2016 10:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6735 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:22:28 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6735 Hi Lapoubelle. Thanks for that. Sorry about the homesick thingy. Cumbria is a wonderful part of the world and I feel privileged to have grown up there.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: lapoubelle1969 http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6668 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:53:59 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6668 You’ve just made me truly homesick. There is alive and then there’s alive when you’re viewing the world from a Cumbrian fell at sunset. What a wonderful memory.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6663 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:41:01 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6663 Hi Jenny. Thanks for that. That’s a great feeling, when you could walk to the moon. Stuff like that makes me smile, because it’s what walking through the countryside is all about.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: Jenny http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6657 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:00:23 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6657 Thanks for this. I work in an office in Bristol with a view of a green hill and the weather rolling past. Being up in the mountains makes you feel grounded yet free. I came down from a long walk one day saying to myself ‘I could walk to the moon if I wanted’.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6609 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:45:35 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6609 Hi Paul. It’s great to hear you’ve got a job ??? you sounded a bit down a couple of months ago, so now the only way is up (as someone once sang).
But the trouble with work is that on one side it is necessary to pay the bills, but on the other it gets in the way of everything we really want to do.
You could do with a job like that bloke who climbs Helvellyn every day to record the weather conditions.
All the best, Alen

]]> By: Paul http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6543 Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:49:02 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6543 Hi Alen,

I think you may have touched a nerve with this one, so beautifully written as if it was yesterday. Thank god for memories eh. Since changing jobs I now work in a busy city & feel so far away from my fell walking, at times, (usually when I’m stuck In traffic) images come to me & for that nano second I am there, it brings a gulp to my throat & I’m sure a tear to the eye.

A great post.

]]> By: Hanna http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6481 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:04:05 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6481 Your way with words is always a joy, Alen.

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6479 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:49:01 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6479 Yes, you’re right there, Ash. Those moments do last a lifetime. They are like jewels we find at the side of the road and drop in our pocket.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6478 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:45:30 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6478 Hi Chris. Funnily enough, only this afternoon I had a conversation over the garden fence with a neighbour who is building a stand for his 6in refractor telescope. After discussing cosmology, we sort of strayed into the area of your final point.
I’ll go along with that, not because I think my mind is capable of expanding infinitely, but because it sounds good.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6477 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:35:51 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6477 Ah, Hanna. Thank you ever so much. It always brightens my day when one of your comments wings its way all the way from Denmark.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6475 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:31:57 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6475 That’s given me something else to think about, David ??? the ancestor standing behind. Souls departing at the end of the day and life beginning anew at dawn, but a thread running through all their lives like a strand of Celtic gold.
Cheers, Alen

]]> By: McEff http://becausetheyrethere.com/2014/03/21/days-like-this-no-3-sunset-on-caw/#comment-6474 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:26:15 +0000 http://becausetheyrethere.com/?p=7580#comment-6474 Jo, I like that thought: the last places to feel the sun’s rays. I shall dwell on that.
I have masses of old slides, somewhere in the region of 3,000. The Kodachrome ones have dates printed on them but the others don’t, so some detective work is involved. I then have to convert them to a digital format and clean them up. The results are a bit grainy, but it’s good fun and keeps me occupied.
Cheers, Alen

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