tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post6095165386292387787..comments2024-03-27T13:34:10.184+00:00Comments on NORTH DOWNS & BEYOND: Just what did this place do to deserve this?Steve Galehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-60160149085730705042020-11-09T20:00:34.615+00:002020-11-09T20:00:34.615+00:00Stewart, we’ve just had a Brambling Close built ne...Stewart, we’ve just had a Brambling Close built near to us.<br /><br />Chris, just looked it up and read it. Many thanks for the suggestion.Steve Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-45859299075244002352020-11-09T19:34:59.859+00:002020-11-09T19:34:59.859+00:00This put me in mind of a poem by Charles Causley c...This put me in mind of a poem by Charles Causley called "Who?"very evocative.Chris Janmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721828711850008987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-66759376898800936942020-11-09T11:15:21.793+00:002020-11-09T11:15:21.793+00:00God thats so depressing Steve. But yes I do it too...God thats so depressing Steve. But yes I do it too, especially with new housing estates called Orchid Meadows or Fallowfield etc. One day our whole country will be covered in man made structures and tarmac... Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01985665182124985194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-34646201770215030882020-11-09T07:49:01.223+00:002020-11-09T07:49:01.223+00:00Seth - mull over my friend. Your final thoughts wi...Seth - mull over my friend. Your final thoughts will be very interesting.<br /><br />Ric - the prosy slush is from my viewpoint and not his. He is there to show the change. I am aware that life was hard, even brutal, for many of the working classes, although he is not identified as a worker of the fields, just one who lived by one. Your point is taken.Steve Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09459545933323958452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-85241920153997729812020-11-09T07:12:49.415+00:002020-11-09T07:12:49.415+00:00He'll be thinking the same thoughts of anyone ...He'll be thinking the same thoughts of anyone who was born to toil in fields all their lives. An escape.<br />The countryside is a lovely place for those who can simply dip a toe in it for their curiosity and obsessive observations. But try surviving in it with nothing else.<br />Our man of that era would also be lucky to live to fifty years of age since he would have all the wonders and delights of diseases such as Cholera and Smallpox to deal with, let alone rabies which was endemic.<br />That and the expectation that a war was a given and that he would almost certainly be a slave to whosever land he occupied. No luxuries here.<br />Forget the prosy slush of rose tinted glasses. Life then was brutal, short and harsh.<br />He would have welcomed life in the world that looks like it does now.Richttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714117508358025668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8802206289996500659.post-24948660798229119952020-11-08T22:43:22.003+00:002020-11-08T22:43:22.003+00:00Reading this has brought up some strange emotions ...Reading this has brought up some strange emotions inside me, Steve. And I'm really not quite sure what to make of them just yet. Definitely one of your harder hitting posts. For me, anyway. One to mull over, methinks. Gibsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14699055561230102061noreply@blogger.com