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Daniel Appleton's avatar

Camping is one thing. CAMPING IN CHILLY WEATHER IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT BASKET au CATS !

When I was a kid, sleeping in a tent was a big deal. It seems like EONS since the last time I tried " roughing it ". Which ain't saying that I wouldn't like to. FYI : I only use " ain't " to emphasize something. One of my English teachers is spinning in her grave. 🪦

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Beren's avatar

That exact spot is well known to my family, though we never bivvi’d out underneath! For years once we’d all grown up, moved to different places and had kids, we’d meet up at the bridge for an afternoon, have lunch at the windmill or the truckers’ caff and enjoy a walk over.

We learned about it at school and then later that our extremely modest running coach at Brid RR had had a part in the engineering. He told us with great pride that he’d calculated the tops of the towers were further apart than the bases due to the curvature of the earth! We were never good enough at physics to work out if he was kidding!

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