11th November, 1998

Ramble N0 116 11 November 1998

Nerds - Sandyballs, Lafayette, Philby, Froggy

The First World War Flying Spider Ramble



It was a brilliant sunny day. The Hardcore Four went by train to Southease then proceeded over the river bridge where there were attacked by flying spiders who obviously felt their territory was being invaded. Sounds a bit H.G. Wells, doesn’t it, [More Bowie I think. Ed], but that’s what happened. (They were very little spiders, actually.)

After passing through Southease we decided to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ending of the First World War by solemnly paying tribute to a dead rabbit with a somewhat loud two minutes silence. (Well, you try shutting Froggy up for even 10 seconds). Lafayette got his bollocks nibbled by a curious goat during this touching ceremony.

We continued up the path to a farm, and then struck off over the hills. There was a good view over Breaky Bottom where we also encountered a blind rabbit asking for alms. The weather continued hot and sunny.

We went up the hill to Northease and found the unknown grave of an unknown soldier from W.W.1. He had obviously fallen fighting unknown Jormans on the very unknown spot where we stood.

Down the Porky Woman Hill we went to the Abergavenny Arms where we met a nice barmaid (unfortunately anonymous, hair drawn back, pleasant smile, looked like Ally McBeal). Food OK, drink – lots of it. Listened to how Froggy was doing to serialise his life story in Woman’s Own.

Walked back to Southease and got a train back to The Engineer (surprise, surprise) where we found Judy, Bob and a wrinkly dog called Lotte – or maybe that was just one of the other geriatric customers. Anyway, more drinking, more socialising and another ramble successfully completed.

Lafayette regrets the circumstances leading to the new brief style write-up thingies, but he’s fallen a bit behind and has about 4 to catch up with. So, just shut up and be grateful for what you’re getting!



[This last statement from Lafayette was because he published 4 rambles together some four and a half months late.Ed.]