Holiday snaps

[andrewducker]

This is the view from our bedroom window. Mum walking away from cows who she has been instructing not to chew on our fencing.


At Hound Tor, with parents and Julie


In the remains of Hundatora, a village abandoned in 1350 when the climate of Devon changed.

Comments

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Lovely, looks like you are having a nice relaxing time :)

I didn't know about Devon's climate changing in the 14th Century (goes off to look up some details)

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Ah, the cold winters that affected Western Europe? Actually I did know that after all.

[skx.livejournal.com]

I so want to steal your dog :)

[ggreig]

Enjoy ;-)

I Steal Pets

[andrewducker]

Thanks, that was terribly entertaining!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Looks like a lovely spot - I've never been to Devon, and really should put that right.

[kmusser]

Can I direct you to my latest LJ post? I'm headed to Devon in the near future and would love ideas on what to see.

[pigwotflies.livejournal.com]

Yay Devon! Have you been to the Bowerman's nose?

[andrewducker]

Not yet. I'll look out for it, it looks cool!

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, I'll be able to wave hullo from Ashburton tomorrow! I'll wave in all four directions just to make sure...

(Not my mum's birthday but I'm visiting anyway.)

[andrewducker]

Hope you had a good day! I was over near Chudleigh, so you should have been waving North-East apparently!

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Going my your mum's stride, I doubt that the kine would dare to so much as nibble at your fencing. What leaves me gasping in awe, of course (because I'm a Southern Californian) is the verdant plant growth as seen from that window -- with nary a sprinkler-head or irrigation-ditch in view.  Mind you, there's also the niggling feeling that this is Wrong & Unnatural.

I'm wondering if those are the bases, or the (more nearly) tops, of the village's walls. The way things work in England, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the basal part of some of them were pre-Roman. (We Americans, as you know, are inordinately impressed by Antiquity, and consider a century to be A Very Long Time.)

[andrewducker]

I love Scotland because of the greeness everywhere, and Devon is even moreso, except that the temperature is about five degrees warmer!

Those are probably the tops of the walls, there would have been wooden bits on top of that for the roofs, and then turf on top of that to keep the heat in, I'd have thought.

There's another village a bit further away from the road that's definitely pre-roman. I took some photos a couple of years ago when I visited that, but I'm not sure where they are.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

This really smacks me in the face with "In England, a hundred miles is far. In America, a hundred years is old."
I'm putting together some notes for a walking tour around the Chicago Worldcon, and there's an interesting building from 1872, right after the fire, across the street from a wonderful, important building from the 1809's. Last weekend I went to a fairly nearby con in Madison, Wisconsin, only 150 miles away.

By the way -- talking to cows is easy. How do you get them to listen?

[andrewducker]

In this case, by prodding them with a long stick. They're all young males, so she wasn't going to be foolish enough to get into the field with them!

I'm actually impressed by buildings over a hundred-or-so years old, but that's largely because the ones left over from then are usually the better quality ones!