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| Townbrook valley - the right valley |
We are on holiday at the moment and yesterday were out walking
on Long Mynd. Very pleasant it was too but on the way back I took us down the
wrong valley. An easy mistake to make and only a couple of miles out of our
way, but we are fairly experienced walkers so whom should I blame? Brexit? Theresa
May? Climate change?
Modern life can be difficult like that – when it comes to
apportioning blame there are too many options.
7 comments:
Lost and footsore after taking a wrong turn? Here's a little trick from the remainer commentators on the recent European election results.
If you add up all the nice features of all the wrong valleys that you might have gone down, they probably outnumber all the nice features of Townbrook Valley. So in fact, although an uneducated deplorable observer might think you had got lost, the truth of the matter - as is clearly apparent to the broad majority of the population - is that you hadchosen the right valley after all, and that Townbrook Valley is a bunch of thick xenophobic economically illiterate racists, and just you bloody well wait until we repeat that walk but with a better map, we won't go wrong then and we'll all end up where we want to go.
Blame the sun, the light from the sun put you in the wrong direction !
Whilst walking in the countryside there is no blame or shame for a slight detour.
Although there is that Welsh Farmer who disguised a permissive pathway through her
However when a Welsh Farmer disguises a permissive pathway through her field knowing that you will go wrong and walk up a natural pathway when you can't see the pathway through the middle of her field (not wanting encroach on a farmer's crops...
I usually blame myself, then ask myself to argue differently...
That way I get a bit tired of arguing the toss, and decide to forget tha whole issue and move on - sometimes a bit grumpy, but luckily, nobody else gets it in the neck!
I got lost on my bike once. If you consider the place where you live, your automatic starting and finishing points are radial, not encircling. So I never go along some routes as they are sections of a circle.
I was trying to find a lane only a mile or so away, and got completely lost! And all this after forty-two years in the same village!
(Then it started to get dark, and the battery was low on the bike...)
Sam - you have been reading too much Remainer logic. So have I. Strange people - I don't know why they bother.
Malcolm - that's a good idea although we mustn't blame the sun for everything - climate change for example.
Cherry - we come across similar games played by farmers. It is probably better than simply ploughing up the path, although farmers in Derbyshire tend to be pretty good in that respect.
Scrobs - we once got lost in a Derby suburb. An area I once knew well but that was forty years ago and things change.
The wrong valley - That was what happened to the Light Brigade.
It is what I forecast COULD happen to the independence campaign more than four years ago.
Then it was just a passing shudder but, since Mrs May’s Lancaster House speech of January 2017
and the idiot behaviour of her ministers
Liam Fox “The easiest negotiation ever”
Boris Johnsom “ Have our cake and eat it”
David Davis “ I don’t have to know very much. I don’t have to do very much”.
I have watched it become a near certainty.
I do so hope I am wrong.
The main problem has always been the invincible ignorance of British politicians about
the way the EU actually works.
I know my knowledge is very incomplete but, having gone through the business of
joining the EEC on a Ministry of Agriculture committee in1972, I know that it is
in advance of 90 plus per cent of what I have watched in Parliament or read
in the Eurosceptic mainstream media.
Edward - it's an intractable problem. As far as I can see, many people including most politicians see even the most complex issue in political terms. They don't want to know about the complexities. It might even be said that they see things as good or bad and as bad causes must be supported by bad people they don't need to listen to them.
Climate change has a similar problem. In the past I spent a fair amount of time looking at the science but these days I wonder it it was worthwhile because even BBC pundits clearly don't bother.
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