Talking of Daft Tricks . . .

[PMG]

. . . a few weeks ago I went happily into my most favourite fungi reserve - Roudsea NNR in South Lakeland - and got hopelessly lost . . . I decided to go and search a part of the wood I don't normally go in . . . I had the compass in my camera bag as usual - but no map to use it with . . . and by the time I admitted to myself that I was lost and wasn't becoming anywhere near un-lost an hour and half had passed and I had walked (read searched) found an outside fence - looked at the view - re-orientated myself and got bull-nosed and was not going to walk back down the road - but cut across to where I wanted to be (jumping three ditches - with all the grace of a camel tripping over a brick!) and after a lot more walking, cursing and sweating (not looking for fungi you notice at this stage. . .) I finally ended up where wanted to be

A couple of days ago I took a good friend with me to the caravan and said 'we will go to Roudsea and see how the fungi are doing. . .' Yep - to my actute embarrassment I got lost all over again in another part of the reserve and my friend (and me come to think of it) hadn't wanted to walk that far . . . I just don't know who lets me out . . . Trust me - I'm a ranger by profession - I lead guided walks at work . . . oh boy - how embarrassing - I will never live this one down Well its either an age thing or I'm coming down with Altzheimers - and they do say if you can spell it you haven't got it So I must just be a bleeping idiot then

Pauline

[Interpreter]

Put it down to Alien Abduction! Everybody will believe you. And it explains the lost time.

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Interpreter

Put it down to Alien Abduction! Everybody will believe you. And it explains the lost time.

Now why didn't I think of that . . . there was a funny whirring noise come to think of it . . . or was that just every time I kept passing under the pylons

Pauline

[briar rose]

Originally Posted by PMG

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Well its either an age thing or I'm coming down with Altzheimers - and they do say if you can spell it you haven't got it So I must just be a bleeping idiot then

Pauline

No I don't think your a bleeping idiot , I think it's spelt without the 't' ....Alzheimer's

[PMG]

Originally Posted by briar rose

No I don't think your a bleeping idiot , I think it's spelt without the 't' ....Alzheimer's

Oh boy! I am doomed then after all . . . I suspected as much

Pauline

[smartie]

Originally Posted by PMG

Oh boy! I am doomed then after all . . . I suspected as much

Pauline

Maybe we should club together and buy you a map for Christmas?

[PMG]

Originally Posted by smartie

Maybe we should club together and buy you a map for Christmas?

Thanks smartie . . . err . . . I've got a map . . . its a brain I need - one that works

Pauline

[Jez]

Thats the tricksy mushrooms leading you astray. Glad to know your back home safe and sound. Maybe if we all take Ray mears as for getting lost we will never be again. South branches grow longer north far shorter. I want to be lost myself just check out his advice! I'll take a lap top with me should i get too lost and like it so much i'll call it my new res. All the best-Jez

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Jez

Thats the tricksy mushrooms leading you astray. Glad to know your back home safe and sound. Maybe if we all take Ray mears as for getting lost we will never be again. South branches grow longer north far shorter. I want to be lost myself just check out his advice! I'll take a lap top with me should i get too lost and like it so much i'll call it my new res. All the best-Jez

Heh! heh! heh! Thanks Jez - yep it sure is the shrooms - walk looking at the floor in any wood and not glancing up from time to time - esp off the paths and before you know it - you know nothing and nowhere - gauranteed! I'm laughing now but I wasnt at the time - esp with an 'audience'!!

If you want to be lost I can recommend Roudsea - if I didn't love the place so much I would avoid it like the plague! Have printed an A4 size map of it out on hubbys printer and will take it next time and try and mark various spots - but I suspicion that the map will not match the actual place . . . if I never post again on here - start looking in Roudsea please!!!

Pauline

[Jez]

Originally Posted by PMG

Heh! heh! heh! Thanks Jez - yep it sure is the shrooms - walk looking at the floor in any wood and not glancing up from time to time - esp off the paths and before you know it - you know nothing and nowhere - gauranteed! I'm laughing now but I wasnt at the time - esp with an 'audience'!!

If you want to be lost I can recommend Roudsea - if I didn't love the place so much I would avoid it like the plague! Have printed an A4 size map of it out on hubbys printer and will take it next time and try and mark various spots - but I suspicion that the map will not match the actual place . . . if I never post again on here - start looking in Roudsea please!!!

Pauline

If i can find it! He he he

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Jez

If i can find it! He he he

ok that's me doomed yet again then . . . M6 . . . A590 . . . then . . . erm . . . its . . . err . . . oh bloop

Pauline

[Jez]

I'm in Bewdley on a mushroom trail i'll meet you there

[rainmaker]

It's not daft it's exciting, and it's exploring off the beaten track! At least, that's waht I tell my better half when I want to take an "interesting" looking shortcut - it generally is "interesting", as opposed to interesting, as ditches, brambles, nettles, detours, and delays almost always occur

The daft thing is, she still goes along with the "shortcut", so I reckon she must be dafter than me..... (her answer: "I DID marry you )

[PMG]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

It's not daft it's exciting, and it's exploring off the beaten track! At least, that's waht I tell my better half when I want to take an "interesting" looking shortcut - it generally is "interesting", as opposed to interesting, as ditches, brambles, nettles, detours, and delays almost always occur

The daft thing is, she still goes along with the "shortcut", so I reckon she must be dafter than me..... (her answer: "I DID marry you )

Heh! heh! heh! If the 'better half' was with me I wouldn't get lost - cos he navigates better than me......... unfortunately I was showing the wood to a friend (who really didn't want to walk quite that far) 30 years ago I could unerringly go someplace and only take a detour when I honestly did want to detour - these days - the detours crop up more often than the unerring :

Pauline