TIM BAKER

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I went pre-addendum before we get into the main body of the forecast. I’m sure everyone

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is the edge of their seats in this serial of many dramas. Yeah, the airbed repair

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worked not totally. It does go down over like five hours or six hours, but not

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horrendously so. It doesn’t leave you completely on the ground, so I did have to

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blow it up in the middle of the night or early morning. That’s way better. I

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actually got some sleep, whereas I’m deflating every two hours. It’s just like

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nope. So I would count that success, so I’m going to continue on the trip. I tried

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the duct tape, it doesn’t stick to it. I had these pool, kiddies pool sort of repair

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things and they barely stick to it. I don’t know what that, I really don’t know what the

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fuck this stuff is. It’s made out of and I might apply a bit more glue around. I mean

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it’s going to be fun because I have to take this off before I send it to, I’ll

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probably send it to the Emirast or if I do an official, I get the official kit that

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requires 12-24 hours. It will, I have to try and get that scrap off and I don’t

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know how easy that will be, but I’m just glad that I don’t have to go home. So, on to the

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podcast. Yes.

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I’m going to call it a long march because I’m currently well past where I went last night

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and I’m currently looking towards Poole and very oddly someone has put in

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Stones, Lainey Marry Me on one of the fields and yes it’s it’s boiling. There’s a

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little bit of a breeze but not very much. I could try and get to Mupe Bay today, I

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don’t know if I’m going to, but certainly I will get to Tyneham and Kimmeridge.

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Certainly the boilingness and lack of breeze is probably not going to help. I’ve got plenty of

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water and also a lightened pack actually took out my paper box so I’m not going to do any

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separate things. One pad and just my favourite couple of pens and watercolours. Like I just

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couldn’t carry all the other stuff on this on a long walk. I’m lucky to even carry that because

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it’s just too much weight. Also when I got back last night I did a repack of taking

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anything out and I’ve discovered that for some reason taken my two base layers with me which

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it’s like I was adding to the weight and I wasn’t helping. I don’t know what it is about when you’re

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out here. It’s people just yacking away loudly and it’s just like I come out here to avoid

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you know and then you just you see somewhere lovely. Oh it’s lovely quiet and you’re in the distance

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and you’re like oh fuck’s sake. You know just go and natter somewhere else you know. Spaces like

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this are, I don’t know what he says in the middle of talking to himself but literally an empty field,

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I don’t think I’m disturbing anyone. But yeah I’m not going to get loudly so you know it’s just

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incessant and yeah and you’re like it means a Sunday so lots of people are on a Sunday stroll.

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I have to say if you’re doing the Purbeck, I think it’s the Purbeck way I think it’s called,

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this Ridge Walk or Ridge Wave. I think it’s Purbeck way I think it’s called, I might be wrong,

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from Corfe. There’s a really tricky bit where there’s two paths right next to each other

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as you hit the road and there’s one opposite which goes through loads of nettles, I think I’ve got

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a few nettles things by a reservoir. Don’t take that path because that is the wrong, it just

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connects eventually. You go through a cowfield and you’re not on the ridge away. I wasn’t zoomed in

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enough on Osband to know that there’s what looked like, there’s actually two paths there

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and I ended up having to, I couldn’t get over the fence because it had bob wire, eventually I found

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a gate and scaled over it because I was like fuck that. So that was fun and weirdly there’s this

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lovely stone in the little field and it’s probably meant to be a bench, it’s a bit too shaped to be

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a normal thing. So I’m just looking over pool and towards Corfe, I can see the smoke from the steam

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train, you hear those from the campsite. I can’t see, I don’t know if I can see Corfe Castle, I think

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but yeah it’s a long way away. So we’re going to motor on and see how we get, it’s our last chance

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to do this walk this trip because of the firing on one day. So I’m going to, stupidly I forgot

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my head torch, I do have this phone and also my battery has a light so I’ll be without light but

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you know I might be stumbling on roads late at night and I’m really kicking myself but I actually

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forgot my hat, went back and I was like I’m not going back again for the head torch and I should

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have left my emergency head torch because I’ve got two because yeah of course we carry spares.

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I should have actually left that in my backpack but this is the thing is when you unpack your

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backpack in the tent you have to remember what this is what I was thinking about last night,

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like oh what to leave in, what to put in, don’t leave all the shit in it, you know take all out

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and then you’ve got to reverse that process you know and it’s kind of annoying that I don’t have a,

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I really wish I had a bigger day pack on this, backpack that I could carry and just kind of

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leave packed for that sort of stuff and then just go you know and then that’s you know that’s where

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all that shit stays and then you know I wish but I’ve looked to even the posh ones, the ospreys

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and whatever and their day packs are tiny you know they’re definitely not fit an A4 box, well not

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fit A3, A4, A3 paper boxes no way and it’s just the problem is like how do you carry two and I

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do have seen those little Sil Nylon, I saw, well they didn’t have them obviously because they never,

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they always have the shopping bags and never the, there’s a company that makes Sil Nylon shopping

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bags and day sacks and they are everywhere always has the shopping bags and never the day sacks,

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I don’t know how butch they are but something like that would be wonderful like a really really

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light sort of you know tiny sort of, I did have one once but it fell apart, they’re not very well

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built but yeah sort of I cannot not you know sort of a light um so that’s Sil Nylon, Sil Nylon

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what it’s called type thing or you know it’s very strong but something that’s very kind of like

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doesn’t carry a lot of weight but you know I don’t have to lug a several kilogram backpack with me

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that would help but as I’ve not found one yet I’ve been looking for years for something that’s

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lighter to take so anyway I must press on um and there’s a tumuli, there’s a couple of tumuli and

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I took a picture of them um I don’t know if I think it was, I didn’t use it as the uh last once

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um image art but yeah tumuli, tumuli is a tumuli song it goes tumuli, tumuli, tumuli, tumuli,

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tumuli, I wrote it for John um and there’s two on the ridgeway and there’s one over there,

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of course ridgeways are ancient trackways um mostly because back in the day a lot you know

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that there’d be dragons that used to be especially in this area I think generally there was lots of

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deciduous rainforests as they call it nowadays, lots of woods with wolves and and maybe even

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pro bears I think better than the bears back then um and you know and nasty so that’s where you get

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all those myths about dangerous dark forests magical forests and stuff uh so people used to

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actually live on and also travel along the hills and ridgeways and so this is probably an this is

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a trackway it’s probably an ancient trackway it’s hard to tell but the fact that they’ve got

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tumuli suggests that and so you quite often find on ridgeways you’ll find hill forts tumuli um

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and you know buries if you see a burry it’s always a always a hint uh or a stone, a stone

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because maybe the kingstone was an old stone you never know sometimes it’s sometimes it’s a

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stone cross sometimes it’s something a bit older but yeah so for ridgeways you will find of old

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shit as we say in the trade so I better carry on I’ve stand here yacking all day I’ll never get

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this done so we’ll see how far we get

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So I’m walking through the Lulworth ranges. This is about two of the long march. It’s

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about midday. I just found a pop-up cafe which is amazing. But unfortunately I like everything

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around here. No water. They have to bring it in by hand. So I had to buy some cans of

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water but apparently it’s a real thing. It seems like obviously because there are no

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street ranges and just apparently the farmer won’t let them install a water line. Apparently

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he has to bring in bowsers for his cows. Although I saw a lot of cattle troughs that

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seem to be mains driven but that was probably earlier. So I might have to filter from a cattle

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trough but certainly that means I’ve got some ice cream and some more water even if it’s

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one pound of can. But it was good for there. It’s usually there. Apparently it’s Thursdays

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and Sundays so I just caught it. And I’m walking down the road while being attacked by people

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who have to drive 4x4s and massive BMWs down single track roads. And there’s

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one there. Because there aren’t that many paths around here. There are some. I’m looking

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for one. We’re all looking for a path brother but I haven’t found it yet. I found one but

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I think it was going off a different direction from what the map suggested. I hope it wasn’t

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that one. So I have to stick with being attacked by annoying people. Because yeah it’s just

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amazing how people drive these big Kias and big BMWs and big 4x4s down these

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tiny dorset motorways. And it is a single track road. There’s not much to go. There’s

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no pavements. I’m kind of wishing I had my stick. Because this time I don’t have my stick

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to protect myself. People who have listened to the previous series, Jaunt 3, would know

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that I especially at night had to not only put my light on, which I don’t have. It’s

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actually a big reason to avoid these roads at night. They close the gate at 8 but I probably

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could get out of it when these things tend to be leaky. But I’m happy to scale over gates

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I did earlier. But yeah, you just have to stick the stick out. Because the locals in

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some of the grockles drive way too close. And obviously there’s not much space anyway.

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Because the tiny trackways sometimes, even on the big roads, they just try and mow you

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down and shout at you. That’s the local kiddies idea of fun. Same as Essex actually. That’s

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what all kids in Essex do in their Polo GT or GT Vauxhall little cars. Thankfully they

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rack aroundao fence and kill themselves at some point. And then they get a little weepy

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but triggered bitches because they’ve been driving too fucking fast. So I’m heading

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to Tyneham and I spoke to the guy at the cafe and said, oh you’ll make Mupe but then I

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said, oh well, I’m going to be heading back down to Kimmeridge. He said, hope you like

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hills or something here. I know I like hills but I also remembered that I don’t need to

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go to Mupe Bay because when I did the Mupe Bay last time, I walked through the ranges

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from Lulworth Castle. And when I did that, I actually did Arish Mell. So an Arish Mell

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is horrible. It’s a really big hill. It’s one of the biggest hills around here. There’s

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no golden cap as I did last year but it’s still a pretty big hill. So I’m thankful to

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have all of that. So what I actually have to do is get to Arish Mell. And I know there’s

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an in at that point because you can walk inland or I can just turn right around again.

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But the guy refused to do the Mupe steps anyway so it’s for a best to head to Arish Mell. And

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it’s quite funny when you do the inland of that. You can see all the ruined tanks because

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they use old tanks as target training. You can see these ruined hulks of tanks on the

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hillside with these big numbers. Obviously where the firing points are. But yes, we’re

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going to have a good Tyneham. The one that the town was village that was taken over at the

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war and then people were never allowed to go back. It’s a bit of a cause celebre. And

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it’s like when I was at the viewpoint. I took a picture of the viewpoint closed for military

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training when it was quite on when they’re firing. There’s the stuff about all the little

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west ranks. Because in one sense they kind of preserve this countryside in that sense

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they’re a fucking pain because they did leave the red flag flying back there. Hence the name

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of the last podcast. Stupidly I didn’t take a picture of it but I’ve drawn it. I’ve painted

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it before. And more cars. They’re all coming back to Tyneham. Nobody walks around here. They

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all have to drive. They all have to drive BMWs and big cars. This is the rush hour.

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I’ll throw all the flags like wrapped up. But it’s something if you grew up in the

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Avengers as I did as a kid. I can sort of empathise the locals because you have a kind

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of frustration with the MD because they not only would just the answer is always no with

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anything. They leave the red flags flying on the ranges down. I grew up so the locals

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just ignore it. Can we hear any banging? No, let’s go for it. It’s crazy. At least not

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my friends going into a minefield one. That was fun. But we used to play around in places

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to play being soldiers. So a crow scare was around. Also some of them tried to make explosives.

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That was luckily, I’m surprised they went to work for the RAE at Farnborough blowing things

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up. So I’m hoping that they and that person was definitely on the spectrum. I’m hoping

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they didn’t blow anything else up. Somebody’s zooming around a corner not fucking locking.

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You know, it’s they might have learned somebody up. But I don’t know, maybe the track was

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the one, but not supposed to be a track off here. I’m not seeing it. Maybe I’m on the wrong

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road. But yeah, so we used to do that kind of thing. I used to leave the flag flying up.

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So, you know, I know people used to dog walk. I see the locals dog walking with this, you

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know, underneath this red flag. It’s always ‘Do Not Enter’. Because it always, it always be ‘Do Not Enter’. You

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know, the locals like, well, screw you, this is our common. You took our common away. And

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it’s the same in Tyneham, you know, they took the town away and didn’t let anyone go back.

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And so if it’s open, I’m going to have a look at the school. There’s a museum down there.

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I bet there isn’t any water. I bet there isn’t any water down there. But I’ve always wanted

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to go. And I know, I know it’s definitely open on a Sunday. It must be all these people driving

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there. But and then I’m not going to dally too long in the land that time forgot. And

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I’ll head to the coast, which I hope is a bit fucking cooler than here because it’s a boiling

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walk, especially on tarmac. Anyway, speak to you soon.

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I’m in Tyneham and the city, the village I time forgot, which was requisitioned by

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the MOD in 1943. And then on the understanding, they’d give it back to the Bond family that owned

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it and also the people that lived here. And they were made on that agreement after the war.

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It’s quite humbling because I’m doing logical research into my family up in Lincolnshire.

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And it’s not that far from that. The families are detailed here, you know, farming,

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labouring. That’s my great grandfather, sort of, you know, rural life.

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And, you know, occasional sort of side hustles like my great grandfather did things with

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steam engines, sort of, labouring on steam engines. Here it was

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things to do with the war and also kind of teas for ramblers and that kind of thing.

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But it’s kind of rather upsetting when you look at the

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the church and you see the, you know, ironically, and rather

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insultingly, the local Lulworth camp sends a Rembrandt’s Day, you know,

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wreath to the church. And it’s like those people died for the country and you took away their village,

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you took away their family’s homes. And then to send a wreath saying, you know,

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we remember you. Well, you don’t really, do you? Because the ultimate sacrifice meant the

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ultimate sacrifice of the whole village. And then after the, you know, because the Cold War,

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they continued it. And it’s kind of sobering. This could have happened to the village

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Brigg in Lincolnshire where my family comes from or my dad’s side of the family comes from.

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You know, that could have happened to them. And the stories would be them on the on the

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walls and the of the church and the sides of the buildings. And yeah, that makes

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you quite angry. It’s because, you know, they should have given this village back

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rather than let it fall into ruin. Apart from they rebuilt the the school yard, which is pure Disney.

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You know, apart from the building, it’s all kind of very, I may believe, I’m sure there’s

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much more to do than that. And the church, I think was preserved. I don’t know how much it’s been

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kind of tarted up, but there are still people from the village who are being buried in the

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churchyard. It’s just, yeah, it’s just rather

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sad and also makes me quite angry about what was done to these people.

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That they lost their homes for military range. And, you know, we’re told they would be allowed

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to go back and then, you know, church all reneged on that agreement. That great man,

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Churchill, yes. You know, he’d love him around here.

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And I won’t go into that. So anyway, I’m going to head off onto the walk because I’ve dallyed too

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long here. And also, there’s so many groggs and emits around here that it’s so funny in the church

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that there was these teenagers that were looking at me like, you know, giving me shade, but they

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were sitting down in the church looking exhausted. I’m like, you drove here because you didn’t walk

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down here because there was a couple of people walked up. There was everyone, mostly cars coming

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down a few bicyclists, but everyone drove here and was like, you’re exhausted. Oh, poor dear.

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Oh, poor dear. Throwing shade at me with my shirt off. But, you know, oh, are you exhausted?

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Oh, didn’t. So yeah, I’ll speak to you soon.

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I’m at Arish Mell, which is the first part of my destination today. It’s sort of about

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just after four days. It’s not that bad going. It took me about two hours to get from Tyneham

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and it might not actually be Tyneham itself. It’s the other side of Tyneham. It’s a wall

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barrow, which is another village which is destroyed by EMOD. So it’s like a Tyneham itself

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and there’s like a little sort of seaside bit as well. And the barrow is obviously there

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is a barrow, which I walked over, Flower’s Barrow, which is beautiful, except very high

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and very hot day to be doing that. But I am now walking to the, I don’t know, I’m trying

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to find the right way on the range. I’m now walking back to Tyneham. I’m eyeing a lot of

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little puddles. Sorry, I’m tempted. I don’t know because it’s like the cows are pissing

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and shitting and I found a river on it. It’s like cows are still pissing and shitting and

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it’s like hmmm. I’m worried about agent orange. I might do it anyway because I’m out of water

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pretty much. Well, I’m not out of water. I’ve got my emergency 500ml but I’m getting low.

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I’m thinking of putting in my water filter and do use it first time. Years. You supposed

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to use it in puddles, I don’t know. So yeah, I’m heading there. There is actually a little,

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again there’s no water at Tyneham. There’s no water anywhere. There was a little sort

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of drinks place there, which we might have been able to sell me some but I wasn’t really

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out of then. But even the toilets have a non-drink of water. So yeah, it’s all been about water

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this trip. I really should have brought 2 litres but the problem is the more water you

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bring the more heavy it is and then kind of like you, you know, it’s sort of, you need

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more water, that’s the problem. So I’m glad I’ve done this bit and we’re now heading

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back to Wards Kimmeridge. Hopefully we can not flip us around all day. I know I’ll speak

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to you soon. Oh yes, we had some show-offs. There’s always some who run on a day like

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this which is boiling at 23 degrees. There’s always some who do running up and down the

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hills. Or there was this older guy who was showing off. He basically went up and then

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he sort of ran down the hill next to me as I was puffing up and down. You’re not, you

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didn’t walk here. You didn’t walk five miles here, number one, and you didn’t carry, not

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carrying like two or three kilograms on your back. So yeah, it’s not the same, is it?

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Yeah, the older guy was running back and forth over, you know, over the barrow and it’s like,

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I bet you drove here. He was showing off, I did not get. So anyway, I’ll speak to you

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soon.

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Ah, I’m just walking on the roads. I actually ended up, because I’d forgotten. Well, I’m

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using an OsmAnd. An OsmAnd is based off some really old maps. Five. It really is like being

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in Sesame Street. You just look up at the hills and you see seven. Now it’s got five.

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One, two, three, four, five. It’s because the ranges, all of the points have big, fluorescent

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yellow numbers on them. It’s like being in Sesame Street. But yes, I use my water filter

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because I actually filtered water from a puddle. I hope it doesn’t poison me because it tastes

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sort of okay, but a bit weird, a bit dodgy, but looks clear. Then my lip was like, hmm,

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had that sort of paraffin, sort of numbness. I was like, oh, great. But then just as I was

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doing that, someone came up, a guy was a dog and gave me some water. So it’s like, oh,

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thanks. So once I bunged, I’ve got his oasis tabs, like aqua tabs. He actually tastes a

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lot better. Everyone goes on about the taste. And it’s like, sorry, if you’re actually literally

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drinking even filtered water from a puddle, it just improves the taste. So yeah, that’s

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how low water I’ve gotten. I noticed that there was a stream, Tyneham. I think it’s Tyneham,

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not Tyneham. I spelled it wrong. It’s T-Y-N-E-H-A-M, Tyne being a river, and it has a upstream.

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So I’m thinking of that, you know, I’m heading back to there and then reconvening my walk.

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Oh no, I can’t have a piss because someone else is coming. As you probably said, it’s

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the title of this segment and or podcast, Death March to Kimmeridge. I’m thinking it’s

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going for it, it’s say, about six o’clock. It’s a few miles. I think it’s not as evil

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as what I’ve just done to Arish Mell. Arish Mell was shorter than I thought it was from

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Tyneham to Arish Mell. I was like, you know, it was very up-y-down-y, the flowers barrow,

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but it was like, oh, that’s not the distance. I was like, that’s Arish Mell. That’s not that far

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away. I was like, okay. And I was like, look to the map, I’m probably mistaking it. But as I’ve

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painted the area, I’ve recognised the cliffs I was walking on from the background of my painting.

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So I was walking in the background of my painting, something I did on Jaunt 1,

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which is a watercolour of Mupe Bay. I’m not going to dig it out to put it in the artwork for this.

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Have us at tjbaker.co.uk. Just search for Mupe M-U-P-E and you’ll find it.

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It’s one of my best watercolours, but I went back especially. And I’ve got to mention this

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the last bit. The reason why I’m always at Arish Mell is I went to the Lulworth Castle.

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I realised that it was actually a walk in through the ranges. And so what I did,

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rather than going all the way from Lulworth up and down, I actually walked from Lulworth

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to a long, really horrible road, which I’m now walking on all the way. Actually,

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when you get off onto the Tyneham Road, it’s actually not too bad. But the one,

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that Lulworth Road rain road is horrible to walk on. And then I was just going to

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meep around the corner, sort of. But that meant I went up Bindon Hill. Bindon Hill is not a hill

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I want to do again. As I said, it’s not a golden cap, but it was probably one of the worst ones

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I’ve done in this area. I would not recommend, nought out of ten. So yeah, I think I’m just going

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for it. Because otherwise, I’m going to wait until next weekend. Because they open the ranges

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on the weekends. So I’d have to come back, which I might do anyway. There’s a few bits that I was

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like, oh, because I brought a painting gear and I haven’t used it. And there’s a few bits where I was

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like, yeah, you know, I’ll come back and do that someday. Or sometime, you know.

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So we’ll see how that goes. Especially without my head torch, it might be fun. I’m not planning to

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be out there on the cliff tops. It’s dark. Dust can probably be all right. Depends if we’ve got

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Supermoon. And it’s not a cloudy night, it might be all right. Because that means it’s so bright,

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that sort of Supermoon we’ve got at the moment. So it might be, it’s almost like daytime sometimes.

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And like, so it’s a lights off. I was like, no, it’s the moon. So I’ve got the moon throwing

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things at me. And I’ve got the oak tree I’m camping under, throwing acorns at me. So

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interesting times in the tent. Okay, speak to you soon.

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And we’re at the nodding donkeys of Kimmeridge, yet the Texas oil fields have got nothing

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on the Kimmeridge oil field. It’s quite small but you can smell it a mile off. Yes and it’s 9.30

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and I’ve made it. Actually no it’s not 9.30. My phone for some reason has suddenly switched

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because I’m out of contact of the world. I’ve suddenly switched to, I don’t know, I don’t know

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what time. We’re saying it was 9.30, it’s 8.30 because it’s only just gone dark unless some kind of

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magic is happening here that somehow it gets light until now later. So here’s 8.30 and I’m at Kimmeridge.

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Well the oil field a bit and probably a refinery I don’t know if I can spell that. It’s interesting

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because the UASC company, I’ve seen them launch a little, they’re allowed to launch from Arish Mell.

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There’s little dingies because it turned up, I looked at where they were and it was like

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contractors and there’s like going but they’re not, they’re not rangey people and I think it

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was something to do with the oil field and that was something I said there a couple of years ago and

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yeah I’m pretty sure you could actually get to that beach. It’s now locked off but they have

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like a container on there and it’s I’m pretty sure it’s due to the oil people so yes mod is somehow

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renting stuff out. So it’s getting rather dark ringly. I’m just walking into Kimmeridge Bay

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itself. Now I think Kimmeridge Village is a wild, you can see the that weird folly thing

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which I saw in the distance from Knowle Hill is lit up at the moment but it’s some kind of folly.

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I can’t, I should remember the name of it because I’ve looked on the map several times.

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It’s just after Kimmeridge but I’ve got out of the range so the oil field is just outside the range

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so it’s all the death march to or really dusk march to be more right but it was more like you

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know Kimmeridge or bust and I’m here. I might have to get a taxi home or we can see. I mean it’s

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it’s only about two, two-ish miles to home. The only thing that bothers me is just

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lack of having my head torch but I just wanted to do it anyway and I really enjoyed doing the dusk

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walk because all day it’s been you know people competing back and forth and they went there.

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Oh those people who were running around, they’d long gone.

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So there was a lot of weirdness and a lot of strange shade as well and people being all

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competitive on the on the cliffs. It’s strange people doing the power walking and the running

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and all that sort of thing like they’re showering off.

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But you know I walked for more because I keep going for longer

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when they they’re all in their beddy-byes I’m still going so I actually tend to walk more.

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And I haven’t totted it up. I think it was about five miles. It was about

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five miles must have been to Tyneham and then a couple of miles to Arish Mell back again

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to Tyneham and then one nearly two miles from Tyneham to Kimmeridge. So I think it’s this Kimmeridge.

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I think it meant Kimmeridge itself. It felt like I was longer than one and a half,

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one so of course it was. But anyway we’re out. I assume this is the bay bit. I don’t know.

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Do you know what this is? What is this? It’s a car park.

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It’s a car park. What’s it for? Parking cars. And there’s a bench. Hello bench.

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Been lack of those in the range I have to say. I think this is a car park for

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the bay and you can probably hear the bay in the distance. I’m not going to go too close to the

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edge. I’m not going to go down to the bay either. It’s been wonderful. But I need to work out how

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to get home. What are you planning my dinner? So anyway that was a success. That means that’s

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done. That doesn’t mean I won’t be doing anymore. I don’t like how Kimmeridge is done. And also

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I’ve got to do the bit from Kimmeridge to Chapman’s pool. So I’ve got to do that bit anyway.

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So there’s a little bit more to do. I’m probably as stiff as a board because I haven’t done one of

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these really long walks. I used to do these kind of walks. I remember walking into Dover and it

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was almost pitch black once. I didn’t have a torch. I quite like doing this but I stopped

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doing them because I had a few times where I got a bit trapped. One time I think I had to get a

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room in Bournemouth. Bournemouth. Which is not recommended. And one time a few times I had to

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do late night taxis which I might do. But I think my feet are not happy but walkable. So I’m walking

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hopefully. I’m going to check where it’s going. The road to the village. And it would be wonderful

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but it won’t happen if there was a hostelry with alcohol and cold drinks. And I could sit there

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and maybe call a taxi. This will not happen because well it’s Sunday. They think with the

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oil field, you think with the Dallas money coming in, they would have a bit of an interesting

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naughty tribine or a kind of a late night bar with all the oil money. I’m not sure but

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yeah it’s a Sunday in Dorset. As likely to have a late night shop in a small village

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or a pub open. Like the Weld Armss. I went past the Weld Armss and it closed half an hour ago and it

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was 5.30am. Another is Castle Inn in Corfe. I went there in midweek and they closed and it was

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after 9pm. It’s like it’s a different world out here. Anyway, I’ll speak to you soon.

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The second time I recorded this because I was in the Welcome Centre at Corfe Castle and I was like

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oh it’s lovely and quiet. I’m charging up my device which is a good tip if you need somewhere

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to charge things at Corfe. I go to the cafe and it has like charge points and plugs and things.

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I wish I’d known about that before because I’ve been running on empty with battery stuff recently

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and then a coach load came in and there was like massive noises and I was like I gave up.

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So yes, last night I did walk back from Kimmeridge. It was three and three quarter miles.

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Mostly on what? On roads. I did the echoes of the last jaunt. I had a cornfield path that was like oh

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my god is this like you know I know we’re near Churchknowle. I think we’re going to make Cockknowle

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but Churchknowle. Is this like Punk Knoll? I was like oh my god. George on the corn. So yeah that was the

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that was that but it it was not a bad walk but there was no pubs or anything at Kimmeridge.

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I was surprised because apparently the oil field is operated remotely. It’s mostly automated so

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there aren’t any oil people on site. So yeah it was completely dead not a shop or anything.

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Not slanging Kimmeridge. So nothing I could see that was open. It’s apparently a museum.

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So I walked and I managed to find a pub on the way because there’s a really nice pub just down

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the road from the campsite which I knew of because I’m trying to walk away from the traffic.

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This is all the traffic. It’s on a nice day. Apparently it’s the last day before kids are

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going to go back to school and so there is so many coach loads of people. So many oh there’s the

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steam railway. There’s so much sort of noises going on you know so much traffic coming in

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and steam trains. But it’s just you know crazy. You are here. What’s the best way to get into

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Corfe? Do I have to walk all the way back? I wouldn’t walk on the roads today.

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Yeah you can hear the steam railway. They were operating on the strike days.

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So yes so I managed to find a place called New Inn and it was open. It was like on a Sunday

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open at 10 o’clock. So I went out to drink and had a good chat with some of the locals,

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a couple of locals in there about politics and setting the rules for right and that really helped

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the walk because I noticed that just because of the rest and the wine. It’s only one glass

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of wine but my feet seem to not mind the rest of that walk. Well lubricated. They’re not as lubricated

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as the woman back at the campsite because when I arrived back I was about 11 30 maybe 12.

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I was aiming for 10 30 but I stayed at the pub until about 11 ish so I think I must have got

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back about 11 30. And there was this Karen, a sort of older Karen who was even down to the bob

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haircut but more in her 60s. And she was freaking out because the barrier was down and every time

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I’ve been there she’s like why is the barrier down? It’s like it’s always been down. You know I spoke

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to her because I was trying to quietly make some food and have a have a chocolate drink,

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hot chocolate drink, you know a recovery drink. I was trying to do all of that and then she was

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flashing you know waving a torch around and stomping around slamming the car slamming that

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you know it was just like and I spoke to her and say you know have you ever been on a campsite?

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Have you ever you know she’s 50 years of caravanning? I was like ‘oh caravan’ but I didn’t say that.

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And then it was like you know you do you know you shouldn’t try and talk to us at night until

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the people’s tents and she was so drunk she couldn’t hold it. And as I spoke to the

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the people run the place this morning and apparently sadly up in Wales a family of four

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was run over by a car in a tent and I think child and one of the adults died that was very recently

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and it’s that’s why they have these gates at night time stop people driving through and they have a

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bit of parking outside so you can park there and walk to you know it’s later but the idea of having

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possibly drunk people driving cars who’ve left earlier in the day I didn’t realise someone’s

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now camped in front of there you know near their spot they’ve just run them over and

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so I totally agree with that the site has always been very quiet at night and you know

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even everyone people all turn the lights off and they’re told to I haven’t gone through I haven’t

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actually seen the rules but they’re very you know they’re very sort of quiet and

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you know wonderful more quiet than this you know and dark and there isn’t any lighting

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you know and it’s brilliant you know especially with you don’t really need much

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lighting when the moon’s out that’s a big moon is out and so that she was she told me to piss off

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and it was she was very rude to me the this woman but she was just so drunk and it was just like

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why are you waving torches around you know it’s time and I because I was getting you know I get

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this beam of light vast beam of light my tent as I thought it was a siren it was just like rotating

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when it and it’s just because she was so drunk she couldn’t hold the hold the torch and uh

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yeah so today has been very sort of chilled charging my battery and my phone doing podcasty

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stuff um doing not much at all why not just make life um

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you know not doing very much at all really and just

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yeah

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my my legs are not too bad I mean I the I probably did at least 21 miles if not

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it’s kind of a little route map thing obviously google doesn’t understand paths

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OsmAnd does but it understands paths that don’t exist because it’s a it’s based off older maps before

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the whole area became um a range so a muddy range so a little path it’s referring to

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just end on a gate you can’t go through them but our google doesn’t have those at all so I

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tried to do the waypointy thing and it was either 21 or 27 but certainly it was five miles just over

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five miles from the campsite to uh so it’s bloody traffic um certainly five miles from

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the campsite to Tyneham and it was three miles back or between the quarter nearly four miles

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back from Kimmeridge and so

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yeah it was uh I think we’re just going back the way I usually know I don’t know if it’s a

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an easier way to the village I think not I think you have to go that way so

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over the horrible road uh everyone wants to get down to Swanage why I don’t know so yes so

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I it was a long walk and I would recommend I think I think I recorded one of the things

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just before I got up Poverington hill and then I recorded a thing when I arrived in Kimmeridge

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there’s a gap there um and because it’s ranges there’s very few gates in and so one of the

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frustrating things was is I at the bottom of Poverington hill I could actually see um styles

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and markers I was like but there’s a path there but the gate is locked it was a bar by gate so

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no entrance so but that looks like it should be able to get in there because there were styles to

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it and I knew there was a path going up from Tyneham to that area so I was like well that must

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connect to that and so I get all the way up to viewpoint and then find a path you know this path

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that I’ve been looking through the bar by going what’s the path and I was like that’s the path I

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need to be on but I can’t get to it and then I find an entrance and one walked all the way back

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down again which slowed me down and hence why I got into Kimmeridge around 9pm

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and then had that lovely walk back in the dark but luckily even though I didn’t have my

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head torch um the little the little light on my battery bank it’s got a little LED light

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really useful because it doesn’t seem to drain any power at all off the bank it’s very you know

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it didn’t the numbers didn’t go down um but that’s what I used to get home and it was enough to see

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and and then the moon came out and that was helping but yeah it was not recommended doing

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that the night walking through the roads and also some of the roads again Google says oh you can go

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through here to uh was it braddle someone like braddle uh big sign saying your sat nav

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no sat nav is wrong with his farm you certainly I don’t know if that’s right or not it looked like

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a normal road but I didn’t want to test it so I had to go all the way up and then on to the evil

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road which is the road just off the road you’re hearing and it’s got that kind of traffic on

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during the day a lot of people go very fast down that road because that kind of speed down that road

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it’s unlike the road which I’m next to which is the road that goes past Corfe Castle

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which is quite a main road to Swanage it’s a smaller road I’ve seen trucks and you know

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massive trucks and artyx try and go down there so it’s not you know there was quiet last night

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thankfully but it’s not a road I ever like to walk on because this is unwalkable in dorset terms

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because it’s a small track road lots of people speeding down it and I don’t have my fortune I

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don’t have my walking stick and of course no pavement so lovely but luckily last night it was

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hardly anymore about well because it was Sunday at sort of 10 or 11 o’clock so anyway so that’s the

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about what happened last night I probably put a picture a sunset picture on the

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artwork and yeah I want to try and get some drawing done today but it’s just been more about

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recovery I might go up to Knowle Hill and draw from then or maybe you know somewhere around

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Cove I need to go to the Corfe stores before they close at six o’clock and see if I can get some

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aftersun because I have sunblock on me and the sun I was religiously spraying the sunblock

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every hour to two hours religiously still I had a t-shirt covering over my neck as well

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I still managed to get quite prawned so I’m looking for some aftersun I think if I find some

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and a bit more of the if I find a small bottle of the sunblock because I’m starting to run out

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but yeah it was the ALDI Lacura stuff and it smells really old as well it’s a bit moldy

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but but it seems to work so anyway I’ll speak to you soon

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I don’t know why that didn’t record. I didn’t record. I could have a whole long recording.

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It’s a problem of having a couple of glasses on. So hello from a Dorset Road with a moon

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and the odd passing car I just had to deal with. Like they didn’t mow me down because

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that would have been my last podcast but then I didn’t record. So hey. And I’m walking back

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to the campsite from a nice meal at the New Inn. I went back to the New Inn. I mentioned

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all the podcasts and managed to get a meal there. And highly recommended New Inn. Just passed

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church now near Corfe. It’s a nice place. Nice people. I’ve run it.

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And it’s good food. It was quite funny. There were some Germans there and

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they saw the snarker. They said, Oh, do we disain when they said bye? I think they’re out of

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the earshot. But it’s, and the people who were playing ball came to near me and were giggled.

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Because hey Germans, I don’t assume everybody here doesn’t speak a language. I think

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there is this assumption in Europe which is quite funny that people in Britain don’t speak foreign

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languages. No, we get taught them at school. French and German. So, you know, if you’re bitching about

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the place, some of us can actually work it out. And it’s always quite funny to actually have

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to have been speaking for hours to just then say something in German and they get very, very,

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very, they get very, very quiet. Because they’re like, Oh, did he understand what we’re saying?

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Hey, it’s not like it’s the tagalog or

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yeah, or something like that. It’s German. It’s not actually rare for people to understand German

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in this country. Maybe not as much as French, but you know, hey. So yeah, that was a good meal.

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And it was a good day. I think I forget sometimes that this is a working holiday.

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And I forget the last bit. Because I am my own worst taskmaster that I’m in work,

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my own worst critic. I scream at myself in my head and also literally sometimes to get stuff done.

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And I beat myself up about not getting stuff done or failing. And you imagine how much I beat

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mustn’t beat myself up about damaging the mattress. I mean, it’s just been like constant,

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like my brain screaming at me about how much how it’s a dumb thing to do.

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And how I should have been a bit more fucking careful. So

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you know, it’s, it’s, it’s something called Pathological Demand Avoidance. I think

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this is a neurodiverse thing. And then with justice sensitivity, the justice sensitivity

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was definitely triggered by that Karen last night, being rude, breaking the rules,

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breaking the law, breaking the law, but not in a good way.

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But yeah, it’s always there. And so it’s reason why it took so long to do this trip.

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Why is it September now? It took so long to get it sorted.

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I was putting it off, putting it off, putting it off, because it’s just like,

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no, so much stress in doing this trip. And I feel that today, I kind of not actually got over it,

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but I, my stress was really high. And now I was freaking out about the whole business with the

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the ranges and all that. So this is the reason I’m here. And now it’s just like,

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we can reduce it down a bit. And we can not exactly chill out because I won’t ever let myself chill

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out because it’s not who I am. I can never chill out. I don’t really do that. It’s like,

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I don’t do small talk and I don’t do sunbathing and I don’t do doing nothing. It’s

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anathema to me to sit there and do absolutely nothing. Although I’m stuck to learn

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the skill because it’s an important skill to have. You don’t necessarily always have to be

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doing or working, but yeah, it’s just not something I’m very happy with. And so

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today it was very much about the holiday part. I’m not completely because I did a couple of paintings

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of course. And one was one of the worst drawings I’ve done in recent times. It was a bit like

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my drawings of old. Oh, there’s a car coming.

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I’m trying not to, trying not to dazzle them.

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I actually had a bunch of, I think kids, I’m actually very rich kids, felt before the BMW.

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You know, like I joked about Essex and their VW Polo GTs and stuff. I hang out with a bunch of kids

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and they just stopped in front of me on the road and I’m like, sorry, all this slowed down.

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There’s this thinking, hey, you’re making a jump out of the way. And I’m like, no, not going to happen.

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Until they eventually had to swear about the way. I find having a light helps because

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the drivers, especially if you switch to white, they’ve got no idea what that is. Green.

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And like, hmm, that could be all kinds of things. Red could be the tail light of somebody.

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But white, that’s oncoming. And just dazzles them until they slow the fuck down.

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And then they’re trying to manually dip it down. But you know, it’s a bit like having to use a

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a bit like having to use a, oh, I just walked past where I should be, having to use a stick.

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That’s funny. I almost walked past partly because I had to record this again. I walked past the very

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thing. It’s supposed to go anyway. And now we’re going to have fun with deer noises.

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Because there’s all kinds of deer in the copters. And you hear them at night.

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I don’t be interested to see how many of them we see with the green light.

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Because if you just see the little eyes looking at you, which is kind of spooky, but hey.

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So yes, we did a very terrible drawing. Like calling back to what I’m like

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as a teenager. Be like that, it’s dreadful. And that spurred me to do a better drawing

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from the place where I did the night drawing in Jaunt 1. Because it was a night painting. I did

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a night painting of Corfe Castle. Back in what two years ago. And it was a bit of a fuck you to

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Turner. Because like, well, Turner didn’t do a night painting of Corfe Castle. He did a few fairly

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ho hum drawings in his sketchbook. It’s incredibly light, incredibly hard to see what the hell he

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drew. And he pissed off. So yeah, so much for the Turner heritage. But it’s always a problem,

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you’re only where you find, oh, Turner did this. Really? Oh dear, I was going to do something else

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because if Turner did it, it’s probably not worth doing. As you might have guessed, I’ve

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incredibly low opinion of Turner. But you know, we like to spin it around. And he definitely

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wouldn’t have painted the castle with a traffic light in front of it or near it. And the pub

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do what I did. I posted a drawing on Instagram, which is fingertrouble. And I then put the

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I’ll put the watercolour up. I’ve taken a picture of it. I’ll put a little watercolour at some point.

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I’m mostly happy with it. Although snake colours. I used to struggle with painted brick.

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Well, not painted brick, faded brick. I think I’ve got a handle on faded brick now.

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But I still haven’t got a handle of slate colours. It’s like a blueish, purpley, blue

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with bits of yellow ochre in it. But if you mix that together, it goes a bit muddy. So

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I haven’t worked out a good combination to

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it’s the thing about watercolours. The more you work on something,

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the worse it becomes. It is incredibly hard, partly because you’ve got to know when to stop.

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And also you’ve got to know the kind of combinations with certain colours or certain

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things. So, oh, is that colour? Oh, that’s that and that. There’s a lot of colour theory, really.

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And glazing over the top saying, oh, well, I’ll do that one. I lay down that colour first

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and go to the top of this. You know, like, oh, it’s green in the shadows, or we’ll get

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some purples in there to dull down the greens. Not sure I’m totally happy. I’m certainly not happy

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with that. It’s that roof. The rest of it I’m pretty happy with. So it’s a good thing that I’m

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very much on track for that. But it’s, you know, it’s been several days away from it,

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focusing so much on, I must get that walk done, I must get the walk down. And as the stress level

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was so high, it’s now time to sort of, I think I feel like I’m getting back into the groove of things.

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The panic of the thing with the air vents, I will say. Anyway, I’m at the campsite, so time to

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be quiet and not disturb people. So, speak to you soon.

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And it’s the next day after that drunken ramble, well it’s literally a drunken ramble from

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the pub.

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Well yep, thank you, thank you Kate.

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I’m currently on the path to, well it’s a pass the right of way to Worth from Woody

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Sides, or Woody Hides, Woody Sides campsite.

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Reason that I’m not going for Kingston is I had to wait an extra half an hour, I might

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regret this but I just couldn’t stay in Swanage just a second longer.

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It was just, I literally have a terrible look with buses today, whereas you know, I just

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missed the 35, I had to wait 28 minutes and then I just missed the 40 so I had to wait

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an hour for another one.

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So I was like, screw that, I don’t want to wait another hour, yeah.

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Only reason I was in the Swanage, because you know how much I love Swanage, was the

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old, the old problem some time.

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I really should have brought some after sun, I brought sunblock and my extra creams, I think

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my extra cream double as, not completely, it does help, I think it’s helped it not develop

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into an eczema problem at the moment, but yeah, I brought some After Sun Malibu, not

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a ship, they all seem to have come with alcohol, the natured alcohol which is a posh way of

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saying meth, they all have meths in, don’t start drinking your after sun, but yeah.

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So I went to Boots in Swanage and found an aloe gel, because aloe gel is great, there

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was one that was even better, which was Witch cream, Witch after sun, which was witch

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hazel and maybe some aloe as well, that literally was almost like a miracle cure for some burn,

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it was like it was gone in two days, it was amazing stuff, but of course then Witch decided

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to do all the upscale and then seemed to have disappeared entirely, so good for them.

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So I got some poncey aloe gel as well, didn’t have any alcohol in, just in case of this

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stuff.

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I’ve got three bottles of after sun now, it’s amazing how this backfires, oh I won’t

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take, it’s an extra weight and then it’s like you end up with three of them.

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So I’m walking back to Chapman’s Pool to do that bit from Chapman’s Pool to Kimmeridge

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and how about do it today, I mean they’re not too bad because they’ve got exit points

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at Kingston, not at Kingston, and Worth.

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So you’ve got a way out, whereas the bit I was doing before, hence the 20, I did work

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it out, it was 21 miles, you know 0.7 miles and probably long on that, I don’t have a

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step counter on any of that, so I’m not really that interested in getting places, but I did

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a lot of walking around Tyneham as well, so if I was measuring a step count it would be

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way more than that, way more than 21.7 miles.

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So I’m amazed how well my legs and feet have held up, I think having, I’ve understood

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now that whenever I do something like that you have to have at least one or two off days

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when you’re not doing very much, recovery days, today wasn’t supposed to be a recovery

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day, I was supposed to be what I’m doing now, but as the sunburn meant that I was like

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oh I have to go and, and I’ll go to Swanage, is that a wearer, but you know it’s not a

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massive choice between the two, apart from the saints pretty soon wearer, but yeah, I

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looked and yes I did look at the buses away and it was like 16 minutes versus 28 minutes

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and it was like well there’s not much in, really not much in this, and I didn’t really

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want to be further away from the place I wanted to be, because it’s the opposite direction,

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so hence I got off the 30 bus, a pack 30 bus, oh and I had a Queue Jump Karen as well, there

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was this woman who did the international sign of I’m with this person, you know they

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point back to themselves and the other person and moved in, and it turns out a person was

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waiting for the number, the 40, the one I wasn’t going to get, and it turned out there

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weren’t anything to do with that person at all, they just, they just stepped in in front

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of me, and there was quite a bit of queue, it was a queue for about 40-50 people, and

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I was trying to tot up in my head saying how many, how many spaces is that, I was thinking

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there was about 70 on a double deck, so I was like oh okay, but, and then she tried to

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pay with a 20 pound note, she managed it, but I made the bus driver laugh and I said well

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she queue jumped as well, I was saying that under my breath, there’s a Queue Jump Karen, there’s

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a Queue Jump Karen, there’s a Queue Jump Karen, she’s so fun to me, that kind of thing, just enough

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for her to hear, and no one else, ah yes, don’t cross me when it comes to queues, I get

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very, very, very toxic, it’s just a Justice Sensitivity kicking it, because it’s

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like really, you know, I mean if people ask and they’re not thinking about it, that’s

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usually no, but if there’s a good reason, as I would weirdly, somebody in the psychology

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experiment found that the best reason was because I want to, or because I can, which

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is, I’ve found strange, because I would be like no, I have done so, someone’s got a dying

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relative or an injured child or something, I’m like wait, wait, wait, wait like the rest

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of us, but yes, so I might regret the extra mile of walking, but my legs are pretty good

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today, I have to say this path to Worth, it’s a bridle path, but it’s through a forest,

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through all the bitey flies, I managed to kill one, and it was definitely biting me,

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because it was like red, when it actually squished it, and I was like hmm, that’s been

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biting me, but the, it looks like one of the places where it’s so totally, where it’s

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so totally comes a river, a streambed in winter, it looks like that, you know, this is not

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a stream in winter and spring, this is not a path, it’s a stream, so it feels like, and

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it’s got all this kind of ferns and, so it’s obviously quite damp, so anyway, that’s today,

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one of the things I wanted to check out is the Clavell’s tower, and the Clavell’s tower was

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the thing I saw in the distance, and talked about the lights being on, and I just saw

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a gas, and I said I’ve seen it from Knowle Hill, I actually bothered to look up what was

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called, it’s called the Clavell’s tower, it is quite a famous folly, I think, this folly

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or pretend lighthouse, I don’t know which one it was, but I think it’s a folly, and

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I’ve heard a lot about that, when I’ve seen pictures like that, that’s so familiar, but

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I was thinking, I think I was thinking there’s a, an old lighthouse tower, which is, is it

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Weymouth, or either Weymouth or Lulworth, but it’s one long wet route, might even be

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further up the coast, but yes, so I’ll check that out, and there are a few rivers on route

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if I have to filter any water, but I’ve got a fair amount of water, and looks like this,

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there are places to refill, I know about the pub in Kingston, so it’s got arms around

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me also, but it’s so funny, I looked at the refill logic, the refill app, to promote refilling,

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and they said there’s a water fountain here, I was like, I’ve been there, there’s no water

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fountain, there’s a old, disused fountain, that’s not working, but it’s not even where

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they indicated it, it’s like, in a churchyard, and I was like, nope, it’s not a water fountain,

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it’s not a water fountain in a churchyard unless you’re going in and stealing water

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from the old font, there’s nothing there, yes, I’m probably not recommended to go and steal

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and drink water, babies have been dunked into, that one’s very hygienic, but so,

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yeah, but I know about that, and I know about the Square & Compass Worth, the scientists say

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worth, they dropped the Maltravers stuff to the signs, a bit more casual, a bit more cash,

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so I’ll check in later, I’m hoping to do some artwork as to how it’s traditional,

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and carry my shopping across the cliffs, yeah, this is something I do, I’m like,

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I don’t want to go all the way back, because at the time you go to my swanage, or the local town,

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she’s always a while away, there’s always a faff to get back from, and then you drop stuff off,

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it’s like late afternoon, so as is usual, not as bad as last year where I took a whole

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massive shop seven miles, that was in Seaton, not Seatown, but I was in Seaton,

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and yeah, that was silly, like, oh, I’ll walk across the road, no, I’ll look on the cliffs

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with all my shopping in my rucksack, and there was a lot of shopping, and luckily most of this is just,

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damn gates, I wish did, I meant to mention this before,

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I wish to invent a standardized way for gates, anybody who walks will agree with me on this,

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you come to a gate and there’s about 10 or 20 different ways of opening the gate,

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people won’t realise this, it’s just like, lifty pulley, pull to the side, lift away,

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a bit of twine, a chain around it, and the ones that tend to be the standard, which is the lifty,

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the ones that you lift up and pull, or push, but yeah, there’s no standardized way, and it’s just,

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it gets rather infuriating, because you’re like, you know, it’s a bit like the Krypton factor every

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time you come to a new gate, and it’s like, I don’t want to have to think about how to open the gate,

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I just want to open the gate, sometimes ad hoc things from the farmer, quite often it’s designed

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like that, and as I say, can we just pick one, pick one that’s pulley or pushy or ouch, I hope that’s

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not a nettle, probably, yeah, pushy or pulley or lifty or whatever, or a piece of string around

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the post, or a chain around, there was whichever one it is, but yeah, I think there’s something

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counter to them, at least 10 different ways, and I suspect a lot, a lot less, and you can tell this

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might be used as a bridleway possibly by horses, it’s not walked by many people because

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the place is full of, oh shit, nettles, and guess who is wearing shorts, so anyway, I’m trying to do

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short podcasts and failing, so I better go, see you soon.

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One of the problems in this area is a lot of the, well either the maps are wrong, or the paths I

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think have been destroyed, so I had this with the MOD ranges, and I was like, well that might be

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just paths that were there before, because OsmAnd, the free, a bit of Wikipedia, is originally based

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off digitising very old maps, and so unless people don’t update it, or there is, you can’t

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guarantee, it’s not like an open Ordnance Survey map, where like you can see an appointment saying

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this is the right of way, problem is the Ordnance Survey map app is expensive, and not actually

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that useful, so, and I’m not going to carry paper maps, but yeah, you know, because we’re

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in the edge of the GPS, but I had this one just back there where the, we had a ghost path, a path

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that I think was there, because I could see the hedge and the fencing where it would have gone down,

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but, oh lovely butterfly, it was just marked on the map, and it was the same thing happened

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when I got off the bus, there was another pass that was marked and I was completely

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eradicated, I don’t know, I was like, can’t be a boundary marker, because sometimes those little

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dotted lines can be boundaries, because it’s got styles on it, allegedly, I don’t know whether the

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campsite killed that one, I’m not sure, or someone else, you know, I’m not sure about that one,

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but the one just now, definitely, I could see there was a hedge, and there, and

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at exactly the point where there would have been the path, so that suggests to me that the path

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has just got overgrown and abandoned, or been taken out, so I had to walk across the B road

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for about five, ten minutes, which, this whole area is quarries, I can actually see in the distance,

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the clanging you could hear, and probably here in the background, the last bit, was the quarry

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next to California Farm, and I don’t know, I don’t think it was podcasting when I was

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at the California Farm Trip, but part of the big reason why I am not at all a big fan of

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Swanage is my experience at California Farm, where this horrible woman runs this deceptive

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campsite right next to a working quarry, doesn’t mention that it’s next to a quarry

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in any of the stuff online, and then she gave me shit for not checking in, but then it was not

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obvious where to check in, you know, and I was getting back very late, so I didn’t see her,

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and she was asking all the other people there, and a few people who stayed,

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most people just kind of stayed one night and went, because it was so horrible,

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and the facilities were, you know, the toilet block I hesitated to call it that, it was something

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it was pretty horrible, cold water and kind of like

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insect-infested toilets, and sort of had them cleaned, it was like a shack in the woods, and it was

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pretty horrible, so it was that, and so just to be reminded of that, seeing the, I think it must

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be that quarry in the distance, it’s just like, oh dear, I remember that noise when I stayed there,

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and I think I just got the hell out of there after a few days, but the only reason why I was there

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is because it was bank holiday weekend, and the bank holiday was just booked up everywhere,

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the entire of Swanage was booked up, I think I might have even looked at the course,

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never booked up, everywhere I was booked up, that’s why I avoid,

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because I don’t want to, I don’t know if I do, but I find it fascinating, sort of the,

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oh and the tumour line, I’ve seen quite a few of the tumour lines, well many could just be mounds,

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but in the middle of a field it suggests it’s probably, probably a tumour line,

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which suggests some of these roads, walking it might be ancient trackways, but who knows,

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the few that survive probably are, because it seems like a lot of the paths have been destroyed,

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possibly by quarries, they come in the quarry that killed that, possibly, I didn’t go down

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this little road, I could have rejoined, I will join that and we’ll see it as a path,

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there off on this path, usually the ones that have colour markings in OsmAnd are fairly legit,

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maybe meaning they’re a bikeway or some kind of official path, but they’re just dotted lines,

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that’s going to be very highly suspect, and of course the problem is that Google for all their

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billions, can’t be all this to a decent map, involves footpaths, it’s something that could

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have to be bothered, and as I said I don’t really fancy paying Ordnance Survey,

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which is basically a military map for military purposes, that’s what it is,

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they was originally, it’s the name, I don’t want to pay any more money, or any money, at least

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they have a free option, but not only does it really require on data access, which I’ve been

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in walking in and out of places, you know some places surprisingly, Arish Mell had some 4G

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connection, some places it’s completely dead spots, and you can’t reprend on that,

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you have to be able to download something, like OsmAnd, you can download the data, or

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you know some kind of thing on your phone itself, there is actually a good American one,

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but I don’t think they do here, it’s like nature’s path or something,

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nature hike or nature, but it’s very very detailed, but again it’s

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US and Canada only I think, last time I looked at it it was, so yeah this isn’t

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an interesting thing with distal mapping at OsmAnd, because I like the idea of open source

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mapping, and you know because a lot of them haven’t changed, a lot of things haven’t changed,

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but enough has that you have to be aware, especially with any form of change of use,

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new buildings, industrial development, or indeed M.O.D. ranges, that what was there

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in the 20s and 30s has been completely destroyed, or I mean some of the paths on there were

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actually the ones I walked in Tyneham, so they put the path thing on the old paths,

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it’s what you would do, oh shit, oh no, still my belly, this is a thing,

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it’s horrible, quite high up, nettles, and then no dot leaves, I think the snails are in

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concert with the nettles to hide the docking leaves, I was looking out for dot leaves going,

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nope, no dot leaves, because rubbing a dot leaf onto a nettle sting does help,

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but we’ve reached a fork in the road, so I better check out the map

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and see what is real and what is not, I’ll speak to you soon.

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I’ve talked a lot about the Even Curse Of The Jaunts, but I didn’t think it would play

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out like that, because the last Jaunt 2, before I started doing the podcast, Jaunt 2 was a

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trip in October where I was, it was too cold, and so I sorted that out and then got lots

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of layers and charity shops and things, that’s why I have base layers now and why I have

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a decent sleeping bag, a down sleeping bag, there’s a reason for that trip, because I

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realised the Karrimor wasn’t 3 seasons, it was barely 1 season, because on Jaunt 3, even though

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it’s somehow still cold at night, but J6 was when my backpack broke on that trip,

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day 6 is today, and I’ve just fallen over 1.6 miles from Kimmeridge, I’m still trying to get

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to Kimmeridge before it gets dark, I think I’ll make it because I’m at the Clavell Tower,

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but I don’t want to say I will, because my look today has been so bad with bosses and this,

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and so it looks like a scrape, but what I’m worried about is not so much where it’s at now,

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although I will say this, Elastoplast you are shit, because I did take a first aid kit,

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and you’ll say, but why the Tim picture you showed, there was no plasters on it, yeah,

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because it all fell off, because I was using sunblock all day on my knees,

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and even though I used a sterile wipe on it first, even gorilla tape would not fix,

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I was like, ah, I’ve got some gorilla tape wrapped around my top of my water bottle,

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that is kind of partially intentionally, sometimes people do that around the walking sticks,

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just so you’ve got tape in emergencies, that didn’t stick to my skin,

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so we’ll see what happens, I think I’ll probably wash it when, when I get back to the campsite,

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which is a big issue, because although I’m 1.6 miles from Kimmeridge, I’m still three miles

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from the campsite, and there’s been so many nettles and scratchy things and thistles,

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and when I fell down, what happened is these paths have, sometimes I don’t know how they’re

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created, but they’re either little fault lines in the earth, maybe through the erosion, or just

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erosion from people, but there’s sometimes very big ditches by the side of the thing,

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and they’re covered in green stuff, especially as it, where it was, it was coarse and bushes,

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and so I didn’t see that, I missed the past, one leg went down there, and it kept going down,

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so it wasn’t a little tiny thing, it was actually a massive hole, and so that got loads of,

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that got scraped to nettles, and then the other one hit my bad knee, the same, you know, smacked

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into concrete about six to eight months ago, and hit the deck, and started bleeding, and it’s still

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bleeding, but not as bad as it was, but it’s sort of red, hasn’t scabbed up, but it’s not,

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not dropping blood, but so, and I can walk on it, but I’m now sort of rushing to try and get out

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of this hellscape of a walk, which I thought was going to be, you know, a simple two miles,

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turns out to be about three or four, that’s no biggie, but then I forgot about the big hill

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at the start, that’s fine, I think the rest of it’s fairly flat, which it is, and then I go and

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have a tumble, and I never used to do this, you know, it’s been the second time like six or eight

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months, we’re just getting old, but yeah, it was a similar thing that happened with my other leg,

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we’re walking down those sort of concrete steps, it was just like slap, bang, and there you are,

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so what I’m worrying about is how will I, what will happen when I stop walking,

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because that’s when it was far up, I’ve already taken some ibuprofen, and I’m already

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wondering where the rest of the trip, and it’s like after that and the mattress, I’m like,

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this trip is so fated to not happen, it’s not true, when the weather’s great, it started off horrible,

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you know, that really depressing 24 hours plus of rain, but then it’s been wonderful ever since,

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although obviously sunburn, so it’s like sunburn, well I kind of expected that, mattress not,

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and this not, although I did it at the first aid kit just in case, but turns out the first aid kit

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was shit, and I didn’t bring the, to save a few grams, I was like, well you know, I don’t have

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all the dressings and stuff, I didn’t bring the little tape, I’ve got some surgical tape,

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and I should have brought it because now that would have been ideal to sort of wrap around and

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just keep the plasters on, so yes, great times, I’m at Clavell Tower, so I should be fairly soon

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in Kimmeridge Bay, and the sun has gone down, there’s people surfing here actually,

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there’s quite an interesting kind of rip, odd rip thing going on,

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some, I don’t know, some rocks or ledges, so we’ll see tomorrow, I’m going to take some

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medication which involves brandy and wine, have some food, get showered and then clean, you know,

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dress this up first I think, and then we shall see tomorrow what the hell has happened to the knee,

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if it does balloon up like a, well balloon, great with assemblies, great with the metaphor,

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then it’s going to probably stop the trip, and it’s just like, oh for fuck’s sake,

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you know, I’ve fixed the mattress and I’ve hopefully fixed the sunburn with the

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all those stuff I’ve got, I’ve been protecting it today religiously and spraying on some block every

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you know, hour and just being over sunblocking it and covering it and being super, super careful,

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because I don’t want to repeat what happened, I ended at jaunt three when the X-Mode kicked off,

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because you know, even though the sunburn was appealing,

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and the irony was is that I’ve got my shopping and the artwork, I didn’t get a chance because of that

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suddenly, suddenly struck a newest walk, which I thought was going to be simple,

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and it’s weird compared to Sunday, which was, I knew it was going to be hard,

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and so it wasn’t hard, and actually went really well, and was surprisingly easy,

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whereas this has been just a nightmare, and it was not a massively long distance,

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but it’s just everything that has gone wrong, you know, could have gone wrong, it has gone wrong,

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bar me falling off a cliff, and there’s still time,

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so I’m going to see if I can get a taxi, I think there is a taxi company in the

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thing, so I bet you’re going to be like, oh mate, no, I’ve had my dinner, anyway, speak to you soon.

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It is the other day, the other day, it isn’t the next day,

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and yeah, knee update, I’m sure everyone is like, oh my god, knee,

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um, it’s not too bad actually, it’s kind of, it did get a little bit swollen,

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and it did get a bit creaky, and it was definitely warmer than my other knee, even now,

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but I got back to the campsite, had to shower, I took a taxi,

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and looked at the taxi came within 10 minutes, it was amazing, I did say I was injured,

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but you know, that was brilliant, so I got back not too late, and how did the other half live,

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so it was easy enough, three mile walk, and then I went and had a shower, that’s stang,

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that’s stung, you see my English is all over the place at the moment, I can’t blame the drugs,

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because I don’t have any, I’m not even, I have a preference at the moment, because it seems to be

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okay, well okay, well it’s not okay, but it seems to be right, it seems to be mostly surface,

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although a bit swallowny, a bit creaky, and then yeah, and I did actually have,

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I remember being, you know, thank you Past Tim for making the right decision, because

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I remember I took out the micro, the sort of surgical tape, this is a little roll of surgical

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tape I got from Boots, and I put it back in the last minute, I’d forgotten, and I was like, I’ve

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got it, and so I had a dressing as well, so I’ve got a tape and a dressing on it now, and a sticker,

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a plaster, actually plaster sticks, but not by Elastoplast, so hey, I fuck you Elastoplast,

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in fact I’ve still got, it’s stuck to the inside of my, yeah, rip, rip, the sound of ripping sounds,

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I’ve still got the mess in my pocket from last night, which is the

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the gorilla tape, and Elastoplast concoction to try and make it stick, now the reason why

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that was an issue is that the whole of the, the rest of the way was,

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various parts differ, obviously, but most of the coastal paths are fairly sort of bare grass,

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some of them have sheep that sort of, that’s livestock quite often graze it, some bits have

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gorse, and thistles, and nettles, and scratchy plants and stuff, and guess what, at 1.6 miles to

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Kimmeridge, there was loads of those, and I was trying to protect it, and rather annoyed that

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the thing wouldn’t stick on, it just fell off, actually, all because I had one sunblock, and

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even with the, as I had the alcohol wipey thing, even that didn’t make it stick, and I did that

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beforehand, and it left a little while, and then even got a tissue out, but it wasn’t sticking,

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I got a tissue out and just, you know, tried to dry the skin, and even the gorilla tape was like,

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nope, and it was like absolute bollocks, so today is going to be hunt for plasters, I think,

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because I’ve used up all my medical kits worth of plasters in one go, because it’s kind of,

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it’s supposed to be just an emergency first aid kit, and I haven’t been carrying, it’s only fairly

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recently, I’ve been carrying a first aid kit, actually, I didn’t used to, but I used to carry

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medicines and odd things, but not really plasters and blisters, so I generally don’t get blisters,

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because I don’t wear boots, so I wear the, I mean, it’s very good, I mean, they’re not sponsored,

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you know, I wish, but in the sales I managed to get half price, these Saucony

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Peregrines, I think the Peregrines, of course they don’t say on them what they are, you’ll see,

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Saucony, I think they’re the Peregrines, and I got them half price, and they are brilliant,

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I’ve been wearing them as my main shoe in London, and they haven’t worn down, they’re not as grippy,

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I mean, the best ones are the Hedgehogs, I do have a pair of those in storage, and I probably

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should dig them out for a trip like this, but they wear down really quickly, you know, and especially

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the amount of kind of like gravelly, scrabble, what I call scrabble, which is, I hate, I’ve said

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this many times before, how I hate scrabble, and I don’t mean it’s the board game, just that sort of

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scree, that’s really dangerous, because it’s just so easy to slip on that stuff, I mean, the next

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one is wet grass, but you know, it’s like screes, it’s just new, I try and walk in the grass again,

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because it’s usually better grip, but they’re brilliant for that sort of thing, but so much of

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that sort of scree, track, chalk, paths, stone, and tarmac, tarmac just kills them, they just

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weren’t, there’s wear down, it’s like a soft rubber, so these are less grippy, because they’re harder

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rubber, but amazingly hard, and they’re not, I’ve had them, oh, I got them last year, I think,

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yeah, sort of late last year, so there’s no sign of wear on the soles at all, really,

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would be a little bit, but it’s just amazing, I mean, they were recommended by a YouTuber

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called, what’s his name, well, the Backpacking Britain One, the guy that was ex-forces, who

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started walking around various places and one camping and things like that, and he walked 500

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miles with them, and they were fine, and it’s like, that’s impressive, so another thing is that they

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are usually, though, I really highly recommend if you want some, just get on their mailing list

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and wait, because it seems like obviously when they are, sort of either desperate or more likely

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sort of trying to change over stock, they’ll flog the old ones half price, but yeah, usually

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they are, like, over a hundred quid and they’re not. I’m sitting here, I’m sitting under the

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old oak tree, trying to avoid the acorns it’s throwing at me, that’s right, I was

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singing, tying yellow garlands under an old oak tree, it doesn’t totally work as a song,

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but it’s true, I do have yellow garland, but I’m not tying them. Oh, that was the other thing,

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I lost, I need to find a bit of string or something, because I like the Kelty backpack,

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there’s one major flaw of it, and if I do a proper video review on the Hard Up Hiker,

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I will mention this, some of the zips have been quite cool, sort of like draw things with

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plastic ends on, some of the other zips have kind of an economy version where they just put a piece of

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string through and tied it, and you can guess what happens, one of them came untied and kept

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retieing it, kept retieing it, kept retieing it, I’m crap at knots, and then eventually I lost it

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during the walk, so I need to find another piece of string, I mean in a way it’s easy to replace,

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but the problem is in between it’s very hard to open and close it when you’ve lost a little string

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bit, and it’s just like another thing to carry if I have to carry bits of string to replace strings,

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so yeah, I’ve probably got some carabiners actually I could probably clip on, I might do that,

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I don’t know if I’ll fit through a little hole though, so yeah, there’s lots of stuff I’ve got,

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I mean I seem to be doing it, and I’m compared to other people’s lives, it might sound rarely

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cushy, but on this trip I just managed to do pretty much everything wrong, started too late,

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but I’ve seen a past experience of August bank holiday,

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you know, and starting walks too late, which I should know better than that, although again,

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because I’d looked at the Kimmeridge side, I’d looked, oh that’s not too bad, I actually looked

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at the elevations in the past, and I’d forgotten there was the big hill before all of that,

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and there’s lots of up and downy for about, well it’s really confusing, it kept saying

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three miles, three miles, three miles, it’s like Groundhog Day, but actually when I,

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it was about two miles when I got past all of this stuff, I think I took, I’ve got a blue sky,

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if you check out, fingertrouble.bluesky.social I think it is, and I commented on there saying,

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you know, took a picture of it, and like, this is what I’ve done, and I don’t seem to have got very

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far, and it’s true, it was like a mile, but it was much more, because go up and down and down,

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after that it’s fine, but then I was like, and it’s weirdly on the bit that was fairly level is

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where I fell, and the thing that bothers me more is the fact that on the other side,

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my other leg has been giving me hell, because I don’t seem to have broken the skin a bit,

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there’s a bit of a scrape, but I fell down a patch of, I don’t know what it was,

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it was poison ivy or a bunch of nettles, and that was like doing that annoying tickly,

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painful thing last night, and that was weird, because I was like, usually nettles just go away,

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so that got badly stung, so between the both of them, and that one, that leg is actually a bit more

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pretty creaky than the other one weirdly, even though the one is what took the impact,

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so I don’t know what happened there, or I twisted it or something, but we’re going to see,

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go looking, go on a plaster hunt, we’re going on a plaster hunt,

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and hope that the Corfe shop isn’t crap about that, because the Corfe stores is brilliant

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about some things, like I got some, my general tip for when you’re camping, and the camping

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does seem to be endlessly putting things in bags and then taking them out again, I have to say,

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this is just my take on camping, is bagging or bagging, that’s what it seems to be,

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but is just grab it when you see it, because you quite often think, oh no, I don’t want to carry

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that, or I’ll get it later, and you’ll find that in the next destination, or wherever you go next,

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just randomly doesn’t have it, so it probably didn’t help carrying some of my shopping across

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those cliffs, and it was 27 degrees, so that was a bit dumb, but not really, I don’t feel

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bad about that, because I know that from past experience, that things like little cereal

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packets, they have them at Corfe store, there’s a possibility of Swanage, and they’re not,

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even though they have bigger shops, they might not have it, I saw some lovely venison burgers,

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which I didn’t get, because I was like, I don’t know how they would survive in my backpack,

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I don’t know much about venison, the safety of venison, I think venison is a bit like beef,

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I think it’s okay if it gets a bit warm, it’s not like pork or chicken, so I really wish I’d gotten

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those, but you know, I got various things, bits and bobs, did I have a bottle of wine in there?

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No, or did I? I can’t remember if I had a bottle of wine in my pack, no I didn’t,

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but yeah, so last night I just took loads of, I took loads of drugs, Ibuprofen,

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antistamine, wine, brandy, and my little minty tablets, because my dinner was nice, I did the same

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lot, very trusty pasta thing with my dehydrated mushrooms, and my beef jerky, I’ll be proud of

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those, those are a success of the trip, along with the Nido, which is the Nido milk powder, which is

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if you’re over camping I really recommend using Nido, because it’s very hard to get here, it’s

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really weird, there’s a weird kind of thing where like in hot countries you can easily get it, and

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know it’s Nestle, and you can get a non-Nestle brand, which is, oh where is it from, is it New Zealand,

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or something weird like place like that, it might be from Africa, it could be Nigeria, but yeah,

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there is a one called Peak something, but you want a full fat if you’re hiking, you can get

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Marvel milk powder, and it is weak as shit, and it’s not really nice, so Nido is like this full milk

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milk powder, and it is lovely, and it doesn’t go off, because when you’ve got weather like this,

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and then the 25, 27, you can’t store even the oat milk for very long, you can try using alternate

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milks, but you know milk milk will go off really quickly, or curdle, but also other milks will go

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off really quickly, and actually the shop here does have some things like that, so I could do

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fresh, but hey it’s wasting it, but it’s just, it’s also a lighter to carry, because the problem

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quite often on my previous trips I’d have this big, big fuck off bottle of

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of oat milk or something, it’d be heavy, and whereas just having the powder and just finding

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some more choice, it’s a lot easier, and I’m on the second packet of that now, so at some point

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if this trip goes on, which I think it will, and I’m having a rest day today, I was thinking moving on

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to down past Lyme Regis today, I’m not going to do that today, because I’ll say well after that

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fall, I’ll take it easy and see how my knee holds up today, but I’m going to go do a walk,

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after I’ve walked into Corfe, I will, I’m thinking of going back to Kimmeridge, but not that way,

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do the

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perfect way, up at Knowle Hill and then go down to using paths and things if I can,

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avoiding the roads, because I think you can do that, I haven’t done it because just because it’s

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been late at night, and I’ve been like well I don’t trust paths, the only, the sad thing about

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footpaths at night is you, it’s not, it’s too stressful and it’s too dangerous, so you don’t

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know whether you’re about to walk off a side of a cliff or something, and quite often you miss,

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you know it’s very easy to get in the lost direction, I’ve done it, done it several times,

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would not recommend, even with a you know a GPS, an Osmand, I’m usually ticking down on

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low battery because by then your battery’s really low, now I do try and carry spare battery power,

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if I can, and I’ve got my solar set up here, and that’s been pretty good, it’s going up to a couple

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of days, it’s going to done 50% of a 10,000mah battery, which is pretty good, so I’ve

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been loading up my little thingy with that, and it’s charging at the moment in the sunshine,

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but yeah, I try and always carry most reserve spare and go into airplane mode, I mean does

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why, and have battery save on all the time at the moment now, but usually it kicks in at 50%.

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But yeah, doing that, like trying to check that, and then walking through fields with you know,

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sheep who are suddenly scared that you’re there, and then suddenly finding out it’s actually a bog,

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and you know, I’ve done all those, so I don’t walk on paths that I don’t know at night,

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unless it’s, I mean coastal paths, it’s a little bit different, or there’s still a

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little bit of light at dusk, you know, but whereas the inland paths you never know, you

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could go through a quagmire, you could suddenly go through, you find that it’s turned into a river,

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you know, stream overnight, and that kind of stuff, it’s just too risky at night.

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So I’ll head down there and try and find some of the paths, see if they exist, as we found out

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yesterday, all the ghost paths that are on Norseman, some of them might not exist,

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but there’s some more fun with that, even the ones that are marked as bridleways and

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byways and cycle ways and that kind of stuff, they’ve got little colours on them,

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they’re usually reliable, but yeah, as I found, not always, disappearing paths of dorset.

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So we’re going to do that, and that’ll be, probably at six miles, and then there’ll be a few

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miles into Corfe and back, well, a mile and a half into Corfe and back, and without a pack

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into Corfe and back, because I’m just going to do some shopping. I’m going to make some lunch now,

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and hope for taking a round taking later. That’s the other fun thing, is that I need to find some,

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though I’ve got some more Kabanos. Amazingly, Corfe stores had Kabanos and Leerdammer,

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so that doesn’t mean they’ve got some good stuff, but I’ve learnt my lesson, I’m not going to try

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and open the packet with a pen knife anywhere near the end. The other thing I’m experimenting with

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is Splenda. We’re going to try and reduce the amount of sugar I’m eating, which is not so much

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a bigger thing when I’m exercising like this, you want some, you know, you can’t go on a sugar free

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kick, or a fat free kick when you’re walking 20 miles. You need fuel, but it’s just the problem,

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there’s always been sugar for my coffee, and so I’m trying Splenda, and that’s

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pretty good, I like it, so it’s sucralose, seems to be one of the safer ones. Sweeteners aren’t

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that unsafe, obviously are. High quantities, huh, for people

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mowing the lawns, I think.

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Yes, so on that note, I’ll go, I’ll speak to you soon.

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I have a 28 minute rant that I’ll probably not post because it’s too personal.

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I’m at Kimmeridge, it’s going dark. Yes, I’m at Kimmeridge and it’s going dark and it’s 8 o’clock.

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I didn’t plan to do that, but my shoes smell of cow shit, and I really wish they didn’t.

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I really wish my Sauconys didn’t smell of cow shit, but basically what’s supposed to be like,

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oh it’s a 3 mile walk, or maybe a 4 mile walk, extended, turned into a complete slog through cow shit,

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flies, heat, and a lot of crap, literal and otherwise, and ghost paths and things.

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And I had a bit of an existential meltdown, which I’m still unpacking and in a way, shouldn’t have not opened.

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There’s kind of these pop-up little, sort of, I don’t know, food vans, boat on the beach,

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I’m sure it’s all fish seafood, I don’t think seafood, but someone there, I think they’re just cleaning up.

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But yeah, it was a…

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It just comes down to this, I don’t really… why don’t you shout?

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Um, let’s get away from the noise it comes.

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It just comes down to this, that I don’t really enjoy camping, which might sound bizarre since I’ve kind of hoisted my mast,

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little colours on the mast, nose at the mast, around it, but it’s kind of one of these things where it’s not something I love,

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it’s something I have to do because it’s all I can afford.

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And when you’re kind of like walking through cow shit and along roads and people are cruising by on their 4x4s,

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which they’ve paid for with their wage slave jobs, but they’re living a kind of a different life,

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almost like a different, you know, people really.

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And they can just cruise to some like, image, it’s a 4 mile drive, 3 mile drive, 10 mile drive, 50 mile drive,

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no, there’s no problem in a 4×4.

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But when I’m trying to do it, there’s no public transport, no near campsite,

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Smedmore Hall, doesn’t have running water even.

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And I think the thing I hit was just one of needing a sense of home,

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needing a sense of somewhere to belong, and that my current home is not really providing that.

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And when you go on holiday, you kind of hope to find that feeling,

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you kind of hope to find some kind of sense of even temporarily belonging,

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finding some kind of meaning, even temporary.

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And a lot of the meaning was in the artwork, but I found myself very recently getting more and more frustrated with the fact that

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when it’s, when the thing you want to draw and paint is 5, 7, 3 miles away,

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and then it turns out even more because you have all these details because of things that are not existing from the map

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and pissing around and getting lost and getting lost in Steeple, that was fun.

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And dropping my hat into the river accidentally, I got it back, that kind of shit.

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It all just gets very frustrating when they get you to the artwork.

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I did two very quick pieces at Kimmeridge, which did turn out alright

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But they were literally as the sun’s going down, hence why they’re black and white.

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And they were a callback, an intentional callback to jaunt 2, the last piece I did, or last good piece I did on jaunt 2

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was a Pillbox on the beach.

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And on Kimmeridge, as little would have it, as fate would have it, there’s a Pillbox on the beach.

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But strangely full of stones, like little offerings. I’m fascinated by that.

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But also tank traps, which are those strange pyramid type objects.

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When you just draw them on their own, it seems to be a bit more ritualistic about them.

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So I did a few pieces there quickly, hyperspeed even for me, because I was losing the light.

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And yes, I did spend a while recovering at the Clavell’s restaurant having a drink, and I was just so hot and so exhausted.

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But I needed to have a drink and just wind down because I was so irritated by something that should have been a simple walk.

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And here’s a nightmare.

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People don’t have this.

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And it’s all just because my shoes smell like shit, because I can’t afford a car.

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I don’t really want to afford a car, because cars are evil.

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But I can’t afford a BMW. I couldn’t afford to hire a BMW down here.

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I can’t afford a taxi all the time to get me home.

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So even though my feet are wet, because I tried to clean the cow shit off of them.

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Not totally successful. They still stink.

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I had to try the shower.

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Hopefully not.

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I might see one of them damp already, but trying to get them damp inside.

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But somehow clean off the cow shit.

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But it’s that kind of thing, you know.

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Other people don’t have to face these things, because they have privilege, they have money.

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But then they have all the other expectations, so they can’t do that thing very often.

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And that’s the kind of crux I’m having, the problem I’m having.

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Is that the sort of the meme capitalist ideas have crept into my work, in a way I’m not happy with.

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Because I have found myself wanting to just complete the walk, just to get rid of the expectation,

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back to Pathological Demand Avoidance.

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And it’s something I said to myself.

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That I said I’d walk the whole of the Jurassic Coast documenting it.

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And that’s what happened on Sunday, really.

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And I accepted, I did actually take some little bit of art material,

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but I accepted that probably won’t get to use it.

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What’s more frustrating on a walk like yesterday and today,

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when I take the art material with thinking well it’s a few miles,

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you know I might be wrong that I’m wrong by a mile or two, but it’s not an arduous walk.

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And then it turns out, oh it is, I don’t get to.

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And then it kind of just crack on and like let’s just get this shit over with.

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And that is not what I want to do in this project.

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Or if this project has got to that, then yes, I will stop doing artwork

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and do the walks and get it over with and move on my life to another thing.

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That’s not the end of Jaunt, that’s just the end of this part of Jaunt

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documenting the Jurassic Coast.

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I find somewhere else to walk around somewhere hopefully cooler,

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I mean in temperature, somewhere with better public transport preferably.

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Because the Jurassic Coast is pretty good, but there are blank spots like where I am now.

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Complete blank spots, in which case the car is king.

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And when I recorded the first part of this, there was a lot of that.

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The original draft of this message, there was a lot of people coming down to Kimmeridge Bay.

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And I feel a bit better now, I’ve done a couple more pieces.

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But I haven’t been doing the pieces for sale, people don’t buy them.

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So it’s like why bother taking a massive box, heavy box for the paper

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over some fucking cliffs for five miles, if no one’s going to buy this shit anyway.

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So you know, sort of having these two different voices, which is just finish it,

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let’s just bury this project, let’s just do the, as it brands come, which past brands come,

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to Exmouth Bay.

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Which I think is about seven miles.

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Not famous last words, it might be seven miles.

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There’s a crow flies, but walking, it might be very up and down,

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but you know, get that done, walk it, don’t take the art materials, just walk it,

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fuck it off, and then move on to something else.

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And I feel very sad about that, because it comes back to the same thing.

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I seem to have, in a project that was supposed to get me away from, from home,

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into a kind of a new home.

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Scary people with big vans and rib inflators.

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There was kind of like to get me out of the house, out of the flat,

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and give me some freedom to not have to spend all my time there.

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And to do something creative, I worked towards a project,

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and get it sort of, you know, present it something that maybe a podcast,

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eventually a book or something.

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You know, maybe do more of these, the idea of a thing from it.

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But I don’t really, I think I feel like the problem is I spend all my time

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whining in these podcasts, and then probably I’m like, oh, shut up Tim.

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But it’s, it, there’s that disjunct of what I want to do,

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the frustration of I can’t do it, because of physical and economic means.

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And a kind of, not necessarily the lack of interest,

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because I love the people that are interested deeply, and I’m glad they’re there.

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And I know it’s a niche idea, especially listening to me fucking moan about Dorset drivers.

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But it’s, it’s, I don’t really know where I want to go with this,

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because it’s like, you know, do I keep killing myself and falling over,

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and damaging and injuring myself, for things where there is seemingly

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some artistic return for me, but actually not much artistic return,

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which has become too difficult, because I’m having to walk three, four miles

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to get to the point of even starting that walk.

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So by the time I’m getting on the walk and thinking, that will be good.

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I’m like, I’m too knackered, and it’s too late, and I have to go.

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And that is the problem.

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And the first jaunt was so productive, partly because I burnt through

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stupid amounts of money, staying in places that were expensive,

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and very literally on the coast.

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I can’t really afford to do that.

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So I’ve had to kind of scale all that back, and part of that scaling back

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is it gets less comfortable, and it’s not the case of going to a pub meal every night.

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It’s more the comfort in what I can carry, the comfort in how far I can go,

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and whether I can carry that stuff on the cliffs.

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It’s very obvious what happened yesterday.

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A pack was only in my art gear, and a little bit of shopping, no way near

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what I would carry if I had everything in my tent.

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It would have been much more damaging if I’d had the full weight.

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And it’s like, hmm, either an idea of day trips, or kind of overnight trips

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or minimal food, minimal, just basically a tent,

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and a little bit of food, a little bit of water.

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Well, not more, a lot of water, because that’s the point.

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There’s no way to get water around here.

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It’s like, Kimmeridge, Swanage, nothing in between.

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Everything else that says, oh, you could free fill up here, is all time dependent.

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And so if you happen to be on a Sunday, a bank holiday, queen dying, whatever,

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you cannot get water.

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So there’s only two actual proper open, as in you can go up 24 hours any day

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and use the tap between Kimmeridge and Swanage.

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That’s a very long distance.

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And that makes it really difficult, because you can’t, you have to then just

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take litres of water.

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Even for something like today, I managed to refill the Clavell Arms.

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I did refill the toilet, but I still took a litre and drank most of it.

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And so it’s stuff like that.

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It’s like the difficulties stop the work being done.

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And that’s just frustrating.

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And then I’ve got this voice in my head just saying,

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well, just do the walks, screw the artwork.

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But that was the point of the walks in the first place.

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It’s a working holiday.

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I’m trying to combine the two.

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But it has a point, that voice, because I’m not happy with what’s happening.

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I’m not happy with the work I’m doing.

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Very similar to Jaunt 2.

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And I need to be more comfortable to get to a point where I am happy with the work,

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where I’m not thinking, oh, I’ve got to walk three miles after this.

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Oh fuck, I’ve got to go into 30 seconds, otherwise I miss the bus.

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I’ve got to walk five miles and get a bus, so I’ve got to go now.

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That is not conducive to it.

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And so when you come to places like Kimmeridge,

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it’s like a weird no-man’s land of where either you’re rich enough to afford to stay at a B&B.

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Or rich enough to have a car to drive here, or taxi to get here,

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and be able to get a taxi back.

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Not be suddenly gone.

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You know, not available at nine o’clock.

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Or, you know, you’re fucked, you’re not fucked.

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You are literally walking through a cow shit,

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because you’re trying to avoid the cars.

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You know, during this you’ve had three cars go past.

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What it was like earlier, even though it was like seven o’clock

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and there was a big sign saying emergency vehicles only,

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and the gate was part closed, there were still people coming down.

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And there was more like, and lots of people coming back,

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and that was like more than every 30 seconds.

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When you were walking earlier in the day,

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on some of the B roads are really bad,

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because they’ve got big quarry lorries.

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They’re very scary, but even the lesser roads,

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it’s more like, you know, every 10 seconds, every 30 seconds, every few minutes.

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And that becomes very oppressive after a while.

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So you try and walk off the roads into the paths,

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and you find out the paths magically don’t exist,

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or they do exist, but they’re going through nettles.

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That’s happened a lot today, which given my knee was not good.

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Or, hey, you’ve got this, you know,

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hey, you’ve got to go through a field with dive bombing flies,

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because they were actually waiting, it was really bizarre,

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they were waiting on these electrical fence around the shoot field.

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And somehow they’d worked out, I don’t know why,

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that people come through there, I guess,

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because there was a cloud, there was a whole posse as I’m waiting,

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sitting on the fence at the bit,

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which had been covered over so people could use the footpath.

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And you just step over it, and there’s suddenly a cloud of fires,

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and I had to put all my Picaridin on,

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and just run, just basically run for it.

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A lot of that, I’m dropping my hat in the river,

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and getting covered in cow shit, stuff like that, you know.

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Other people don’t have to do that,

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and it’s times like today.

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And yes, Dad, you think, why am I doing this?

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Why am I pointing myself through this?

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What’s the point?

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You know, because I’m not enjoying it.

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And there’s an important, you know,

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the concept of suffering for your art is a cute one.

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It’s very cute.

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I do have I can get in some sort of gate here.

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It’s very cute, but it doesn’t, you know,

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it doesn’t pay the bills,

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and also it doesn’t help your mental health.

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It does not help if you’re being more stressed

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by the thing that’s supposed to be partly a holiday

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than the thing, than being at home,

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then why not just stay at home?

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Why, you know, why bother to go anywhere?

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But I know I’ll be unhappy there as well.

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So that’s the kind of thing,

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is just like, what am I doing this project for?

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It’s about a promise to myself and other people

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that it’s just kind of bullshit in a way.

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It’s meaningless.

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But I’m like holding myself to it,

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and damaging myself, trying to do this thing.

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When it’s not providing any monetary gain,

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people aren’t buying the work on the previous jobs.

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People might enjoy the things

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that occasionally people buy, which is brilliant.

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That helps, but doesn’t recover the whole cost.

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You know, and I’d much rather actually be going to Greece

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or other countries and go and do other things.

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Other subjects.

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But we’re stuck to the, hey, I can’t afford that.

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That’s not really feasible,

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because I’m just working out there.

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Well, I can’t really camp in the heat.

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I’m not good in the heat in my tent anyway.

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Imagine it’s like some kind of Greek heat.

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Then it’s like, mmm, that’s not going to be very fun.

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Well, not even fun, it’s going to be very survivable.

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To be that kind of heat at night and how do you sleep.

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So I don’t know.

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But I can’t afford it.

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Especially nowadays.

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Maybe 20, 30 years ago when things were cheaper,

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but nowadays Greece is expensive.

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You know, and it’s kind of,

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I want to travel around and do different subjects

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and different things.

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But if we’re restricted to what we have here,

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it’s kind of a limit.

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There comes a limit between what I can reach,

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what has public transport.

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If it’s very remote, you have to take everything with you.

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But then I have to, like today,

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I was annoyed because I didn’t have a brush pen.

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I had to try and use my sable brush in English.

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I never liked to do because it’s expensive.

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But it’s the only brush I had.

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And it’s that kind of feeling of restricting

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what I’m doing in my art.

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So to make it possible to even do it

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when most people are home working on fucking photographs.

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And that’s like, you know, a lot of stuff you see

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is actually made from photographs.

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And it’s just dying art to do plein air work.

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And it feels like a bit of a mug’s game.

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Because if you really need a car,

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or servants or whatever to move things around,

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quite a few people are, if they do it, they’re going to drive.

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If not, it’s difficult to get to these places

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early in the morning, late at night, or, you know, at all.

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So you have to stay there. Camping is the only way.

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But then you camp.

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And it goes just wrong.

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And you’ve got mattresses being accidentally punctured.

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You’ve got falling over and dealt with by rain,

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and then boiled.

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You know, it’s…

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There’s a whole sort of simple bunch of things.

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It’s not, you know, it’s quite a sort of…

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And it just feels like I’ve just exchanged

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a bunch of crap I have to deal with at home

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with a bunch of literal crap, including cow crap.

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On holiday, I also need time to relax

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and not be stressed out, and I’m not getting that.

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So this is probably a long…

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Is that a longer rant than the previous one?

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Almost. So I better stop.

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I’m trying to keep these down to, you know,

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manageable chunks, like 15 minutes.

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But I don’t manage that usually.

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Eight minutes.

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You could have had a 28 minute one.

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And, yeah, it got very personal.

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Into stuff I don’t really want to drag into

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my art blog and the Jaunt world.

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But there is that existential crisis,

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which is, like, why am I doing this?

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If I’m not actually doing the artwork.

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Why am I dragging all this shit across, you know…

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Across massive mountains, almost.

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Why am I doing that?

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I haven’t found the answer to that yet.

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Anyway, good night.