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Airlie Birds and Robins

  If Gene has told Diane once the difference between Rugbies League and Union, he’s told her twice, which is as close as any figure to infinity, the actual number of tellings. D still doesn’t get it. RU allows forward pass to feature in any screened try. That’s it! How difficult can it be? D didn’t even make the effort on 3rd May 1980, on which day she married G, (Northwich Registry Office, sunny, but G’s hair-do-ruining-windy), as the migrated population of an E Yorks city watched Hull Kingston Rovers beat Hull 10-5 at Wembley. Exhibit B, G’s rosette from an earlier RL Challenge Cup Final, speaks East Hull true, whereas C shows G defected west and anything but “Old Faithful” in rival colours.
OK, so black and white aren’t really colours, but it’s a nice shirt and the pic

1979

1982

Gene Hull Shirt

Exhibit C

incorporates other links, (later). Earlier comes first, because at the start of Step 3 D&G weren’t married….well, they were…. to Judy and Steve, though only to one each!

Husband Swapping Sounds different from...er...you know what ! More, or less unrefined? You decide!

Rosette

Exhibit B

Robin Bird Table

 Yes! OK! G knows this is supposed to be hill walking. Just be patient! Please! Back to you know what. Naughty roll-around time, (giggle,
  giggle!) had rolled already, starting in ‘77. Now came
  unhitch-rehitch
and one bigger
happier family time, getting other-sense-rolling show on road, oneth move to Northwich
for the purpose of. Sooth re twoth move got hoofed out of the window….well everything does in a Punch and Judy Show, so orologically
challenged
Cheshire is but
one reason for
Step 3’s walk paucity.

Even so D&G made a maiden visit to Bowland, (Ward’s Stone), two trips to
  Wales, (Rhinogs

and Snowdon) and, on D’s birthday, a “does the book speak truth?”
mission to Shropshire’s Stiperstones, all in ‘79. And yes, it does…speak truth…the book. Somewhere in highland Britain there’s a ridge minus spiky spine,

Paucity

Applied to cash as well as walks.
D, (R), Knutsford, Market, tries to flog home-made pot-hangers, hobby-horses and frogs.
G-made bird- tables, (ad L shows Robin model), went for £10-15. Please don't apply at address, or phone number.....
D&G long gone!

Knutsford Market

sliced off and removed to a Salop moor top. No photos though! The foreign pinnacles came complete with mist.

Study les tables des oiseaux! Questions to come!

Blue Tit Bird Table

Blue Tit

  Here doesn’t come The Judge

  With offspring doubled in number to 4, entertaining pairs allowed 6 combinations, while singles and trios

a

model

 cassette

recording

presented another 4 each. The two new weddings

of

exampled the other possibilities; all, or none.

D
I
V
O
R
C
E

D&G invited all their children to theirs.
  Dismarriage had to precede, though...the table

shows the schedule, but not the urgency driving J&S, as their giggle share relocated to augment D&G’s.

featuring

their

Funny side went

unseen by best-clobber-

re-

clad J&S as

all four parties made

-w

Court

in Crewe on 6th Dec.

r

judge didn't. Too ill,

'79, but the

i

t

poor chap!

Doomed to a delay of an

entire week, the gloom was spoonable. G&D tried a ladle! Leaving J&S staring glumly through rain on a miserable café window, they returned to 16 and shoved

e

n

lyrics

Gravity

……as in situation importance of, apropos aforementioned show rolling, centred on G’s new job, first obtaining, (difficult), second maintaining, (60 mile
 Westhoughton M6 round trip), third retaining, (it wasn’t). Gravity, as in Law of the Universe, (to which Laws of Physics, human inventions, may, or may not approximate), suggests that attractive magnitude is related to mass. G found the Universe’s sole exception in metallic blue Ford Escort YEN 242V, the only company/new car he ever had. A motoring black hole ferociously attracting other objects vehicular and otherwise, its front felt first impact, the victim driver innocently reading a book when The Force struck. Within weeks the stationary rear got hammered, a hapless lady’s automobile completely overwhelmed, then an unfortunate car dragged mercilessly out of a Manchester side street smashed into the near side at Mach 1. Unscathed only the driver’s side, its door empowered G’s hopelessly reluctant boot, the ensuing collision’s colossality deluding G into thinking it had something to do with keys locked inside.
  18 months on YEN suddenly repelled G as, moments before the company evaporated and the factory vanished, he walked out of job, onto dole and into the unknow n.

n.

16 and 22 don't make 38

Gene Steve
Diane
Judy

through 22's
 letterbox.

 
  No! They make S&W! OK. Hang on just a mo! Who’s this W?
  There’s D&G and J&S and…! Right! Pay attention, then! D&G were 16, J&S 22
  in W, (Wentworth Close), Rudheath. A close-by Close is Sunningdale, (S),
  some of which, along with some of W, including 16 and 22, would be T&M* Canal-side, but for intervening strip of ICI pipe-line concealing land, upon which it appeared feared that pigs might roam, due to the immediacy of a lot of pigs in a pen. To prevent this and permit canal access G approached ICI and a Residents’ Association, (S&W), management of said land for purpose of, formed itself, with G Chair(man/person) and S Sec(retary). “Events” included canal trips, and in Exhibit C, top R, G is “officiating” at an S&W BBQ. (*T&M=Trent & Mersey).

Married

Dec Nisi

Dec Abs

3-5-80

17-7-67

8-2-80

25-3-80

26-6-65

13-12-79

25-3-80

2-4-80

Pic R 16 W-Close back garden, winter '81/82. ICI strip over fence. T&M Canal beyond. Questions:
If 1 robin = 1.825 blue tits, 1. What is the feather-mass ratio? 2. What is the log-mass ratio re oiseau-table construction? 3. Is the (snow-proof) example (a) Robin, (b) Blue Tit, (c) Fulmarette?
Bonus Question: Why did the snow fall in a zig-zag pattern and will it happen again this millennium?

Winter Wentworth 2

Down The Lleyn

  1980 summits featured Wales’ Berwyns, Arans and Arenigs, Scotland’s Ben Nevis, some Shropshire tops on honeymoon and a sample, (northern end), of Cheshire’s Sandstone Trail. The penultimate all-in-together holiday was May’s 7-day stay at Deuglawdd, a Lleyn Peninsula cottage. Bodfardden Ddu was the ‘81 equivalent on Anglesey, which, post YEN repulsion, meant lack of car and cash. Only J&S motored across the Menai; D went by train with the two children who didn’t bike there with G. Mark has cycled ever since, Philip has cycled since.

Diane Arenig Fawr

D Arenig Fawr
  4-4-80

  Once upon a ground in Hull, cycles were thicker on the ground than ground. G, thick and thin, was on bike on ground, which was Hull ground, so he was used to it. Gears? What? G’s day didn’t even have brakes! Anyway, G’s brakeless, lampless, gearless, bell-less, (Isobel necessary…etc? Ans.

“No!”) bike resurrection (very bike as purchased at Sellit n' Soon, Hull) was necessitated by YEN repulsion, when he went to learn how to teach for a year at/in Crewe. Kipping part-time at Mrs Owen’s in Stamford Ave, his bike was nicked one day, (night, actually), by person called Fundament.
  Previously, though, G had had to ship said bike home by train, Crewe to Northwich, because early White Christmas ’81 was also thick and remained so for yonks. 3rd link in Exhibit C is G’s only beard, attributable to return to studentismhoodness. Beards weigh too much, especially when collecting extra mass as ice on a homeward, ex-Crewe, Jan ’82, -20ºC night-ride!

Arenig sometimes has 2 n's. Memorial is to a crashed Flying Fortress crew, 4th August 1943.

Diane & Katherine Ben Nevis
Yr Eifel
Diane Shining Tor

Diane and Katherine Ben Nevis 15-8-80

Diane Shining Tor 31-8-80
  showing Shutlingsloe.

Caergribin Yr Eifl Lleyn 26-5-80

Typical photo with 1+x cubic light years of featureless sky useful for inserting text, as, 4 egg sample....These 3 pics are in revese chronological order.........to avoid having folk looking out of the web-site!

  Cold Feel...Cold Fell White Chrimbo '81 was presaged by earlier nippiness in same year, starting with a
  Feb week chill-out at Tortie, delightful cottage of cousin of D, at foot of Cold Fell, (cottage, not cousin). Cottage '81, though, was primitive, wood burn faster than cut, wear all your clobber in bed, and Cold Fell, last 2000 (Pennine) footer pre Tyne Gap, was unascended by (unborn) Martin, who has made up for it since. Other 8 climbed it in '81. More climatic antics followed in April, when D&G took their tent Howgill-way and couldn't take it home until it had accomodated them an extra night, on account of snow, (as in snow right to be there!)....Amazing photos, (below), tell the amazing story (below).
  In May they walked Cheshire's Other Trail, (COT), in both directions at once! Sandstone is the not-other Trail, so the other is (a) Polystyrene, (b) Cucumberette, or (c) Gritstone, (you decide), which distracts from the issue of walking two ways simultaneously. Ans: D&G went north to south with Philip and Simon, while J&S came t'other way with two other children, whose names can be deduced, if you've been paying attention. You might also question exactly who came and/or went! Quite right too! Depends on point of view, but they didn't meet exactly half way....and the wenters won!

Lincolns Inn Tent 1
Near Tindale Tarn

  Below is here and also amazing story as in three amazing photos on right.
Consecutive days at Lincoln's Inn Bridge show climate change reality so don't let anyone tell you it's just fickleability of British weather! It rained on 22-4-81, no photo, just word of G.

  Arms-out people L to R.... ...or R to L if you like!
  Philip Judy

 
  Katherine
 
  Mark
  Simon

 
  Diane

  Exhibit B rosette dates from 9-5-64 when G&J were at Wembley to see Hull K R beaten 13-5 by Widnes.

23-4-81 in the sun D points her bum east
towards Sedbergh. Sedbergh didn't reply!

Taken by G, (so not in photo), 16-2-81 near Tindale Tarn
while at Tortie. Steve is the one who won't do as he's asked,
let alone told. Yet to come...won't do as he vows.

  Exhibit C? RL Cup, S&W, Beard.. all gone. Is there a 4th Link? Yes....

Lincolns Inn Tent 2

 4-5-81 Simon at White Nancy,
 Kerridge Hill,
 COT

 4-5-81 Simon and Diane,
 COT

Gritstone Trail 3
Gritstone Trail 1

D

24-4-81 definitely not a bum-pointing day!

Lincolns Inn Tent 3

25-4-81 tent now gale-shaped!

Exhibit C Link 4...J's mam. She gave G the shirt and remained M-in-Law, confirmed with a hand squeeze and dying whisper in late 2002. She walked both sides of the Crack. Eh? What Crack?

 4-5-81
 COT. L to R Diane, Philip,
 Simon on a hill with two
 names. Shutlingsloe also
 in photo.

Shutlinsloe

29-8-82 Diane and
Shutlingsloe.

Farewell hill pre Arlecdon

Mam Tor

30-5-82 Mam Tor ridge.

  S K P

  Mark
  G J

  Simon

Last all-in-together walk
  pre Arlecdon.

DROW, as in go back on, meant out with the old and in with the Crack at the Pardoe & Judy Show on 31-12-81. Tidings told of change of heart, mind and plan, as recent secret Pardoe company launch announced no room, use, or need for D&G. Well. thanks a bunch and a Happy New Year to you too!

D on Bosley Minn,
S (im) on Wincle Minn,
P one foot on each.

Half-a-year-to-go G gained PGCE with distinction half a year later, then succeeded at every interview he didn't get, while failing at every one he did, so no job was on cards all played for that year. But '82's was a 5-ace pack with extra heart. A couple of weeks from summer hols a Workington physicist's death opened a door. G sped north on 30th June and returned interviewed into employment. Pardoes' promise-proof pose proved unbudgeable and D&G headed for Cumbria, fortuitously on their side of the Crack. A year at Arlecdon.... their bedroom ideal for various pastimes, including looking at the view!

Haycock

Crag Fell

Glaramara
Looking Steads

Pillar
Rock

Little Gowder Crag

Steeple

Great Gable

Pillar

Iron Crag

Scoat Fell

Black
 Crag

Brandreth

Anglers'
Crag

Green Gable

Herdus
(Great Borne)

Gavel Fell

Banna Fell

Godworth

Middle Fell

(High
Pen)

Keltonfell Top

Knock Murton

Fellbarrow

Skiddaw

Smithy Fell

Burnbank
Fell

Owsen Fell

Blake Fell

Carling
Knott

Sourfoot
Fell

Hatteringill
Head

Saddler's Knott

The Arlecdon "Year" links
Step 3 &
G went in Sep '82, D in Jan '83.

Step 4

High Hows

Sharp Knott

Brown How

Tewit How

Bowness Knott

Lingmell

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