For those who might want to know where the poppy field is I will tell you.
It is near Creswell Crags. The woods you can see to the left of the picture actually have a gorge in the middle of it and this is what must have been a des res back in the day.
I enjoy reading about the stone age and loved the Clan of the Cave Bear. On the basis of this if I lived in the stone age I would want to be here. Caves on both sides of the gorge with a stream running down the middle. A couple of the bigger caves have water trickling past them as well. Protected from most of the weather and with running water! Bliss
Although I believe the site was not lived in as such but was a summer hunting ground only due to the proximity of the glaciers. They used to herd deer etc over the cliff edge.
If you use google map satellite view you can see the fields that are currently bright red although in the satellite they are parched stubble fields. The bigger of the two near the farm house has a footpath running through it I took the picture from that path. Also the white blob in the green field may be my ex horse Macuba or it may have been Drummer who sadly died a couple of years ago from liver damage due to Ragwort.
On a different note I had to go to have my blood pressure taken as my head is falling off (due to accident in 1997 see first entry) and my Chiropractor was worried about my low blood pressure. Apparently I have the blood pressure of a teenager! That explains my behaviour then.
I will probably have to have an x-ray of my neck done before she dares to manipulate it just in case it really does fall off!
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Ahhh - Creswell Crags - used to visit there regularly when I worked as a Forester for Notts County Council. The Head Ranger at the visitor centre there was a doctor of archaeology or similar, and had the largest private collection of bones in Europe. We often got drafted in to deliver carcasses from zoos to him on our trailer - biggest thing we had was a hippo! He had a big collection of bins out the back where everything was - erm - "reduced" shall we say. All the bones were catalogued and kept in a huge walk in archive inside the centre.
Happy days!
Andy
Let us hope that those bones are not the ones brought back from wherever to be displayed in the new visitor centre.
I would feel conned with hippo bones instead of woolly hippo.
Perhaps you should introduce the man to Bones?
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