Category Archives: Don and Wen

Dear Wen: Utterly Unacceptable…

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Wen… It occurs to me that the term ‘Hollow Hills’ may not be a landscape but rather a mind-scape description… ‘…The landscape of Cavan is dotted with drumlin hills but there are also many lakes and the drumlins form … Continue reading →

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Up for Ayr…

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …It wasn’t that we forgot to bring the road-map on board. * We didn’t even think to. * Perhaps our heads, or more likely hearts, were still with the stones… * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Dreaming Stones: Hitting the Wall…

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

After the odd meeting with the woman at the pub, we now felt we had to visit Hadrian’s Wall. It had been on my mind for a while, for some reason, and had cropped up a lot in strange places … Continue reading →

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Dear Don: Utterly Unacceptable…

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Don, Ah yes… Columcille…. it all clicks back into place now… My mind seemed stuck on Aidan… I am not surprised you are happy about the Minahane being revisited. There was so much more in there at second reading … Continue reading →

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Stone-Circle ‘Gold’…

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Back on the ferry and we are assessing the worthiness or otherwise of our ‘madness’… * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Dear Wen: Sheaves…

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Wen… Yes, indeed…A real bonus though to get the thread of the Erin trip given to us so clearly, and to have But ‘n’ Ben so nicely rounded off. Once again we ended up in quite different places than … Continue reading →

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A ‘Land-Loched’ Isle…

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Much of Northern Lewis looks like this… * * Continue reading at France and Vincent

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Dear Don: Sheaves…

Posted on August 19, 2020 by Sue Vincent

Dear Don, Good trip, wasn’t it? Once again time seems to have been obliging and stretched itself to fit with our meanderings. We are going to need to go south again though, with all I am reading about Marden Henge … Continue reading →

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Dreaming Stones: Lap of the Gods…

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Sue Vincent

It was already well after eight and the light was beginning to fade as we left Eilean Donan. During the crossing, we had booked a hotel in Ayr and, after two nights of sleeping unprepared in the car, we were … Continue reading →

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Calanais: Achmore…

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* For those souls with a feel for the living land, it would be wise to ‘turn away’ at this point. * The ‘dark back-drop form’ in the landscape depiction above is the line of hills known as the Cailleach-na-Mointeach. … Continue reading →

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