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3Wheeler Group: Members Posts: 828 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: Aug. 04 2008, 15:23 I went over the Ridge Today and Posted a Few Pictures of the Place...  Following the well worn Route.. Its on my Facebook..   But you can look here if you live Miles away and cannt get to visit the Place Easily... Its pretty nice up there and like anything else pictures dont do justice....          Think this link works anyway..     http://www.facebook.com/album.p....b89fdbf -------------- We're Flying Aeroflot, We've Got Reservations. Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Aug. 04 2008, 15:55 Love stuff like this, great photos. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Aug. 04 2008, 17:37 WOW that is fantastic, makes me want to go again, my friend Di went to The Ridge with a friend this weekend just gone , still I can't complain I had an equally enjoyable weekend, as I went up to Warwickshire to see my most wonderful boyfriend, we cuddled up watching films together, and also yesterday went to "The Battlefield Railway" at Shackerstone in Leicestershire to view and travel behind preserved British Railways  diesels      See here , http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chrissimmons/ The diesel in the top picture is a Class 73 no 73 114 , a 1,600 bhp, third rail  electric locomotive, also with a 600bhp diesel engine as used and still in use on the Southern Region.  73 114 is a visitor to the Battlefield Line, after they restored her.  Anyway we were both like big kids, my boyfriend was looking out of the window and suddenly called out "Spitfire", as a Spitfire was flying nearby, I must admit those Rolls Royce Merlin engines sound very distinctive. I did try to get a pic of the Spitfire, but it had gone out of view.    I know when I move up that way we'd love  to drive the locos on the railway, we'll both join as volunteers.  If you look om their website, there's   a couple of volunteers who are now husband and wife   . Oh sorry gone off of the subject of Hergest Ridge, I know my boyfriend and I like the idea of living in the countryside, I've convinced him to come  along to Hergest Ridge in the hopefully  near future for a few days. I know maybe I'm sad for being a bit anoraky about cars,planes and trains,     , but I don't think so , I personally think watching soaps is sad, but each to his/her own as I say. -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Ciderginaspro Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Aug. 05 2008, 04:08 wonderful pics !! thanks for sharing them with us. I'd really like to visit England one day, it's a beautiful country! Back to top

yanouch65 Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Aug. 05 2008, 04:14 I want to go there by motorbike! One day, I will go... -------------- Ray said : "it is a shame you don't play" manintherain said: "You´d better ask Mr. Y who was first" yanouch65 says: "I am in love with Scotland" Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Aug. 05 2008, 04:54 Quote (yanouch65 @ Aug. 05 2008, 08:14) I want to go there by motorbike! One day, I will go... That would be cool   , riding along I think for me a Triumph Boneville or a Norton Dominator , as they're quintessentially English bikes. Since I haven't got my motorbike licence, I think an Aston Martin DB9 , (that's pure car pornography according to Messrs Clarkson, May and Hammond).  I did see one parked up and was a bit dissapointed at lack of rear seat/ boot space, oh well I guess it was meant as a sports car, rather than a  saloon.  I think then my ultimate driving machine would be a (convertible) BMW 3 Series , or the M3 variation, I like the looks of the E36 or E46  platform models best. The M3 is the racing pedigree car, successfully converted into a road car.  WHOOOOHOOO, just thinking about such a trip, in the English countryside, with just an occaisional blast from the engine           -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Aug. 06 2008, 09:37 And still i haven't got myself over there!Keep meaning to go and never get there. BTW MCH have you ever been to Didcot railway museum?Really cool place.I love steam engines and have since reading the Rev W Awdry Railway Series (I refuse to call it Thomas The Tank Engine-it only became that when they made the TV series)and i now have a complete set of the original postcard size books. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Aug. 06 2008, 18:32 Oh yes I used to have quite a few of the Rev Awdry Railway Series books, My Mum still has a suitcase full of many of my old books and toys in a suitcase in her loft, I know I used to have a Magic Roundabout roundabout, a "Baby Needs You" and also a Sindy  doll,  but I found my Lego, and Hornby train sets, and my brother's Scalextric much more exiting. I did have a train set myself, inspite of my parents attempts to "feminise" me more, they had to admit defeat.   I blame my Dad for geting me into railways, going on holiday as a kid to Devon in the early 70's, and the Western Region mainline would run along by the sea wall at Dawlish and Teignmouth,  I would wave at the drivers of "Warships" (British Railways Class 42/43 , for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about see here see here http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/d800m_in.htm     and Westerns Class 52 locomotives  http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/d1000m_in.htm   . I think I've been to Didcot Railway  many moons ago as a kid, I'll have to go back there. The "Battlefield Railway" is about 20 miles away from my boyfriend.  I did apply to become a train driver at St Pancras 19 years ago along with a friend  Sharon, but the then Traincrew Manager was stuck in the steam days, and didn't believe women could drive trains, despite women filling traditionally male jobs during the war. Anyway I lost interest when the railways were privatised and it all got rather stupid.  I think for me driving trains would be more exciting on a heritage railway. I did drive two Class 31 locomotives 31 202 and 31 282  see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_31 whilst on YTS. My boyfriend did say that he'd love to drive  locomotives, so he'll arrange for us tohave a  driving experience on the Battlefield Railway, I'm thinking I've my 40th birthday in just under three years , and he'll be 50 the end of next year (he looks about 5 years younger than his real age), still when I move up Warwickshire  we'll volunteer on the railway. I think in terms of my future career I'd like to get into counselling type work, working with "victims" of crime ,or mental health problems appeals to me. Oh yes getting back to the original subject sort of , when I went to Kington I had to go and get some pictures of the old GWR goods shed and the old station, which is now on an industrial estate. I just love historic buildings. -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Major Gowen Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: June 2008 Posted: Aug. 07 2008, 01:37 I really want to visit Hergest Ridge. Now I live across the pond as it were, it's not easy. I was planning to go there the last-but-one time I was back in England, and to Kington as well, but time and money constraints put paid to it. Oh well, someday... Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Aug. 07 2008, 09:09 Funnily enough i used to go on holiday to Devon as a child and went to both Dawlish and Teignmouth quite a bit.I used to love to watch the trains go along at the top of the beach in Dawlish.Fast forward 15 years or so and i was going to a wedding in Truro with my then wife and daughter.We came out of Starcross and i realised we were on the coast line and going past Dawlish.I suddenly became a kid again cos i always wanted to go on that stretch of line all those years ago!Still felt very odd not geting off at Exeter St Davids where the family all live.Go to Didcot again though.It's easy to get to.I went to Salisbury on Sunday for the day and we went through Didcot and past the museum.There's something about seeing and engine in steam.It was a GWR saddletank.Really quite evocative.They have a tank engine in one of the sheds painted to look just like Thomas.My kids and i were there a few summers ago.They were like "oh look Dad...it's Thomas....but where's his face?".Looked in the cab and there's his face on the footplate!I was born in the wrong time obviously. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Aug. 07 2008, 17:01 Dear Moonchildhippy, I'll have to say I love your enthusiasm for all thing's automotive. You seem to show great affection to thing's with engines, if you like, almost the same enthusiasm as one would expect from a excitable youngster. Which leads me to these question's, when you are out and about on your jolly japes, do you wear knee length schoolboy stlyle trouser's, do they have a home made catapult fashioned out of a stick hanging out of a back pocket and lastly do you have hidden on your person.......a Curly Wurly. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Aug. 07 2008, 17:13 No I don't wear knee length schoolboy trousers, I'm more of a flared jeans person,and hippy tops, I do often wear a long flowing skirt  or a hippy dress   , I can be girly sometimes.  I do marvel at things automotive. I think my ideal job would be as a Top Gear presenter, but there's no vacancies, and my wonderful boyfriend thinks I would spoil Top Gear if I became a presenter. Messers Clarkson , May and Hammond work so well as a team, I would hate to see them divided.  Incidentally I do have a bit of a thing for the gorgeous Mr Hammond, but I usually go for taller men, my boyfriend is 6ft 3in. I'm not sure what that is in metric, for those of you who use metric measures, but he's  an inch taller than Brian May from Queen and two inches shorter than Jeremy Clarkson. -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Aug. 07 2008, 17:15 Quote (The Caveman @ Aug. 07 2008, 13:09) There's something about seeing and engine in steam.It was a GWR saddletank.Really quite evocative. Ahhh!!! The smell of steam I love it       -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

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