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incomer_dave

<t>This rings a horrible bell. Before we moved out here there was a scrubby field near us, Reading way, with a single old standing stone in it the kids called the witch stone, nothing much to look at. Sold off to some company, fenced, gone, no notice, no fuss. I thought nothing of it at the time. No...

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<t>Probably nothing, probably a deer, but I want to ask people who know the down better than me. Walking back over the top at dusk last week there was a figure up on the skyline, tall, dead still, watching the light go. I waved, daft townie that I am, it didnt move, and coming down the slope when I ...

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seconded, thirded, whatever number we are on by now. genuinely one of the best things about moving here, and it runs on one bloke caring enough to keep it alive. thank you Edmund.

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the hills dont want the signal and the hills usually win is going on a tea towel, Bill. fine, garden-phone-to-the-gods it is. at least the view while i wait for an email to send is unbeatable.

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<t>Is there any network that actually works in the village? Im on my third provider since moving and they all die at the bottom of the hill. Trying to work from home and i spend half my calls stood in the garden holding the phone up like im offering it to the gods. Surely SOMEONE gets a signal up he...

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this is the bit of village life i did not understand when i first moved here, that the shop and the pub and the bus arent conveniences, theyre the actual village, the place where it happens. lose them and youve got houses but not a village. sobering. sorry Nan.

incomer_dave

oh I'd love to know this too. Moved down from Reading last year and I keep meaning to get up there at dawn but never quite manage it. Is the autumn mist better than summer, or is that just me being romantic about it

incomer_dave

Right, important question. Where does a newcomer get a proper Sunday roast round here that isnt a gastropub charging twenty-two quid for three slices and a foam? Somewhere a bit honest. The kind of place the locals actually go.

incomer_dave

<t>thank you Mrs A and Bran, ill tell him gently that hes not mad and hes not alone, which i think is all he wanted really. the knees-up detail got me too. hes a retired engineer, reads the football and the news and nothing else, and he saw Romans wade through the Ridgeway and its quietly troubled h...

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<t>another one for the collection, not me this time, my neighbour, whos lived here forever and is the last person youd expect. says years ago, walking the Ridgeway early, he saw a file of men crossing the path ahead, wrong clothes, helmets, spears, and visible only from the knees up, as if the old r...

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Something on the down at dusk

Mobile signal up here is hopeless

Best pub for a proper Sunday lunch?

Roman soldiers seen marching on the Ridgeway