Sorry guys and gals, but it’s now six months since I escaped from Giant Berkhamsted
- it used to be Great Berkhamsted, but the commuters and parents of those attending
a certain school that is increasingly taking over the town, have all but destroyed
what I once knew as my home town, so it seems a pointless tasks maintaining this
site and pretending it’s a great place to live so I’m going to introduce you to a
place I’m finding pleasant to live in. This will take a little time, so complain
if you want, it won’t make any difference, but you could always try to improve Berkhamsted
if you really care!
This is the main road passing through our ‘new village’
Berkhamsted Walks -
Memory Lane Walks - Having lived in the town for a few years, we do not have the
likes of Percy Birtchnell to reflect ‘happenings’, so I started an imaginary walk
in the 1950’s. Judging by the downloads, you seem to like it, so I’m doing a similar
stroll starting from the same place, but instead of going round the southern side
of town, this one goes into the urban roads and expands on the town centre
Walk around town Berkhamsted - This was a result of being involved with the Parish
Path Partnership project. The walk around the town was supposed to be an audio trail
around the town footpaths, but the partnership decided to take my draft script and
have ‘audio points’. Not quite what I envisaged so being a real pain in the......,
I have produced a circular walk along the lines I imagined.
It is a circular walk with three starting points (Station, top of Chesham Road and
A4251 lay-by(s) at the Hemel end of town). It is in three sections with two small
diversions to avoid steps which can be viewed as pdf files with descriptions and
photos. I did some real-time audio mp3 files but I was not happy with my failure
of being able to walk, talk and read at the same time (go on, try it!) so have removed
those.
Temperatures - Pages of maximum and minimum temperatures in my garden since 1999
taken at roughly weekly intervals in 5 year dollops - the last one is slightly longer
as I’ve yet to stop adding!
Now for the good news!
www.normcall.com and www.normancutting.co.uk
Coming soon!
In case you are wondering, this is the sort of thing just 10 minutes walk from our
front door - would be quicker but there is a large field between this (Wanlip Meadow)
and our back garden, so we have to go round it.
Just beyond is Watermead Country Park which happens to have the Grand Union Canal
passing through it.
Any other suggestions?
E-mail to: norman@berko.org.uk
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