A day in HELL (helvellyn)

Apparently most people do this walk the opposite way round,

 I walked up from Glenridding car park and climbed Swirral edge

then walked across the top and climbed down striding edge

This was all good fun but now I need to go 

back again and do it the opposite way round.

 

 6.15AM get in car and start driving from Witney

10.25AM park at Glenridding 

10.30AM start walking

2.30PM get back in car and drive to Keswick

 

3PM-6PM walk around Keswick, read book, buy more books, eat food , eat ice cream. 

6PM Get back in car and drive back home to Witney

10PM get home. 

That's how to drive 538 miles and do 23,000 steps in a day. 

So that is proof that this walk can be done without any gear from mountain whorehouse!!!

A pair of battered Nike air max not even done up properly is sensible after all.

 I've seen people often ask in forums how long this climb takes and answers are unclear as to whether it is just climb or descent as well etc

So to be clear, 4 hours was from car park, full walk and climb and walk back to car, so I never needed the full £8 parking and gave my ticket to someone else when I left. 

I am a fast walker and believe if I was trying to set a personal record I could get it down to at least 3.5 hours but I lost a bit of time doing yoga on the top and chatting to people etc

The book of dust - My favourite passages.

Volume Two. 

 P151- How absurd it was,that the two of them were one person, and yet they found it so hard to talk together or even endure each other's company in silence.More and more she found herself whispering to a phantom, to her idea of what Will was like now in that unreachable world of his.

P190- When the old man rowed you out into the dark I felt torn open,he said, his voice shaking. It nearly killed me.But the worst thing, worse than the pain, was the abandonment. That you should just leave me there alone. Do you realise how I gazed and stared and called out to you and tried so hard to keep you in sight as you moved off into the dark? The last thing I could see was your hair, the very last thing I could see till the dark swallowed it up. I'd have been willing to have just that, just a little gleam of your hair, just the faintest patch of light that was you, as long as it stayed there so I could see it. I'd have been waiting there still. Just to know you were there, and I could see you. I'd never have moved away as long as I could see that.

P190- I hate every part of me that isn't you.

P191- Sometimes I think if I could kill myself without killing you, I might do it.

P191- It's not just what you did then. Its what you're doing now. I told you this the other day;You're killing yourself and me, with the way you're thinking. YOU'RE IN A WORLD FULL OF COLOUR AND YOU WANT TO SEE IT IN BLACK AND WHITE. 

P191- Can't you see the emptiness of the worlds they describe,

P191- There's no room for them in the universe you want to believe in.

P200- We'd been quarreling,it was horrible. We just couldn't agree about important things. It was like being split in half.

P267- He thought how much he loved Lyra and how much he missed her, her warmth, her hands, and how much she would have loved to be here with him watching.

P267- Something had made Lyra immune to the intoxication of night beauty such as this. Something had robbed her of that vision, and he would find it and bring it back to her, and they would never be apart again, and stay together as long as they lived.

P284- It was like a dam breaking, it was like a flood

P285 - There were no tears left to weep.

P290 - And its the difference between good and evil. Evil can be unscrupulous, and good can't. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it'd have to become evil to do 'em.

P295- This was like talking into a void.

P309- She knew-it was a memory. All the same,she thought, it was the best thing she had. Could she really ever let it go?

P395- Most people are weak and stupid and easily led. Only a few are capable of doing anything original.

P395- You're expecting the sun to describe shadows. The sun has never seen a shadow. 

P472- We quarreled. I had no idea it would lead to this. I didn't think it was possible. But we didn't speak for a long time, and one day he just vanished."how painful for you" "oh the pain...yes, but the hardest thing was just having no one to talk to".

P479- Small things,perhaps, but a hundred of them, and they kept coming. Her daemon had seen all that, and disliked it, and then he'd had enough. 

P479- She was enticing monsters out of the darkness of herself.

P522- I begged, I pleaded with him, but he was lost in his madness. I said we would both die if he didn't stop, but nothing would make him stay with me. 

P550- But he was a human being,or part of one, and he felt just as Lyra did. unhappy and guilty, and wretchedly lonely.If he ever saw Lyra again he would run towards her, and he imagined her bending to greet him, arms wide, and they'd both swear eternal love and promise never to part again, and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't. But he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had. 

P567- You need to look like someone who's suffering from a depression of the spirits, because that makes people turn away. They don't like looking at suffering. But its very easy to become depressed by mimicking it. Don't fall into that trap. Your daemon would tell you that,if he was here. Your body affects your mind. You need to act, not be.

P659-The authority never wishes for his creation to be split apart. You were created with a daemon, and he is somewhere now longing to be reunited with you. When that happens, nature will be restored a little, and the authority will be happy. 

P661- Why would any daemon pretend to belong to someone else? They're us, They're part of us. They must miss us just as we miss them. 

P676- We shall be treading on the borders of the invisible. 

 and just a couple from volume one. 

P207-This little room was where he felt how big the world could be.

P524-The pain she was feeling was so deep it seemed to inhabit every atom of her. 

I definitely sold more records than I bought this year

Gewalt- deutsch 7"

Come- near life experience

Carla bozulich- quieter 

Mark Lanegan- somebody's knocking

Swans- leaving meaning

Dead witches - ouija 

Gewalt- snooze/puppe 7"

Mark Lanegan- straight songs of sorrow

Mark Lanegan- houston

Black Phoebe- s/t 12"

I was listening to a lot of Mark Lanegan this year after reading his book, I also bought a few albums on cd as some are hard to get on record and I wont pay more than £30 for a record anymore. 

 

#pictures are not records I bought this year, they are "in" jokes that you wouldn't understand
 

Considering I didn't work for most of the year this isn't that many books.

Towards the end of time - JOHN UPDiKE

The Idiot -FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY 

Colossus of Maroussi - HENRY MiLLER

Till We Have Faces - C.S.LEWiS

Good omens - TERRY PRATCHETT & NEiL GAiMAN

Invisible man - RALPH ELLiSON

Ariel - SYLViA PLATH

Johnny panic and the bible of dreams - SYLViA PLATH

A girl is a half formed thing - EiMEAR MCBRIDE

Phantom of the opera  - GASTON LEROUX

 

Netochka nezvanova - FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Child of god - CORMAC MCCARTHY

The perks of being a wallflower- STEPHEN CHBOSKY

The little Prince - ANTOiNE DE SAiNT-EXUPERY

SilaS marner - GEORGE ELiOT

There is no planet B - MiKE BERNERS-LEE

Tess of the D'urbervilles - THOMAS HARDY

Espedair street - iAiN BANKS

Case histories - KATE ATKiNSON

One good turn - KATE ATKiNSON

 

When will there be good news - KATE ATKiNSON

Started early took my dog  - KATE ATKiNSON

Big sky - KATE ATKiNSON

The doll factory - ELiZABETH MACNEAL

The hard times first 40 years

Private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner - JAMES HOGG

The favourite game - LEONARD COHEN

Dead souls - NiKOLAi GOGOL

The box I call life - LiLY LU

Bird song - SEBASTiAN FAULKS

 

Skinema - CHRiS NiERATKO

Flannery O'connor complete stories

A special providence - RiCHARD YATES

Alice's adventures in wonderland - LEWiS CAROLL

Through the looking glass -LEWiS CAROLL

Paradoxia -LYDi LUNCH

After the hanging -O.V ViJAYAN

Time travellers wife - AUDREY NiFFENEGGER

The book of revelation- RUPERT THOMSON

survivor  -CHUCK PALAHNiUK

 

Watership down - RiCHARD ADAMS

Sing backwards and weep - MARK LANEGAN

freedom from the known - JiDDU KRiSHNAMURTi

bloody chamber and other stories -ANGELA CARTER

Geek love - KATHERiNE DUNN

We need to talk about Kevin- LiONEL SHRiVER

The wall - JOHN LANCHESTER

The woman in white - WiLKiE COLLiNS

Marabou stork nightmares - iRViNE WELSH

Billy Liar - KEiTH WATERHOUSE

 

Tender is the night - F.SCOTT FiTZGERALD

The shining - STEPHEN KiNG

Cemetery drive - JOE WiLSON (DEATHSEX BLOODBATH)

Cannery row -JOHN STEiNBECK

My name is red -ORHAN PAMUK

Good as gold -JOSEPH HELLER

Mark Lanegan sleevenotes

The woman in black - SUSAN HiLL

Small island - ANDREA LEVY

Killing floor -LEE CHiLD

 

I am the wolf - MARK LANEGAN

Rebecca - DAPHNE DU MAURiER

The centaur - JOHN UPDiKE

Short stories of Dostoevsky

Junk- MELViN BURGESS      

Northern lights - PHiLiP PULLMAN

About a boy - NiCK HORNBY

Confessions of a sociopath - M.E.THOMAS

A theft - SAUL BELLOW

The death of bunny munro - NiCK CAVE

 

Slow man - J.M COATZEE

The color purple - ALiCE WALKER    

Private - JAMES PATTERSON

Oryx and crake - MARGARET ATWOOD

Christmas holiday - W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Private London - JAMES PATTERSON

The subtle knife - PHiLiP PULLMAN

Armed to the teeth with lipstick - BLAG DAHLiA    

 

(colour code is, green for books I chose to read and Red for books Gemma chose for me.