OCAD and Rocky Knolls

[ERNIE WILLIAMS]

From ernie.w...@virgin.net
Date 11.03.98 Time 18.30
Re: Discussions on OCAD Rocky Knolls

Well, what a cheek!

Here I am quite happily living in North-West Leicestershire amongst the
English Shires, where I have been personally rooted for several decades
and where many of my namesakes have been around as part of the rocky and
craggy landscape for not just decades or centuries but almost since the
beginnings of time - one fine example at High Sharpley is regularly
featured in Geography textbooks and pictorial guidebooks as being the
second oldest rock formation in the British Isles, being just a little
bit younger than the Cuillins in Skye - and I discover that how I am
portrayed on O maps is the hot topic for debate at the moment amongst
you all.

For my part I rather liked the way that Roger Hurt and particularly
Peter Hornsby drew me on their versions of the Grace Dieu maps as I felt
that it represented how I really looked amongst the trees - I somehow
cannot imagine myself as a brown dot or a black blob as I am a raised,
often rounded, bedrock feature with sometimes very steep craggy sides
(the vocanic upheavals that forced the rocky knolls up to the surface to
be exposed to all weathers can be evidenced by the angled scars and
streaks on some of the rocks) but then I guess I should just be happy
that orienteers are exercising both their brains and their creative
skills in devising ways to represent me on their excellent maps.

As to the gentleman who thinks that I have been splattered all over
Leicestershire O C maps, I would just like to point out that I might
well have blossomed or even mushroomed and very occasionally have been
plastered (most memorably when Leicester Tigers Rugby Union Team won the
Pilkington Cup at Twickenham last year) but splattered - NEVER!

Finally, Rocky Knoll has a bosom pal called Hardy Rootstock and the
older LEI maps have quite a few of those as well!!

[Richard Webb]

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 18:34:39 GMT, ERNIE WILLIAMS
<ernie.w...@virgin.net> wrote:

>
>Well, what a cheek!
>

Glad to have memories of Charnwood Forest refreshed. I remember a map
of Warren Hills or 'Rocky Knoll II ' which had splats aplenty and a
scale of "bet you havent seen this one" 1:3750!!!
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Seriously if the energy expended trying to standardise a local
phenomonon as Cademan/Sharpley could be used rationalise the 16 odd
runnability screens that now threaten to hide all the dear little
rocky knoll symbols on the maps , my eyesight would be most grateful.

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Looking forward to the Grace Dieu event. Hope the barbed wire has gone
from Sharpley.

Richard Webb *
Harlequins OC *
England * * *

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