Feeling As Rough As Hetty Pegler's Tump!

 Feeling as rough as Hetty Pegler's Tump, today.

This is when lying flat, birdwatching through the bottom of the conservatory doors, comes into its own as a useful low-energy and non-challenging hobby (plus favourite music for when eyes need closing, of course!)

Funny what things come into your head when you don't need them. Into my bottomless well of trivia, at any rate! 

Funny what vitally necessary words escape you, too, when brain-fog descends. Or what incorrect substitute words come in to masquerade as logical and make your conversation into semi-gibberish. Not that people usually notice, in my case! They're used to my less-than-linear modes of expression, even at the best of times! 

I've always fancied visiting Hetty Pegler's Tump, just on the basis of that fantastic name. First came across it in a book about UK places of historical interest when I was a child.

Why it flashed into my head as a nonsensical metaphor for the way I was feeling today, as a result of the painful, draining effects of M.E., I have no idea! But it got me giggling, and a few friends with me, when I said it!

It's actually a Neolithic long barrow in the beautiful countryside of the Cotswolds in Central England if you haven't come across it! Why would you have, unless you share my obsession for the bizarre or for English history?

Sad to confess, I haven't actually been there in person yet! Shame! English Heritage's loss and mine!

But it made me smile, just recalling the name, on a day when I haven't any spare energy for doing much more than slump and weave those pinwheels and rainbows of sense and serendipity together. See my other blog at Jobiska's Pinwheel with its unfocused smorgasbord of bits and pieces from my imagination and varied interests if you care to! If you fancy a wander and you've got the appetite for a meander through my obsessions and other facets of my life!)

Just for the record, I've no evidence that Hetty Pegler's Tump is actually rough, at all. Any more than Neolithic stone long barrows usually are! I'll leave it to your imagination as I go off for a bit of a rest!

Hope at least the name made you smile today too, whether you're feeling rough or not!

 

View of Hetty Pegler's Tump near Uley in rural  Gloucestershire, UK

 

 

 

 

Stormy skies over Hetty Pegler's Tump

Inside the longbarrow: feeling rough or maybe claustrophobic? Not for long, I hope!