Arthur Little
24th January 2014, 15:25
:cwm25: ... surprisingly no one here has so far mentioned the :xxgrinning-smiley-0 - whose :crazy: exploits were the subject of a BBC1 documentary at 10.35 (an hour later in Scotland!) last Tuesday night.
Ex-Marine, Gough relinquished his job as a lorry driver some years ago to undertake the 870-mile hike from Lands End to John O' Groats ... :Erm: ... ["in the SCUD"!] ... during the course of which, his efforts were frequently stalled by periods of judicial incarceration - including short spells of "board & lodging", courtesy of Edinburgh's Saughton Gaol and Perth Prison - for Contravening the Laws of Decency in Public Places.
Following release from his latest stretch - 7 months spent in solitary confinement as a guest of the Edinburgh "Establishment" - he then set out on the southbound, 450-mile tortuous homeward trek to his elderly mother's house in Eastleigh, Hants ... (minus pants :action-smiley-081:) but complete with backpack containing a small tent, meagre food rations ... bottled water ... a tatty old oilskin hat :coucouchapeau: to "offer protection against the :freezin: elements" ... and, virtually ... :anerikke: ... bugger all else! :NoNo:
This trip :yeahthat: (the one televised) was not without its pitfalls ... being fraught with re~arrests and further intervals of imprisonment en route ... ALL for the sake of proving WHAT? That humans (like animals) be allowed the freedom to "commune with nature". :doh
Aye :icon_rolleyes: ... "some mothers do have 'em"!!!
Ex-Marine, Gough relinquished his job as a lorry driver some years ago to undertake the 870-mile hike from Lands End to John O' Groats ... :Erm: ... ["in the SCUD"!] ... during the course of which, his efforts were frequently stalled by periods of judicial incarceration - including short spells of "board & lodging", courtesy of Edinburgh's Saughton Gaol and Perth Prison - for Contravening the Laws of Decency in Public Places.
Following release from his latest stretch - 7 months spent in solitary confinement as a guest of the Edinburgh "Establishment" - he then set out on the southbound, 450-mile tortuous homeward trek to his elderly mother's house in Eastleigh, Hants ... (minus pants :action-smiley-081:) but complete with backpack containing a small tent, meagre food rations ... bottled water ... a tatty old oilskin hat :coucouchapeau: to "offer protection against the :freezin: elements" ... and, virtually ... :anerikke: ... bugger all else! :NoNo:
This trip :yeahthat: (the one televised) was not without its pitfalls ... being fraught with re~arrests and further intervals of imprisonment en route ... ALL for the sake of proving WHAT? That humans (like animals) be allowed the freedom to "commune with nature". :doh
Aye :icon_rolleyes: ... "some mothers do have 'em"!!!