And you thought all the Hobbits had gone... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

davem · 07-17-2007, 12:42 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Ok, so put aside the usual Daily Mail ranting about 'evil beaurocrats', just skip to the bottom of the article:

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But for Fairweather himself, his greatest tale is probably the story of his own life. "When I was a boy I was obsessed with the story of Merlin the wizard.

"I decided that I should like to be a wizard myself - to grow whiskers, live in the woods surrounded by books and know lots of things that other people didn't."

Today, he maintains he has done just that. He fingers his muttonchop moustache and describes his 200-year-old Devon cottage, where one wall is "a cliff of books, and I sit by my open hearth, translating tales from Medieval Latin that no one else can decipher. When I step through the door I am like a rabbit disappearing into my secret place".

Rumil · 07-17-2007, 01:10 PM

I am tempted to take a trip to the Totnes festival and give the bloke twenty quid.

Did you remark the uncanny resemblance to Bob Flemings' mate Jed Thomas from the Fast Show? (He's the one with countryside Tourette's who said A**E all the time while Bob was busy coughing- freaky!)

Lalwendë · 07-19-2007, 04:15 AM

Did this chap have anything to do with the uncanny replica of the High Hay - another item in the Daily Mail?

It's an impressive hedge, but I really hope that owners of nasty Leylandii trees don't get any ideas from looking at this picture....

07-17-2007, 01:10 PM	#2
Rumil Sage & Onions Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Britain Posts: 894	fantastic! I am tempted to take a trip to the Totnes festival and give the bloke twenty quid. Did you remark the uncanny resemblance to Bob Flemings' mate Jed Thomas from the Fast Show? (He's the one with countryside Tourette's who said A**E all the time while Bob was busy coughing- freaky!) __________________ Rumil of Coedhirion

07-19-2007, 04:15 AM	#3
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,814	Did this chap have anything to do with the uncanny replica of the High Hay - another item in the Daily Mail? It's an impressive hedge, but I really hope that owners of nasty Leylandii trees don't get any ideas from looking at this picture.... __________________ Gordon's alive!