Walking on Borough Hill in Daventry England

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." 

— Albert Camus

THANK YOU MY DEAREST FRIEND BEATA FOR LOVELY WALKING on Borough Hill

 Discovering this idyllic place, we find ourselves filled with a
     yearning to linger here, where time stands still and beauty overwhelms.

 Daventry calling … Daventry calling …

Daventry calling … Dark and still.

The tree of memory stands like a sentry

Over the graves on the silent hill.

Excerpt from ‘The Dane Tree’ by Alfred Noyes

 The BBC first began broadcasting radio in late 1922 using a small number of transmitters that could reach the occupants of the city they were based in. Not long after the first transmitters were established the BBC’s Chief Engineer, Captain Peter Eckersley, was charged with finding a site ‘north of a line between the Severn and the Wash … and placed so that as much as possible of the area served by the station would be land and not sea.’

 "Each moment of the year has
                   its own beauty."
                                                                                 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Each season has its joys to treasure, to lift one's spirits and bring us pleasure.

 Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace
     will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.  The winds will
     blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy,
     while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
                                                                                           - John Muir

 Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. John Grogan

 I go to nature to be  soothed and healed, and to have my senses
      put in order.          
                                                                      - John Burroughs

 Be a gentle friend to trees and they will give you back beauty,
     cool and fragrant shade, and many birds, singing.

 The first short wave transmitters of the Empire Service, now known as the BBC World Service, were based there. Daventry called the world, and was an important source of news during the Second World War, and later during the Cold War. The powerful transmitters at Daventry were also used in the first practical test of Radar in 1935.

 Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. Roger Caras

 Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace. Milan Kundera

 The BBC ceased their broadcasting from Daventry in 1992, and demolished the two 500ft aerial masts that had sat on top of Borough Hill. Borough Hill itself is now owned by Daventry District Council and is a very pleasant country park. Visitors can walk around the site, which has a long history prior to the BBC’s arrival. The original transmitter buildings can still be seen, and the large concrete blocks that the aerial masts had been mounted on are still in place.

 Daventry is a historic market town in, more or less, the middle of England. Its central location proved to be very important in the 1920s when the BBC began looking for a site for a new long wave radio transmitter that could broadcast programs to most of the population of England.

 5XX transmitter aerials were demolished in the 1990s, the concrete blocks they were mounted on still remain.

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
—Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst)

“Cats have it all — admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”
—Rod McKuen (poet,Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows)

“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
—Jules Verne (author,Journey to the Center of the Earth)

  Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily,
          visiting the natural world.
                                                                            - Catlin Matthews

"Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who walked in to your life, said "I'm here for you," and PROVED it."

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