rynner2 said:.... If I have time I may even get off the bus and search on foot.
You know what you have to do! :lol:
rynner2 said:.... If I have time I may even get off the bus and search on foot.
Well I tried Google street again, and this time I did get much clearer pictures. So I tried what you've described, effectively backing up the hill, looking at the slope on my left.trevp66 said:On your right-hand side are the grounds of Mill House, (behind the line of trees) and between the road and the trees is the steep bank I referred to originally.
So I put myself on 'streetview' along here and looked at the steep bank but it looked way too steep to walk up. When I turned 180 though, there was still a nice path/pavement to use, so I continued on along the A393 beyond the point where the path sortof dwindled away, looking back at the steep bank, and suddenly I could see an obvious well trodden bit, which looked like the sort of path you would take if you had walked up from the bus-stop, crossed the road, walked along for a 100yds or so, then started walking up the bank at an angle, instead of trying to walk straight up. There was a gap in the trees at about the same point too, and the path had just one deviation, about halfway between the road and the trees.
Dunno if that helps really but I tried.
WeirdSpace, perchance?escargot1 said:We also have a more general 'weird feelings in certain places' thread which I can't find just now.
Various ideas were proposed, but the only testable one was this:rynner2 said:The other day I was on a bus (as usual!) heading back to Falmouth. A man got off at a stop just outside the village of Ponsanooth, and, rather than take one of the two side roads there, he set off walking up the hill, ie, away from the village. There is a building there, but as we passed it I realised it had no doorway on the main road - its entrance must be on the LH side road - so he wasn't going there.
Shortly after we passed the building, the footpath petered out, so any pedestrian would have to risk the busy traffic and walk along by the hedge at the side of the road. I kept a look-out for where the man could be going, but all we passed for the next few miles was hedges with occassional gateways into fields, none of which seemed likely destinations.
When we finally reached a small hamlet I noticed there was a bus stop there that he could have used if that was his destination. So where was he going? I've been that way once or twice since, but I still haven't seen a likely answer!
In the last week I've been by there several times, but still couldn't see this path, so I decided that today I would check it out on foot - maybe the speed of the bus made me miss something.trevp66 said:I just had a quick look at google streetview and on that A393, just a hundred yards or so on from where the path sortof disappears, on the opposite side of the road there appears to be a well trodden path going up the bank, at an angle, and it would exit through the tree line into the grounds of "Mill House".rynner2 said:....It was only when I noticed there seemed to be nowhere obvious for him to go along the main road that I started to wonder about his destination.
Maybe he works or lives there, or one of the other properties further up Commercial Hill, and this is his 'cut-through' from the bus-stop?
In the last week I've been by there several times, but still couldn't see this path, so I decided that today I would check it out on foot - maybe the speed of the bus made me miss something.
...On to where the path peters out, and now the road is effectively in a cutting with steep banks both sides (the RH one is higher). But no sign of a footpath going up either one...
But I think I've knocked the Google theory on the head, especially as I was looking before most of the Spring foliage has burst forth, so any pathway should have been obvious. Nice try, Trev, but no coconut!
(No cigar even! It was a pretty good punt though. - Trev)
So I waited for the bus home (which was over 15 minutes late), but we did pick up another interesting passenger:
I reckon they'll find my body eventually...ramonmercado said:I reckon he'll find a body eventually.
rynner2 said:...In the last week I've been by there several times, but still couldn't see this path, so I decided that today I would check it out on foot - maybe the speed of the bus made me miss something...
Spookdaddy said:Rynner, if you come across a big pile of bones in the overgrown vegetable garden of a remote and dilapidated cottage, it's gate creaking gently on rusted hinges and the hint of a tiny whisp of smoke around the moss covered chimney pot - just turn around and go home.
A similar problem tonight, but with a different outcome:rynner2 said:Last night an iPlayer glitch froze my computer, so I had to cut the power and restart.
This morning the BBC news page didn't 'remember' me, so I had to re-enter my postcode to access local news and weather. So far, this is an everyday story of computer folk.
But when I went to check my local weather, I found it had somehow remembered my second weather location, so I didn't have to re-enter that!
My theory is that an unexpected shut down only affects programmes open at the time, and the weather page probably wasn't open at the time I cut the power.
Yep, XP it is. But it could also be my computer growing old, as it's getting a bit temperamental in other things too. With all the hours it's done I'm amazed it keeps running at all!Mythopoeika said:Rynner, are you using Windows XP? XP always used to give me all kinds of video glitches.
jeff544 said:I have done that! - Driven by a car park and noticed a space, then driven in to find the space taken, having not noticed anyone else looking for one. Indeed, the car that had 'taken' the space would usually be empty and unattended, not at the 'people just getting out of it' stage. I just put it down to bad luck, or the mind playing games, and letting you see the very thing you are looking for.
solsticebelle said:I was facing away from the water flow so I didn't see the handle move, but I did have to pull it all the way out again to turn the water back on so I know it did, and, oddly, the water was hot instead of the warm temp. it should have been based on the position of the handle.
solsticebelle said:At least I know where those voices are coming from.