Stone Clearing With Richard Herring - Chapter 156

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

Chapter 156 - Deadline. It's 17 o'clock or so on 20th February 2024 and after daily podcasting in 2023 this is the first recorded clear of the year and the FF are out in force. Is the end in fight? And why do all the cairns look so unimpressive after all this work?

Stone clearing with Richard Herring Right Wolfie come here. Sit. Good go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go! Well hello my fine friends welcome to stone clearing chapter 156 to stone clearing chapter 156. It's 1716 on the 20th of February 2024. First stone clear of 2024 that we see for broadcasts I've been out every day. At least 12 hours a day. obviously for broadcasts I've been out every day at least 12 hours a day but this is the first one I hope you will forgive me that slight breaking communications I did of course do one every single day throughout 2023 365 podcasts so I think we should be treacherous with anyone to complain about that. Come on! Keep moving! Good girl! But yeah, I just had a little break from broadcasting just from my own mental health.

I've done shopping all that well, so... But not my mental. My mental health has been bang on as always, as you expect from a man who's stone clearest, but just a little bit under the weather otherwise, but nothing to worry about, don't worry, don't worry about me. But yeah, it's February. We've missed the January gold rush. That was an amazing time. Now the, here we just appear, it's a sea of green, whatever this stuff would grow in.

I don't care about that. It is taking up most of the field but there are some notable patches of brown certainly towards the edge which is good news for me. Good news for stones or as a stone starzy person heading his way down the hill so I'm going to have to quickly find my out for stones. Can I find anything? There's one very quickly and there's it. Come on Wolfie. And of course this is bad news because it does mean we're just walking past some beautiful stones here. I'm going to pick up one and pretend I'm throwing it for Wolfie. She has a run for it. As long as this stone is stopped on the hill, Stone Stasi. There's another Stone Stasi cross in the field above us. Let's not do that. No one behind.

I'm going to need to clear a few stones. They're distracted. The danger is, of course, that stones, rather distracted. The danger is of course that the guy behind me will follow me around. I'm just going to clear a couple of little ones. Felt it's an exciting start to 2024. I've been the chase, basically a chase going on here. Lots of stone so here in this edge part of the field of the Stocean. I made a satisfying clunk as it met some of its brothers. It's freed brothers. The fence here still down. I tried to mention that in the last podcast. See right into someone's back garden, you get in there if you wanted. I don't remember that gate. Is that being cleared?

Little gate into someone's back garden there. Well, that's changed since yesterday when I was out stone clearing and didn't record it obviously. I'm wearing some casual sportswear, loungewear that you could wear for sports, but I've got no pants on underneath. And I'm wearing some a day of no underwear. See how that affects the stone plume? Picking up a couple of... oh no, bastard. The guy is following so that makes hands catching up. Just take a couple of mediums but let's move in quick orfs in the hope that we can get away from this pursuer. Of course if you're being pursued, it makes it hard to clear. You know you'll have heard seven or eight stones at least a couple of mediums.

And when you're in this situation where you're running for your life from the stone starrsy, you don't know if you're going to live or die. You can't think about that until it's all going flat as well. The stone starrsy don't know if you're going to live or die You know you don't come Good girl will be come on Good girl good girl, wovey, wovey stay, wovey seeing them off, good've done it, it's been in stone stars this whole of 2023 recently. And the solution is absolutely packed. Stay, Wolfie, stay. Hiya. Come on, Wolfie. Stay.

Here you go. Stay. Whoa! Stay! Oh, blimey. Come on. Wolfie being a very good guard dog. Nearly pulling me over. Don't be so silly. That was seen off, uh... He looked around there. I had to go to pretend I'm not talking to you. Ow! He really hurt me. He pulled my arm. He's going into his little house. That guy, that's okay. I know that guy. Wow, what a shame. We've missed out on lots of great potential stone clearing there but we're in a

little clear bit of clear clarity now the guy who is following us i can't see him maybe he's decked into his house as well who knows uh who if he's doing a wee but he's just under the brow of the hill so i can't see him we might might still be viewing five. You have to, as I was trying to say before, be beset by a whole new raft of stone stazzy was when you are running from them, do try and look at the ground and work out which stones you're clear the next time you come. I'm not being so ruthlessly pursued. Oh, that's a bit of excitement. A bit of excitement to start the 2024 podcast off with there. But so not many stones cleared in the last few minutes.

We're going to take the long way around, we're going to go past the singing ringing tree. We need to really, is there anything here we can put on the can across from the main can? Not much. It's looking a bit sad for itself. Just kick a couple of these stones a bit further back up the field back on to dig not back up the field back off the field oh here's one that's a nice one it's small but it's that'll fit nicely off you just got a nose in the way yeah I don't think I'm being pursued anymore

that guy gave up I think when he realized he saw me shooting off, I might let Wolfie off the lead, but it's a bit of a dangerous enterprise. The path here, very wide all of a sudden, as we head round to the singing wing, this used to be quite a difficult place to navigate, but the pedestrians have managed to widen the walking area. wide in the walking area. It's hard to see if there are any stones available due to the thick foliage. The farmer selfishly growing crops on this area which will be much better if they weren't there then they could just get in there clear the stones. Wolfie's in a bit of a frisky mood I have to say had a good go at a couple of dogs so I'm worried about other dogs coming outside here. Wolfie! There are not much in the way stones. There's a lot of hay straw between the plants. I'm not really seeing any stones. This used to be quite a good area for stones but someone some genius has been up here and clear a lot of those stones

away. That will be readying to self-defecate. Nicely on the side there where the stones go, the poo can go. No one's going to walk on there, that's. Just think your poo, it's only a little poo. I can smell it and she fruitlessly moves some way away from the poo and then scrabbles at the man as if she's burying the poo she's just done. You're not burying it Wolfsy, you're not fooling anyone. A couple of little nippers here just on the path more or less, they can go into the site. Coming up, the singing ring entry, been a while since I've recorded in this

particular area that's here today 2024 might be the year that the fairy-like inhabitants make themselves known found a nice kidney shaped stone caramel and there it goes into the weird singing ringing tree nothing more fee ghost have a look see if she grabbed that thing the other thing you see in the tree up the hill a bit no one will be come on whoo so moving fast and we seem to have seen off the all opposition. What are you doing? That's the poo, is that the story?

Oh, Wolfie has got one of the stone. Is that the kidney? That's the stone. That was for the singing reeling tree. What's wrong with you? I'm throwing it back. Oh shit. I went a bit wayward. Hopefully no one was walking the path next door. I have yet to kill a human being. WALFIE COME ON WALFIE! WALFIE GET BACK HERE! Good girl.

Now the owls folk will be disappointed there. With my contribution going missing, perhaps they would have come out. Perhaps Wolfie has ruined everything. I'm clearing a little bit more urgency to clearing the stones this year. At some point this year it looks like we are going to be moving away from the village. Not to say we can't come back and clear stones but it might make that work a little harder. Just trying to get this baby up. So really I probably need to try and clear everything in the next 45 months which as we're still

around the edge and now where we're walking there just hundreds of fucking stones. I feel like some of them there's two or three here that feels like just come off this little nest of stones here and they're going back on maybe a badger's been in I'll move those back on that'll be helpful no badges if not being helpful so it may mean stone clue podcast come to an end as well I don't know there may be stones where I'm going but do you really want to start this whole thing again? I've been doing some secret fields here as well of course that you people can't know about just because if I tell you about the field suddenly stone stars are a crop up everywhere so someone's blabbing this is very much my

distraction falsified stone clay field the real ones are going beautifully but I do have to keep up the pretence and you know I would like to clear all the fields from in the air before I go so. Just means upping the work rate a little bit. Should be fine. As I say I'm still really only clear around the edge of most of these fields and if you look to the edge of the fields after what is it? 6, 5, 6 years? You would only see a tiny amount of difference if that, if anything you might think there are a few more stones on the fields but I think I can do it. I started this thinking this will be a job I could take a couple of weeks.

Podcasts would last maybe three weeks. But now I look at it and think no it did take longer than you thought Rich but I'm still not going to give up and I'm still going to have unrealistic expectations expectations of what I can achieve. unrealistic expectations, expectations of what I can achieve. But it's not a bad thing to have a end date in mind because look, you may think, oh, I'm living in this place for another 20, 30 years, I've got a little plenty of time. The death side can come and take you at any moment, my friend, especially with the stone stars he said present. Talking of which two more pop in their heads above the horizon. Again just as we get to a bit where we could do some serious clearing.

Some serious clearing, so that we can see right there. They're still far enough away I think I can cut my cuff there and then extend it up and through one tried it too quickly he's running for it it was just only just to say bounced onto the pile I don't think that's even going to I'm not far from the edge it shows how little I've been doing this I don't think that's even going to... I'm not far from the edge, it shows how little I've been doing this particular area. How old I've become. I managed to get that one into the boundary, throw through two stones, but now... another redcoater. The first guy who chased him was redcoated. There's another redcoat on the way with a black coat.

I think they're coming this way, they almost thought they were going the other way but then they're getting closer because they were walking backwards White-haired man, I'd say a red-coated lady Hopefully my sweatpants won't fall down. They're very loose and as I say I'm commandeau underneath here and the sight to my beautiful penis and one ball could drive these people into distraction. They have got a dog. The ball feet have got to be kept in a tight leash. They're getting close now. I might move over a little bit. Just let them through and also to best get what stones we might have here as a view.

What are all stones? Right, just wait here, Wolfie. Wait, good girl. here Wolfie, wait good girl, wait morning, hello afternoon, good girl state, no worries good Oh, that's a nice one. Back's returned now. Let's just check we're still recording. We want to lose a minute of this gold. We can go for 18 minutes, 31 seconds. I managed to pick up a lovely medium there. Just kicked it out of the ground while their backs were turned. If that's all I managed to do on the way across, it will still not be insignificant, but here's a couple of bits of shrapnel to add to that pile. And this one's calling out save me it's my turn I know I know listen they all say that please you

haven't got Jerry Lone, help me we are the lollipop guild there's another one calling to me here I've only got so many hands oh there's another f**ker coming what the f**k dropped everything dropped everything pocket these such a lovely medium here don't want to lose it but scrabbling around in the dirt somehow managed to scramble away to bank scramble away to bank front no it's had him alone dead of course I'm no ferris there in this stone clearing. You can have me bet you bet they had me told to stone clear pretty soon after that.

That's the old Paris. You may remember that public information film. The day when you could talk freely about stone clearing without fear of imprisonment. A lot of trumped up charges coming against stone clearers. Some of them were, they coming against stone piers. Some of them were, might have been pedophiles. But look at this, the central cairn, absolutely devoid of its habits, whole, I think they were taken away stuff before, but it's actually just a bank of stones now with a hole, looks like a crater on a moon or something. Let's see if I can get those pocketed stones out of the go in a different way. I've got to take a picture of the central

can because this is the one I thought was the most impressive. It was hidden largely behind bushes and now the bushes have been taken out quite brutally bushes and now the bushes have been taken out quite brutally and you can see what's going on here it's pretty amazing but some of the some of the stones scatter a little bit in the way I don't really like again suggests someone's been in here oh it's nice to go to see them and see what I've been building all these years I could have built this much in a day I'll move some of these boys up from low down to higher up just to give the can a bit more heft when you think this is my best can One of the best ones

Lovely big stone there. I don't know if that was ever part of it. It is now Yeah, it looks pathetic Bit pathetic almost like A bit pathetic. Almost like my life's work has been meaningless. Is that the moon up above or the sun? I can't tell through the clouds, it must be the moon. It's much too high in the sky for this. If it was the sun, it would be the middle of the day.

The crops are low. There's nuts, which is good in terms of avoiding the stone stars there's no danger of them popping up out of nowhere. Oh and I've almost forgotten about the stone pole, that's how long it is since I've done a stone pole. Got to look out for some good ammo for the stone pole. Watch going nuts. I really want to be recording this outdoor walk today. I've got two stones.

I wish we were back in the other bit because the stones, the bit where the stones started, they know what they're doing. They leave me alone on the bits where there is hardly any stones. And they have come out in force when there are many stones. I have to respect them. I've got three stones now in my hand. It's what I'd have for. It's a tiny one. It was calling to me. It's like an arrow head. It's going to be a poor, even though it's an arrow, like a dart. It's going to be a poor Even though it's an arrow like a dart It's going to be hard to hit stone pole with that one if I could hit the stone pole with that one I'd say it's worth two And here's a fifth one again another almost arrowhead to take one

Well these five fit comfortably into the palm of my small hand, so that should give you an idea of how little the projectiles are going to be this time well that's a nice size one two three six that's a better size i'm going to start with that one and i think we're safe this floodlights are on in the wreck usually Tuesday night football training my daughter's football training has been cancelled maybe there's some grown-ups playing and here we are coming towards the stone pole fabled but real it's a fable and it's real there's a nice stone there I'm just going to clear that one. That's a nice big one. No, not as big as it looked. It's quite flat. So I've got seven stones. Wolfie's getting excited by the stones and got a bit caught up. My bottom is showing. Luckily my coat's covering it.

Right, this one's got the skim. Wolfie, stop That one didn't hit, but that one didn't count. Right, here we go. That one didn't get too far enough. One out of two. Missed. One out of three. One out of four. Full drop one. One out of five. One out of six. That's predicted the arrowhead one got nowhere near. Yeah, I'm out of practice one hour six bad luck But of course if you go to go faster strike comms that badges

You can None of five effects of that bad luck by signing up for a monthly batch Good luck Otherwise bad luck will come to everyone who listens to this podcast But maybe especially the person producing the podcast Satya said I've been inundated with emails from people saying what's happened to Stone Clearing I can't even count them there's so many

So if you're one of those many people who've emailed in like telegraph pole like telegraph pole pole telegraph pole pole as a hyphenated pole pole you I hope this will assuage you please stop me asking me to do more podcasts I'll do them when I can do them come on 365 podcasts last year and it's not enough for you, 156 in total even though we're 365 last year, still you're clamoring for more. You'll miss me when I'm gone. That's all I'm gonna say. So come around the corner and I'm fully expecting some extreme stone stars is here I'm gonna pick up a couple of stones for the for the main canal is a

nice one bit buried there if the path can't get it then have my trowel with me and the wall progressing quite nicely along here let's put these into the wall well if we don't grab them that one's gone right through the fence. That's a shame That was a bit better Again some seepage here. So sad thing to see The stone's moving back towards the field Some regret they're being moved will be want to be back where they belong, where they started, rather they belong. Again, they do a little quick bit of time. That main can, looking less and smaller and smaller every time I come to it,

I think she will soon grab some of my ears. It's sickening, but understandable. These stones are cursive, you take them off the field they cannot cure cancer just because I was cured of cancer that's a special case due to my twice work with the stones you can't just turn up and expect your cancer to be sorted out by taking some of these stones home for the future please don't do that. stones home for the year, please don't do that. Right, coming up to the ditch, destroyed the Tories. The bi-election results you may think, oh is that to do with old Richie Sunak?

Not giving the correct policies now, it's to do with old Richie Herring put in no stones in on a daily basis, patiently waiting for the moment when Brexit is over and the Tories are consigned to the dustbin of history where they belong also labour, no political bias in this podcast. and the liberals and reform and UKIP, all of them. The greens, that's still alright. And one day it will just be the rock party. Put on a nice roundy for the bitch to stop Brexit, just off the pathway. Again, done a very good job down this slope. Hard to find a single stone. And left clear. Have the photon photography just for now. And let's give the, let's just make sure the ditch and stop breaks

that does its job. Pick up a few bits of shrapnel here. Goose, punk in its way. Oh look at that, five of them. Hear that? That's nature. And the ditch has been fed. Thank you. Have you heard that? The ditch can speak to those who have a deep base, most food, cool and good, you are my favorite. That's all right mate. Anything for you, anything for the ditch that stopped Brexit? If you stopped Brexit you deserve all the stones you can get. All right let's see if we can give the Alfred and I'm working a bit more respect. Now we're not under the respect. Now we're not under the cosh. There's a couple of nice little stones here that I think we can get on onto the scree. It's really a scree of stones here rather than...

I think my initial stone didn't really hit, but there go it's a nice scree I mean they're all turning into screes and the mushroom I thought was a stone but I think it's a mushroom. See what's your stone? Oh next to stone let's put that one as well. Hard to tell sometimes mushrooms and stones especially if you're on mushroom. We're heading down Duckett's Passage, turn it up to your emails. They're not the ones saying when the next episode is coming up. It's now, that's your answer. We have Dusky Plain Light. Dusky Plain Light has been in touch and they don't know if it's a man or woman or have identified they say rich high I am a female dusky yeah I do know now and I

would very much enjoy full penetrative intercourse with you well Well, it's not going to happen, Dusky. But I understand that won't happen. You're right. It will happen, I admit. But I just wanted to say, really missed the podcast in January and February. Well, I had to flip my bean, brian brambles podcast instead which is very unpleasant this is called dusky doesn't mean you have to be all sexy and stuff it's not the place to be sexy but um do hope you're back soon and uh thanks for all thereeing podcasts that I do not use totally for communication.

Um, sorry, that's just the first one out of the bag, I don't know how that happened. Right, anyway, we're back near the house. We're just coming into land. It's been a learning process I guess, coming back to the Stone Trigging podcast. Just checking the snow traffic coming. Oh, there's a car, but it's far enough away. And in we go. We're back home. A cat's going in the cat's lap. The kids are eating their dinner. It's time for me to bid you adieu so that my family never find out what's going on here. I love you all. Not you, Dusty.

Don't like that. Leffen to the f-dont my friend And they for halfing year merry dance Don't Liffon to the berth and treeth Don't Liffon to the stone, Liffon to the stone, And they in turn are Liffon to ye, My friend, my pinesquend. Stone clearing with Richard Herring starred me, Richard Haring and Wolf of the Dog plus

too many stone stars he to mention. The music is by Matt Coffgrave, the voice of the Patones is Michael Fuddon. Listen to the thorns, my friend, And they falting, ye a merry dance. Don't live unto your underhand, Live unto the throne, Live unto the throne, And they in turn fall liven, To ye, my friend, my fine friend