Horsenden 'Mountain' hunting

Another unpredictable sunny day and another ‘mountain’ to climb.

The ever dependable friend promised a Mount Everest this time. With little hope and much despair – at his promise to bring the picnic lunch - we set off to climb Mount Everest in Wembley with our ‘Las Las’ guiding us.

The man did bring some lunch as promised. It was good thing there were no rabbits around as they would have surely snatched it from us.  The thought "will pizza hut deliver here?" did occur to the wife but "how do we tell them exactly where we are?" overruled it.

The best thing was that we saw the most gorgeous woodpecker but not close enough to identify or get a good shot, which resulted in our photographer's face looking very similar to the cow dung which we had to avoid on our way up through the grazing patch.

This time it was a lovely walk among a thick growth of trees.  Oh almost forgot, the mountain ? We just assumed that it must be hidden under the trees because we never saw one.

 

The Pro  at work 

A parrot - no its not that obvious !

the hopefuls (for mountains) ...

miss gorgeous (peacock - nachis io) 

Home made humus !!.

Making mountains out of molehills

You can categorise your friends - some cheer you up, some are easy to talk to, some are ‘just there’ and some are so annoying because they make mountains out of mole hills.  

Yes there is one and we have had many trials with him. He once recommended a movie very highly - a movie you would never tell anyone you ‘bought tickets’ to watch. We have learnt the hard way that the Las recommendation = disappointment!

But as we are in dreary old London where it is a race against time to catch the mild rays of the sun, we jumped at the idea of climbing, what he called a ‘MOUNTAIN’, one early spring morning in March.

With the experience of climbing Siripada - Adams Peak   (the second highest mountain in Sri Lanka at 7341 feet above the sea-level) and a few other high climbs, we braced ourselves with lightweight sweaters, climbing shoes, lots of energy food and plenty of liquid.

Off we went to tackle our friend's ‘Mountain’ with new found energy and a positive outlook towards London, the one place on earth which seems to offer everything (including mountains) within city limits. 

In short, the "mountain" turned out to be the Northala Fields - a small man made bump in the grass, which we climbed right to the top in less than 5 minutes. The great mountain  our great friend wanted to show us remains a mystery …