Thorness Bay Circular Walk | Isle of Wight Walks | Cool Dudes Walking Club
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- Yet again I braved the world of Martin Simon, as I chose another walk from his infamously perilous book of walks 'Walk the Isle of Wight.' Here is a link to it if you want to buy it: amzn.to/45ejTJg
This time I went to Thorness Bay, to do a circular walk.
Here is a link to the ebay listing of my painting: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126054620109
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Cows are curious and mostly just want to play. If you run they run. If they run at you tell them to eff off and they will stop. But sticking to the fence is good so you can hop over it if you want. They will stop running before they crash into a fence. Gavin Trampoline might be the second best coolest name I have ever heard.
This the best cow advice I have had in the three years of this channel. Ha.
COWard map = genius
Give yourself a pat on the back for the COWard map suggestion. 😂😂
Great walk Cool Dude
Books I love: 1. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, 2. Any Human Heart by William Boyd, 3. Still Life by Sarah Winman.
I loved Any Human Heart. I haven't read the other two though.
Found martin simons book in the amazing book shop in Ryde, every walk attempted has been a disaster!! Medina river circular walk was an epic adventure as the paths were knee deep in mud to the point we couldn't possibly venture forward 😅
I am pleased to hear of another Martin Simon survivor!
Yes, a new video!
Books:
1. Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (not the composer)
2. Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
3. Jerusalem by S. Sebag Montefiore.
As for stampeding there's the ancient tradition of bull leaping...they did that in the nude I believe...don't forget to film that for us...
Thanks for the cool suggestions dude. I have read Alone in Berlin which I thought was great. Will add the others to my list.
Yesterday I encountered a hundred or so cows on Culver Down. Just ordered some new underpants so all good now.
Uh oh. They are normally OK up there as they are used to people.
Marek, cows can smell fear. You must maintain Alpha Frame!
My strategy with the cow field would have been to get a taxi to the beach part... until I saw the beach. Thank you for doing the walk on my behalf, cool dude.
Never do this walk cool dude. Only one in fifty survive.
really love ya painting at the end one of my favourites
I hope it sells for one million pounds.
My 3 favourite books are
1) The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
2) the collected ghost stories of M R James
3) Thin Air by Michelle Paver
Favourite books: Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes, and a cheat number 3 - any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett.
Gormenghast is great, his language is phenomenal, it reminds me a bit of H.P.Lovecraft. I have not heard of Bettany Hughes, I will check that out, thanks cool dude. Also I am sad to report I just can't get on with any of the Terry Pratchett books.
Yes, they are bellends. Hard to give you just 3 favourite books, but....'The Satsuma Complex' by Bob Mortimer is really good. I also love 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' by Fannie Flagg. 'Trespasses' by Louise Kennedy is a great book. Anything by Ann Cleeves.
Thanks for the recommendations cool dude. I have 'The Satsuma Complex' somewhere.
Looked more like an assort course, but very entertaining. Still you have learnt a new skill as a cow whisperer 2 weeks till we are the
I will try and get rid of the for you by then.
Nice walk, especially that bit through Cowes......😀
Yes, yes they are!
My current favourite books are
1 - the hobbit
2 - a walk in the woods
3 - ready player one
Cool books
Top 3 books.
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Nova Express by William Burroughs
Choke by Chuck Paliniuk
I have read Choke and enjoyed it.
Nice one cool dude! I’m currently reading a book about Jack The Ripper, a very interesting read
Have you read 'From Hell', the Alan Moore graphic novel. That is very good.
My favourite walk. 10 min from my house
11 22, 63- by Stephen King / Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency by Douglas Adams / The Ipcress File by Len Deighton. Not all my time favourite ones but they are books I have read them in the middle of the pandemic. And have stuck with me.
I really loved 11 22 63, it's brilliant.
I was thinking of the JFK one! I love that book, read it at least twice - hard to hold it together at the end when they dance
Cow quandary:
Have you tried scaring them off by covering yourself in mustard and making a noise like a Yorkshire pudding?
Absolutely love these videos cool dude!
Thanks cool dude.
If you get a chance have a look at sidders s for some insider knowledge of Herne Bay and the surrounding areas. Would love to see some walks around the Wilder Blean since they've had the animals added!
Wilder Blean is the project not the Blean woods actual name my husband has informed me since my knowledge of the area has been tinted by wine glasses
Yes
Car drivers, YES
Books, Cider with Rosie. To kill a Mockingbird. The Iliad.
I tried reading the Iliad when I was 16. Maybe it is worth revisiting. I have Cider with Rosie on my shelf. I must read it.
I could feel the tension! No idea if this is right but it's what I've always done and helped me when I was a kid with a small dog that cows loved to chase. Keep walking at a good pace, don't run and just shout really loudly 'F OFF!'
My three favourite books: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse and The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson.
Have not heard of the last two cool dude. Will check those out.
Three books: Cannery Row, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Popcorn (Ben Elton).
I have Cloud Cuckoo Land on my shelf to read.
I used to live next door to a dairy farm. You do great with the way you walk calmly and talk to them. If they start to act aggressively turn towards them but don’t make eye contact. If they start to really run at you and you can’t nip over a hedge or wall then face them and wave your arms (without flailing, although I’m sure you’re not a flailer) using a calm loud deep voice say something like ‘move on’. Don’t run, you won’t outrun them from the middle of a field. If you’ve ever seen the way a farmer does it on tv? Countryfile perhaps? Not emmerdale.
This is excellent advice. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
Absolutely yes!
Wait! No strawberry laces?!
My three top books? Hard to figure out which ones would be top but I do have books I constantly recommend to people that always go over well!
1. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
- just an absolutely fantastic read I still think on after decades
2. 30 Days of Night (Movie Novelization) by Tim Lebbon
- probably the best depiction of the franchise lots of stuff in it that wasn't in the movie. The polar bear? Just amazing though I won't say more
3. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
- definitely not your standard Stephen King book, very small focus, very character driven this book makes me wish this was the Stephen King we had gotten all along and I say that as someone who has enjoyed most of his books but this book is next level writing for him and if his name wasn't on the cover I would never believe he wrote it.
Strawberry laces have gotten too expensive.
Yes mate total bell ends and they know it. Seeing those cows gave me the heebies, it brought back the terror of being chased by cows many years ago. It prompted an emergency wild poo so would be interested to learn how to outfox a bovinr armada.
I don't read as much as I should but anything by Jasper Fforde is a good time.
Only people like you and me, who have been chased by cows only fully understand the terror of it. That is why I get incredibly frustrated when people give me rubbish advice about cows which never answers the question of what should I do when I am being chased by cows and stuck in the middle of field. I feel like I am going mad sometimes asking the same question. I still don't know what to do. Ha.
Yes, they are.
Those cows following you looked so funny😅
They were not funny in real life.
@@cdwc I think they definitely thought it was funny tho - like that game we’d play as kids, that I can’t remember the name of..... where every time you turn around they stop, look nonchalant while having a little giggle to one another 🐮🐮🐮
Yes, I definitely think that people who drive fast cars are bellends-especially when they drive like that.
My fave books are The door to December by Dean Koontz, Touching from a distance by Deborah Curtis and I love the My mad fat teenage diary books by Rae Earle.
If I was confronted by that many cows I would have shat myself and cried. I mean, they even had young aswell. Eeeeek! I'm glad they behaved though and that you didn't get swept out to sea.
Stay cool.
I have never read a Dean Koontz book, I think I always thought he was a poor man's Stephen King, which is a bit ignorant of me having never read anything by him.
@@cdwc Tee hee! Rob would probably say the same thing.
FYI, we call them, Middle-Aged Men in Lycra, aka MAMILS :D
Top 3 books, no order, neverwhere, zen and now, the bone houses.
I read 'Neverwhere' a long time ago.
Those cows just wanted to play 'whats the time mr wolf?'. Guess they will never know now.
I would never close my eyes when a herd of cows was running behind me. Ha.
God, you were so brave with those Killer !
Books;
1. I Am Legend (Richard Matheson).
2. IT (SK).
I have read 'I am Legend' and loved it, much better than the film. My favourite Stephen King books are 11/22/63, Hearts of Atlantis and Different Seasons.
It's odd but we never seem to encounter any fast driving bellends🚘🤪 when we come to IOW. Plenty in Kent though sadly. Martin Simon's recommended walks are always SO dramatic. The pub has been closed for a while. Was shut when we were there but never fear there are Shandy's a-plenty courtesy of local people's ''pub'' set up in the village hall on Saturday nights! Cows or Pigeons Marek? If you had to choose.....? And by the way it's a very good likeness of our little mate He's the original Coooooo-l Dude of course! x J x
I think the pub is reopening now, as someone commented it has just got new owners. There are very few fast cars on the island, it seems a pointless thing to have with the small roads.
@@cdwc Must've tempted fate. Seen nothing but speeding Audis, Bmw's & Mercs in Kent since mentioning it! Plonkers😵💫......I forgot the books first time. So, anything by John Cooper Clarke (try ''I married a Monster from Outer Space''), Five on a Treasure Island (the start of many adventures when I was little where I always wanted to make it the Famous 6 to include me, rather than the Famous 5!), Poldark series by Winston Graham & because 3 favourites are never enough ... anything by Daphne Du Maurier!! x J x
Top books... "Shantaram", "A voyage for madmen", "The it girl"... Another brilliant video and hell hath no fury like the fear of being in a field of cows or bulls 😬😂🥳🕺 cheers mate!
I have not read Shantaram, I have heard lots of people talk about it.
@@cdwcI've read Shantaram and would recommend it too. Similarly, the book "Papillon" by Henri Charriere. Even wilder than the film (McQueen/Hofman) and it doesn't end where the film does! It goes on. Quite a tale of endurance and survival.
yes, mostly.
You asked about favourite books - I am currently reading Ancient Stones Of Dorset by Peter Knight. And also Wild Escapes by Sian Anna Lewis.
Nice one thanks dude
Books:
1. The Lord Of The Rings
2. Lord Of The Flies
3. Swallows And Amazons (when I as 12)
4:00 St Francis of Assisi! Thank you for this beautiful walk, Marek!
My top three books are: 2001, Ode to Kirihito and 1984. Thank you
Thanks for the recommendations dude.
Glad to get to see this walk since I don't think I'd be able to make it through! Thorness bay looks beautiful though that would almost make it worth it.. Almost. Lovely painting at the end there, thanks for another great video! :)
I would say although Thorness Bay is nice, there are a lot of better beaches on the Island to visit first cool dude.
@@cdwc What beaches would you recommend?
I forgot to put my favourite books in before but my top three at the moment would have to be
The Blackthorn Key - Kevin Sands
Blood Red Road - Moira Young
The Search For WondLa - Tony Diterlizzi
I've now started the second book of the trilogy "A hero for WondLa" after leaving it for near a decade, I just love the characters and art in them
Martin Simon…. I think it’s true he may be out to kill us all…. My mother decided we would do one of his walks this week. First he sent us through a woods inhabited with adders. Then through a series of seemingly inescapable firing ranges…. The gun club members seemed friendly enough but in the Wight wilderness, you never can tell…. There were also treacherous steep steps and slopes. Views definitely worth it though.
With the cows I think you’re meant to point out the last one to stop moving when you turn around. Then that cow is out of the game. Eventually they will all be gone and you can walk in peace!
Loads of questions to answer, so here are my answers :-
1 - Yes, loads of speeding cars driven by bellends.
2 - Cows - after a quick google, it would appear the best things to do is make a little bit of noise so that they are aware of your presence, avoid eye contact with the cows and to walk at a steady pace to where you can exit the field.
3 - Books - Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, The moon's a balloon and the colour of magic.
Also, I had no idea that the Isle of Wight had a cycle inspired batman copy judging by that signpost seen at the start and end of the video.
Also
You ruined a nice post with that pigeon.
They say cats are curious, but I think cows are more nosey
Yes I agree with you cool dude.
The Hungery Catapiller.
Read it three times.
Job done.
Middle aged men cyclists in Spandex you say?...all the more reason for me to visit the Isle😁🚴A great walk & a fantastic random CZcams link too😅 Your Yarmouth to the New Forest & Wild Camping videos were superb (stunning beach views). My 3 favourite books: 1.Suit to Saddle (Larry Walsh) 2.One man & his bike (Mike Carter) 3.Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier)
🐕🦺
I have only read 'The Scapegoat' by Daphne Du Maurier. I will put 'Frenchman's Creek' on my list.
@@cdwc I haven't read 'The Scapegoat' by Daphne Du Maurier. I will put this one on my reading list too, thank you.📚
Loved it! Think you should do Cows week like TV does Shark Week: dangerous animal encounters. Might get lots of yachty types turning up by mistake though. Great work as ever Cool Dude No.1 👍
Top Books:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Fisherman by John Langam
Three Men in Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Not quite sure what to do when cows follow you, I think it's probably better to look big and scary and probably face them as that's what geese do, and cows shit themselves when geese square up to them.
Thank you for another excellent video Cool Dude. And thank you for the latest zine, we very much enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for the Super Thanks and getting the zine. Will check out those recommendations cool dude.
@@cdwc You're welcome Cool Dude, the zine is worth the extra £5 anyway
Middle aged men in spandex are one of my favorite things.
Definitely stick next to a fence whenever possible. As someone else said they will stop before getting too near it typically.
Some of my favorite books are a series of unfortunate events, the chronicles of the chrestomanci, and the magic tree house books.(yes that last set is for young kids, but imo the stories hold up and are still quite interesting despite the books themselves being short and simple)
The Isle of Wight in the summer would be your dream location for Spandex men.
I’ve been herded by cows and found it terrifying. Well done for keeping your cool!
Books what I like:
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke
From Below by Darcy Coates but I found it a bit scary to read at night
Thanks for the recommendations cool dude. I bought an Arthur C Clarke book from the charity shop the other day so I must try one of his at some point.
Nice one!
Books - the tommyknockers stephen King
The secret garden frances Hodgson Burnett, and battle royale houshun takami
Nice 1
Well done for surviving another of Simon "Murderous Intent" Martin's walks! 3 Books: War of the Worlds by HG Wells, The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat, and Candide by Voltaire (still the funniest thing I;ve ever read 100s of years after writing). Thanks for another great video Marek!
I read War of the Worlds last year and thought it was great. I must try Candide.
Another Martin Simon stitch up, I love it. Lots of questions this week. Yes they are bellends.
I think you should make noise to scare off the cows.
Favourite 3 books….errrrr, Dracula, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and I, Partridge.
I studied Dracula at University. The book was excellent but I had to read loads of terrible academic's boring theories on it.
I love Martin.
Martin is the enemy!
Oh my, this was a pretty harrowing and (as always) hilarious video, Cool Dude. My hopes were raised as soon as you mentioned Martin Simon’s name and I wasn’t disappointed. Your videos are family viewing here an my youngest (aged 20) commented “that’s floss” in relation to the so-called fence at 1.24. I think Mr Simon should answer to his actions regarding the perils you faced - overgrown paths, cows, mud, closed pubs, unexploded weapons (!) and fast encroaching tidal waters. Would he be willing (and brave enough?) to join you on a cliff-top walk?
I agree with you regarding Martin Simon. Maybe his motivation was to kill all walkers off before they could ask for their money back.
8:27 In no particular order, 3 of my favourite books are 1. Hannah Goslar remembers, 2. I enjoyed the Brian Bilston poem You Took The Last Bus Home & subsequently ordered his book of the same name, 3. I really liked Colin Mochrie's book Not Quite The Classics. Also quite proud of the £2 hefty hardback of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe I purchased from a shop in Billingshurst recently, only 782 pages(!)
That Edgar Allan Poe book is an incredible bargain cool dude.
Knowing the ways of farming, it would be really hard to block out all fields that could be used for cows, most famers would have to say all their fields could be used for cows and then the footpath people would be on at them saying those weren't navigable fields. It would be a nightmare. I can't accept any liability for this, but I am a regular country person who has spent lots of time living and moving around cows/bulls/other animals, and so I would advise: If you happen to be on a footpath that takes you through a cattle field - just keep walking, DONT take time to look at them, DONT stop to film them, walk casually and ignore them. Don't run, hurry up, veer about, look at them etc, as it will make them interested in you. They are ultimately curious animals so anything you do that makes you stand out piques their interest. I will usually chat in a low, calm voice to them, without looking at them, letting them know that I'm passing through. It sounds stupid but cows are used to people chatting calmly to them so it can help them feel safe. If I ever need to move cattle away from say a gate, I'll just walk authoratitively towards the gate, talking confidently and slowly about what I'm doing, and if there are cows in the way I slap them hard on the side (the side you want them to move away from). Don't slap them on the behind as it might make them want to kick, but a swift slap anywhere from the foreleg to the hindleg will tell them what direction you want them to go in. Most cattle will be used to a confident slap/shout of a gutteral ugh etc. as an instruction. They are super curious and naturally want to follow you, as do horses and most other herd animals, but assuming you've done nothing to encourage their attention and they've followed you and you feel intimidated, just make a gutteral noise and use your arms to make you look big, you should confuse them long enough to get away.
This is the best cow advice thank you. I am going to practice my guttural noises so I am prepared for my next encounter.
Vital survival skills for us all, there During the cows scenes, I couldn't help but imagine the soundtrack from a St Trinian's film - "Look! Get him girls!" "Oh, lummee!"
Yes, speeding sports car drivers are bellends. Support your local lamp-posts everyone!
The decision on fast car drivers is almost unanimous. Ban fast cars!
Very entertaining, u did look as though you enjoyed the cows really, looked like the old films, a scene with Peter sellers perhaps.
I definitely did not enjoy the cows.
Redwall- Brian Jaques
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Anything Bukowski but his novel Post Office, and Ham on Rye is pretty good.
I have read all of these cool dude, very good, although I did not finish Blood Meridian as it was too bleak. Ha.
I'm impressed you saw a car driving at more than 5mph on the Island. Well done for surviving the :cows: you got quite a bead of sweat going there in that field.
Seems I've got no ability to type an emoji. I blame those cows.
I am always sweating. Ha.
I would naturally accept my crowning as King of the Cows and let them carry me into bovine glory.
It is hard to rule once you've been trampled to death cool dude.
@@cdwc I grew up on a farm with cattle and in that whole time was only trampled to death twice. Take the crown!
Jen
Desperation by Stephen King
Needful Things by Stephen King
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Mike
Dirk Gently by Douglas Adams
Red Dwarf by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Thanks cool dude. I really enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing.
Some of my favourite books are: Half Past Human - TJ Bass, Wool - Hugh Howey (Silo Trilogy book 1), Dark Eden - Chris Beckett (also book 1 of a trilogy, but a good standalone book)
Excellent thanks cool dude.
I'm coming home for my annual visit to the island from Canada next month (was born in Ventnor and lived there when I was younger but, of course, dad had to go and take a job in Western Canada). I like the quieter time around late Sept/Oct without the tourists (now in my 50's, I'm still a corkhead by heart and citizenship). Thinking about doing some of your easier walks. Would love to take a walk and buy you a pint along the way if you're around.
With everything that was wrong or went wrong, how was that not a 1-Marek walk? As for books, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt is superb; if you fancy some sci-fi Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle are unsung heroes; and for balance a bit of non-fiction in the shape of Michael Collins' (Apollo 11) Carrying the Fire is absolutely fascinating. 📚 Ooh and there's some absolute gems tucked away in Grimm's Fairy Tales.
I must get a good copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Only just realised that I had missed this video, hence late reply. You dealt very well with the cows, could have been a disaster, especially as they had their calves. Top 3 books:
Papillon - Henri Charriere
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Any of the 21 (1970's) Famous Five paperbacks
Nice to see a return of the humble ham and mustard bap 👍
Agree on Papillon. A marvellous book! Great choice!
I will have to check out Papillon.
@@cdwc There is also a sequel/prequel called Banco which is worth reading for some more of Henri's story but it is a bit heavy going and slow in places. There was some disagreement that Papillon is a true story and had been embellished quite a lot, but aren't all good stories?
@@mattentwistle70 if it was embellished it was well done. Gripping read.
My 3 books would be; The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom, it’s absolutely beautiful. Watchers by Dean Koontz, it’s just a great book. The Wasp factory by Iain M Banks another great and short one.
I read the 'Wasp Factory' a long time ago and very much enjoyed it.
Favourite books: The Warlord Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell (The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur). It's a historical fiction series of books based on Arthurian legend, but more grounded and less of the 'shiny armour' stuff. They really are bloody amazing books.
I have 'The Winter King' on my shelf. My brother got it for me last year! I must read it.
@@cdwc They're very good. They've just made a TV adaptation of it, which looks absolutely bloody awful.
Marek...the cow whisperer
This could be my secret talent I never knew!
Never run from s, it triggers their predatory instincts and they will give chase and tear you apart!
I'll never understand how you look so hot and sweaty on some of these walks, but don't stop for a lovely swim in those gorgeous beaches on the Island
That beach was a clay nightmare.
Your a brave man I would be to scared to go past them cows 😊
Just signed up
Nice one. Thanks so much cool dude
yes to bell ends
Chuckling at the cow chase narration, long after you escaped, Cool Dude. Three top books vs top three.... Sorrow Mountajn by Ani Pachen, Wild Fell by Lee Schofield (hugely relevant if today's news of reintroducing water vole to Cumbria is of any interest) & Donna Tartt's Secret History. Hope they might be of interest. CD#123
I enjoyed 'A Secret History' very much, but not the 'Goldfinch'. We must be due another Donna Tartt book soon. Will check out the others.
@@cdwc agree. The second one didn't work....
I adore cows
Unfortunately not exactly one book but the redwall series by Brian Jacques are my personal favourite books. Well worth a look.
I read those when they first came out and I was a kid. I remember really enjoying them.
@@cdwc yeah they are classed as kids books but they stil hold up. I'm reading them my kids as bedtime stories now.
Favourite books (this is difficult -going to go with cholfhood, adolescenceand recently).
1 Watership Down, which I have read many times since first reading it in the seventies.Most recently, the excellent graphic novel adapted and illustrated by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin) 2 Absolute Beginners, by Colin McInnes (fav book as a teenager-before the movie made it uncool) 3 hmm I'll go for for Milkman, by Anna Burns as I lived through those sh**ty trouble things in N. Ire, and it describes the stupidity of the "not acknowledging/hating "the other" very well.
And people who drive daft sports cars AND rev them for effect are surely knobs. Double knobs.
Goodness, such peril! Perhaps the cows were just trying to play 'what's the time Mr Wolf'?
That path near the cows (before the open bit) looked very narrow and overgrown - nature trying to get you from all angles on that walk... in the next edition of the Spotter's Handbook could there be some points for having to slalom/limbo through nettles and brambles, perhaps?
And yes, speaking as someone who lives near a busy junction (with very thin windows), fast/loud car drivers are indeed bellends.
I once lived in a flat with traffic lights outside. The constant horn beeping was horrific.
🐄🐄🐄😳😱 no way would I cross a field with cows in them lol . Ok 3 books you should read 1 Watchers, 2 Lightning (both by Dean Koontz) & Dead Simple by Peter James.
You are like the pied piper of cows. I used to have a brother in law who could walk up to the fence and the herd would run for the far end of the pasture. Definitely a better sign when the cows like you.
Books: Thud!, Shards of Honor, The Long Winter.
I need to bring your brother along on my walks. Thanks for the recommendations.
Yes Marek people who drive fast cars are in general bell-ends, compensating for having tiny actual bell-ends. At least you know who you greatest enemy is, Master to your Doctor, Sith to your Jedi, your nemesis is indeed Mr Martin Simon
I am the only person to have survived more than five Martin Simon walks.
Yes lol
Here’s 3 of my favourite books (not definitive!) - Regeneration, Pat Barker; Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr; and finally a more obscure one because it was such a cool and unique book - Little, Edward Carey. It’s a fictionalised account of the life of Madame Tussaud, quite dark and weird & has illustrations by Carey.
Love ‘Little’ and CCL, but Doer’s previous ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ pipped it. Have you read ‘The Ghost Theatre’ by Mat Osman or ‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ by Michel Faber? Them is up there for me . . . but a top 3 is always transient.X
@@plopcentral haven’t read those - I would’ve put ATLWCS ahead of CCL but I didn’t want to say both a WWI and WWII book :’D
I read Regeneration a couple of years ago, the writing is incredible. It was so depressing though. I have the others from that trilogy to read. Thanks for the recommendations cool dude.
Top 3 books; The Official Adam Ant Yearbook 1983, the Icelandic Naked Yoga Project, David Hume, The Principles of Human Understanding.
Hi Marek, I can honestly say that this is the only channel that makes me laugh-out-loud (lol). As soon as I get bak to work, I will be supporting you.
I asked for Adam Ant album when I was four years old for my birthday. That was the coolest I have ever been.
Bell Ends - 100%
If a cow comes at you, maybe do what Paul McGann does in Withnail and I - scream and throw your groceries in the air.
I've just invented something very cool while watching this video. But if I tell you I fear you will steal my idea... all I will say is Whipper Snipper/Pole Saw/Walking Stick. Alsoahhhhh sweet revengeeee.
The Cool Dudes Saw Whip Pole Stick© has now gone into production I am afraid.
@@cdwc I knew you were a bush ranger deep down
Fast drivers are definitely bell ends. Cows running towards you, well dunno what you should do but when it happened to me I ran! Great video tho
I don't think I could out run a cow cool dude.
@cdwc if its got horns you will 🤣🤣 adrenaline will kick in 🤭
Fave books are Lord of the rings (can I count that as one?), Watership Down and What Dreams May Come
Watership Down is one of my top three of all time I think.
@@cdwc totally agree. It was also the first time I ever saw a swear word in print! (I feel old saying that!)
1 The reality dysfunction.
2 The neutronium alchemist.
3 The naked god
All by Peter Hamilton.