Stone clearing with Richard Herring. They told us not to throw stones when we were a kid, when we were children. Even then, we were

being indoctrinated against the fine art of stone clearing. No parents would want their

kids to become a stone clear thing. They knew what was that involved, but it says a lot that we were starting this way. Welcome to

Chapter 174-174. It's Saturday the 21st of September 224. It's 209. There's a thunderstorm going on.

I don't know why I'm out stone clearing, but I do know why, because because that is my life and that's what I have to do

and the field must be cleared. It must be cleared and uh trying to see if we can make any leeway.

So you're getting a second podcast this week just to see what happens um i was out here this morning clearing stones back this afternoon. No doubt I'll be out this evening as well.

I'm doubling my efforts a little bit. I'm starting to wonder if everything I've done in my life

have been worthless. I think of the poem Ozymandias, which I may have mentioned before in my life. I've been worthless, I think of the poem Oseimandius,

which I may have mentioned before in these chapters,

where I think it's Shelley as it finds, or wordsworth, Shelley, I don't know,

finds a couple of feet in the desert.

I am Ozymandius, King of Kings.

Look upon my works are mighty in despair.

Dismay, I can't remember. I haven't checked this out. I'm just remembering it vaguely. But, you know, a couple of big feet in deserts better than nothing, isn't it?

If I could just have a couple of big feet in the desert to survive hundreds of years,

then this is very weird. I'd be pleased with that. There's a couple of kids out on this

ocean here, which is unusual. That's on to the alpha and omega can. One of them's just looking at me.

We're going to let the dog off the lead.

She's all right. She's friendly.

Wow, there's more of you. There's two of you. You've doubled. Whoa! I thought you'd magically changed into two kids. You look so similar.

Yeah, I want that.

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