Taint what a horse looks like...

Before I get into what I actually opened this window for, allow me to point you to something that amused me:

rent_a_fangirl is a comm aiming to act as a 'Yellow Pages' for SGA fandom, where artists, vidders and writers advertise their services and people come to them there. It's a neat idea, even if I don't plan on signing up myself. I'm having enough trouble with the fics I'm already signed up to write...

However, the point of this post was the Uffington White Horse, which is (shockingly) in the The Vale of the White Horse, about an hour's drive from Oxford. It was a beautiful day here. Cold and crisp, but with a clear blue sky and hot sunshine. It really shows off Oxfordshire at its best, so we decided to take advantage of it.

I've put some pictures under the cut, although they can't really capture the atmosphere of the place. This is a prehistoric landscape, largely untouched by roads and towns, and The Ridgeway cuts a path through the landscape, rising above the Lambourne Downs and then carrying on into the distance, looking like some giant monster sleeping on the lower hills.

NB: smithy161? I saw something today and thought of you... (see the third picture...)

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