OF LEMMINGS AND GOCKOOS*
CHALLENGE 2005
Jean Turner's Walk - Introduction
Theme Song for the first weekend of this year's Challenge (with apologies to Rodgers & Hammerstein) - to be sung to the obvious tune.
The hills are alive with the sound of water,
With springs they have sprung for a thousand years,
The hills fill my boots with the squelch of water,
My face looks as if it's awash with tears.
My toes want to swim as I splash through the burns and bogs and the wind's sleety squall,
My head wants to know why I'd be so daft as to do this at all,
I think it's because we all know there are times when the sun's sure to shine,
And when that day dawns, then the heav'n of the hills will be mine!
I go to the hills when I have the option,
I know I will find what I've found before,
Despite soggy feet, creaking bones and blisters,
I'm alive once more.
* lemming: homo craggorum rogersmithensis
*gockoo: cuculus primalucis wakeupchallengerus
