WET PLAY DAY. Jamie McPhie and Iain McNicol on the Lake District and other constructs.

,Hi Iain..look forward to working with you on the project. I have in mind that you play the role of John Barrow and I will be narrating the role of the map (as an 'IT narrative'). In order for this to run smoothly (ish), would it be possible for you to only speak as John Barrow whenever you're asked a question (by me or anyone else in the walking group)? I think this would work best so as to give the walk/talk/performance some structure and direction. If you have any questions about it before Sunday, please give me a call and we can discuss it in more depth
Jamie

So much for that . Stupid county. We expect rain, but not like last sunday. People think we like getting drenched and marching about. Wrong. Not with mics and expensive cameras and stuff we don't.
 It threw it down; it totally washed out the planned exploratory walk with Outdoor Aesthetics practitioner Jamie McPhie and the virtual Sir John Barrow aka Iain McNicol, so instead we set up a camera to record an introduction from Jamie to some ideas drawing on the Watts map and his own practice,  to get some of the intended conversation with the deceased emissary and  record some relevant poetry for later posts..here's Jamies intro, with some stills from Lindsay interspersed..
https://vimeo.com/364866086

  All of which highlights the thing missing from  Watts' map.

We get sea monsters, we get little Tintin blokes struggling manfully in the Langdales in shorts, we get handy LMS hotels and apologetically reasonable types refusing to mount  the Old Man, but where is the weather?  The hard, cold, wet edge of the sublime?