Mountain

[paulkincaid]

Yesterday I went over to Hastings for lunch with Leigh and Dev and others, a lovely day. But my train from Ashford to Hastings was cancelled. So I ended up having to catch a replacement bus service (not a very adequate one, the bus was stuffed and there were still around a dozen people who couldn't get on). The first stop after Ashford is a village called Hamstreet, which is just on the edge of the Romney Marsh, so the land round about is absolutely flat. And as we left the village I noticed a sign: "Mountain Farm". Well yes, the farmhouse was on raised ground, but the top of the rise was probably no higher above the surrounding flatness than the top of my head. I've never been called a mountain before.