Another shot from our walk up Bardon Hill yesterday. Behind this tree is a long drop into a granite quarry, below which the granite rock dives deep, and heads south beneath the city of Leicester, which is essentially built in the crater of a volcano. The good citizens of Leicester will be relieved to know that the volcano has been inactive for several million years. On the far side of the city the granite re-emerges at ground level, give or take an inch or so of grass, has been quarried since Roman times, and is now the quarry a few hundred meters from our home. There was a time, before we met, that @shepherdmanswife lived near Bardon, and I lived not far from the southern quarry – connected unknowingly by a band of granite. Makes a change from a band of gold (which came later…)
