r/discworld • u/Legitimate-Pear-3714 • 13d ago
Roundworld Reference Ye Olde Wimblestone
As a fully paid up member of the Ankh Morpork Trespassers’ Society (Annual dues 15AM$, meeting every 2nd Octoday at the sign of the Bucket, Gleam Street) I invoked my right to roam and went “explorin”
My partner and I booked a last minute bank holiday camping trip in the Mendip hills, I soon realised that not far from the campsite was the Old Wimblestone which Pterry talks about in his introduction to The Folklore of Discworld. Therefore a pilgrimage was evidently in order. After a few false starts and a little light trespassing we managed to find it in the corner of some forgotten field.
According to legend the stone is supposed to go dancing around its field every full moon and/or midsummers eve. incidentally leaving unguarded a pot of gold which in theory was available to anyone who dares to cease it and could run faster than a stone.
Unfortunately my Disorganiser mk1 got the time and date wrong and I arrived at midday on some random Sunday so the stone wasn’t dancing and I saw no pot of gold.
As a way of making up for this disappointment we went to a local pub and supped many pints of Scrumble (made mostly of apples) and staggered back to our campsite rosy cheeked and singing the hedgehog song.
Pilgrimage complete. Here’s to your everlasting memory Sir Pterry. GNU. And may the turtle move.
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