{"id":24,"date":"2007-08-10T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T08:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-08-10T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T08:53:58","slug":"magical-mystery-tor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Magical Mystery Tor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTurner&#8217;s Tours has now entered into its second year.<\/p>\n<p>For something that started out as a trip to &#8216;Go-Ape&#8217; in Bracknell Forest (see gallery for photos kindly provided by Mr McMichael), we&#8217;ve actually managed to fit in visits to quite a few places including\u00a0ice skating at Somerset House\u00a0on New Years Eve, Ghost Walks in London, an evening at\u00a0the Covent Garden\u00a0Comedy Club, and\u00a0a lots of bopping on &#8216;bar benches&#8217; at the Reading\u00a0Real Ale\u00a0and Jazz Festival. Its really just been a great excuse to catch up with people I might otherwise not get to see so often and do something random\u00a0and silly. I hope we can keep it up, I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun so far!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, due to a bit of nagging that Turner&#8217;s Tours should acquire a slightly more official status, I hereby launch its new look&#8230;but one that might need explaning.<\/p>\n<p>Turner&#8217;s Tours has become Turner&#8217;s Tors<\/p>\n<p>You see &#8216;<strong>Turner<\/strong> Tours&#8217; already exists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>Turners<\/strong> Tours&#8217; also already exists.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about \u00a0making it &#8216;Turner&#8217;s Tourz&#8217;, but decided that sounded a bit common and lowered the tone of such a classy organisation with its high profile members.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore have settled on Turners\u00a0Tors (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tor\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tor<\/a>)\u00a0as a play on words. This is because tors are known for their magical, mystical properties (thus a magical, mystery tor&#8230;)\u00a0, they are the &#8216;high point&#8217; (they are for me), and seeing as base camp for tours is at WHS Lilac Walk, situated on quite a steep hill,\u00a0 it\u00a0seemed rather appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>So I had a name. Just needed a &#8216;look&#8217;. This is what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/turnerstorsworldwhiteweb-1.jpg\" title=\"turnerstorsworldwhiteweb.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ukweb1.netvis.co.uk:8082\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/turnerstorsworldwhiteweb-1.jpg\" alt=\"turnerstorsworldwhiteweb.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of Tors have a castle on top, thus does mine. I also decided to make the hill into the world, just because it looked prettier and I guess you&#8217;ll never know where we might end up on a Tor &#8211; especially if I&#8217;m map reading!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m open to suggestions for alternative designs.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a range of &#8216;Tor&#8217; pants could go down well though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave it there.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turner&#8217;s Tours has now entered into its second year. For something that started out as a trip to &#8216;Go-Ape&#8217; in Bracknell Forest (see gallery for photos kindly provided by Mr McMichael), we&#8217;ve actually managed to fit in visits to quite a few places including\u00a0ice skating at Somerset House\u00a0on New Years Eve, Ghost Walks in London,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}