Stone Clearing

With Richard Herring

Okay, I'm just going at dog walking, I'm not doing anything else.

See you later.

It's important, of course, that my family don't know,

anyone knows what I'm doing, including my wife, my daughter.

They don't suspect.

That was quite a clever way of me.

We'll put them off the scent there.

Anyway, um, come quick.

Welcome to the proper first episode of stone clearing with Richard Herring.

Now, I should say straight away,

this is going to be a podcast largely about basic techniques of stone clearing if you are a more experienced stone collector

then you may want to skip this go to later episodes we're just going to cover how you get started

really and as the series progresses I'm sure we will go on to more complex techniques you may just occasionally I might of course just do something more complex

and you'll discover that's that's a technique but a lot of young stone clearers say to me they're overwhelmed they're rich how do I how do I even do this

this profession this vocation you know do I am I placing stones are my throwing stones

and I'm just trying to get the stones off the field or am I trying to build some kind of structure?

Can I kick if I throw the stones and they miss the place I'm aiming for? Am I allowed to move them?

Hey, come on relax guys. Honestly, just you're picking up as you go. To be honest, there are no rules.

There are some moral codes, I think, which we will get to.

But you'll find your way the stones will teach you. And believe me, after a few weeks of stone clearing, when you've found your place in the universe and understand your place in time, you'll realise nothing you do has any meaning.

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