By: Blonde One
The Two Blondes found themselves today with some (very rare) free time. It was a lovely sunny day and we did consider going for a walk, but that’s tomorrow’s job. At least one of us was invited out for lunch. Both of us, for sure, had a million domestic things (at least) that could be done. But what we decided to do was the best option by a long way: route planning and route card writing! It didn’t take us long to get ourselves ready and we headed off to chez Blonde Two to begin.
We sat ourselves at the very lovely, large kitchen table and started to unpack our bags of the necessary, hastily packed kit. We ended up a table that held 4 laptops (2 each just in case), a collection of pens and pencils that Mr W H Smith would be quite jealous of, 5 maps (2 Dartmoor and 3 Torbay/Newton Abbot). I’m not entirely sure why I brought so many maps with me but it’s better to have too many than not enough; there’s nothing worse than not enough maps! The multitude of maps got me thinking what the collective noun for maps is …
A journey of maps?
A trek of maps?
A co-ordinate of maps?
A misplacement of maps?
I don’t know – what do you think?
A carpet of maps? That sprang to mind from my Land’s End to John ‘o Groats walk. At Bellingham I decided to re-route via Kielder and bought the relevant 1:25000 map – they are so huge as to be unmanageable. I had the whole thing spread out on the floor in a café and borrowed a pair of scissors to reduce it to a size that would not get me airborne if I had to open it in a wind.
A carpet of maps is an excellent choice. I plan routes on my lounge floor so I often, like you, have a literal carpet of maps.
It will also be an atlas of maps 😊😊
To me walking on Dartmoor is very much like completing a giant jigsaw. If I walk in unfamiliar territory, I like to be able to see somewhere that is familiar because then it becomes the next piece in the puzzle. Most probably the next walk will be the next piece along again. So maybe it’s a jigsaw of maps?
I think any lover of the outdoors has a map shelf. So is it simply a shelf of maps.
I am very jealous of the blondes bonus free time today. I’m sure the same happened about this time of the year a couple of years ago!!! Enjoy your walk tomorrow – weather looking great x
The Two Blondes often refer to the Dartmoor jigsaw too.
From the heap on your table, it sounds as though you had a contour of maps ! Though I have shelves full too – Maps Ancient And Modern – a veritable hymnal of maps (or is that going a bit too far?)
A projection?
A sufficiency?
An infinity?
And for amateurs like me – a deception?
Rather boringly, it’s an Atlas…
I would like ‘a fold’ or a ‘a survey’ though.
Actually a “Relief” of maps
Must be a “Relief” of maps