Dale borrows Hanks mower without permission and after driving it to the store and running out of fuel he leaves it at a gas station unattended. The title is a reference to the 1975 film 'Dog Day Afternoon'. The episode was written by Jon Vitti, and directed by Tricia Garcia. The perfect service station, and a mountain blackbird to reappoint a mountain. Dog Dale Afternoon is the 55th episode of King of the Hill. Something that will do for a night or two on their route up the country to the mountains proper.

A Surrey newspaper of the time reported this gleefully, although Walbury Hill was still 9ft (2.74m) higher than Surrey’s own Leith Hill.īut twice a year, for ring ouzels on migration from Morocco or Tunisia and back, our little range of almost-mountains provides something recognisable.

But, in the retriangulation of Britain in the 1930s, at 974ft (297m) it was ignominiously downgraded to a hill. Walbury Hill was for a long time famed as the south’s only mountain (in low-lying counties, a hill is considered a mountain if it is more than 1,000ft above sea level though you must double that to find a proper mountain anywhere else). I scramble over the pointless stile, as tradition decrees (the fence long gone), and step on to the exposed spine of the chalk track that bisects the hill’s summit. A mountain blackbird of wilder, higher places. A member of the thrush family, Turdus torquatus, the ring ouzel, resembles a blackbird, though it is a flightier bird of the uplands, breeding in rocky crags. I get a flash of pewter-edged scaly breast feathers and it is gone. The white mezzaluna of its collar mirrors the chalk scar landslip at the hawthorn’s roots. Find this Pin and more on Cool Over The Hill Cakes by iggysworld. an outdoors enthusiast 12' round (sculpted) and a doll pan for the &q. Then I glimpse a single ring ouzel perched in a hawthorn. An 'almost' over the hill cake, for a 30 year old.

Almost over the hill