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Ben Whitehouse
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The Highest Place by Ben Whitehouse

October 5th, 2008 12:58 PM / Location: 52.497204,-2.045860

INSTRUCTIONS: Go to the highest point of anything.

After completing Helen I wanted to involve my parents in a completion.

It'd have to be something a little more "normal" than some of the previous completions.

The "go to the highest point of anything" seemed to be the best induction for the game for them to help with.

I looked up the highest point in the West Midlands and that was Turners Hill at 271m tall.

The photos and video explore how me and my parental units got to the top of the hill.

Oddly, this completion feels more about my relationship with my parents than it does about the hill. But then that's the beauty of psychogeography.



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Turner's Hill on the A-Z Map.
Just in case we got horribly lost...
My Dad driving Mum and I to Turners Hill.
Uninspiring Golf Club.
The way is blocked...
Towers
The parental units peer at a bush.
Me walking up the hill.
Tower.
Tower
Mum gets all post modern on me...
Mum gets the right photo as Dad watches.
I laugh in the face of protected fence signs...
Trees on a Sunday afternoon.
I don't however laugh at this...
The West Mids through the trees.
Walking back.
Fallen down street lamp
Fallen, fallen is the mighty lamp
Mum and Dad walk back past cones.
Cone.
Hips. On a bush.
Mum took some dead stuff.
Stepping stones in the mud.
Mum and Dad by the car.

3 vote(s)

5

Chris Wills

 1

Charlie Fish

 1

Kid A


Terms

turnershill, lonelycone, westmidlands, tower, parentalunits, family, familypraxis

6 comment(s)

(no subject) -1
posted by susy derkins on October 5th, 2008 6:36 PM

I think a towerless hill would have been better in this one...

(no subject)
posted by Ben Whitehouse on October 5th, 2008 11:49 PM

I wasn't able to choose which hill was the highest in the west midlands. Also it's not a "go up and look around" tower.

(no subject)
posted by susy derkins on October 6th, 2008 8:35 PM

The highest point of that hill is the top of the tower, right?
I mean, you could have chosen to go to the highest point of the lonely cone that sits on the road to Turners Hill.

There you go.

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Well... no.
posted by Ben Whitehouse on October 7th, 2008 12:54 AM

The highest point in the west midlands is the hill, not the tower on the hill. The tower wasn't listed on the list of "highest points by county in the UK" website.

The tallest tower in the West Midlands is the Raddison Hotel in the city centre of Birmingham but it's not the highest point. Had I been considering tallest building in the West Midlands I would have climbed that. (And that would have been a very different completion)

If the tower were not on Turners Hill and I were alone would that make me the highest point in the west midlands?

Let us not get metaphorical and talk of highest number of points for a completion or buildings.

And thanks for the Pirate flag. Pretty.

(no subject) +1
posted by Jennifer Juniper on October 5th, 2008 7:28 PM

comment vote for parental tasking! big fan, here, of all kinds of multi-generational tasking. oh and plus, "I don't know what made me giggle." I love that!

(no subject)
posted by Charlie Fish on October 22nd, 2008 7:56 AM

A point for getting your parents involved.