Mountain of a task
Today I’ve been mostly explaining to people that a mountain is “In England and Wales the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has defined “mountain” (as a mass noun) as all land over 600 metres for the purposes of right to roam legislation.” [Wikipedia] not, as it has been claimed, a pile of paperwork or a mound of dirt. Now, you may think I am making a mountain out of a molehill with this issue but I feel we should not over exaggerate and should be accurate in our description of things. Besides, acording to this article, it would require a shed load of molehills to make one mountain 
I beg to differ and say that on any given planet .. in my case Planet Cat .. a mountain can be as high as it bloomin’ well likes!
Firstly I wouldn’t trust DEFRA to find their @rse with the aid of an O/S map let alone define anything…
Apart from that - I’m with Cat, a mountain can be as high as it likes.
And I live in the vast flatness of the fens where even molehills get contour lines on maps.
But we’re on Planet Earth, a wholy owned subsidiary of Domland® - and there may be contour lines for the molehills but go to Lincoln, even there the ruddy great big thing sticking up out of the ground is known as Steep hill. Not mountain, hill. I’m with you on DEFRA though.
I have a few mountains in my garden so pttfffff!
I have many molehills and live on a slope. Does that mean I have mountains on a hill?
I think Defar are lovely, though admittedly I’m trying to get them to pay me money. For 2006. Again.
Do any of these so called ‘mountains’ have snow capped peaks? No? I rest my case.
I have a small pile of soil in my back garden that has a capped peak - if I scrape some ice out of the freezer and put it on top, could I call it a mountain?
Mine might!!!??!
In unlrelated news it is my sad duty to inform you that danderdandan was today bludgeoned to death by an unknown blogger.
You’d have to find me first - I know some pretty inpenetrable places to hide!!
Just because NORAD is burried in some hillock somewhere doesn’t make it inpenetrable.
You mean NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain?!?!?
It’s a hill. They’re exaggerating.
I can do anything I want to do, as this is MY world (© Bob Ross, 1989), so I’m calling it a Mountain (with happy little clouds). You can call it a hill if you wish.
I bet you didn’t know this, but all those mountains Bob painted were actually secret US bases (from his Air Force days). The Russian spies used to tune into PBS to build up their ‘intel.
(Ok, I’ve had too much caffeine!)
You never said there were happy little clouds. If there are pine trees too then it’s a mountain
There are always trees, snow, a lake, and a wonky fence.
He’s almost as predictable as an episode of House.
I’d just like to point out that a number of my molehills have been snow capped for the last few days, therby qualifying them as mountains under your definition.
Ha I say to you, Ha.
I’d argue they were snow covered, not snow capped and then just go on to point out how much your mortgage is.
Semantics and economics. Large debt is not as scary when the interest rates are going down….