dangerous hill
by uzwi
Frost. Smoke and mist trapped under temperature inversions in every steep little valley. Sudden dazzling light. A surreal tractor rally in nowhere. Later, Gothic winter ivy and near collisions in the lanes around Prolley Moor. With dusk the local drinkers get their welly down in the 4×4, hunched behind main beams. The satnav undergoes identity breakdown &, trapped in an obsolete idea of itself, will only plod east whatever we ask it to do. “It’s already taken us here. Look! ‘Dangerous Hill’ again!” I hate the satnav anyway, it has usurped my last raison d’etre. What’s life, if you can’t even hunch over the 1:25000 with a single-LED torch in your mouth, pretending to navigate. On the other hand if I’d pretended to navigate sooner we might not be here now. “Dead horse! Dead horse!” “Dangerous Hill! Dangerous Hill!” There’s nought but bones. With a satnav you never know where you are.
the m john harrison blog 
Shropshire has many roadsigns pointing to Dangerous Hill, as if they are destinations of choice for the 4×4 crowd. I prefer to think of them as stops in the picaresque progress of Henry “Dangerous” Hill, hell-raising companion of “Mad” Jack Mytton.
First time I saw it I read it as “dangerously hill”.
I’m really liking “get their welly down”.