Yorkshire Sculpture Park
17th/18th August 2023 - Yorkshire Sculpture Park There have been a series of stressful happenings in my life recently so a bit of therapy was overdue.But first some chores. I usually fill up with fuel...
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Once in a blue moon
Thursday 31st August 2023I have been busy.For a number of reasons I am putting my house on the market with a view to relocation, hopefully still in Arnside.Since my last post I have made many trips to...
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Conservation Chemicals Consultants Ltd.
20th September 2023. - Beetham Church, CumbriaMy friend right back from schooldays who comments here as Gimmer is the owner of Conservation Chemicals Consultants Ltd based in Ulverston, Cumbria.The...
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Simon and Delius
Thursday 28th September 2023Bowland Climber, friend and commenter here recently lent me three books by poet Simon Armitage.Walking Home (published 2012) is an account of his commitment to walk the...
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Five miles or six miles?
Saturday 30th October 2023 - Circuit from Cartmel racecourseBowland Climber called me on Friday suggesting I devise a route for us in my territory on Saturday. We both have some medical ailments, but...
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Scout Hill with BC
Sunday 8th October 2023Let somebody else plot a route on your patch and even though you think you have walked every footpath in that domain you may be surprised, Bowland Climber plotted this one and...
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A near miss?
12th October 2023 - Helton Tarn. WitherslackHelton Tarn! A venue on private land I have intended to visit for ages, albeit only a short diversion from a public footpath.After a morning of faffing at...
View ArticleAwareness
Sunday 19th October 2023Following from my previous post I have the motivation or impulse to versify but unfortunately not the skills for scansion or rhyme.AwarenessMankind’s ascendancy achieves the...
View ArticleExploration innate?
Tuesday 17th October 2023I have rewritten my effort from the previous post:Exploration innate?Mankind’s ascendancy achieves the moon walk and the atom split.I too have that inborn urge, but less...
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Footpath links
I have just been reading about the Labour Party’s discussion on the possibility of RIGHT TO ROAM in England. If you ferret around on the Internet there is much to read and I must admit to not having...
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Witherslack, quick round
Friday 27th October 2023 - Witherslack"The spirit was aloft, I was pulling on my boots"W.H. Murray, Mountaineering in ScotlandWell old Bill Murray might have enjoyed putting on his boots.I don't!It is...
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Staveley, north east
Sunday 5th November 20231.Sunday. Fifth November.2.The only recent, or forecast good weather.3.. StaveleyIf your aim is to get away for some peaceful contemplation that is not the best recipe....
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Barbon - November covered
Saturday 11th November 2023 circuit from BarbonAt tis time of year you have to snatch a weather window otherwise walks would be even more limited. The forecast for Saturday 11th November was better...
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Porsche and Lotus
Wednesday 29th November 2023Just a quick update to confirm I am still around.Many factors have conspired against walking so nothing to report on that front.I finished off the Porsche model a while ago...
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Christmas 2023
Sunday 17th December 2023Season's greetings to all.I am sure Einstein missed part of his time equations. I get the impression that there is an exponential function causing time to pass more quickly...
View ArticleThe New Year throws down the guantlet
Thursday 4th January 2024Saturday 30th December 2023 - I awake to find the left quarter of my left eye's vision is just black. I am understandably worried. I phone Specsavers: earliest appointment 8th...
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Arnside Monster spotted
Monday 15th January 2024 As I fill in snatches of time between medical appointments for me and son W, after the eye operation, and being unable to drive (for the moment I hope) I suspect I am...
View ArticlePerhaps pigs can fly?
Thursday 17th January 2024I had the second f/up appointment for my detached retina operation from 3rd. January today.Mrs Linton, the consultant who did the op. was wholly satisfied and all has gone...
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Wisdom
Saturday 27th January 2024It has taken me a lifetime ( even past the Three Score Years and Ten) to take some interest in football. It was kindled by unavoidable watching of the sport sections on TV...
View ArticleOfsted -think before you speak
Monday 29th January 2024 - thought for the day MPs are lobbying for the scrapping of Ofsted single word/phrase awards. First of all, along with perhaps the majority of our population, I believe that...
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2CV Citroën finished.
Monday 5th February 2024The Citroen 2CV is finished. The bonnet (hood) I haven't been able to make fit properly and rectifying that I guess could cause irreversible damage, but the rest of it I am...
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Torpedo away!
Monday 19th February 2024 I see the last walk (away from home) I did was on 12th November from Barbon. Since then I have been nursing a wound on the rear of my ankle which ulcerated. I've been having...
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Eden Way 2 Aisgill Farm to Outhgill
Tuesday 5th March 2024 AT LAST......with with leg wounds not healing and many other factors the last proper walk I did away from home was on 12th November 2023.Wounds now healed and weather more...
View Article"Extreme*" - (the new buzz-word) photography manipulation by an expert
Thursday 14th March 2024I am not keen on circulating supposedly humorous views and clips from Internet sources on my blog or by email. As for any other social media platform I just don’t participate,...
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Frustration and fenestration
Easter Monday - 1st April 2024I am champing (how's that for a classy word?) at the bit to continue my project on the Eden Way but bad weather, especially the cold, which bothers me more than it used...
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