Tag: Lakeland
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Hidden walks?
After an interesting and, at times, fairly well drawn-out process, I’ve managed to get a little walking pamphlet published. I don’t expect it will ever rub shoulders with, or even scrape the boots of loftier tomes like Wainright’s Pictorial Guides to the Lakes, Bragg’s Land of the Lakes or the AA’s Best Lakeland Pub Crawl…
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Three pictures of my dog
The larger of the two tiny ponds in our little garden is looking very sorry for itself. In fact, it’s looking like a new and frightening lifeform is about to emerge. The hedgehog who prickled its way over the cobbles for a quick evening slurp in April has long since sought a less hazardous watering…
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Spaniards on the port bow
Bluebell wood, Rusland valley ‘Invasive species’ is a heavily loaded pair of words to bandy about in 21st century Britain and I do so with trepidation, especially having had the misfortune this week to catch a couple of Richi’s henchpeople on the radio. Their words left me in no doubt that they drift off every…
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Come on England, I suppose…
Unnamed tarn, Heathwaite. Very heartening the other day to find this bewitching little body of water brimming with the good stuff after it spent most of 2022 emptier than a politician’s promise. Plenty of recent rain has accompanied unseasonably balmy temperatures in autumnal South Lakeland – might we be in for one of those cold,…
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