New Year, New County, New Horizons March 2024 Highlight of the month: the chippy van is back after a long absence! Back to having fish and chips every other week. I went out twice this month, with David 3doorsdown and Roger. The first was an enjoyable stroll up Murton...
The weather here this month has not been brilliant, but we’re seeing signs that Spring is on its way. Snowdrops and crocuses appeared in great numbers but there has been considerable rainfall. The river Eden has been very high and running at great speed. Luckily, the...
Snowdrops at Acorn Bank, Cumbria There are already a few signs of spring, despite the rather low temperature. In the woods around Acorn Bank there are huge beds of snowdrops, and a few crocuses are beginning to show. From our window we can see large patches of...
11 November 2022 We’re well into autumn now. Even though the days are getting shorter and the weather is worsening, it has been well worthwhile getting out and about. As a keen photographer, I usually take my camera out with me, even though I sometimes don’t even take...
16 July 2022 This was the first time we had visited the Penrith Show, so it was quite a novelty for us. Surprisingly, we found it quite entertaining, and I was particularly pleased with the photographs of horses and sheep. The horses (a.k.a. ‘odd-toed ungulates’) were...
Using today as an excuse to utilise our voucher to stay at a rather nice hotel on Ullswater, we travelled in the sunshine in Annabel’s car with the roof down. Very pleasant. Having eaten ‘Afternoon Tea’ (perversely, we ate at lunchtime and I had...
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