It has been a very odd mix this week, lashing rain, sultry heat, high winds that have dumped a fine layer of sand over the car (and even the lily pads in the pond) goodness know from whence it came.
Yesterday evening I was pottering around the hills south of Buxton, it was warm and rather pleasant. I don’t know who this little bird is (answers on a postcard please) but they were rather sweet and willing to pose briefly.
Tom has been in the Lake District completing the expedition section of the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. I’m much relived that he is safely off the hill, given the storms and flash flood there have been (he tells me the thunder and lightening they experienced was ‘awesome’ I’m sure we will get the finer detail on his return this afternoon).
I’ve a stack of posts in mind, some of them about quarrying, some about the limestone and gritstone landscape around here.
For starters, the lay of the land. Quarrying is big, it’s a big employer, it has a big impact on the landscape, lumps of rock on an industrial scale..
Half a hill, near Harpur Hill
(and if you are looking for the so called ‘Blue Lagoon’ don’t) go to Iceland please.
June 29, 2012 at 10:42 am
The sand is apparently from the Sahara. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZYVmzfSuow4
I ought to know the bird but I’m having a blank spot at the moment. I’m sure one of your commenters will tell you soon!
June 29, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I look forward to your pictures of the surrounding countryside.
June 29, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Good Grief. Mama Nature on a tear indeed. My sympathies to you all. May you keep safe and well. At this point we don’t know whether to rummage around for directions for ark construction or camel-riding, do we?
June 29, 2012 at 8:03 pm
It is violent interventions we do in the nature to procure raw materials for our consumption. And just as violent actions when we in the easiest way want to get rid of some of all the things … Btw: Is this blue lagoon not more green? (I saw a VERY blue lagoon in a vulcano Australia last year, which I will show photos of later this year !)
June 30, 2012 at 8:10 am
That sandy rain sure got around then! We had the same dusty cars down here in Cardiff.
June 30, 2012 at 10:46 am
I recollect getting red Sahara sand here years ago which covered the cars. I’m not sure what that bird is.
An interesting post, and thanks for the links. xx