Just how beige can I make a blog post title? This has surely got to be the winner? It’s just that it’s that time of year again; when the local authorities are feverishly trying to spend their ‘use it or lose it’ budgets before the end of the financial year. It is as predictable as [...]
Archive for the ‘Bitter Blue’ Category
Financial Year End
Posted in Bitter Blue, Boundries, Environment, Soap Box, Thoughts, Travel on March 31, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Thankless Task
Posted in Bitter Blue, Thoughts on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve often thought being a local councillor must be a bit of a thankless task, for one thing I suspect you never get a moments peace, that you are never seen as ‘off duty’ and that you probably can’t put a foot in the village on a Saturday morning, to buy so much as a [...]
Sleet
Posted in Bitter Blue, Environment, Farming, Field studies, Landscape, Nature, Photo Blogs, Weather, Wild World, chickens on December 4, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We wanted snow (well the boys were very keen) but what we got was sleet and slush, at first light the house was plastered with mushy snow and sleet was bowling across the fields, not nice to venture out in, but no justifiable reason not too turn out for work and school.* Joe was gutted [...]
Hard Day’s Night
Posted in Bitter Blue, Environment, Farming, Field studies, Landscape, Nature, Photo Blogs, Thoughts, Travel, Weather, Wild World on December 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Dusk was falling as I drove home from work, the light really was this strange shade of blue, like annealed steel, a cold sort of blue.
the farmer had just been out to feed the sheep, the crows scavenged, the ground is too frozen to leaver out juicy worms.
The main roads are gritted, [...]
Algebra
Posted in Away Days, Bitter Blue, Lake District, Mind Your ps+qs, Soap Box, Thoughts, dyslexia on November 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
It’s strange what thoughts come to mind, when you disengage the brain, knock it out of gear and leave ticking over for a while. I was standing by this river, listening and watching the tumbling water, contemplating you might say; when the topic of algebra leapt into my mind, it wasn’t a welcome thought.
When I [...]
Splintered
Posted in Bitter Blue, Health, Soap Box, Thoughts on November 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Shards of splintered slate at Honister Slate Mine
Whilst this blog has been wallowing in the visual delights of the Lake district for the last couple of weeks and I’ve been darting around the countryside trying to be in three places at once (only three, how unusual; my friends will be thinking.) I’ve neglected to post [...]
Wrecked
Posted in Bitter Blue, Environment, History, Humour, Photo Blogs, Thoughts on November 14, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Tomorrow is Friday, I’m pleased about that.
Where Do I Begin
Posted in Away Days, Bitter Blue, Environment, Family, Fell running, Heart Sing, Landscape, Nature, Photo Blogs, Photographs, Thoughts, Travel, Weather, Wild World, World on November 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
We are back home after an adventurous week in the Lake District, after retrieving Mr Uhdd from Cockermouth where he found refuge from the atrocious weather that blighted the Original Mountain Marathon, we went on to spend a week in Wasdale, bliss; we’ve had some great weather, no Internet and no mobile phones, it’s done [...]
Out of Season
Posted in Bitter Blue, Environment, Family, Garden, Nature, Photo Blogs, Pond life, Thoughts, Weather on October 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A long forgotten toy dinghy, stripped of its rigging, bobs amongst the oak leaves floating on the pond, its been raining.
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Posted in Away Days, Bitter Blue, Environment, Family, Farming, Field studies, History, Photo Blogs, Photographs, Thoughts, Weather on September 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Father, son and grandson, hill farmers for generations, show their sheep
it’s not been an easy year for the farming community I wonder what the future holds.



