I Wish I Was in Wasdale

This time last year we were holed up in Wasdale, I’ve been hankering after the place, although there is nowt wrong with here you understand, it’s just I’d like the freedom from ‘stuff’ that comes with going away for a few days, at home you can never quite escape the chores, the niggling phone calls [...]

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Field Views

 
Early one morning. Fields, houses and the English village essentials, the cricket pitch and football pitch.

 
The puffs of smoke from the chimney in the photo below, are from the tunnel of a railway line that burrows it’s way through the hillside.
 

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Fair Game

A  giggling grouse, one amongst many, they are out there, you hear them, but you just can’t see them.
This sign gave me a smile,

Ok, I’m all for protecting moorland, all birds in fact  (I’m  especially very fond curlews) but the sign could also have read, ‘To protect moorland birds until such [...]

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Will the last one to leave, please turn out the light.

Summers floral remnants
There is no doubt they days are getting shorter, which is, on the whole, a bit of a gloomy thought; although it resulted in an unexpected bonus the other morning, when I took Spud out at about 7am, I watched a pipistrelle bat swoop past, before popping neatly into a hole in the [...]

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The 3rd Friday in October

 

 

Oh go on then, for Spuds fans

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Found Object

I went looking for a sunrise and some decorative morning mist
 
and got distracted by a lost bracelet glinting in the sun, I’m easily distracted.

Anyroad, here is the mist, curling up off the water and rolling off down the valley.

Our very own little weather system.

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Beautiful Day

The weather over the last couple of days has been beautiful; crisp, with glassy blue skies. Not a breath of wind, so still that  every sound seems amplified, the barking dog across the valley, the honking geese on the reservoir, the rata- tat- tat call of a wren weaving through the drystone wall. The frost [...]

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As Tough as Old Boots

Deep in the woods, above Fernilee Reservoir

We found a plum tree,
 
Which is a little unusual, this isn’t a fruit growing sort of area, Mr Uhdd thought it must have ‘escaped from a garden’, I was sceptical, but was I forgetting that this area was not always woodland it is now (it was [...]

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On Reflection

I have a very low tolerance level of fools, I’m told it’s to do with the fact I’m a northern lass. Of late I’ve spent far too long trying to reason with one particular gang of fools, yesterday I gave up the fight and gave the bugle call to the cavalry , they saddled [...]

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Inevitable

‘Look Spud if you charge around like that,’
 
‘it is only a matter of time before you fall in the pond.’

‘See I told you so.’
He was a little startled, but he  scrambled out easily, you might just be able to see the chain of water droplets, coming off his tale, in this [...]

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