Wild and Woolly

It has been a stormy night and I am very glad we have adopted ‘Plan B’, if we’d managed to pull off ‘Plan A’ the house would not have a roof on at the moment, it would be bound in scaffold and swathed in tarpaulins and I doubt any of us would have got much [...]

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All Weather Dogs

People tell me Springer Spaniels are ‘all weather dogs’ ready for the off what ever the conditions. But when I opened the door this morning to let Spud out for a pee, he took one look at the raging storm and sat his bum down firmly on the door mat and shot me a ‘I’m [...]

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Original Mountain Marathon 2009

Mr Uhdd has phoned to say all is well and he and his partner have completed the Original Mountain Marathon,  they have as the saying goes ‘been accounted for’. Yesterday he tells me was tough.
I wonder what state his feet are in.
(Here are some feet I photographed earlier.)

He didn’t ring home till [...]

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Second Glance

As Yesbuts kindly pointed out, some of the photos from yesterdays post, had hidden depths, so I’ve gone back and done a little more cropping.

And squeezed some more juice out of the rest of the series.

The hill in the foreground of the photo below is called The Knott, in the background is the [...]

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Puppy Love

Spud has arrived, there are a few things he’s not quite got control over yet, including his ears

The first night he was so quiet that I lay awake in the small hours, worrying that there was something wrong with him, not a whimper did he make. However he has been somewhat more vocal since! [...]

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By Train to Fort William

Mr Uhdd is running in the Ben Nevis Fell race this weekend, its a race he has run before
 
So he and Tom and have gone by train to Fort William, it’s a long journey, how much do you think the train tickets cost? From a village station south of Manchester to Fort William return?
Tom’s [...]

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New Beginnings

There is growing excitement in the house. So much so that  the boys have regressed into counting how many ‘big sleeps’ it is until the day, when Spud arrives.
This is Spud aged five weeks.

He’s a Springer spaniel.  After so much canine heartache of late, we are hoping for happier times, the start of a [...]

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River

By the banks of Kinder river a  recent flash flood had left pools of chocolate brown peat, swept down from the Kinder plateau, so ‘Green and Black’ in colour and texture it almost gave me a migraine to look at it

It had baked dry on the rocks

I’d have liked to seen the [...]

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Let’s Dance

Morris Men strut their stuff

As it’s the Summer Solstice today, a post that shrieks summer (and the  drinking of draught bitter)  you can read more about Morris dancing here or watch some dancing over there,

For some very different looking Morris men, try
Andyholmfirths photos on Flickr
I’ve read that Morris dancing is in danger [...]

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Soggy Saturday

It poured with rain here this morning, now that’s ‘grand as owt’, if you are a sluglett,

but a bit miserable for the rest of us.
Joe had to be in a wood somewhere in the middle of Cheshire, by 09:15 for a paint-ball party, fortunately the weather was better over there: we took the [...]

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