Solway
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We are so fortunate that Solway Firth is off the beaten track. I would encourage anyone to find their way up to Grune Point.
But not all at once, please :-)
Turton Moor from Scout Road
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Some friends of ours moved somewhere ‘down south’ a while ago. We met up with them a few months later, now happily settled.. "Do you miss anything ?" Answer "Yes, Hills."
I never realized !
Over Sands
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Anyone strolling along the promenade at Grange Over Sands will sooner or later notice that you can’t see anything in particular, certainly not much in the way of sands, but they will carry on looking out anyway and at some point they will maybe wonder why they are called the sands ? And there is a long story there !
Snow Dog
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I’d love to know what dogs actually think when they find that their usual walk is covered with some super white stuff today.
Louis always wants to be out there somewhere in the trees anyway, probably on the hunt, but hopefully reappears further along the path from time to time before I get too worried. This was on Entwistle reservoir. A dog obviously going about important business.
High Tide
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I love those giant clouds which bumble across the sky but leave plenty of gaps for the big blue and the sunshine to make their own appearance. However, this was one of those days when the clouds were taking up most of the room most of the day and it was only late in the afternoon that the sunshine was able to sneak in under the cloud layer by way of reflections off the incoming Irish Sea.
Always a good experience.
Meadowsweet and Burnet on the Glenderamackin
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The Glenderamackin floodbank, between Mill Bridge and the Golf Club bridge, has the best display of wild flowers in the Threlkeld area, partly because sheep have been fenced out for many years. Unfortunately, it is nowadays slightly under threat by way of increased footpath traffic and I would like to see it better protected, possibly assisted by designation as an SSSI.
Burnet reveals itself in abundance about halfway through the year and it sees its job as being mainly just to set off all the other flora and to catch the light of the setting sun.
Hogweed by the Woods
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The main thing about Hogweeds and Cow Parsley is that you can’t miss them.
They have this cunning pollination plan, which is to simply stand out from the crowd as high as they can and hey guys, look over here !
What’s the worst that can happen? Cows?
Two Sheep, Winter Hill
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Up near the trig point, looking west, just me and Ralph and two faintly annoyed sheep for company. Bliss. Who would want to be anywhere else on a murky day?
Blackbird Morning
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Horrocks Fields are a wonderful green space for all of us dogwalkers. The fields are farmed as traditional hay meadows, dropping gently down from Belmont Road to Gleaves Reservoir and are thereby blessed with huge skies.
Each field is circumnavigated by footpath promenades whose sole purpose is to make sure that every corner can be explored.
There is a rumour that part of the fields have been purchased by a property developer, despite the fact that they are classed as Green Belt.
Of course, this is casting a bit of a shadow over our recent daily walks, however a small group of residents are setting about trying to have the fields registered as a Village Green. Which is exactly what they are, and far more used than those chocolate box village greens, which maybe have just a cricket match once a week in the summer season.
Dancing Lights, Winter Hill
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I love those days when clouds fly over at speed and leave occasional gaps, which the sun is just waiting to blast through.
Could just make out Great Hill every now and then, under the cloud base.