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Title: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: April on 20:03:04, 04/05/20: I did the usual pavement pounding to the footpath through the golf course. The ewes with their lambs were lying in the usual place in the avenue of trees where the footpath goes through. I think they are getting used to me because most of them didn't move even though I passed by no more than a foot away from some of them :o

The obligatory lamb shot
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Through the trees on the golf course
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No 14 tee ahead. The sound of the birds here was lovely and for most of the walk. Once through Warwick Moor Wood, onto the road.

The road to Wetheral
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The trees are lovely here, it isn't a bad road to walk on.

Footpath to the River Eden
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Cows and St Paul's church at Holme Eden
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The church was designed by John Dobson of Newcastle upon Tyne. I avoided the cows and climbed over the padlocked gate onto the lonnen, which is a right of way.

Looking back toward the padlocked gate
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A sticker on one of the gateposts near the B6263
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No argument from me.

More road walking followed until I reached the turn off for the footpath.

The footpath along the river Eden
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Trees alongside the riverside path
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This pheasant would not turn around so I could get a better photo
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Bluebells in Wetheral Woods
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Wetheral Parish Church beyond the gate
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Bluebells near Wetheral Parish Church
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Bluebells and Whitebells near Warwick Moor Wood
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Sunny spells and light winds, a very enjoyable walk despite the fact I have done this walk quite a few times over the last few weeks! Home - Golf Course footpath - Warwick Moor Wood - footpath to B6263 - River Eden footpath - Wetheral Woods - Wetheral Priory Gateshouse - Wetheral - Railway footpath - Parklands - Warwick Moor Wood - Golf Course - Home. 9.75 miles 120m of ascent. 3 hours walking time and never more than 2.5 miles from home as the crow flies.

Sunday I did the same walk but in reverse order. I didn't take many photos; I didn't see anything I'd not posted already.

Bluebells and Pinkbells
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The pheasant again
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I got a photo of the pheasant side on this time; slightly blurred but it was moving.
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: karl h on 20:10:28, 04/05/20: Lovely again A O0
BTW I've been looking back and on this day in 2014 me, you Beefy and Sue did Skiddaw by Ullock Pike.
We must have been daft when we had all these local lanes and golf courses to walk round :D
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: April on 20:16:54, 04/05/20: ;D

I still remember the look on Sue's face when beefy farted when we were sitting in the shelter on Skiddaw ;D
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: karl h on 20:19:33, 04/05/20: Quote from: April on 20:16:54, 04/05/20
;D

I still remember the look on Sue's face when beefy farted when we were sitting in the shelter on Skiddaw ;D

I'm going to write to Boris to see if we can have an indefinite lockdown for Beefy ;D
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: beefy on 20:30:10, 04/05/20: Great pics Ape
I see the ewes were in the ewesual place ;D
Love the patterns and colours on the pheasant O0
Quote from: April on 20:16:54, 04/05/20
;D

I still remember the look on Sue's face when beefy farted when we were sitting in the shelter on Skiddaw ;D
Dont blame me that was you :D

Quote from: karl h on 20:19:33, 04/05/20

I'm going to write to Boris to see if we can have an indefinite lockdown for Beefy ;D
Theres real venom in that :o
Anyway just because you and Boris have the same barber doesn't mean you are mates
;D
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: April on 20:45:42, 04/05/20: Quote from: karl h on 20:19:33, 04/05/20
I'm going to write to Boris to see if we can have an indefinite lockdown for Beefy ;D

:o A tad harsh :o

Quote from: beefy on 20:30:10, 04/05/20
Anyway just because you and Boris have the same barber doesn't mean you are mates
;D

;D
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: Mel on 21:12:55, 04/05/20: That woodland near the golf course looks a reet nice place for a snack stop, or mebby that bit of land with the tree branch and cows in, or even that lonnen after the padlocked gate.. ;)

Jealous, as always, that you have lambsies on your walk :'(
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: April on 21:32:06, 04/05/20: The lambs are lovely :)

Wetheral Woods near the Eden looks like the best place for a break. About half way and I should be able to find somewhere next to the river away from the path :)
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: Ridge on 22:13:40, 04/05/20: Lovely pictures, you did well to catch the pheasant at all.

Quote from: beefy on 20:30:10, 04/05/20
Anyway just because you and Boris have the same barber doesn't mean you are mates
;D
If you really wanted to offend her you would say that they had the same political views!
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: pleb on 09:36:05, 05/05/20: Good good. O0
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: Jac on 11:05:44, 05/05/20: Looks a nice walk with interesting things to see. Had to look up the word 'lonnen'.

I'm still enjoying following regular routes from home. It's really opened my eyes to what's nearby and made me more aware of the day to day seasonal changes.

Don't much like today's seasonal change though
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: rural roamer on 12:08:44, 05/05/20: Quote from: Jac on 11:05:44, 05/05/20
Looks a nice walk with interesting things to see. Had to look up the word 'lonnen'.
Me too! That’s my learning for the day!

Lovely pics April, everything is so green now isn’t it? What’s with all these bluebell photos, I counted three different places you saw them. Me jealous? No :D
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: Dovegirl on 13:49:05, 05/05/20: Lovely photos April :) The tree-shaded walk by the river looks beautiful
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: pleb on 15:12:14, 05/05/20: Make that 3 for looking up lonnen. A lane or street.
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: GnP on 15:20:56, 05/05/20: Nice..!
& that footpath along the river Eden looks a beauty. O0
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: April on 18:34:43, 05/05/20: Quote from: Ridge on 22:13:40, 04/05/20
If you really wanted to offend her you would say that they had the same political views!

:o beefy meant Karl has the same barber as Boris not me :o ;D

Quote from: Jac on 11:05:44, 05/05/20
I'm still enjoying following regular routes from home. It's really opened my eyes to what's nearby and made me more aware of the day to day seasonal changes.

Me too, I've done this walk or a slightly different version many times now at the weekends but there is nearly always something different to see.

Quote from: rural roamer on 12:08:44, 05/05/20
What’s with all these bluebell photos, I counted three different places you saw them. Me jealous? No :D

There are wild bluebells quite near my house too, there are quite a few here and there but not the huge areas of them like Richard has posted.

Quote from: Dovegirl on 13:49:05, 05/05/20
The tree-shaded walk by the river looks beautiful

It is nice, I'm going to stop for a quick lunch there at the weekend.

Quote from: GinAndPlatonic on 15:20:56, 05/05/20
that footpath along the river Eden looks a beauty. O0

It is indeed, thanks G&P :)

Thank you all and I'm pleased to be of some educational use :) A lonnen or lonning as Cumbrians would call it are lanes.
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: richardh1905 on 20:02:14, 05/05/20: Lovely photos of the pheasant, April - and every thing is so green all of a sudden.
Title: Re: TR The usual walk from my door Sat 2 May and Sun 3 May 20
Post by: April on 07:57:35, 06/05/20: Thanks Richard O0 The pheasant was in exactly the same place on Sunday that it was on Saturday. Nice to see pheasants are taking the current restrictions seriously and staying local ;)