More Tess, please. :)Happy to oblige. As is Tess :) .
Lovely photos Richard O0Thanks Tracey :) . How are you getting on?
[/size]Beautiful local walks and pics O0Thanks, vghikers - I am very fortunate to have all of this on my doorstep in the current situation.
Tess looks happy :) Lovely to see the celandinesTess is always happy when she is out - unless there is a lot of traffic - or other dogs!
Great photos Richard O0Thanks Ridge - difficult to catch Tess on camera when she is on the move!
Jess looks to be having a good time, I guess we only get photos of her lying down because the rest of the time she would just be a blur across the shot.
Nice to see some undulations - in the flatlands of Liverpool there is only the occasional railway bridge to break the monotony! My plan to walk every road in the area has brief moments of interest and many more of semi-detached sameness. Keep 'em coming please.
Don't forget, ground nesting bird and lambing time now! Free ranging dogs should now be on a lead.
Lovely stuff Richard. Keep 'em coming O0
Some lovely views there Richard - I particularly like the last two. (If there is a demand for it I will post pictures of bungalows taken on my urban plod this evening.)
I love celandines - a much overlooked flower, in my opinion. Great to see them fully open in the sunshine.
When I was poor and a student, I shared a flat in Morecambe in my second year. We used to sit on the front, look across the bay and wonder what it would be like to be rich and living in Grange. Now I know - thank you. You have fulfilled a lifetime's longing.
They're alright until you accidentally introduce them into your garden, as I unknowingly did some years ago. Since then they have spread to almost all parts of it, and in my fertile soil they grow as huge plants that swamp everything else in Spring, until they die down at the end of May/start of June. If you try to weed them out the little tubers on the roots easily fall off to grow anew, and I believe they are also spread by wood pigeons who like to eat them.
More great pictures.
How are you finding home schooling? That looks like history and geography covered for today.
Nice route again Richard - Tess looks like she's enjoying lockdown - our two are getting more walks than normal as we each take them out for our permitted exercise! No more "it's not my turn".
Tess looks to be having fun.There is a theoretical risk. If there are viral particles in your home the dog is contaminated. If dogs form different households play together the particles are transferred between dogs and Fido takes them back to your house. When you get home, you wash your hands but Fido doesn’t and spreads it on to you and surfaces in your house.
Should dogs not be mixing? I had't heard that.
There is a theoretical risk. If there are viral particles in your home the dog is contaminated. If dogs form different households play together the particles are transferred between dogs and Fido takes them back to your house. When you get home, you wash your hands but Fido doesn’t and spreads it on to you and surfaces in your house.
Of course, cats going between households could do the same thing but I have seen nothing on that.
Nice to see all the flowers appearing.
Great pictures again. Clearly you have a beneficent micro-climate in Grange. I wish my Aubretia looked half as good. It fell victim to the gales.
Nice to see the spring flowers. I love seeing clouds of blackthorn blossom on the hedgerows
Tess is adorable :)
Thanks Tracey :) . How are you getting on?
2 lots of great pics to catch up on.
Great pics Richard O0 Thanks for your updates, helping us on the forum stay sane :)
You’ve taken some really lovey photos over the last week or so Richard, thanks for posting :)
Very nice views and local features O0
Sorry Richard, I’ve only just seen the above...
I’m getting on ok thanks, enjoying my local walks from home & starting to appreciate them so much more than I did :)
But I’m upset, anxious, scared...
These are difficult times for us all.
I said elsewhere that Derbyshire has the highest number of cases of the virus in the East Midlands, which of course is a great concern to all who live here.
Anyway, keep posting your lovely photos ! O0
Tracey :)
The Hampsfell area is one of the few corners of Cumbria we nevre explored.
That isn't a bad idea ;DI thought the only reason you went wild camping was so that the drunken singing didn't disturb your neighbours.
I thought the only reason you went wild camping was so that the drunken singing didn't disturb your neighbours.
;D It might start a bit earlier this evening. Wine opened at 4pm :-[The clocks went forward last week so 4pm is perfectly acceptable for an extended transition period.
The clocks went forward last week so 4pm is perfectly acceptable for an extended transition period.But doesn't that mean that last week April would have opened the wine at 3pm?
The clocks went forward last week so 4pm is perfectly acceptable for an extended transition period.
But doesn't that mean that last week April would have opened the wine at 3pm?
The clocks went forward last week so 4pm is perfectly acceptable for an extended transition period.The sun is always over the yardarm somewhere.
Oh! Now then. I never realised this was an ongoing/rolling trip report :-[
Really enjoyed reading the updates - them gnarly old trees are fantastic, and loving the wild-camp idea ;D
But doesn't that mean that last week April would have opened the wine at 3pm?When it comes to clocks changing and wine consumption logic is of no use to us.
More lovely photos Richard :)
The sun is always over the yardarm somewhere.
Lovely pics Richard.
Name the hill? My first thought was Coniston Old Man? I'm trying to work out what hills you will see from GOS. The hill may not be in the Lake District!
Nice try, but no cigar. :D
;D
No clue as to which county the hill is in then?
Scafell? :-\
Red Screes?
Wetherlam?
Could be Caw :-\
Could be Caw :-\
I've often been along that path while heading for Hampsfell from home via Applebury Hll. Great photo Richard O0
Correct!
Taken from the footpath that crosses the western flanks of Wart Barrow.
Well done Brandywell, I would never have got that.Allithwaite is just over the hill from me and I recognised Tracey's Black Horses white homestead in the middle distance. Sadly she has to shut down her business due to the lockdown - with 17 Friesians to look after with no income, it's so sad. :(
I've often been along that path while heading for Hampsfell from home via Applebury Hll. Great photo Richard O0
Allithwaite is just over the hill from me and I recognised Tracey's Black Horses white homestead in the middle distance. Sadly she has to shut down her business due to the lockdown - with 17 Friesians to look after with no income, it's so sad. :(
Looks lovely Richard. I can see local fells from a distance on my weekly long run but it's been way too long since I ascended one. I could run to Murton Fell or Dufton Pike then plod up I suppose? They'll probably ban us fron exercising outside soon, better get a move on...
Yep, One in Field Broughton in The Cartmel Valley and two in Flookburgh. I fear they may be more before this is over :(
Grim.
There have been deaths locally, so I am told. :(
Yep, One in Field Broughton in The Cartmel Valley and two in Flookburgh. I fear they may be more before this is over :(Cumbria has 698 confirmed cases in a population of 499,000, that is worrying, especially when you consider that Cumbria has such a low population density.
Cumbria has 698 confirmed cases in a population of 499,000, that is worrying, especially when you consider that Cumbria has such a low population density.Confirmed cases don't tell you much.
Cumbria has 698 confirmed cases in a population of 499,000, that is worrying, especially when you consider that Cumbria has such a low population density.
What Ridge said, and I recall there have been cases in Carlisle so not all sparsely populated.Confirmed cases are the tip of the iceberg but are the only guide we have. Despite centres such as Carlisle, which is not actually that big, Cumbria is one of the least populated counties in England. For comparison, Devon excluding Plymouth and Torbay, which are separate Authorities, has 207 cases in a population of 795,000.
Confirmed cases are the tip of the iceberg but are the only guide we have. Despite centres such as Carlisle, which is not actually that big, Cumbria is one of the least populated counties in England. For comparison, Devon excluding Plymouth and Torbay, which are separate Authorities, has 207 cases in a population of 795,000.
OK. I wonder if it's concentrated in centres in Cumbria rather than being dispersed? I know of no way of telling.The answer is no but take it to another thread Rob
Some infection boffin said it's basically guaranteed 4 out of 5 of us will get it now anyway, so I'm thinking we can probably only control when, not so much if?
Thanks April, Karl :)That limestone can get surprisingly slippery when wet. Nice pics again O0
I would be more worried about breaking my leg in a gryke!
Thanks Tracey, Ninthace.I've done those, great fun. I think it was one of those that I walked through the exit chamber without realising it until I looked up and saw stars. We had been down so long the sun had set. I can say from experience that several hours in a wet cave is a great way of breaking in a new set of boots.
Yes, wet limestone can be deadly. I did some forestry work on Whitbarrow earlier this year, repeatedly carrying an armful of logs over wet moss covered limestone pavement is not my idea of fun, and requires great care!
..but strangely, this does not apply in caves - no algae, you see. Active stream passages are great fun!
Note to self - must take my sons down Dow Cave or Upper Long Churn Cave when the lockdown lifts.
All this limestone pavement is making me hanker after a trip to the Dales after all this is over.
Did Tess find what she was looking for under that cairn?
I'm enjoying these updates so keep 'em up O0
I love that first, monochrome pic of the hills. Isn't it often the unplanned shot that turns out best.
Also like the low sun across the limestone pavement.
Re the orchid leaves - saw my first Early Purple a couple of days ago.
Lovely photos Richard O0
Is that not Green Alkanet in your pic? I didn’t know there was a blue variety!
Lots more lovely pics Richard.
Yep, more lovely and interesting pics O0 I think we all may be "seeing" more than we normally do walking near where we live :)
Here we have some nice, but flat, coastal walking but the hoards are heading that way so it can be virtually impossible to keep isolated.
More lovely pics Richard - cheers for letting me have a "virtual" roam around distant pastures O0
The path under the crags looks to have a fair camber to it.It does - nasty when wet.
I love the pic of Tess, adorable :smitten:I won't tell if you won't :-X
Don't tell Squeaky ???
My rather inebriated punt at "name that hill'I fear that your judgement has been impaired. :D
Black Combe? :-\
Nice pics :)
I think the hill may be Crag Hill, Barbon High Fell?
Great photos, Richard :) Tess is lovely!
Those overhanging crags remind me of some of the dales I've walked in the Peak District
My rather inebriated punt at "name that hill'
Black Combe? :-\
I fear that your judgement has been impaired. :D
Here's a clue: Grange faces east.
Are you sure Barbon High Fell is not Middleton Fell?
Are you sure Barbon High Fell is not Middleton Fell? I was up there in July 2015
https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/1911486/150716-Middleton-Fell (https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/1911486/150716-Middleton-Fell)
On the OS 1:25000 map, Barbon High Fell is marked as the slopes of the high ground on the eastern side of Barbondale that contains Crag Hill (more accurately, the highest point - and the Nuttall summit - is Great Coum).
Middleton Fell is on the western side of Barbondale, aka Calf Top.
From Grange, Calf Top would appear slightly left of Great Coum, if both were separately discernible.
You've a fair variety of countryside to walk in O0
I don't know Cartmel so did a bit of googling to find out about the priory gate house.
Cartmel is lovely - but is normally swamped with tourists, and it reeks of money.Looks like just the sort of place we would go and visit if it was somewhere else, but I never go looking at interesting churches and stuff like that in Cumbria, the call of the fells is too strong.
Looks like just the sort of place we would go and visit if it was somewhere else, but I never go looking at interesting churches and stuff like that in Cumbria, the call of the fells is too strong.
More lovely pics Richard, love the weeping willow shot O0
I don't think 7 miles is too much Richard. You did a there and back walk with a bit of a loop so you didn't stray too far from home. I did 6.25 miles yesterday and did the same walk today. The furthest I got from home as the crow flies was 1.25 miles. For me my mental health is just as important as my physical health. The walks I'm doing at the weekends are only just enough to keep me from losing it.
Enjoyed Tess's latest adventures! :)
I went to Cartmel some years ago and had a wander round, and the photo of the pretty weeping willows by the river looks like a spot I came across. I'm a lover of church architecture so the Priory Church was a highlight. Thank you for the reminders of a lovely visit :)
More lovely pics Richard O0
Keep 'em coming.. I know it's a tough job but somebody has to do it ;)
I'll be checking that the sign has been removed once the Coronavirus crisis is over, but I'll steer clear for now - it will keep.
Another lovely set Richard O0
Lovely O0
Good to see the wild garlic, as far as I know we don't have any within walking distance of our house.
We have a cowslip in our lawn which flowers for most of the year.
Nice to see a picture of your house too.
The one a page back of Tess munching on a stick - so funny the way she's laid all puppy dog splay legged. It always makes me smile when a dog lays like that :)Will do Mel - Tess is a constant source of amusement and pleasure, occasionally frustration and disgust too! But mostly pleasure :)
Keep 'em coming O0
Lol at Tess rolling in smelly stuff. Squeaky does that too. Why? ;DThanks April :) Opinion is divided as to why dogs behave in such a disgusting manner. Tess used to have a particular liking for rotting fish on our local beach in Orkney :P
Yep, nice pad you have Richard :) Great pics Richard, trees are lovely O0
More lovely photos Richard O0Thanks Tracey - I would be happy to be corrected - pretty sure about the Harts tongue, but less certain about the first, especially as the croziers have not unfurled.
I think fernman would be the best one to identify your ferns! :D
Beautiful :)Thanks Jac - yes the scroll on the end of a Bishop's staff - I had come across that use of Crozier before - looks a lot like a fern tip!
I have Hart's Tongue fern round my little garden pond. The new word - crozier - is also the name for a bishop's crook
Great stuff. Careful on the gorse Tess!
I'd forgotten about the Hoad, walked up to it a few times years ago when me and Mrs R were first together as her brother live in Ulverston briefly.
Blimey, your Orchids are early! :o
Love the pic of Tess with her nose in the gorse bush! O0
Lovely pics Richard O0
I do like your meandering route, it is the sign of the times :) The countryside is very pretty down there, the place names are only names I've heard but never seen before.
Enjoy it Richard, I am back at work today :(
Sort of (I don't know what you do) envious you can work.
Sorry, Richard - off topic. Early Purples are in flower down here and some green winged.
Love the photo of Tess burrowing in the gorse! :)
The view over Morecambe Bay looks beautiful
Sorry Richard, off topic too! I hope you are enjoying your walk it is really lovely in north Cumbria.Glad to hear it - had a cracker of a walk this morning, down to Kents Bank and along the shore to Humphrey Head nature reserve. Orchids, cowslips, bluebells, marsh marigolds, and beautiful views across the sands. Report coming soon! :)
Enjoyed your latest update on my lunch break browse. Cheers :)
...a concrete ledge has been built near the top of the embankment - perfect for walkingNot so hot if you meet a group part way along coming the other way! :)
Great stuff Richard O0 I've never heard of or seen a cuckoo pint before, they look alien :o
Love the bluebells and I didn't know that was Heysham Power plant. I have seen it many times from the southern fells but didn't know what is was.
Great variety of clear pics again, lovely walk O0
Not so hot if you meet a group part way along coming the other way! :)
This has been an interesting series Richard. You are good at identifying the wildflowers. I might have to see if I can get a picture of the flowers I saw on the banks of the Don last weekend to see if you can identify them. I have tried online identification guides without success. I suppose it is possible that they are not actually wildflowers, but escapees from a garden a mile or so away.
Great report Richard, I can see Humphrey Head from my lounge window. There is a lot of history there, it's thought that it is named from an early Angle settler called Hunfrith. Legend has it that the last wolf in England was hunted down and killed there by one of the Harringtons of nearby Wraysholme Tower in the 14th century Check out the weather vane of Cartmel Priory which is a wolf's head. Also Sir Edgar's cave, the Holy Well and William Peddar's memorial n the western cliffs. on your next visit. :)
If I do get some pictures, I will post them in the Flora thread.
Thank you Mike. :)
I'm no expert but I do take an interest, and am happy to have a stab at identifying them. Perhaps just stick the pictures in the Flora photography thread?
I enjoyed your latest photos Richard. O0
The orchid is very pretty. I don’t think we get Green Winged around my way, although some rarer varieties do spring up here & there occasionally.
I once spotted a Chalk Fragrant orchid in Cressbrook Dale, which is a typical lime stone dale. Quite a surprise find in that area. :)
A nice bedtime story for me to read this time Richard O0
Thanks, once again, for posting :)
missed a beautiful sunset last night, judging by the colour the sky went after it had gone down
Lovely shots Richard. I just want to walk into that view.
Great pics Richard. I'm amazed I haven't seen you yet on Hampsfell.
Then my mate’s dad gave him an old A30 which was odd because he only had a provisional licence. I had a full one however ....
Things improved after that.
Cracking pics - I love the light in the one with Coniston Old Man in the background - my favourite time of day in the hills, and particularly at this time of year.
Another great set of pics Richard.
I used to be always up at 6.30 in the time I can just about remember when I went to work. But, having still woken at that time for the first 2 weeks of furlough, I am slowly getting later and later.
IIRC It had the engine out of an A35 and the gearbox out of a Morris 1100. The bodywork pretty was much solid Isopon from the windows down. We went all over the place in it.
Made me smile. One of my friends had an A40 - I remember the windscreen heater being particularly useless.
More lovely pics Richard O0 My favourite is the view of Red Screes and Helvellyn :)
Glad that you are enjoying your bed time reading, Mel :)An ex-colleague of mine who lives in Barrow described the A590 as the longest cul de sac in the UK. I must admit that it is a long way to drive only to find Barrow at the end of it. There are good views though of the sands when driving past.
Must have been the wind direction or something, but my attempt to record a blackbird singing it's little heart out from the top of a tree in Bishop's Allotment was spoilt by distant traffic noise from the A590. Can't have everything, I suppose.
Love the promenade gardens, they are a real credit to the people of Grange. O0Indeed they are. I'm thinking of volunteering to do some work in the Community Orchard.
IIRC It had the engine out of an A35 and the gearbox out of a Morris 1100. The bodywork pretty was much solid Isopon from the windows down. We went all over the place in it.
Seeing it from afar is just as tormenting as not being able to see it whilst walking up it
Despite all that, I'm still enjoying my bedtime story O0
This is one of my favourite threads of the lockdown. I am not familiar with this area of the Lake District, apart from driving along the A590 and it is good to see the scenery. I have some flower photos for ID that I will try to extract from my phone and post in the photos thread or a mini TR of my own.
Amazing shot of Pike o Stickle.
Really great pictures once again Richard. O0
I'm really rubbish at the guess the fell game, I always say "of course it is " when someone who does know tells me ;D
The first one I've not really any idea although the top does look at bit like Harter fell but then it doesn't really look mountain shape enough ???
The second one I've convinced myself that it's Haycock at the back with Yewbarrow and Whin Rigg and Muncaster fell with the trees but I wouldn't bet my mortgage on it ;D
Nice try but no cigar for the first one Karl. If I recall correctly, you have been quite close to this hill recently [/clue]
Second one - now you're just wildly guessing!
The dandelions are such a cheerful splash of colour :) I think it's an unappreciated flower
Is the first one Stickle Pike ?
Amazing that you can see Skiddaw :o
Yewbarrow? :-\ just a quickie lunch nearly over :)
You are off your game, April ;) Which Yewbarrow did you have in mind, by the way? I know of three :D
:) The Wasdale Head one.
More fab pics and that is some zoom lens you have :) I really should've got Skiddaw; I can see it from outside where I live, just not the same angle you see it from :)
Still laughing at Tess rolling in something disgusting.
Indeed, we are well endowed with Yewbarrows here in the South lakes there is another one to the north-west of Newby Bridge. O0
I suspected so. We have a small Yewbarrow here in Grange, covered in, you've guessed it, yew trees, and there is a Yewbarrow SW of Whitbarrow, overlooking the beautiful Winster valley, where we camped last July whilst househunting.
A splendid walk, great views and pics of the flowers O0
The larch in the limestone is particularly good, seemingly growing out of rock.
Indeed, we are well endowed with Yewbarrows here in the South lakes there is another one to the north-west of Newby Bridge. O0
Lovely picture of Tess in the tunnel.
Very nice. Love the bluebells.
Tess looks to be enjoying herself!
Fab pics Richard, first the sunset ones, then the lovely bluebells and Tess enjoying herself. (Thumbs Up)
I have logged on Edge because Explorer didn't seem to want to work. The emojis don't work on Edge. I wonder why?
What a lovely area it is you live in Richard (Smile)
Wonderful report Richard. Tom Barron used to, and may still, live in a yurt in Hesketh Wood, a great guy and very talented, he made a large stone sign for our house. That track down to Hill Mill we call Adder Hill because of the warning signs to beware of adders ( never seen any in over thirty years of walking up and down there) When we first moved here the locals referred to How Barrow as Lordy's Seat, the seventh Duke of Devonshire had a large wooden seat erected there on the slope overlooking the Leven Estuary (and his deer park) in the mid 1800's he was much respected by the locals, who recall him as 'The Old Duke'. Sadly it has long since disappeared. I think we saw the person with the the dog on a long lunge rope alongside the River Eea in Lane Park Wood, we kept well away! Keep up the good work, the maps help those who may not be familiar with 'The Land of Cartmel' O0
Yes that was my impression when I first came across it. :) Hill Mill Pond was created when the brook was dammed to power a corn mill, which goes back to Elizabethan times or even earlier, although it was rebuilt in 1780's. All traces of it were thought to have disappeared when the house at the foot of 'Adder Hill' was built in 1979 untill Nick who bought and redeveloped it a few years ago cleared some of brushwood behind the house and discovered quite substantial ruins of it.
I do suspect that 'Beware of Adders' sign is there to encourage people not to wander off the paths.
Yes that was my impression when I first came across it. :) Hill Mill Pond was created when the brook was dammed to power a corn mill, which goes back to Elizabethan times or even earlier, although it was rebuilt in 1780's. All traces of it were thought to have disappeared when the house at the foot of 'Adder Hill' was built in 1979 untill Nick who bought and redeveloped it a few years ago cleared some of brushwood behind the house and discovered quite substantial ruins of it.
Tess would walk all day given half a chance. :)She's not the only one.
Lovely again Richard O0
The silhouetted sheep photo is brilliant ;)
Smashing pics Richard O0
Sometimes cloud enhances the sunset, one the best sunsets we have had was on Lingmoor Fell. When it clouded over we thought it was going to be rubbish but it was fab.
...briefly climbing into the field to rescue a riggwelter (sheep stuck on it's back).That's a new word for me, though we have met the scenario among our many woolly rescues. It's an odd situation, when we got her upright she was so top heavy she could barely walk without rolling back again.
Lovely, particularly the Mum and twins silhouette O0
Gorgeous pics again, the woolly family is a fortuitous shot against the sky. O0That's a new word for me, though we have met the scenario among our many woolly rescues. It's an odd situation, when we got her upright she was so top heavy she could barely walk without rolling back again.
Lovely sunset - rescued a few sheep over th years but only from man made obstacles. Will have to remember riggwelter!!
Sometimes cloud enhances the sunset, one the best sunsets we have had was on Lingmoor Fell. When it clouded over we thought it was going to be rubbish but it was fab.
Lovely sunset photos Richard. When this pandemic is over you should have a trip to the other side of the bay, given the right conditions the sunsets from there are quite spectacular. One question, was the gorse bush and hawthorn slope to the south of the Cistercian Way above Pit Farm ?
Thanks Richard. A friend of ours from Grange (72years old but very fit and active) had tried to descend the Cistercian Way today on her permitted daily excerise walk only to be confronted by a padlocked gate and a sign 'turn back' above Pit Farm. She felt obliged to comply and retraced her walk. As I said in earlier reply Pit Farm has in the past never been welcoming to walkers i.e placing cattle feeders widely across the paths so you have to walk through slurry. I've copied below the official guidelines for England as posted on the Ramblers Association website for England and highlighted/underlined the relevant sections of particular concern in this instance.
Thanks Brandywell - in answer to your question - Yes. You can see the gorse behind the Priory in the previous day's report. The hawthorn was mostly to the north of the path - that is where the best orchids were.
Great to see more pics.
I was having a completely mojo-less day today, barely moved off the sofa apart from to stagger to the beer cupboard.
Beautiful coastal views and bluebell woodlands :)
Lovely views from this fine Spring weather, all change this week O0
It must be wonderful to have such countryside so close to home. I wouldn’t get bored repeating those walks, as there is so much variation and different weather makes each day a new experience. I too am fortunate to have direct access to some countryside. There is limited choice without driving, but I don’t get bored of it.
PS I managed to identify the strange looking flowers I found on the river bank as Butterbur.
More nice pics Richard. The Kent Estuary looks a tad nicer than the Humber :-[But the Humber is quite a bit nicer than the Tees.
More lovely shots Richard O0 as to your question if there is a link to a report about Lingmoor fell sunset, you will have to wait till my broadband is back up. Still struggling with on off WiFi signal 😣
More lovely shots Richard O0 as to your question if there is a link to a report about Lingmoor fell sunset, you will have to wait till my broadband is back up. Still struggling with on off WiFi signal 😣I thought it would be easy to find with a quick search but there are so many TRs from April that include Lingmoor Fell and sunset.
Thanks Ridge, it was the second of your links that I remembered as being one of the best :)
Nice pics Richard, laughing at Tess rolling around O0
The ramsons and apple blossom look beautiful :) I saw the Ornamental Pond - very pretty - on my fleeting visit to Grange a few years ago
Trees seem to be coming into leaf all of a sudden - I love the fresh vibrant greenness of spring :)
TR edited to add Blackpool Tower - I can even see the rollercoaster!Morning Richard. Great detail. !
Morning Richard. Great detail. !
Can I ask what lens.?
Thank you.Nice.!
This is the camera that I used - I inherited it a few years ago from a dear friend whose walking days are over.
https://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/fujifilm_finepix_hs50exr_review (https://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/fujifilm_finepix_hs50exr_review)
A bit of a chunky beast for taking on the hill (my phone does fine for general landscape shots), and I am still getting to know it. The Blackpool Tower shot must have been on or near maximum zoom, around 20x or 1000mm equivalent for a 35mm camera.
lovely photos Richard.
Spring is still a bit behind up here, as you will remember.
I was in the hills above Lerwick, today and see the Hares are still white.
Our flowers will hopefully catch up with yours in a few weeks.
yuns a cracking peerie dog doo haes
yuns a cracking peerie dog doo haes
Day 36 - 28th April 2020
Absolutely stunning. Appreciate you taking the time to take the photos - especially the lovely flora after such a good period of weather. It's looking like a wet period is forecast for the next week or so - but the many pics of weeks of sunshine fuelled dog (and man!) happiness in the outdoors would make even the most ardent forum curmudgeon crack a smile, I'm sure ;D
What? No pics? :o Get ya finger oot Richard :D
Thanks April, MelWas it a poop roll ? I have dog and when he has that expression he's rolled in something nasty ;D
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There's something just a little bit scary about this photo - Tess showing the inner wolf that exists in all dogs
Lovely pics again Richard I love the variety and the colours. O0
That's the one thing about my immediate local area. Although the moors are good for views and leg stretching I have realied just how land created for grouse shooting really is a desert when it comes to plants and wildlife ( apart from grouse )
Great photos again Richard.
I must try to get out again in to the country again next week.
Lovely pics again Richard I love the variety and the colours. O0
That's the one thing about my immediate local area. Although the moors are good for views and leg stretching I have realied just how land created for grouse shooting really is a desert when it comes to plants and wildlife ( apart from grouse )
Great pics again Richard
I know what you mean Karl, and sometimes the damage done to the moors to facilitate the hunting is crap, but I do still love the big sky of moorland walking on a clear day when the vistas open up. (And then a grouse shoots up between your feet and your heart jumps to 180 bpm.)
Lovely pics Richard, love the bluebells in the wood O0
Although I've seen a few bluebells it isn't the same as being surrounded by them in a wood.
Thanks Karl :)
I know that I am fortunate to have such a lot of variety on my doorstep during lockdown. And I know what you mean about grouse moors - but you have some nice reservoirs and woods nearby too, if I recall.
I know what you mean Karl, and sometimes the damage done to the moors to facilitate the hunting is crap, but I do still love the big sky of moorland walking on a clear day when the vistas open up. (And then a grouse shoots up between your feet and your heart jumps to 180 bpm.)
Thanks pdstsp :)
Yes, grouse moors are deserts, and there are often reports of suspicious deaths of birds of prey.....all so that some rich ***** can blaze away at hapless birds being driven before them by the beaters. Hardly sport, in my opinion.
I should count my blessings, I could be stuck in an inner city high rise with a couple of young kidsThat would be grim beyond belief.
Lovely pics Richard.
I like orca the sky whale. Poor Seat Sandal, if it is a bit of a pudding it's a nice one, chocolate sponge.
Day 39 - 2nd May 2020
Out in the evening with Tess, beautiful sunshine, Hampsfell for the sunset. 4 miles.
I wandered around the back of Fell End, climbing up the south western corner of the hill past a solitary hawthorn tree. Once on top, I headed north, then skirted the eastern edge of the plateau for a while; lovely views to the east, but Ingleborough was in shade.
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Helvellyn from the western slopes of Fell End - I think that I spy the top of Catstycam peeping out above the slopes of Fairfield, and part of Striding Edge is visible. The dark pudding in the middle of the picture is Seat Sandal, and I think that Loughrigg is visible to the left.
Have you had any views of the Foulshaw Moss Osprey's? I have been watching the nest on the CWT webcam and it is working really well.
Lovely pics - really like the sunsets.
Love the orca. I have a soft spot for Seat Sandal too - climbed it one December in lovely clear weather from Patterdale, got to the top and there was a wonderful inversion over Grasmere and Windermere. Sticky toffee.
More fine photos and a lovely end to the day. The windswept hawthorn silhouette is good O0
A great thread Richard. Some wonderful pictures too. This one reminded me of my mum, rest her soul. O0
Thanks pdstsp. Never been up Seat Sandal, to be honest. Always on my way to either Fairfield or Helvellyn, or on my way down and too knackered!
Lovely sunset pics again Richard and I love the black lamb O0Thanks April :)
If you had name the fell for that Bowfell/Crinkle Crags shot, I would never had got it.I didn't want to humiliate you any further! :D ;)
Well I enjoyed catching up with your Lockdown Diary Walks. I love the nice bright cowslips, the black lamb with what looks like a toothy grin and, of course, the sunset pics :)Thanks Mel - there's loads of cowslips around at the moment - I keep finding new patches of them. Lovely delicate things. That lamb does have some unusual markings on it's face. :)
You captured some fantastic clouds there Richard. O0Thanks Karl - it is the clouds that make a sunset, in my opinion.
Very nice, I particularly like the sunset with the lone tree. O0Thanks Ridge - I've plenty of choice on Hampsfell when it comes to wind blasted Hawthorns - never seen so many!
Lovely shot of the wild garlic, it almost looks like it has been snowing.I've never seen it so thick with flowers.
I bet it smelled delicious walking through all that wild garlic too :)
Very nice Richard.. & that carpet of Ramsons...gorgeous. O0Thanks G&P - the best that I have seen yet
Lovely pics.Thanks Ridge - in answer to your question, the latter - Tess appears to be inexhaustible.
Does that dog ever stand on her feet or is when she's lying down the only time she is still long enough to get a picture?
Lovely photos Richard as usual O0Thanks April :)
I think our girls would get on very well together (Tess and Squeaky), Squeaky and Tess seem to have the same (dirty) habits :DI'm sure that they would - perhaps they will get the chance once lockdown is over :)
I have one gripe ::) Pleasing and disorientating do not belong in the same sentence ;) I hate not knowing where I am :DHave you never been in a maze? :D
Just catching up again.
Love the wind sculpted hawthorns and the ramson carpet :)
After Wednesday I'm hoping for some sunny weather to go to my favourite bluebell and wild garlic woodland walk.
Lovely old beech tree, looks like Tess has taken up archaeology.
Enjoyed this thread Richard, probably not as much as Tess has though. Enjoy Wednesday.Me too, thanks Richard, I'm sure the thread has lifted everyones spirits. O0
Me too, thanks Richard, I'm sure the thread has lifted everyones spirits. O0Yep..certainly helped me with Lake District withdrawal symptoms and shown me some lovely places to walk when the high fells are clagged in O0
I don't know what to do, it seems We Are Not Welcome as yet in the National Park. I'm outside the National Park where I live but in Cumbria. Does that make me a local or tourist? :-\Morning April - BBC news have quoted Richard Leafe this morning saying they are opening the LDNPA carparks and toilets and providing a website on which you can see how full they are (car parks, not toilets O0 ). Sounds like maybe a more sane response to the inevitable to me rather than yesterday's F Off message, though it may have more to do with him being told by westminster to support central government policy.
Morning April - BBC news have quoted Richard Leafe this morning saying they are opening the LDNPA carparks and toilets and providing a website on which you can see how full they are (car parks, not toilets O0 ). Sounds like maybe a more sane response to the inevitable to me rather than yesterday's F Off message, though it may have more to do with him being told by westminster to support central government policy.The Yorkshire Dales are also opening their car parks and toilets. They reasoned it was preferable for people to park there rather than in villages and on verges outside houses.
Not sure how much this helps with the inevitable should I/shouldn't I process!
BBC news have quoted Richard Leafe this morning saying they are opening the LDNPA carparks and toilets and providing a website on which you can see how full they are (car parks, not toilets O0 ). Sounds like maybe a more sane response to the inevitable to me rather than yesterday's F Off message, though it may have more to do with him being told by westminster to support central government policy.
Not sure how much this helps with the inevitable should I/shouldn't I process!
Great photos looking over Grange from Yewbarrow and the owl chicks O0 , how high was the nest from the ground ? Re the "closed" path in your Day 48 report, Pit Farm have also chained and padlocked the gate in Cartmel which now displays the same notice. The notices have been downloaded from LDNPA's website as a sample template for farmers to display. It states that a temporary permissive path has been provided, please follow the the directions. Not so, they have simply scrawled on the notice an arrow directing walkers to another PROW which, unlike this one, actually passes through an adjacent farm. Pit Farm has a long history of antipathy towards walkers. The blockage of the path has been reported by several people, including me, to Cumbria Highways. I asked specifically if the path had been closed under a TTRO. In reply, the question was ignored , they just said that the report was noted but they were only responding to emergencies.
More lovely pics and wow the tawny owl chicks are fab O0
Excellent pics again, especially the owl chicks, amazing that they were within reach of a camera O0
Good to see that "fresh green bracken" . :)Thanks G&P
Lovely pics.
A nice way to end your lockdown diary Richard. O0Thanks Karl - yes it was a real treat.
What a treat to see the owls