Wind torn rock
Wind torn rocks
Millstones
Quarry rock face
Owler Tor and Winyards Nick - 5th April 2026. A very windy day with added stinging hailstones…
Peak District scenes
Peak District scenes
Peak District scenes
Today’s route - 7.5 miles
A very nice 7.5mi walk along Stanage Edge, down to Bamford and back up again. Added 9 new birds to the 2026 list: chiffchaff, reed bunting, wheatear, skylark, meadow pipit, curlew, blackcap, mistle thrush and siskin.
Steam train
Pint of beer
Large old mill building
Inside large old mill building, paintings on walls, high brick ceilings
A Yorkshire adventure. Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Saltaire, Salts Mill and a David Hockney exhibition.
State of the art PC gaming in 1993, now available in your web browser. Wonder if anyone using NCSA Mosaic in 1993 ever thought it would be able to do this…
My show is repeated this Friday at 13:00 GMT. I'm pretty certain that you won't hear any of the songs on my show on anyone else's show...
Love Leighton Moss. Spotted some great birds there…
Although I've had to turn the volume down and have a mince pie whilst Puiyin's favourite is playing...
Tune in every Friday from 1pm GMT - my show will be repeated on Friday 6th February... #ALTc25
Is it in your ears and in your eyes as well?
The jaws of Borrowdale
The 'Hundred Year Stone' is a sculpture by Peter Randall-Page located on the shore of Derwent Water between Calf Close Bay and Broomhill Point. It was made in 1995 to celebrate the Centenary of the National Trust. Carved out of a boulder of volcanic rock from the Borrowdale Valley, the unusual design represents ten segments across ten rings
Skiddaw with a dusting of fresh snow
Today’s route - 5.8 miles
Derwent Water wander - 2nd January 2026. A chilly winter wander down to Calf Close bay and back. 22 birds spotted to start the year list off well. 5.8 miles.
Remains of Carrock Mine
Cairn with a dusting of fresh snow
Great Lingy Hut on the skyline
Today’s route - 6 miles
Wainwright 201 - Knott. Book 5 completed. It was snowing. Lunch in Great Lingy Hut. 6 miles, 1670 feet of up and down.
Crummock Water and Buttermere
Clouds collecting
Mountains view
Today’s route - 7 miles
Wainwright 200 - Mellbreak. Lots more frozen boggy bits and a nice (occasionally steep) ascent from the south. 7 miles, 1600 feet of up and down.
Glenderamackin valley
Low winter sun
St John’s in the Vale
Today’s route - 5.7 miles
Wainwright 199 - Mungrisdale Common. He commented that it "has no more pretension to elegance than a pudding that has been sat on" and that “precious holiday hours should not be wasted here”. 5.7 miles, 1420 feet of up and down.
Low winter sun
Wainwright 198 - Hen Comb (Chicken Comb)
Cumbrian views
Today’s route - 7.1 miles
Wainwright 198 - Hen Comb (Chicken Comb). A perfect winter day in Cumbria. 7.1 miles, 1620 feet of up and down.
Wooden bench. Text reads IN LOVING MEMORY OF BOUDICA QUEEN OF THE ICENI WHO DIED NEAR WATLING STREET AD60
Spotted this misleading bench today. I was sceptical. The use of the word “near” makes it technically correct, but Boudicca is said to have died on a different bit of Watling Street to where this bench is placed, about 60 miles south east of this location… And it was most likely AD60 or 61…
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever...
White iced cake with snowflakes, plastic holly leaves and plastic robins.
Christmas cake is finished. Just got to wait a few more days to eat it. Went square this year for a change…
Can and glass of beer
Well that’s it for another year. Out of office is on.
Can and glass of beer
This week I had a 2 1/2 hour meeting. I thought those days were over but apparently not. Hooray for Friday…
Very sad news about someone I'd known and worked with since the last century... www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Sadly my shorthand reading relatives are no longer compos mentis, so can't help with that bit, but it looks like a version of "chocolate fridge cake", so suspect method is similar to www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
Small black dog with an increasingly white muzzle…
Today’s free dog is my old friend Noel…
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Robert Palmer on Top of the Pops in 1988
In the words of Rob Newman, “somewhere there’s a third division football team missing a manager”… #TOTP
Can and glass of beer
Given that a few of my friends have already got their Christmas decorations up, it must be time to open a Christmas beer.
It’s good harmless fun. Fills the gap now that Sewing Bee is over for another year.
Pint of golden cask beer.
Bit of culture tonight, nice cask pint followed by a film festival of short independent films.
I saw the Quo at Wembley Arena in December 1991 - was just reminiscing about this with some friends from school the other day!
Bowl with six red tomatoes
The last of the garden tomatoes for this year.
