Walking Diaries*Spring*The Forgotten Woods Low sunlight pools into open stretches of land, reflecting off jewel-like deep green holly, and sending slender golden trails through bronzed leaves. Somewhere in the woods a secretive Jay emits a rusty call...

A walk onto open hilltops bathed in spring sunshine, and forgotten footpaths through the woods...
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Walking Diaries*Spring* Conquering the lost footpath… The golden shafts from the canopy glitter with intensified force and mystery - reinforcing the feeling that the forest is mistress in these depths - and they illuminate a suddenly clear track ahead...

"If there is a time of year to discover a lost or hidden pathway - it is now - when the winter branches are at their barest, and the spring is still too new to have powered up the brambles..."
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Walking Diaries*Winter*The Wild of the Moorland Beyond the trees, the land opens out, untamed and barren - tussocks of long grass the only relief to open plains of waterlogged ground. The wind travels unhindered across these flat moors, insisting on its wildness with every breath...

A short walking escape into wild winter moorland...

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Walking Diaries*Winter*Chasing the sunlight… Dry stone walls ramble, reassuringly ancient, over the bare winter mountain, accentuating its stark seasonal architecture. They are innocuous but immovable, like tenacious bones of history - holding the landscape together.

A short mountain walk into a starkly beautiful landscape...

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Walking Diaries*Winter*Into a frosty wonderland Winter opens such different vistas - landscapes once obscured, appear in different scale and detail, birds otherwise hidden amidst green canopies become suddenly and joyfully visible... On the forest side of the road, further evidence of autumn's resolution not to be forgotten, a sheltered tree clinging to its crop of bronzed leaves, the warm russet of the bracken like a woodland blanket against the icy air...

A five minute reading escape with photos...
Todays walk included frosty landscapes, brilliant buzzards and bingeing blackbirds...

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Walking Diaries*Autumn*A spooky dusk walk into the Wild Wood It is T-minus 90 minutes till sundown. The impending dusk is creeping up the mountain like an embarrassed ghost. Strange rustles in the undergrowth could be furry creatures preparing for bed, or th…

Happy Halloween to all.... a spooky Halloween walk into a dusk woodland...with a possibly haunted mushroom...

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Walking Diaries*Autumn*A spooky dusk walk into the Wild Wood It is T-minus 90 minutes till sundown. The impending dusk is creeping up the mountain like an embarrassed ghost. Strange rustles in the undergrowth could be furry creatures preparing for bed, or they could be dark ghouls with the stolen souls of dead mushrooms.

A spooky Halloween walk into dusk woodland…

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Walking Diaries*Autumn*Season of mists and fellow bootiness… On a thickly foggy October morning, the high mountaintops beckoned me. The low autumn sun shimmered through a veiled sky, gilding the russet leaves in gold, and forming magical landscapes that emerged and evolved from the mist...

An accidentally magnificent walk into a quintessential British Autumn landscape...

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Walking Diaries *Autumn* Cocooning calm on the canal-side… Is there anything more tranquil than the gentle plop of a duck into the still waters of a canal? Soft autumn colours, tranquil reflections and comical birds in a gentle leaf-dusted ramble...

A short uplifting walk on a calming and colourful canal side…

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Walking Diaries*Autumn*The secrets of the mountain.. A journey into a cloaked landscape. Skies overcast with the palest of greys have rendered a flat, still light, hiding the depth and contrast of the hills. It is like nature, in the midst of its magnificent tumble into autumn, has chosen to have a little snooze - to rest a moment from the bustle of the season - retreating under the grey anonymity of the stratus clouds.

Today’s walk finds a soft autumn magic under grey skies…

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Walking Diaries*Autumn* Forest life from the coal dust… Today's walk heads into the land of deep evergreens grown upon the spoil of our mining past. A mountain whose landscape has changed and evolved through the mists of time...

A walk into a thriving autumn forest over the bones of past industry…

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Two bats and a squirrel – The birth of an ADHD walking diary …there is something different here. It doesn’t feel ground-breaking, it doesn’t feel like it will change my life. But it’s a gentle, tangible tonic. It’s a slower stream of oxygen through oth…

Whatever your autumn weather today -Go for a walk. Go outside. It might gently change your life.

The day I decided that nature spotting would help my brain, I totted up a grand total of two bats and a squirrel.

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Walking Diaries *Autumn*The first whispers on the wind… Enter that liminal time where summer flowers are fading, but autumn colours have not yet ripened. It prompts us to rove the landscape for bright splashes, hints of magic, and bold defiers of the lengthening night...

A short walk in quest of autumn life and colour as the days darken…

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