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A dry August: who’d ‘av thunk it!

Wednesday, 1st September 2010 by Pete
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The British summer: in August it rained 25 out 31 days here in the South Lakes. For those a bit slower at the maths, that’s only 6 days without rain or 19% of the month. So it was wet right? No…

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Foredale Quarry

Sunday, 29th August 2010 by Pete
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We went to Foredale Quarry near Settle on Sunday to get away form the crowds in the Lake District over the bank holiday weekend. As we arrived we were greeted with the wonderful sight of a steam train charging north from Settle...

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Blencathra

Saturday, 28th August 2010 by Pete
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The weather on the first day of the bank-holiday weekend turned out much wetter than forecast, so the planned rock climbing excursion to Borrowdale was modified into a poor weather navigation practice up on Blencathra...

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A Brief Glimpse…

Friday, 27th August 2010 by Pete
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This afternoon the garden saw a brief glimpse of summer! Just four days left in August, and after what seems like weeks of back-to-back rain storms, the sun came out!

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BASE?

Thursday, 19th August 2010 by Pete
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A colleague at work mentioned this today ... you ever considered (or done any) BASE jumping?

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Crummackdale

Monday, 16th August 2010 by Pete
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After much guidebook scanning the short approach walk of Yorkshire Limestone was selected...

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Blog Rendezvous?

Monday, 26th July 2010 by Pete
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Despite six months of notice and lots of positive votes for all sorts of activities support for this year's rendezvous dropped off severely...

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DropBox

Friday, 16th July 2010 by Pete
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dropboxI stumbled on this amazing little piece of free technological help for anyone with more than one device (say, a work computer and a home computer; a desktop computer and a laptop; or even a mobile phone; etc.) they'd like to effortlessly share and synchronise files between - DropBox...

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