Year: 2010
Winter starts 2010
… until I got up and looked out of the window and saw the snow. So I went for a walk with Sabiene instead – here she is at Watersmeet: Of course when we got to Caldbeck we stopped for tea and cake at the Old Smithy Cafe, but the cake tasted much better than …
Warming the Girls
Its flipping cold out there, especially if you’re a chicken and living in a coop! Today was the girls’ first experience of snow and they weren’t impressed. It took a while to encourage them out and when i did they huddled in a small mass of feathers. To cheer them up a bit I rushed …
Feel alive outside…
Train Coupling
Nothing rude, just a little [glossary “train-spotting”]ferroequinology[/glossary] interest for train geeks from Carlisle station today…
Friends, Death Rays and Orienteering Planning
Kendal Mountain Festival ’10
It’s that time in the annual adventuring calendar again – the Kendal Mountain Festival (nee Kendal Film Festival).
Prizewinning photographs
I went fellwalking with the usual suspects today. From Watendlath, south along the ridge to the Grasmere end, turning back north at Greenup Edge and going down past Lining Crag. The terrain on top was extremely boggy with meltwater from the thawed snow and ice, and the pools of water were extremely cold as I …



