The walk of Sunday December 12th, 2021 For many years I have contemplated going for a rural wander over Shirdley Hill. I’ve walked through this tiniest of all tiny villages on just one previous occasion …
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Blah, blah, bollucks!
Just a bit of Greta Thunberg paraphrasing there! I needed a walk, because to be honest my body keeps telling me it is none too happy with this prolonged period of procrastination. Okay, alliteration achieved, …
Continue readingPutting the Goat out to pasture
Goodbye Goaty: Y’know I often wish that I had taken the time to design myself a nice little goat motif or logo for this site. I did try drawing one once, but it was dreadful, …
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The classic walk of Saturday 18th of September, 2021 Great Hill and Winter Hill via ‘The Edges’ from Rivington. The time had come for another grand excursion of Anglezarke Moor, I have another two massive …
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Planting of the Autumn Flowering bulbs …ah, it’s been a while since I last began a post with that lead-in, pinched rather blatantly from Justin Hayward’s “Forever Autumn” and yes, this is my favourite …
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Hurray, a gardening post at last It’s that time of year, once again, when my knees and budget take a bit of a knock. The purchasing and planting of the Spring Flowering bulbs. Funnily enough, …
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Celebration of the mass land trespass of 1896 Part II Update: Mission accomplished and I managed to lead the pack all of the way up both Halliwell Road – easy and Smithills Dean Road – …
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The walk of Sunday 15th of August, 2021 It had been so long since I had the pleasure of walking with Sue and Karl that I dropped them a Whatsapp message last week to see …
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Celebration of the mass land trespass of 1896 Part I Personally, I don’t know anyone from Bolton who speaks in the way suggested by the title, it’s always puzzled me, sounding kind of north-eastern, …
Continue readingHi Honey I’m home!
I know how corny that sounds. Essentially this post can be categorised under ‘Aid Memoir’ as its only function really is to remind me (in the future) of what I have planted and where. You …
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