The walk of Saturday July 17th, 2021 – Pendle Hill and Ogden Clough from Barley I never did have that final chance in 2020 to visit Pendle in between lockdowns, I played by the rules, …
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First try at making a Terrarium
Okay, so having been an ardent follower of Tanner Serpa of the YouTube channel “SerpaDesigns” I thought I would give terrarium building a bash! I had wanted to try this at the flat but found …
Continue readingCatherine the Great
Oh what a play on words! Since 2020’s Angelzarke Amble which occurred at a time of enormous chaos for me (and the rest of the world) I have had many fond memories harking back to …
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Ignore the date of the heading above, this was originally posted in October, 2020. I’m beginning to tire of WordPress! Especially with its rather irritating knack of randomly adding ” <span style=”font-size: 1.6rem;”>” to my …
Continue readingThe Shady border gets a make over
Since moving in September 20 I have been plagued with thoughts over what to do with the seven by one metre rectangular border on the northern side of our house. When we first moved in, …
Continue readingJust a quickie
Just to say for posterity, I have now walked to the new home from work. It took over seven months for the pieces to align to facilitate this but I am very glad to say …
Continue readingGetting back into walking
The grand walk around Smithills Moor on 24th April, 2021 I’d promised myself a ‘getting back into the swing of things’ type of walk for a week or two and with the onset of good …
Continue readingGoing Green!
Planning and building the new garden We’ve been at our new house for so long now that it’s starting to not feel quite so new. Who am I kidding, it still feels weird to drive …
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass…
I have now finally left the #walk1000miles Facebook group for reasons of mental wellbeing. We all get a little overwhelmed by needy people, well that group was kind of like their ‘hang out place’! Here …
Continue readingI’ve done a walk
No hills – other than an ascent of the bridge on Birkdale Cop which traverses…a muddy stream! This was my first walk for quite some time so I kept it short, and urban! I left …
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