The Great Three Reservoirs Walk of 2nd January, 2022 Ask any walker who has spent any time at all wandering around the hills and moors of the West Pennines about which walks to try out …
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The Walk of Friday December 31st, 2021 As much as I would have liked to have journeyed down to Rivington and packed in one final Pike and Winter Hill ascension for 2021, I favoured Ainsdale …
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The walk of Monday 27th December, 2021 As many times I have strolled along Pool Hey Lane in Southport’s / Scarisbrick’s boundary area, I’d never actually headed off towards the oddly named “Snape Green” a …
Continue readingI am serious, but you can still call me Shirdley!
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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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, …
Continue readingWe went on’t Sunday mornin’
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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