Views on Langdale Pikes yesterday: wonderful day out ☀️

Blea Tarn for @lakesstiles.bsky.social and the zigzag path @tutty352.bsky.social and I followed to it a year ago

Lambs 1. Watching 2. Eating hedge

Cloudy afternoon, not too hot, so scraped moss off paving stones and built bonfire before promised heatwave

Castlerigg Stone Circle and lambs

Iconic through-stone Cumbrian stile: the big stone beside it is a clue to its location

Greenery, lambs, and a bit of warmth in the air in the North West 💚

Virgil Society meeting in London on Saturday New president @carolawrence.bsky.social gave me a copy of Achates 🐕 😊 and we completed The Times O Tempora Latin crossword 📚

Initial A is always good, particularly when it is followed by NN 😁

Today’s favourite object from a quick look around the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon bird-head fastening from a Wiltshire hoard, which knocked the Tudor Heart Pendant into a cocked hat; both found by responsible metal detectorists

Weston Library exhibition Wonder of Birds: Jackie Morris’s puffins and Audubon’s fish hawk @tutty352.bsky.social

Friends of the Bodleian Annual Lecture at the Weston Library With slide of the Rad Cam for @lakesstiles.bsky.social 📚

Sculpture in a garden in Bampton #Artweeks #Oxfordshire The swan was broken and has been mended with gold in the Japanese tradition

Stoop 😍

Vandals have knocked the toppers off this 100 year old drystone wall, which is infuriating but does show how well these walls are constructed

North Oxon #FingerpostFriday

Lakes Stiles Hound 😍

Tall kissing gate into Christ Church Meadow, Oxford #Thursgate

Favourite ironstone slab stile into the park at Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire @lakesstiles.bsky.social

After I regaled the village café with my discovery of Egg Machines the Café Ladies gave me a critter - newly hatched dragon? 💕😂 @vimtotime.bsky.social @soapywittank.bsky.social

Went to a funeral next to a castle in North Oxfordshire ironstone country: perfect Spring weather

Crabapple blossom on tree grown from a crabapple picked up in the wild some years ago: the fruits are the size of ping-pong balls so not pure wild #wildflowerhour

Spring garden, West Oxfordshire

Wensleydale Stile #ArtDD2026 I'm filling an A5 sheet with little memories from one dale in the Dales. One little space left #Wensleydale #YorkshireDales #watercolour #stile @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social

I found an egg machine in Witney, having never heard of them until @vimtotime.bsky.social and @soapywittank.bsky.social compared purchases recently 🤣 It was in the entrance of a discount toy shop; I chose a capybara in honour of the escaped one No video @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Rookery in the silver birch Silver birch in the old Raeburn Spring 🌱

Near Bassenthwaite Lake for #FingerpostFriday

The Escaped Horse Chestnut 🌰 40 years ago I collected 4 horse chestnut 🌱 from an abandoned 🪦yard in Oxford and the pots moved with us to West Oxon 2 years later One escaped into cold frame next to path - remains of pot on right I keep tree pruned every year 🤪

Spring flowers in my West Oxfordshire garden

‘Crab Apple’ Trees (1963) Artist: S R Badmin

High above Low Fell this afternoon @tutty352.bsky.social

Rock, sheep, sheep

#wheeclub on Ladyside Pike this afternoon - windy

Narnia in West Cumbria on Easter Sunday

A stoop through the eye of a stoop on the slopes of Low Fell

West Cumbrian cloudage towards Solway and Sunset @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Got back from Easter Vigil Mass to find a gift from Storm Dave as I drove in through the gate I parked well away from the trees 🤞

Brief sunny interval in West Cumbria Neighbour’s Jacob lambs Bryson’s Hot Cross Buns

Low Fell summit stile and dog gate @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Views from Low Fell this morning Good walk with @tutty352.bsky.social

Solway seascape with Blue Sky And cloudage for @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Layers: Rannerdale Knotts, Haystacks, Gables

Landlocked crab heading for Crummock Water

Two lambs and Red Pike for @cathylowe.bsky.social (needs a click)

It’s not only Herdwicks who are masters of camouflage: Two black lambs sheltering in the lee of a pile of charred brushwood

Herdwicks, sieves (rushes) and heather

Three Herdies on the fellside by Hope Beck #Herdwicks

Chilly afternoon walk with fleeting sunshine and hail showers

Arrived in the North after lunch and have collected a binful of ash & sycamore twigs and small branches brought down in winter storms and stacked against walls to dry during rainy visit last month #kindling 🪵