Mark Richards
@fellranger.bsky.social
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Linescape artist & presenter of the Countrystride.co.uk podcast
Gulls turn up when a plough turns the good earth and disturbs the unsuspecting worms.
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Looking north to the Liddesdale Hills from above Castle Carrock, lovely interaction of features.
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Looking north to the Liddesdale Hills from above Castle Carrock, lovely interaction of features.
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Mixed weather fortunes yesterday on the Two Toms Trail from Colne to Earby with route creator Nick Burton. Got thoroughly drenched on Pinhaw Beacon, well we were by then on the Pennine Way so what would you expect.
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Secret holy well where non-conformists once gathered east of Colne.
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postie near Lothersdale taking a momentâs pause with a cheroot. Now how did that advert go âyouâre never alone with a Hamletâ
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Scots Blackface yow made diminutive by distance in this eastward view of Winshields Crags from near Cawfields.
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Late daffs nestle by a field-wall above Haltwhistle.
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Dandelion loveliness in a field by a country road.
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Stockley Bridge and the blue-green pool in Grains Gill.
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Great Napes and Westmorland Crags on Great Gable from Great End (yesterday afternoon).
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Plume of wispy cloud rising from Allen Crags summit.
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Bluebells at Castle Carrock.
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Looking north from Great End and snow in the top of Central Gully.
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Up on Great End today the views were astounding. I even spotted The Cheviot.
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The ancient bridle path advancing up the valley towards Sticks Pass, delightfully threading through the lower heather slopes of Stybarrow Dodd and Greenside.
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Helvellyn and Catstycam as viewed today from high on the old pony path above Keppel Cove.
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Onât Raise today on THE FELLRANGER ROUND day two.
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Mellbreak and the Old Post Office in Loweswater, formerly home of world record triple jumper Jonathan Edwards.
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Loweswater utterly beautiful this evening. Espied Great Gable overtopping Haystacks.
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Contrasting weather on Grasmere: this morning, a this afternoon.
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Wrynose and Hard Knott Passes sign at Low Colwith⊠you have been warned.
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Summit of Black Crag.
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Contrasting oak bark.
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Looking west from Black Crag⊠fabulous today. Bow Fell and over Lingmoor Fell the Langdale Pikes.
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Listened to Loose Ends with Clive Anderson on BBC R4 this evening with Alfie Boe... I had to pinch myself he's an absolute dead ringer for you, his turn of phrase everything. Can you sing like him that's all I need to know?
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Have you an personal connection with ceramics/pottery?
add a skeleton here at some point
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Sue Wilkinson
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Exciting news! Our Countrystride podcast on the Grasmere Dialect Plays is now live - here:
www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/...
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#162: The Grasmere Dialect Plays
...in which we visit springtime Allan Bank to explore the forgotten phenomena of the Grasmere dialect plays â celebrations of Westmorland dialect and life that put Lakeland on the national cultural ma...
https://www.countrystride.co.uk/single-post/162-eleanor-simpson-the-grasmere-dialect-plays
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Stricktly Come Dancing no parking)
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Spring has sprung the grass is riss and the lambs are aâgamboling.
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Clapper bridge over the dancing waters of Kirkstone Beck.
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Wonderful wander over Kirkstone Pass from Brotherâs Water to the Force cafe at Ambleside today.
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What a wonderful fell walk from Brotherâs Water to Ambleside by the Kirkstone Pass.
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Wandering up to Kirkstone Pass passing early on these enormous glacially dumped rocks that border an ancient settlement at High Hartsop.
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Boscastle Harbour, north Cornwall.
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Discovered in 2023 one if two carved gods heads set high on a temple in Roman Carlisle, glowering down with a forbidding look.
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Boot scrapers at the entrance to a house beside Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. From the horse age when even smart people had to remove horse dung on the cobbled streets from their footwear.
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@lauraparker.bsky.social
please email
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my DM not working.
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Grasmere Hall, built to stage Grasmere Dialect Plays. They ran for forty years and ceased in 1937. The subject of our next Countrystride podcast.
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Fowey harbour.
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Helen Day
23 days ago
The road to Ladybird Land ... Artist: Robert Ayton (1977)
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Dr Penny Bradshaw
23 days ago
One year ago today we celebrated the launch of the Wordsworth Way at our Ambleside campus and the publication of the official route guidebook by our own MA graduate, Jade Cookson đđ
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Pen and ink drawing of Brother's Water and its amazing surround of fells from Place Fell. Itf you would like an A4 signed print ÂŁ30+P&P email:
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My dad was forever saying when he did a good piece of work on the farm thatâs a âproper jobâ. Itâs a traditional Cornish term - both of his parents were Cornish (my grandparents obviously). Hence a good ale from St Austell Brewery.
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Billy hands on boss of RGN Walling Ltd (Haltwhistle) engaged in one of the oldest rural crafts drystone walling at Warwick Bridge. I suggested he looked up Scara Brae on Orkney as proof.
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Land drain running across the SW corner of Magna Roman Fort (Carvoran), currently under a Vindolanda Trust excavation led by Rachel Frame.
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Iâll enjoy listeningâŠ
add a skeleton here at some point
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Susan Shaped
24 days ago
And a sunnier one (if witchier). Pendle Hill through a satisfyingly robust ladder stile on Parlick.
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it's Candy Love
25 days ago
Pope Leo, pushed back against the rapist felon
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Glorious.
add a skeleton here at some point
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