Mark Richards
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Linescape artist & presenter of the Countrystride.co.uk podcast
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Nicola Pitchford
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An image that opened a tunnel of childhood memory for me to tumble bittersweetly down. My mum would have known exactly whose house that (once) was, next to the churchyard.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Chilly for fell ponies, but they graze on unperturbed.
about 9 hours ago
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A cottage in Farlam, passed during Walk 10 in my set of a dozen country walks from Hallbankgate Hub.
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8 months ago
I forgot all about this image, taken a few weeks ago - lichen view on the wall of Skiddaw House
#lichen
#skiddaw
#lakedistrict
#northernfells
@skiddawhfoundation.bsky.social
@cumbriawildlife.bsky.social
@fscblencathra.bsky.social
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Laura Parker
2 days ago
Waes hael! Its wassailing season. Grab some cider and toast and enjoy a noisy apple tree ceremony. Fun to find out about a fine tradition for Country Life mag.
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Road-sign in Farlam, cast in 1910, two years before the Titanic sank. Connection? Joseph Bell chief engineer on the ill-fated ocean-liner was born in Farlam, north Cumberland.
3 days ago
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Blackwell House our latest Countrystride recording conducted in the brief snowy episode yesterday. All about the Arts & Crafts movement and the story behind this stunning house.
3 days ago
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Esker composed of sand and gravel formed by glacial meltwater some 20,000 years ago beneath ice. Such water flowing east into what is now Tynedale, contrary to the present drainage into the catchment of the Solway Firth.
7 days ago
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How I adore the regal stature of a wintering tree.
7 days ago
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Gorse is in flower, so kissing season is with us 🤣
7 days ago
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Talkin Tarn
7 days ago
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Lovely farm-sign at Farlam
7 days ago
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Walking to Talkin Tarn via Farlam.
8 days ago
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A classic Pennine Prospect - High Cup Gill breaks through the curtain of Whin Sill, with Narrowgate Beacon the distant headland.
8 days ago
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Exmoor pony, so why the long face… to get a stroke as it turned out.
8 days ago
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Runner in Hynam Wood
8 days ago
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What's blue, but not very heavy? ................. Light Blue
9 days ago
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Pile-up in Hallbankgate, no casualties. 😉
9 days ago
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Luing cow above a wall borrow pit quarry.
10 days ago
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New for 2026 I have prepared free walk cards detailing ten country walks from the community hub in Hallbankgate. Come over and give them a try, as too the scrumptious cafe and great company of volunteers.
10 days ago
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Sheep about to receive their New Year’s Eve booster nourishment at Hallbankgate.
10 days ago
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I have prepared a set of ten walks for Hallbankgate Hub. Free walk cards will be available from the cafe counter. Come in the New year and sample the refreshing walks and sumptuous cafe fayre.
10 days ago
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Can you identify the three birds above the pastures at Hallbankgate?
11 days ago
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Late afternoon sun cheering up the Pennine banks.
11 days ago
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Sorry I was too slow getting iPhone out of my pocket to capture this delta of geese properly.
11 days ago
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Ann Gate
12 days ago
West Cumbrian Pastoral
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Fenceless electric collar on a Galloway at Forest Head.
12 days ago
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Unfortunate new collapse in the ridge-wall close to the summit of Talkin Fell.
13 days ago
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Woodland on the make now but a forest of plastic sheaths beside the A69 near Low Row.
13 days ago
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Millennium seat already failed the test of time.
13 days ago
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Curious remains of a rectangular enclosure at Curdiff in Forest Head near Brampton. Seems to have had no entrance.
13 days ago
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Naworth Castle this afternoon
13 days ago
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Afternoon sun on the Hynam wood birches.
14 days ago
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Great afternoon sky
14 days ago
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Two of Santa’s little helpers from Lapland.
14 days ago
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Field-barn at Cumrew.
14 days ago
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Walling rebuild evident as the bottom and top stones are smothered in very old lichen.
14 days ago
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Droving yows in the Eden valley above Ainstable.
14 days ago
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Croglin Water
14 days ago
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Democracy:Differently Podcast
17 days ago
On the first day of christmas, our podcast gave to me: a powerful conversation with
@jowolff.bsky.social
on building a culture of respect in democracy
@blavatnikschool.bsky.social
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Words we all know to be true and echo.
add a skeleton here at some point
17 days ago
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Setting sun behind Skiddaw with Jockey Shield in Geltsdale at this very moment.
17 days ago
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St Peter & St Paul, the parish church of Northleach in the Cotswolds, a classic and exquisitely beautiful 'wool' church on the old road from London to south Wales. If you would treasure a signed print £24 email:
[email protected]
18 days ago
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Old Gaol Museum in Hexham.
18 days ago
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Yes that’s me, pen and pen ink is my thing. Spotted in Hexham
18 days ago
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Intriguing window in a yard in Hexham.
18 days ago
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Hexham all a’buzz
18 days ago
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It was the perfect inspiration for that important purpose.
add a skeleton here at some point
20 days ago
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John Lehman 🇨🇦
21 days ago
I'm so glad I was a teen in the 70s.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFYO...
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Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick (Sight And Sound In Concert: Jethro Tull Live, 19th Feb, 1977)
YouTube video by Jethro Tull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFYOcOBPkzg&list=RDhFYOcOBPkzg&start_radio=1
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The Sill Northumberland National Park Centre with the Once Brewed Youth Hostel. The design melds with the landscape as a carbuncle of metal and glass.
20 days ago
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