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You might find my own Cicerone 'Patterdale' guide a useful backup to AW's. Am looking forward to giving talk and demonstration on AW's pen drawing technique on July 21st at the Armitt Museum... best book early 👍 Have fun visiting all those wonderful fells, they'll bring you great reward.
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Ditto in Geltsdale, yet Winter is acoming.
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OMG "so this is Christmas" the reality of Christmastide. Get well soon by coddling yourself.
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The handsome peak of Grasmoor End looks about as far removed from a grassy moor from this perspective as could be imagined.
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What a lovely setting.
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Surely these are paintings...
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The sun flickering like Christmas lights across Lakeland's winter landscape is exciting.
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Grassgarth
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You're dead right there John.
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Slater Bridge dates from 1390, built by the family of John Slayther so EPNS states.It will feeature in my Countrystride December Hefted walk description.
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Truly a gorgeously peaceful setting. Good you took the stroll, quite a contrast to your more usual high hikes. It will feature in the Keswick Walking Companion when at last it is published in February. I did the walk in 2023!
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Have you listened to CS episode 117 when we walked up by Throstlegarth and chatted about the very spot you recorded that video?
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Seems the dialect term blea revealed in place-names like Blea Tarn, mean 'bruise-coloured water'. You needed to know that didn't you 😂
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Great Scot and great shot.
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Cute shot with the ridge to Steel Fell in shadow and Helvellyn, Nethermost and Dollywaggon Pikes on the horizon. Had to look at it for a minute to balance it out.
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Riggindale
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Scree scree scree and superb crags.
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It has a Bronze Age tumulus, so that makes it more significant than a W. Whelter translates as 'the curved combe' I believe.
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Low Raise and Whelter Crags in sight.
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Sure did.
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144... that might be considered 'gross' exercise.
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At this very moment I am drawing a romantic rural lane draped in leaves and trunks with a winding way ahead, a place one can feel the embrace of nature.
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Canol of course, that's the middle term. I should have delved in before posting as I was looking at the Snowdonia Slate Trial last autumn and enjoying the area immensely. I drew this linescape of the Nantlle Hills from Y Fron.
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That's a triptic pun.
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Icy what you did there.
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A marvellous passage of wisdom. How we reflect on our roots and remember things as if they were the start of time. I return to my place of upbringing in rural west Oxfordshire and it seems empty, missing are the people I knew, old and young, who made it real.
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Local whim. Expect you've read Angus Winchester's 'Language of the Landscape' which is devoted in large part to your valley. Diana Whaley's book 'Place-names of the Lake District' is always a good reference, as too EPNS Cumberland (3 vols) all of which I have and regularly pore through.