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Thursday 4th December 2025
EARTHQUAKE!
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Well, that was weird . . . So M**** and I are just chilling out in the lounge, watching television. It would have been some time between 23:00 and 23:30 (although in hindsight, exactly 23:23). Suddenly there was this massive crash . . . somewhere . . . and we (or at least I) went into full-blown, adrenaline-fuelled panic mode (I remember the last time something similar happened was when a precariously balanced, but fully packed, suitcase fell from the bannister onto the hallway outside our bedroom in the middle of the night, when we were living on Windsor Avenue). The best way I have of describing the feeling was as if a large vehicle had just collided with the house, or perhaps if a significant, structural part of the house had just collapsed. So that's initially what we both thought: that something, somewhere had just collapsed, or perhaps that a solar panel had fallen of the roof. I ran straight for R******'s room, as M**** wondered if he had fallen out of bed (blimey - he's not that heavy!). R****** was still in bed, and had been asleep until I burst in, checking he was okay. I then checked the rest of the house and all seemed in place. I grabbed my torch to check outside, whilst M**** checked some of the rooms I had missed. Everything seemed in order outside, as far as I could tell. And, having checked throughout the house, nothing seemed out of place there either. As we stood around on the patio outside the summer house, whatever it was had obviously disturbed other people in the neighbourhoor, as there were lights coming on and people talking and milling around in the distance. Not long after the disturbance, my phone started going crazy with posts in the Silverdale neighbourhood watch group. It wasn't long before we realised it had been an earthquake, 3.3 in magnitude, with an epicentre barely a few miles away. Anyway, exciting stuff. House intact, although I noticed a chunk of limestone from one of the rockeries had fallen to the path, although I'm not entirely sure when that happened . . .
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Wednesday 22nd October 2025
Wrong shoes
 | | So recently there was a conversation that went along the lines of . . . using my camera more, trying to capture more of the landscape / environment around here. On the way to drop R****** off, we noticed a load of intriguing looking mist, hanging around the fields around Park Road. I figured by the time I got back home, I wouldn't have long to photograph this before the sun would burn it all away. And then because I wasn't familiar enough with the view down to Park Road from Eaves Wood, I wasn't entirely sure of the best vantage point. And on top of all that, I didn't have time to change my shoes, so my footwear (a pair of sliders, more at home in the garden than anywhere else) wasn't entirely appropriate. Anyway . . . I grabbed my camera and headed up to the Pepperpot. Hmmmmmm. A lot of trees in the way. I tried to take some pictures anyway but then my camera battery decided to die at that point. Ah. So, I switched to my mobile phone and took this panoramic shot, seeing as I was there anyway. I then tried to figure out some way of looking down to Park Road from the woods, but every view had trees in the way, not surprisingly. Really, in hindsight, I needed to be on Bottoms Lane or one of the paths off from there. Ah well. All a learning experience.
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Saturday 18th October 2025
Definitely Autumn
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Saturday 27th September 2025
Arnside Tower
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Monday 25th August 2025
god knows . . . some trees?!
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Sunday 3rd August 2025
Much less Marcle
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Saturday 2nd August 2025
Much MORE Marcle
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Friday 1st August 2025
Much Marcle
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Saturday 28th June 2025
Somewhere near Skipton
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Sunday 8th June 2025
pseudo-Riemannian manifolds
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Sunday 25th May 2025
Stourhead and not entirely in control of the camera
        |         |         |        |     | | Max showed an interest in my camera and asked if he could take some pictures. And I was like, "Yeah, sure, why not?" I always like it when other people use my camera instead of me, as the style of photography, the subject, the content . . . etc . . . everything will be different to some degree. Plus, there's a greater chance that I'll be in one of these pictures! I had to delete some of these, due to focus / exposure issues, but what remains is largely the work of Max (I took the picture of the horse and perhaps a few others).
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Friday 2nd May 2025
Elterwater
      |       |      | | See also entry for 28th May 2023. This is the walk we had previously attempted, but had to call short. M**** and I did the walk again, without incident and also without A****** and R******. At some point, this enormous (or at least very loud) four-propeller military plane flew over and I tried (but was a little too late) to capture it on my camera. Possibly something to do with VE day celebrations?!
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Saturday 19th April 2025
erm . . . where are we?!
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Friday 11th April 2025
Crawick Multiverse
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Thursday 10th April 2025
Gatehouse of Fleet, Day 5
       |        |        |     | | Blimey, we got up to all sorts today, having a proper drive around 'The Rhins' (of Galloway). First stop: Logan Botanic Garden, then onto the Mull of Galloway lighthouse, via Port Logan.
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