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Green shoots of spring

April 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Spring has finally arrived and with it comes the early morning birdsong, the scent of flowers in the garden and this year rosette man.

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Funny image from Cockermouth

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February 17, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Unusual combination of businesses in Cockermouth

It would seem that this pension trust service now offer more than just financial support.

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Happy New Year 2010 from a blog from my dog

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January 1, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Despite our best efforts last night mum and dad insisted on staying up way past their bedtimes and saw in something they call the new year. In what has become an annual ritual dad gets his coat and shoes on and leaves the house just before midnight, clutching a small bag of salt, a cork [...]

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Frosty Carlisle but no snow yet.

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December 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Frosty ground and brilliant sunshine – just perfect for an early morning walk and that is exactly how we started the day. Mum and dad promised that we would get out today ahead of the forcasted snow, which as yet has not arrived. Buster has taken to wearing his fleecy jacket at this time of [...]

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Calm sea at Silloth after Cumbrian storms

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November 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Sunshine and a bit of frost greeted us this morning so Charlie ensured mum and dad were up early because we wanted a good walk, no excuses. Floods, gales and horrid weather has kept us close to home for too long and today it was time for Silloth. Over the last week we have seen [...]

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Flood alerts in Cumbria

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November 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Flood alerts have been issued by the Environment Agency for all of the local area after heavy overnight rain. We were woken up at one point during the sleep time, so we thought we should go and investigate where all the rain goes, so we headed to Bitts Park and the River Eden. We are [...]

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A new walk at Kingmoor

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September 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

With an air temperature of 13 degrees and white fluffy clouds in the sky we escaped the confines of the house for another expedition, this time to the north of Carlisle. Our destination was to be the Kingmoor North Nature Reserve on the side of the former 14 Maintainance Unit (14MU) depot. This is a [...]

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Rain affects crops & stops our walks

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September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

When will the rain ever stop and we can get out for a good long walk? Over the last several days we must have had many centimeters of rain and we are now starting to get bored of it. Running around and sulking is all we seem to be doing recently and it is also very [...]

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Hot weather and summer produce …

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July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Gosh it has been hot for the last few days. So hot we have been staying outside to try and keep cool as the house has been unbearable. Even the tiled kitchen floor didn’t cool us down. Mum purchased earlier this year an indoor – outdoor room for the garden. This has allowed us to [...]

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Time for a walk …

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April 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

We are very confused this week as Mum and dad seem to be getting up in the dark and going to bed in the dark …. but we are still getting a walk and it is light. After weeks of Dad waking up on a morning and the sunlight coming through the curtains he did [...]