Often things close to home are overlooked and so it is with Chance’s Park in Carlisle.
Daffodils, workmen and a quick walk
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March 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Dodging the rain today we escaped the house for a quick walk around Victoria park in Carlisle. One good thing is that so far we have not seen anything of the snow that was promised by the weather people. Parts of our park had an unusual smell today, emitted by some plants which mum said [...]
The cold weather continues in Cumbria
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January 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Week three or is it four weeks now that the temperatures have remained below zero in many parts of the county. Our regular walk to the park to check on the unfreezing puddle indicated that in part the water has become solid with ice. However, it is very thin and mum stopped us walking on [...]
Dalston walk – revisited
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November 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Rain continues to disrupt our walks on the fells or in potentially muddy places so earlier this week we re-visited a walk we did earlier in the year, March to be precise. Our walk starts next to the print works in Cummersdale, between Carlisle and Dalston. All seemed as it was when we last visited [...]
Miniature houses on Orkney
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August 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When mum and dad visited Orkney a few weeks ago they spotted two miniature buildings on their travels. Upon their return they have, even with our help, been unable to find out anything more about them. So can you help? Building one Situated around 20m from the A691 from Holm to Kirkwall is what appears [...]
We go on a woodland walk near Caldbeck
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April 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Today we went in search of Montague Mouse and his woodland friends during a woodland walk at Wigton just outside of Carlisle. Montague Mouse and his friends, Sebastian Shrew, Maudie Mole and Willie Water Vole live, along with a host of other characters, amongst the trees and shrubs of High Hall Nursery around 12 miles south-west of Carlisle just [...]
Putting the lights up in Appleby
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November 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We have had a busy day today with an early Sunday start. Our day started with a car journey towards the East and our first stop was Appleby Many people know this small town for the horse festival that takes place here every year. Parking the car in the car park of the Appleby [...]
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