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The latest stone circle in Cumbria

January 15, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Buster takes a moment to look around the new stone circle

With the ground frozen after cold overnight temperatures it was decided that we could return to Rickerby Park in Carlisle and not get too muddy. This was good news as we were keen to investigate the new stone circle.

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Ennerdale fells and fresh water licks

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October 2, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Buster and Charlie wonder if the could swim the full length

We head west to a lovely part of Cumbria known as Ennerdale where we had loads of paddles and a fantastic walk up onto the fells.

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Emergency exercise – Silloth, Cumbria

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September 4, 2011 By admin 1 Comment

RNLI Silloth lifeboats take part in the exercise

What started off as a simple walk in the sunshine on the Silloth prom turned out to be quite exciting, as we came upon a big emergency services exercise.

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Summer fruit, a giant bug and mud

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August 15, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

This has to be the wolds largest dragonfly - about 10cm long

Our expedition to the north of Carlisle takes us to a Green Flag award winning wood where we see giant bugs and help gather some summer fruit.

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Greystoke in the sunshine

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August 9, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Greystoke near Penrith was our destination today as we left the city behind and headed for the green fields of the countryside.

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Wet Sleddale and some sheep on a film set

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March 20, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

Just look at the view back to the car park

Buster and Charlie head for the fells as they visit the location for ‘Withnail and I’ at Wet Sledddale near Shap in Cumbria.

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A morning spent in Annan, Scotland

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August 8, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Overlooking the upper reaches of the Solway Firth is the Royal Burgh of Annan with it’s wide main street and imposing buildings.

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Playing in the sand at St Bees

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March 21, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Dad seems to be going further today in the car than we have done on recent walks but in the air is a familiar scent that seems to be getting stronger as we approach a place called Whitehaven. Looking through the window in the back of the car we see the sea to our right [...]

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100 posts and a walk in Carlisle

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December 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Celebrations are the order of the day as we clock up one hundred posts on this version of our blog. Long term readers will know that actually the number of posts we have published is a lot higher than this but the clock was reset when we moved to this software called WordPress. Did you [...]

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Golden trees in Ennerdale, Cumbria

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October 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Saturday turned out to be a better day than anyone could have predicted with warm sunshine, a great walk and loads of paddling. The brief was to go in search of autumn colours and all the guides hinted that Ennerdale was the place to visit. Mum had written about a number of places around the [...]