After what seems like weeks of wet weather, we finally have a dry day and head off to the park to stretch our legs.
Flood tiles, bedding plants and more Roman Frontier work discovered.
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June 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Riverside trail – mystery solved
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June 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Regular readers will know that we have, during our walks around Carlisle, been collecting images of the ceramic tiles incorporated into the new flood defences
The park is filled with flowers
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May 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Venturing in to the park this morning it is fantastic to see all the flowers and plants taking full advantage of the spring sunshine.
Flood signs in Carlisle
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January 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Over the past few weeks we have become aware of a few new signs appearing on our walks. Made in the form of ceramic tiles the small graphical artworks depict a local landmark or the extent of the Carlisle floods in 2005. Interestingly the tiles seem to be embedded into the new flood defences. Searching [...]
100 posts and a walk in Carlisle
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December 13, 2009 By 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 [...]
Calm sea at Silloth after Cumbrian storms
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November 28, 2009 By 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 [...]
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 [...]
We get involved in a world record attempt.
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March 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
What a busy weekend we have had. We have already mentioned our inspection of the flood defences and the works going on at a nearby garden but we also got involved in a world record attempt. Towards the end of last week we got a message from the Britglyph project who are trying to recreate [...]
Flood defence work almost done
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December 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Charlie scampered up and down the new bankings and played at being ‘king of the castle’ many times much to the annoyance of mum who was hoping to take us back home reasonably clean. The new hills are around 2m high and are part of a bigger scheme of works around the City. The new [...]
Carlisle flood defence art tiles
Over the last few months we have been spotting on our walks a number of painted tiles built into the new Carlisle flood defences.