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  A chubby baby whose first home was a pub..

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Seaton Carew Road – North Gare Sands – Seaton Snook – The Zinc Works Road – Greatham Creek – Mucky Fleet – West Channel – Seal Sands – Brinefields

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 White heat has cooled

Across a sea of samphire – Aqaba!

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 Odd fertility

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Marsh Orchids – “Catholic in their choice of habitats” R. Mabey

Seals have been spotted up to 20 miles upriver

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The Joy of seeing an Avocets

Tacky Shades for Chris Whitehead.

Wandering north with Carl Seaton Carew Road - North Gare Sands - Seaton Snook - The Zinc Works Road - Greatham Creek - Mucky Fleet - West Channel - Seal Sands - Brinefields…

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Ivan The Tolerable & The Elastic Band - Rations

Ivan The Tolerable & The Elastic Band – Rations

June has turned out to be a wonderfully musical month in our house. I received a copy of Rations by Ivan the Tolerable & The Elastic Band. Dense, mesmerizing, motorik, kosmische..it’s a stunner. Get a copy here

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The rattler

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Cursus by Cursus

This wonderful album by Chris Whitehead is my favourite album of 2019 so far. It has been released by TQ Zine. You can get the download by ordering the latest copy of TQ or you can buy the album directly from the TQ Bandcamp page.

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Great Langdale Cup Marked Stone – Dungeon Ghyll – Harrison Stickle – Loft Crag – Pike of Stickle – Martcrag Moor – Stake Pass – Mickleden – Old Dungeon Ghyll – Copt Howe – Mayburgh Henge 21.06.2019

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A cup-marked boulder at the foot of the Side Pike pass to Little Langdale.

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I don’t have a great head for heights, the narrow scramble between Harrison Stickle and Dungeon Ghyll makes me question my choice of route, to withdraw would be to fail.

There are two genii, which nature gave us as companions throughout life. The one, sociable and lovely, shortens the laborious journey for us through its lively play, makes the fetters of necessity light for us, and leads us amidst joy and jest up to the dangerous places, where we must act as pure spirits and lay aside everything bodily, as to cognition of truth and performance of duty. Here it abandons us, for only the world of sense is its province, beyond this its earthly wings can not carry it. But now the other one steps up, earnest and silent, and with stout arm it carries us over the dizzying depth. On the sublime by Friedrich Schiller. 1801

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 Staring down the gulley to the valley below, then scrambling to the summit of the Pike of Stickle, terrifying and exhilarating.

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Chasing clouds across the fells

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Tracking  Prehistoric Cairns along Mickleden

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Flakes of Tuff carried down the scree from the Neolithic quarries on the Pike of Stickle

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On leaving, I visit the prehistoric carved boulders of Copt Howe

Mayburgh Henge, generally my starting and finishing point when visiting Cumbria.

Solstice Wanderings in Cumbria – Tuff Great Langdale Cup Marked Stone - Dungeon Ghyll - Harrison Stickle - Loft Crag - Pike of Stickle - Martcrag Moor - Stake Pass - Mickleden - Old Dungeon Ghyll - Copt Howe - Mayburgh Henge 21.06.2019…

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Little Langdale -Tilberthwaite, Cathedral Quarry 20.06.2019

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..Here a slate as hard as steel,

Tubular moulding around the keel

Of plated rock, and here a shale

That flakes and peels to finger nail.

The stream divides, the waves obey,

Now charitable in decay;

And children lie in sighing beds –

A river floor above their heads;

From The Seven Rocks by Norman Nicholson

Solstice Wanderings in Cumbria – Slate Little Langdale -Tilberthwaite, Cathedral Quarry 20.06.2019 ..Here a slate as hard as steel, Tubular moulding around the keel…

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Carrol

Alice

Great Channel

Dodgson attended Richmond Grammar School for a year while his father was vicar of Croft

Frenchgate

Frenchgate

Cobbles

Hunting for erratics amongst the river-worn cobbles of Frenchgate.

Shap granite

Greathead

Head

Compass

Level

Zealous and Consistent members

Gob

Flowers

John

Cross Slab

The town has two subterranean legends. One tells of how a potter named Thompson discovered a cave beneath the castle. In the cave was a round table around which were a group of sleeping knights. Upon the table was a great sword and a horn. Thompson reached for the horn, waking knights from their sleep. Thompson fled and as he ran he heard a voice behind him say..

Potter Thompson, Potter Thompson!

If thou hadst drawn the sword or blown the horn,

Thou hadst been the luckiest man e’er was born.”

Boles

Easby Abbey

Head

Tempus

The second legend concerns a tunnel that runs from the castle to Easby Abbey. The tunnel was supposed to have been dug to allow the abbots to escape from the marauding Scots. Some soldiers wanted to explore the tunnel but found it too narrow. They sent a drummer boy into the passage and instructed him to beat his drum as he walked, allowing the soldiers to track his progress from the surface.  At a point between the castle and the abbey the drum fell silent and the boy was never seen again.

Drummer Boy’s Stone

Plaque

A stone has been erected on the riverside path to mark the point where the drumming ceased. The local legend is that the drummer boy’s ghost still walks the passage and occasionally his drum can still be heard beating.

    Strong Hill – Richmond Dodgson attended Richmond Grammar School for a year while his father was vicar of Croft Hunting for erratics amongst the river-worn cobbles of Frenchgate.

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Standing up for standing stones

Standing up for standing stones

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A walk to the Source of the Ure

A walk to the Source of the Ure

I wrote this account of a walk I took to the source of the River Ure in 2005. It was first posted on Julian Cope’s The Modern Antiquarian website

The River Ure rises in the Pennines and then heads east into Wensleydale, it then flows out of Wensleydale into the Vale of York. South of York the Ure is joined by the much smaller Ouse Gill Beck and the river’s name becomes the River Ouse, I’ve never…

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I recently came across some images that I’d taken of the Prehistoric Rock Art at Allan Tofts on the North York Moors in 2006. Many of these stones are now overgrown and very difficult to find. As with the nearby rock art on Fylingdales Moor, many of the carved rocks appeared to be associated with low-lying cairns.

Allan Tofts I recently came across some images that I'd taken of the Prehistoric Rock Art at Allan Tofts on the North York Moors in 2006.

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Noisy Daughters

Featuring some of the North of England finest female talent, the noisy daughters compilation has 9 acts that cross boundaries and genres but all have one thing in common – amazing music!

Buy it here

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Hob Hill

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The Creek The Creek documentary tells the story of a community of fishermen and their families  who built a series of boat-houses and cabins on the north bank of Greatham Creek at the turn of the 20th century, and was abandoned in the early 1980’s.