My show is repeated this Friday at 13:00 GMT. I'm pretty certain that you won't hear any of the songs on my show on anyone else's show...
My show is repeated this Friday at 13:00 GMT. I'm pretty certain that you won't hear any of the songs on my show on anyone else's show...
Love Leighton Moss. Spotted some great birds thereโฆ
Although I've had to turn the volume down and have a mince pie whilst Puiyin's favourite is playing...
Tune in every Friday from 1pm GMT - my show will be repeated on Friday 6th February... #ALTc25
Is it in your ears and in your eyes as well?
Finger post Friar's Crag ยฝ mile 15 mins Keswick 1 1/4 miles 40mins
First #FingerpostFriday of 2026โฆ
The jaws of Borrowdale
The 'Hundred Year Stone' is a sculpture by Peter Randall-Page located on the shore ofย Derwent Waterย between Calf Close Bay and Broomhill Point. It was made in 1995 to celebrate the Centenary of the National Trust.ย Carved out of a boulder of volcanic rock from the Borrowdale Valley, the unusual design represents ten segments across ten rings
Skiddaw with a dusting of fresh snow
Todayโs route - 5.8 miles
Derwent Water wander - 2nd January 2026. A chilly winter wander down to Calf Close bay and back. 22 birds spotted to start the year list off well. 5.8 miles.
Remains of Carrock Mine
Cairn with a dusting of fresh snow
Great Lingy Hut on the skyline
Todayโs route - 6 miles
Wainwright 201 - Knott. Book 5 completed. It was snowing. Lunch in Great Lingy Hut. 6 miles, 1670 feet of up and down.
Crummock Water and Buttermere
Clouds collecting
Mountains view
Todayโs route - 7 miles
Wainwright 200 - Mellbreak. Lots more frozen boggy bits and a nice (occasionally steep) ascent from the south. 7 miles, 1600 feet of up and down.
Glenderamackin valley
Low winter sun
St Johnโs in the Vale
Todayโs route - 5.7 miles
Wainwright 199 - Mungrisdale Common. He commented that it "has no more pretension to elegance than a pudding that has been sat on" and that โprecious holiday hours should not be wasted hereโ. 5.7 miles, 1420 feet of up and down.
Low winter sun
Wainwright 198 - Hen Comb (Chicken Comb)
Cumbrian views
Todayโs route - 7.1 miles
Wainwright 198 - Hen Comb (Chicken Comb). A perfect winter day in Cumbria. 7.1 miles, 1620 feet of up and down.
Wooden bench. Text reads IN LOVING MEMORY OF BOUDICA QUEEN OF THE ICENI WHO DIED NEAR WATLING STREET AD60
Spotted this misleading bench today. I was sceptical. The use of the word โnearโ makes it technically correct, but Boudicca is said to have died on a different bit of Watling Street to where this bench is placed, about 60 miles south east of this locationโฆ And it was most likely AD60 or 61โฆ
It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever...
White iced cake with snowflakes, plastic holly leaves and plastic robins.
Christmas cake is finished. Just got to wait a few more days to eat it. Went square this year for a changeโฆ
Can and glass of beer
Well thatโs it for another year. Out of office is on.
Can and glass of beer
This week I had a 2 1/2 hour meeting. I thought those days were over but apparently not. Hooray for Fridayโฆ
Very sad news about someone I'd known and worked with since the last century... www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Sadly my shorthand reading relatives are no longer compos mentis, so can't help with that bit, but it looks like a version of "chocolate fridge cake", so suspect method is similar to www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
Small black dog with an increasingly white muzzleโฆ
Todayโs free dog is my old friend Noelโฆ
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Robert Palmer on Top of the Pops in 1988
In the words of Rob Newman, โsomewhere thereโs a third division football team missing a managerโโฆ #TOTP
Can and glass of beer
Given that a few of my friends have already got their Christmas decorations up, it must be time to open a Christmas beer.
Itโs good harmless fun. Fills the gap now that Sewing Bee is over for another year.
Pint of golden cask beer.
Bit of culture tonight, nice cask pint followed by a film festival of short independent films.
I saw the Quo at Wembley Arena in December 1991 - was just reminiscing about this with some friends from school the other day!
Bowl with six red tomatoes
The last of the garden tomatoes for this year.
From some limited research it sounds like they have gone in the opposite direction to โrealโโฆ
They are now Birds Eye crispy pancakes. Iceland also have their own version.
When it comes to AI, there is nothing like a dame.
Small red crab apples
Bright red Japanese maple tree
Pink and purple fuschia flowers
Tiny lilac nemesia flowers with bright yellow dots in the middle
Autumn colours in the garden.