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Oct 28 2013
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Daily Post, Landscape

Windermere

Monday 28th October 2013, 3.05pm (day 795)

Windermere, 28/10/13

Joe is on his half-term holiday, so these two days I’m off work doing my part of the child care duties. And I decided to take him somewhere I liked. Why not.

Newspaper editors in London might also like to use this picture as evidence that today was not, despite their headlines, the day that the ‘Killer Storm Stopped Britain’. Or perhaps they were using ‘Britain’ as shorthand for ‘that small part of a decent-sized country which is nearest to London’ — as they so often do?

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Oct 12 2013
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Landscape

View of the Duddon estuary, from White Combe

Friday 11th October 2013, 11.50am (day 778)

Duddon estuary, 11/10/13

I have worked the last two Sundays and I’m working this coming Sunday too, so today I took the day off and made the most of a decent weather forecast. This is taken in the far south-west corner of the Lake District, looking southeast over the long estuary of the River Duddon, with the town of Barrow on the peninsula in the background. (More pictures from the day will be put on my other blog later.)

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Sep 01 2013
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Eystein, on Lifjell

Sunday 1st September 2013, 1.50pm (day 738)

Eystein on Lifjell, 1/9/13

And here is my host and mountain guide, Eystein — or at least, his back — pictured on the way back down from a summit that nearly bears his name, Øysteinnatte (Øystein’s Knott, a knott being a rocky tor), part of the larger massif of Lifjell. An enjoyable weekend’s walking to say the least, but it’s back to work (in Oslo) tomorrow.

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Aug 14 2013
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Boat How and Burnmoor Tarn

Wednesday 14th August 2013, 1.20pm (day 720)

Boat How and Burnmoor Tarn, 14/8/13

Haven’t done a ‘pure’ landscape for a while — not since the last time I was around the Lake District, I guess. Not a coincidence, there are just so many more of them round there.

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Jul 08 2013
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Salt marsh, Kents Bank, Cumbria

Monday 8th July 2013, 9.40am (day 683)

Kents Bank, 8/7/13

I worked yesterday, so walked today. This is my usual walking county — Cumbria — but so far away from my usual haunt that it’s outside the Lake District National Park, on the very edge of Morecambe Bay. Forty years ago this area was marked on the map as mud and sand, but changes in the currents around the Bay (caused by sea protection works in Morecambe, some say) have seen the sea retreat and leave these salt marshes. There were a few clouds around when I arrived at nearby Kents Bank railway station to start my walk a few minutes before taking this photo, but they soon burned off, and it was another very hot one today.

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Jun 23 2013
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Daily Post, Hebden Bridge, Landscape

Birthday party walk

Sunday 23rd June 2013, 1.35pm (day 668)

Kids in field, 23/6/13

Joe was invited to the birthday party of one of his friends, and though it was a bit cool and damp to take the picnic that was planned, we (that is, about 8 adults, 15 kids and 3 dogs) did get a walk up on the fells above the western end of Hebden Bridge. It did occasionally remind me why I do tend to walk alone… but still, like the Saturday last weekend, it showed me some parts of my locality that I have not seen, and that alone made it worth doing.

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Jun 04 2013
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Ladder stile, Potter Fell

Tuesday 4th June 2013, 10.35am (day 649)

Ladder stile, 4/6/13

I’m walking again. If you want to know more about that part of the day then see my other blog. It was a gorgeous, glorious summer’s day, perfect weather in every respect, and this is more-or-less the only picture I took all day that didn’t have some blue skies on it somewhere. But nevertheless it’s the one I like the best: good curve on the wall, the solitary X-shape of the stile.

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May 17 2013
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Uli in the forest, Waya Island

Friday 17th May 2013, 8.30am (day 631)

Uli in forest, 17/5/13

We went on a hike up Mount Nulakaokao (or something like that) today, 10 of us of various nationalities, led by our Fijian guide Ameo, who astonishingly, climbed up and over the volcanic rocks in bare feet. Impossible to cover the whole trek in one picture, but this one wins just for being rather different: it would have been easy to pick one of the views from and of the mountain itself, which were spectacular, but I like the flare effect on this one. This is Uli, from Dortmund, Germany.

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Apr 29 2013
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Mount Beerwah

Monday 29th April 2013, 1.50pm (day 613)

Mt Beerwah, 29/4/13

This is the highest of the Glasshouse Mountains, about 50 miles (80km) north of Brisbane. As viewed from Mount Tiborgargan nearby, and given added mystery by a pall of smoke which hung over these old, eroded volcanic plugs most of the day, courtesy of some scrub-burning I think.

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Feb 28 2013
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DOC worker near Twin Beach, Heaphy Coast

Thursday 28th February 2013, 1.40pm (day 553)

DOC worker, Heaphy Coast, 28/2/13

DOC is the Department of Conservation, the body who look after New Zealand’s wonderful environment, and are trying to continue to do so in the face of the same old funding pressures foisted on us by the moronocracy. Be nice to these people, who are basically trying to help the world. Mind you, they do get to work in some pretty attractive locations.

Last day walking the Heaphy Track – usually people take five days, I did it in three, including a 37km (23 mile) last day. My feet hurt. But I’m happy to have done it, and now I’ve caught up with this blog: however, more photos from the walk, and details on the experience, are shortly going up on my walking blog.

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