Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12.50pm (day 166)
No, I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t sit and let today’s weather pass unused. I’ll catch up on Sunday instead. It was worth it.
Plenty more pictures from today have been uploaded onto my other blog.
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Another Hebden Bridge sunset
Wednesday 1st February 2012, 4.20pm (day 160)
Spent the whole day at home grading papers. Ah well, at least there’s the view from the house to keep me (and the blog) going on such an otherwise monotonous – and cold – day.
Spurn Head
Thursday 26th January 2012, 11.50am (day 154)
From Mike Parker’s book, Map Addict (2009, Harper Collins):
Page 3: “I’m the one who will annoy anyone I’m sharing a flight with by repeatedly jabbing at the window and telling them which town we’re flying over, just because I recognised its shape and road pattern from decades of map scrutiny…”
Page 81 [referring to Spurn Head]: “Driving down this tiny thread of land is like walking a tightrope in a gale. The concrete road is poor and rutted, with drifts of sand blocking the way and sea spume whacking your windscreen like a scorned lover. At times, the road is virtually all there is between the two banks of angry, choppy sea falling away on either side. There is no safety net…. It is one of the ugliest, rawest places of beauty I have ever experienced. And it is quite wonderful. Twenty years it had taken from running my eager finger along my first Ordnance Survey map to standing on the point itself, but it was worth every minute of the wait.”
The summit of Rannerdale Knotts
Friday 28th October 2011, 11.40am (day 64)
No time to settle in at home after returning from Moscow – at this time of year it is necessary to grab the chance to get a walk in when I can. I may not have time to do any more until nearly Christmas, unfortunately, and depend on the weather even then.
But it’s worth it. Trips abroad are interesting but I’d rather be here. So would this sheep, by the looks of things.
(See http://214wainwrights.wordpress.com for other photos from today and a description of the walk.)
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