Dappled Sunlight in a Magical Wood. Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve is a small wood of about 100 acres in West Lancashire. The reserve comprises lakes, mature broadleaved and conifer woodland, sandy, wet meadows and heaths. It’s described on Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s website as A wildlife-rich haven in the heart of agricultural west Lancashire. It Read more about MONDAY is MACRO DAY: WEEK 7: Dappled Sunlight[…]
Crackpot ! The Yorkshire Dales does have beautiful villages with wonderful names. And, no I haven’t made it up. It is in Swaledale. Here it is on the map: It’s easy to find. You just follow the sign: It’s a tiny village with a few cottages and some barns: There Read more about Is there really a place called Crackpot? YES! There is![…]
It’s Lambing Time in Borrowdale, as the notice on the signpost in this first picture reminds us: Once again, despite weather warnings, we were treated to “Borrowdale Blue” skies this week….. …..although it was bitterly cold. With temperatures just above freezing, we headed off again to walk to High Brandelhowe Jetty. This bridge Read more about Which Way? A Signpost, a Gate and a Bridge[…]
Lancaster Canal: Bridge 26 to Bridge 30 (and back) With a beautiful section of the Lancaster Canal just 5 minutes along the road from our village, we often find ourselves there at all seasons of the year (unless the towpath is just TOO muddy). Now that I’ve found a map of the canal in its Read more about Lancaster Canal: from Bridge 26 to Bridge 30[…]
It’s Easter Weekend. There are reports of huge queues of traffic on some roads near us as day-trippers head to the coast. So what better place to escape to this morning than our local stretch of the Lancaster Canal. Two minutes into the walk, we came across a sign: TOWPATH CLOSED. Oh dear! It looked like Read more about Easter Weekend Walk by the Lancaster Canal[…]