Saturday didn’t start too well but by 10am it was brightening, I happened to the twitter site and found a posting saying there was mist on the Wall.Within 15 minutes I was up at Crag Lough, then onto Hotbank Crag with a final stop at Sycamore Gap.It wa… . . . → Read More: An amazing day
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Today I started the Christmas shopping, heading off to Carlisle (a lovely, unhurried place to shop) just after ten o’clock this morning. Somewhere around lunchtime, I realised that the skies above were bright and blue, something we haven’t seen in… . . . → Read More: It’s actaully stopped raining! We had some sunshine today between the deluges so I decided to go down to the River Irthung at Willowford and see how the water was flowing.As I turned into to track to Willowford Farm I could hear the waterfall roaring, I’ve not yet managed to find a … . . . → Read More: overflowing The weather has been awful, so much rain that the oceans must be 2 metres lower than normal, and all of it seems to have fallen on Cumbria and our part of Northumberland.Parts of Cumbria have had terrible floods with people having to be rescued from th… . . . → Read More: Walltown and weather Tourism businesses are being invited to go into the “2010 Hadrian’s Wall Country Holiday and Short Breaks Guide”. Click here for more … . . . → Read More: Holiday & Short Breaks Guide 2010 Now I know you may have been out with me on these early mornings before but, while the places may be the same, Mother Nature makes sure conditions on each occasion are quite different.It was touch and go this morning, quite a bit of cloud about but as … . . . → Read More: Moments of light The solution adopted by the Romans across northern Britain was a wall, built in stone in the eastern half of the isthmus, but from the river Irthing westwards it was initially built of stacked turf. . . . → Read More: Archaeology The Roman Empire, probably the greatest single influence on European cultural development, grew from the single city state of Rome and by the beginning of the 1st century AD there was feeling that this expansion was a limitless and natural process. . . . → Read More: Roman Empires and Frontiers Oh! what luxury it is to be getting up for a sunrise at 6.30am, it seems like cheating somehow.I even had time for a cup of coffee, then was delayed when the outdoor cat made a dash up the stairs as soon as I opened the front door. He’s not house train… . . . → Read More: Luxury of a lie in Been waiting for a while now for the frosty mornings to begin and this morning I was rewarded with a white frosty world. I had forgotten that this also means I have to defrost the car before I can go anywhere and, of course, the de-icer was nearly… . . . → Read More: Frost at last |
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