By JoT, on December 29th, 2009
-10 on Sunday night left the minor roads hereabouts, like a skating rink.It really wasn’t worth taking the car out, although the main roads were well gritted all of the access roads to Hadrian’s Wall are little windy roads, with an incline that wa… . . . → Read More: Slipping and sliding along.
By JoT, on December 26th, 2009
I’ve already told you I’m a bit of a grinch when it comes to Christmas, but I love the fact that while people are kept indoors by ‘family’ obligations, I can get out for a walk.We set off from home to the sound of church bells ringing and headed throug… . . . → Read More: Christmas Day
By JoT, on December 20th, 2009
I love snow, perhaps because I can choose when I go out in it, unlike people who have to go to work.It started snowing on Hadrian’s Wall on Wednesday, not enough to block the roads but enough to show a covering of white on the Hadrian’s Wall Path.We ha… . . . → Read More: Snowing on the Grinch
By JoT, on December 12th, 2009
Gilsland was shrouded in mist on Friday but the webcams along Hadrian’s Wall Hadrian’s Wall webcams were showing some patches of blue.I’ve been wanting to check out the views from Mucklebank Crag (NY681667), to see if a winter sunrise shot would b… . . . → Read More: Winter mists
By JoT, on December 7th, 2009
I had to meet up with another photographer yesterday, to do a swap of camera equipment.I was buying his 80-400mm lens for my bird photography and he took a compact camera in part exchange.We decided it would be civilised to meet in the Twice Brewed Pub… . . . → Read More: Sunshine and Showers
By JoT, on December 4th, 2009
Isn’t it funny how people are drawn to certain names?Steel Rigg seems to be one of them, and as a place it draws me. Most people mistakenly think that the whole of the Crag from the car park down to Hotbank Farm is Steel Rigg, it’s actually just the bi… . . . → Read More: Steel Rigg
By JoT, on December 1st, 2009
Can you believe it? Where has the year gone to?Woke up this morning to a frosty landscape and some red light in the sky. Headed off to Cuddys Crag, I swear that climb up past the restored Lime Kiln gets steeper every time I climb it. I know I’m a pensi… . . . → Read More: December’s here