....necessitating layers that can be whipped on and off as appropriate.
No problem for the dogs but then they don`t seem to have any problems.
Fab skies and wheeling flocks of starlings.....set off to work pretty light of heart myself.
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Wednesday 28.11.2012
A smorgasbord of weather:take your pick from sun, sleet, rain, rainbow, cloud.....
....necessitating layers that can be whipped on and off as appropriate.
No problem for the dogs but then they don`t seem to have any problems.
Fab skies and wheeling flocks of starlings.....set off to work pretty light of heart myself.
....necessitating layers that can be whipped on and off as appropriate.
No problem for the dogs but then they don`t seem to have any problems.
Fab skies and wheeling flocks of starlings.....set off to work pretty light of heart myself.
Monday 26 November 2012
Monday 26.11.2012
No deluges or floods on the hill though some business-like showers of sleet and rain.
Middle of the afternoon and dry as we set out, very squidgy underfoot, charcoal grey clouds overhead like a large woolly hat,
lichens fairly glowing in the damp
and the woods getting darker and more mysterious as the light quickly dwindled and we got caught in one of those showers as we headed home.
Btw,it`s Scottish Book Week* and I`m on the third of Barry Hutchison`s Invisible Fiends series.
Making me very glad I didn`t have an imaginary friend as a child though I did like to pretend a tennis ball was my pet dog............guess Mr. Hutchison** could even make that scary.
*http://www.bookweekscotland.com
**http://www.barryhutchison.com/
Middle of the afternoon and dry as we set out, very squidgy underfoot, charcoal grey clouds overhead like a large woolly hat,
lichens fairly glowing in the damp
and the woods getting darker and more mysterious as the light quickly dwindled and we got caught in one of those showers as we headed home.
Btw,it`s Scottish Book Week* and I`m on the third of Barry Hutchison`s Invisible Fiends series.
Making me very glad I didn`t have an imaginary friend as a child though I did like to pretend a tennis ball was my pet dog............guess Mr. Hutchison** could even make that scary.
*http://www.bookweekscotland.com
**http://www.barryhutchison.com/
Sunday 18 November 2012
Sunday 18.11.2012
Crunchy frosted grass, ice on the puddles,a clear blue sky and winter sun. Where else could you want to be on a morning like that?
A keen wind blew straight at us as we set off up the hill but in the woods just skirled the top branches meaning hats and gloves could come off.
Chains of geese stretching out across the sky noisily announcing their departure("we`re out of here...enjoy your winter")
Is the solitary one which there always is bringing up the rear crying "wait for me" or "on you go lads you`re doing great"?
A keen wind blew straight at us as we set off up the hill but in the woods just skirled the top branches meaning hats and gloves could come off.
Chains of geese stretching out across the sky noisily announcing their departure("we`re out of here...enjoy your winter")
Is the solitary one which there always is bringing up the rear crying "wait for me" or "on you go lads you`re doing great"?
Sunday 11 November 2012
Sunday 11.11.2012
Before family life confused sleeping patterns for ever, often went out early morning. Not so very early today but with visitors/flapjack-making/work all on today`s agenda managed to nick out not long after half eight.
Cold, cold wind but clear blue sky just fringed with the odd bit of cloud. Long morning shadows this time - long shadows all day at this time of the year really.
Visitors came and went, flapjack excellent if I do say so myself and work was... well, quite good fun tonight in fact
Cold, cold wind but clear blue sky just fringed with the odd bit of cloud. Long morning shadows this time - long shadows all day at this time of the year really.
Visitors came and went, flapjack excellent if I do say so myself and work was... well, quite good fun tonight in fact
Friday 9 November 2012
Friday 9.11.2012
Quiet afternoon, quiet weather, quiet walk.....compared to being stuck on the M62 as we were at the same time last week....no contest really........
Thursday 8 November 2012
Wednesday 6.11.2012
Some days are so perfect for walking that pictures are inadequate. Sunny, fresh-washed day; birds on the wing; clumps of sparkling white cloud in a blue sky and long shadows even in the late morning.
Half a pale moon hung over the hill as we strode into the woods, revelling in the strong but warm wind which rattled the branches and whirled the red and gold leaves from the trees, giving Nature a chance to imitate Art and go all Andy Goldsworthy.
Later walked between some of Aberdeen uni`s oldest buildings on the way into town: the autumn term in such surroundings felt quite poignant but I`m not sure why.
All a long way from the adventures of last week: a long trip south in a large white van, delivering, collecting, visiting.
Recommended:
- the youth hostel in Leominster with a view of The Priory church from the bedroom window
- the Grape Vaults pub in Leominster (http://thegrapevaults.co.uk/)
Wasn`t sure pubs like that still existed! Dark oak floor, brass topped tables, real fire and real beer......and a customer`s old black labrador looking in vain for dropped crisps.
- Tintern Abbey,the Wye Valley and the Severn Bridge
- Alnmouth - not least for the plethora of signs warning you off paddling, swimming, riding horses and getting in the way of flying golf balls notwithstanding the tranquility of the place.
- Warkworth (good castle)
- Peebles and the Tweed Valley
Not recommended:
- Motorway driving (people who do it on a regular basis obviously think it`s normal rather than what it actually is - completely mental)
- and triple that for crossing the Pennines on the M62 in a howling blizzard.
And finally...with a nod, surely, to I`m Sorry I Haven`t A Clue and the wonderful "Humph", how about this, from my current read*, for those occasions when life leaves you speechless:
"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left,agog, in the starting cage".
All been there eh?
*Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Half a pale moon hung over the hill as we strode into the woods, revelling in the strong but warm wind which rattled the branches and whirled the red and gold leaves from the trees, giving Nature a chance to imitate Art and go all Andy Goldsworthy.
Later walked between some of Aberdeen uni`s oldest buildings on the way into town: the autumn term in such surroundings felt quite poignant but I`m not sure why.
All a long way from the adventures of last week: a long trip south in a large white van, delivering, collecting, visiting.
Recommended:
- the youth hostel in Leominster with a view of The Priory church from the bedroom window
- the Grape Vaults pub in Leominster (http://thegrapevaults.co.uk/)
Wasn`t sure pubs like that still existed! Dark oak floor, brass topped tables, real fire and real beer......and a customer`s old black labrador looking in vain for dropped crisps.
- Tintern Abbey,the Wye Valley and the Severn Bridge
- Alnmouth - not least for the plethora of signs warning you off paddling, swimming, riding horses and getting in the way of flying golf balls notwithstanding the tranquility of the place.
- Warkworth (good castle)
- Peebles and the Tweed Valley
Not recommended:
- Motorway driving (people who do it on a regular basis obviously think it`s normal rather than what it actually is - completely mental)
- and triple that for crossing the Pennines on the M62 in a howling blizzard.
And finally...with a nod, surely, to I`m Sorry I Haven`t A Clue and the wonderful "Humph", how about this, from my current read*, for those occasions when life leaves you speechless:
"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left,agog, in the starting cage".
All been there eh?
*Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
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