photographs: people, places & things
The beautiful mandarin duck There is no doubt about it, the male mandarin duck has some of the most colourful and distinctive looks of any bird you might see on the canals, rivers, lakes and ponds. It’s beautiful, unmistakable and made the title of this blog post almost write itself – The beautiful mandarin duck […]
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One of the most majestic of birds There are probably few people who would disagree that the swan really is a majestic looking bird. And there must be few who wouldn’t think it’s good news that the swan population in the UK has increased in recent years, an increase due in part to better protection […]
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About this blog post With just over a week to go before the next stage of lockdown restrictions are eased and shops and non essential retailers begin to open their doors, my wife and I decided that we would take a morning drive into central Manchester to take a look around before the crowds return. […]
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Walking on the Longdendale Trail The Longdendale Trail is located in the Peak District and within easy access of Glossop and Hadfield. For the most part the trail is flat and easily accessible. The views are superb and it’s a route that is well worth doing if you havent been that way before. I’m not […]
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Walking on the moor We took a walk yesterday in a location that we hadn’t been to before – it was Hobson Moor (Tameside) and which can be found on the Ordinance Explorer Map (OL1 Peak District). The actual location for our walk was only a short drive from home of about 15 minutes or […]
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Picture Post I have made plenty of posts on here that have featured our visits to the Reddish Vale Country Park. Rather than write even more words about the location, this is simply a picture post and as such is a small collection of pictures from our most recent visit – hence the name Picture […]
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Coffee on the canal A glorious and unseasonably warm March day saw us set off for a stroll along the Peak Forest canal and end up enjoying a very decent coffee served from the narrowboat Mandalay, which wasn’t at all what we had expected when we set off. We had parked our car fairly close […]
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Another visit to the same place? Another visit to the same place, another blog post and more pictures from Reddish Vale? … er yes, yes and yes. I suppose one question might be – another visit to the same pace, don’t you get bored of visiting Reddish Vale Country Park? The answer would be a […]
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Visit to Daisy Nook Country Park We had a really decent visit this week to Daisy Nook Country Park which is set in the Medlock Valley. It’s one of those locations that despite it only being a few miles away from where we live it has never really been on list of places to go […]
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More early spring wandering along the River Tame A post of few words. This blog post is another ‘picture post’ and includes a couple of sets of photographs from recent walks along the Tame Valley. Perhaps of interest in this post are the pictures of parakeets – an increasingly common sight in the UK. There […]
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