Pennine Way walking – B29 Over Exposed

Walking on the Pennine Way We recently took a walk on part of the Pennine Way and we thought that whilst that way we might as well try to find the site of the B29 Superfortress that crashed on the moors in 1948. The part of Pennine Way we walked is really easy to get […]

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Cheshire walking – Jodrell Bank & Goostrey

Cheshire walks. Recently we drove out towards the old Cheshire farming village of Goostrey to take a walk along some of the quiet back roads in that area. After parking up and leaving our car fairly close to the Jodrell Bank Observatory we almost immediately came across some decent photo opportunities of the grouse in […]

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Macclesfield Canal walk

New places to walk. We recently walked along a stretch of the Macclesfield canal in Stockport. The stretch that we walked on is only about 25 minutes away by car from where we live, but despite its proximity its a stretch of canal that is unfamiliar to us. Our walk along the Macclesfield canal started […]

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Peak Forest Canal walking

Catching up. I’m just catching up with some blog posts that I had intended to post in the last week or two. Being busy with one or two other things has meant that it’s only now Im getting round to it. Seasonal changes. One of the benefits of taking a regular walk along familiar routes […]

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macro photography – developing my skills

I wrote a few weeks ago about getting to grips with macro photography and posted a set of pictures which you can see here. It’s certainly tricky to get used to what it takes to get a good macro picture, and making sure the light is right is quite a challenge for me at the […]

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Macclesfield Forest

Earlier this week we spent some time walking in Macclesfield Forest.  It’s an area that is only a 30 minute or so drive from where we live, and yet despite it being so close it’s not a place either of us have been to before. We are blessed with a seemingly endless list of terrific […]

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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct – Vale of Llangollen

For many years I have traveled past the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct when I have been on my bikes and when heading through Llangollen, onto the Horseshoe Pass and beyond, but in all those years I have never stopped to investigate it further. Last week however my wife and I drove there to meet my daughter her […]

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sunrise …

What’s not to like about seeing the morning sun as the earth’s motion allows the sun to appear and herald that short twilight dawn period. The pictures in the gallery below are a few of the sunrise over the River Tame and at a location that is typically close to the start of my walking […]

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Formby – red squirrel walk

We headed off to the National Trust site in Formby recently, mainly in the hope of seeing red squirrels in the woodlands that make up part of the National Trust land in that area, which is in the borough of Sefton Merseyside. Formby itself had a pleasant enough town centre to walk around and there […]

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Local walks …

We have tried to make the most of the decent weather as summer fades and autumn takes hold. The weather so far, in this initial part of autumn has generally been pretty decent and ideal for walking. There are three separate sets of pictures in this post, scrolling down past Gallery One takes you to […]

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