BR traction instructor Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) A stroll into Silloth this evening for a pint with big Jim of this parish was rewarded with these sunset scenes across the Solway firth… BeRTIe Edited April 7, 2022 by BR traction instructor 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 (edited) A break from bringing our new home in NW Cumbria up to our requirements involved a drive down to the Staffordshire Moorlands to stay with family/attend a concert in Manchester & collect more of our possessions from Cheshire. The warm Easter weather also allowed a few walks through the scenery… the old road in the Manifold valley nr Swainsley (the narrow gauge railway ran through a tunnel beneath the hill in the picture) before heading to Longnor for some smashing fish & chips. Eastwall farm from Hawksmoor in the Churnet valley (subject of a Time Team dig associated with the historic bloomery site). The Staffordshire way continues towards Kingsley. A second Churnet valley walk earlier around the Coombes valley RSPB site allowed the rare sighting of a spotted flycatcher. The Roaches partially obscured by low cloud, seen from Morridge. BeRTIe Edited April 16, 2022 by BR traction instructor 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) The decent Easter weather continues and allowed the previously unexplored section (transition from upland moorland to wooded valley) of the Cauldon Low to Froghall gravity worked incline (abandoned 1920s, when the standard gauge route to Leekbrook jnc opened) to be walked…this one from adjacent to the upper limits of Whiston golf course, adj the A52, towards Froghall (part way down the side of Whiston bank). Note the smaller bridge opening in the first picture. This Oakwood Press title by Peter Lead covers the area and its history. The trackbed of the tramway crosses a farm track just above Froghall wharf. BeRTIe Edited April 27, 2022 by BR traction instructor 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 (edited) After a day spent digging new shrubs into the garden to form a windbreak it wasn’t such a chore to walk down to the shop for some essentials. Nocturnal wildlife around us inc. hares and lots of them… BeRTIe Edited April 27, 2022 by BR traction instructor 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted April 26, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 26, 2022 Ooh, dinner! I have had rabbit once (maybe a couple of times) but it was farm-raised critters. Would I have it again? Probably I would. Note that I would not want to kill one myself (or deer, bear, wild hogs, etc for that matter) but I have no problem eating meat that someone else prepared. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 I started on the railway at Buxton in the mid eighties and the local Kentucky Fried Chicken had just been prosecuted for substituting rabbit for chicken, I haven’t knowingly eaten rabbit but who knows? BeRTIe 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 Same stroll but the lighting is different every time… BeRTIe 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted April 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2022 8 hours ago, BR traction instructor said: I started on the railway at Buxton in the mid eighties and the local Kentucky Fried Chicken had just been prosecuted for substituting rabbit for chicken, I haven’t knowingly eaten rabbit but who knows? BeRTIe I would have thought that rabbit would be much more expensive than chicken. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 …more the public deception than anything else. Can’t recall comparative prices at that time. BeRTIe 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted April 27, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 27, 2022 In a country where people famously eat snails, frogs' legs and horse, rabbit is not hard to find. I occasionally do a rabbit stew with supermarket meat, adding tomatoes, potatoes, red wine and herbs and it is very pleasant. News items tell me chicken is becoming harder to find and pricier. Where I live pork is the regional speciality, so pork chops are silly-cheap. A sort of pâté is made from pork, called rillettes, and a widely sold delicacy. When late wife Deb was in the rehab hospital after her car crash, she chose rillettes for starter every lunchtime and evening for months on end. 4 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 27, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2022 Rabbit doesn't even taste anything like chicken. Snake tastes more like chicken which is perhaps more understandable as birds evolved from dinosaurs which were reptiles, like snakes. 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 (edited) A 7am climb of Rannerdale knotts beside Crummock water today. BeRTIe Edited May 12, 2022 by BR traction instructor 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Lovely photos. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 (edited) …thanks Peter…too nice to just leave in the Iphone, better to share. Dawn, the girlfriend, chooses the destination for the Lakes, I sort out the drive to get there/parking etc. We’re just starting to alternate Scottish borders walks/climbs with Lakes destinations and the former will be my choices. BeRTIe Edited April 29, 2022 by BR traction instructor 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 (edited) Allonby is just a few minutes drive south from Silloth and an ideal opportunity for a different coastal walk ahead of a deteriorating forecast this morning… BeRTIe Edited April 30, 2022 by BR traction instructor 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 (edited) The improving weather this afternoon tempted us round to Criffel, Dumfries & Galloway. The views are back towards the Solway… BeRTIe Edited May 1, 2022 by BR traction instructor 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockershovel Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 On 27/04/2022 at 22:09, PhilJ W said: Rabbit doesn't even taste anything like chicken. Snake tastes more like chicken which is perhaps more understandable as birds evolved from dinosaurs which were reptiles, like snakes. I've eaten snake in the Far East and it's not nice. Scrappy, gritty and full of bones. My late mother used to refer to rabbit as "spring chicken", I never understood this as several of her uncles and cousins, being country folk called it by its name. I do know that cat can very differentiated from rabbit by the number of ribs. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 2, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2022 Spotted at least four fox cubs in my garden this afternoon. Almost fully grown but still juveniles as none of them has a bushy tail yet. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kris Posted May 2, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2022 Spent the past few days watching the first swallows and swifts that I have seen this year. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 …it is swallows and house martins up here in NW Cumbria Kris…wheatear when we visited the Buttermere area on Friday. BeRTIe 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted May 4, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 4, 2022 A quintessentially English seaside feature - a row of small multi-coloured beach huts. These are at Hamworthy... ...and look out over the expanse of Poole Harbour, with the Purbeck Hills in the distance. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
N15class Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 I used to live over the other side. Lovely area. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 (edited) A sign of the times in 2022…you look out of the window and the other half of next doors house is coming down the road… BeRTIe Edited May 12, 2022 by BR traction instructor 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR traction instructor Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 The two halves ready to be mated… BeRTIe 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted May 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 13, 2022 (edited) The British Isles are blessed with many picturesque towns and villages*, each with their own blend of attractive features. Here is Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, taken from the vantage point of East Hill overlooking the village. With the remains of the castle, blame the English Civil War, just to the west of the village. * Yes, I know that there are plenty of nondescript and down right ugly towns and villages too. Edited May 13, 2022 by 4630 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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