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New Sun 24 Jun 18 07:49 
 Sunny days, sore feet - legacylad
Looks like an excellent forecast for the next week. That’s if you like warm sunny weather. Fortuitously I’m away backpacking early tomorrow around the Lake District with a friend...he’s an outdoor journalist editing two popular magazines so we’ve struck lucky. Probably out for 5 nights, wildcamping the first and last two, with a valley site Wednesday night so we can resupply and freshen up.
Vague route planning at the moment...leave the car East of Ullswater and aim to arrive lower Eskdale Saturday via some circuitous route, then public transport back to the start point ( and hopefully the car).
Sleeping bag now airing outside, tarptent checked, stove working, Katadyn ( water filter) cleaned. Happy days.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 11:11 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Robin O'Reliant
You'll miss the match.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 11:34 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Manatee
One of the answers in the 'i' general knowledge* crossword today was

"A man, a plan, a canal. Panama."

Always liked that.

*a misnomer, unless you memorise the names of Finnish goalkeepers.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 14:06 
 Sunny days, sore feet - legacylad
I wish my local Coop was always as quiet as it was a short while ago. More staff than customers.
Better mow lawns and hoover out car next before my mini break. I like a nice clean interior. I’d be a bit miffed if I returned in a week to find it gone ....
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 14:29 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Runfer D'Hills
Just got back from a mountain biking trip. Trails uncannily quiet. Suppose it must be the football. Big "off" though today, left arm and left leg not in the best of condition at the moment after a Superman impression over the front of the bike. Maybe I shouldn't be doing the black runs and big air jumps anymore. Should probably take up bowls.

Or not. ;-)
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 14:46 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Robin O'Reliant
Admit your age Runfer, and get a recumbent trike. Even if you do manage to fall off there isn't far to go. You don't even have to get off to enjoy a fag and a coffee at the top of a long climb - as I did today.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 15:06 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Zero

>> Maybe I shouldn't be doing the black runs and big air jumps anymore. Should probably
>> take up bowls.

you are in the right place to talk a load of bowls
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 15:40 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Duncan
>> Looks like an excellent forecast for the next week. That’s if you like warm sunny
>> weather. Fortuitously I’m away backpacking early tomorrow around the Lake District with a friend.............

Happy days.

Happy days, indeed. I envy you. I think I enjoyed walking in the Yorkshire Dales more than any where else in the UK. I used to lead for a company that had a centre near Malham, finishing a walk by coming back across the limestone pavements and then down into the village for tea was magical.

Can't do it now. Tempus etc.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 16:30 
 Sunny days, sore feet - legacylad
Sorry to hear that Duncan. I don’t take it for granted. Lots of painkillers on high humidity days, but low humidity I just go for it. Sod the arthritic hip.
Malham is just over the hill from where I live in Giggleswick...a regular walk, Janet’s Foss, top of the Cove, home via Langcliffe. About 15 miles then collapse in local beer garden. Or in front of my stove on a winters day.
Get yoursen up here even if you can’t walk far...the views from various roads over the tops are still magical. I’ll buy you a pint or three and take you for a curry in a Settle!
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 22:02 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Duncan
I am sure that in my (verbal) ramblings on here, I have recounted the times my wife and I used to climb to the top of the rock face/cliff. whatever you call it in Settle, looking down on The Naked Man cafe, Settle is a lovely little town. One day the old boys were coming out of the Town Hall? with their cases, presumably had been to a lodge meeting and we watched them like ants far below us. It is an absolutely divine place.

One day I ran the Three Peaks Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen Y Ghent (sp?). It seemed a good idea at the time.

You are a lucky bloke.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 22:51 
 Sunny days, sore feet - CGNorwich
Yes it is a beautiful area. I can remember staying in a stone cottage by the stepping stones in Stainforth just outside Settle when the children were small. Lovely area to walk. I remember being slightly amazed that all those features like limestone pavements and clints and grykes were real and not just something in O level geography textbooks!

Mind you you can find beautiful walks just about everywhere in this country. After the football this afternoonwent for a six mile stroll along the River Bure and Upton Marshes in the heart of the Norfolk Broads and ended up for a meal in the delightful community pub at Upton.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 23:06 
 Sunny days, sore feet - legacylad
Duncan, you’re thinking of Castleberg rock. Visible from chez LL in Gigg. My pals Jack Russell ( called Torres, he’s a LPool supporter) fell off it last year. Bounced off trees and shrubs whilst losing altitude at a fair speed and apart from concussion survived!
With decent weather there’s nowhere better on earth to ramble around. Lakes tomorrow, then July a few weeks backpacking Pembrokeshire. Some friends have just returned from 10 days walking the length of the Hebrides and raved about that part of the world.
Despite being reasonably well travelled, in good weather I’d rather be nowhere else than t’Dales.
Except for winter when it’s damp, drizzly and horrible for weeks on end
My pal for our mini exped moved from Stainforth last year...sadly it’s full of second homes.dont get me started on that topic.
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New Sun 24 Jun 18 23:17 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Bromptonaut
Back home today after a week on Isle of Harris*. That would of course be the week after one Azores high stops blocking the Atlantic weather for a month and week before Azores service is resumed.

Seriously though, apart from option of a day on Luskentyre beach, we'd not have done much different.

*First time I've seen it dark since night of 14-06-18.
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New Mon 25 Jun 18 06:26 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Duncan
>> *First time I've seen it dark since night of 14-06-18.
>>

Of course, it's arguable that it isn't dark in London from May 23rd to July 22nd.

www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilight.html

And

www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/london
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New Mon 25 Jun 18 20:08 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Bobby
Jealous Brompt!
Did OR for a week in the tent where it was only dry one day.
I follow their twitter feeds and some of the photos these last few weeks have been stunning.
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New Mon 25 Jun 18 20:43 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Bobby
OH even
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New Mon 25 Jun 18 23:05 
 Sunny days, sore feet - Bromptonaut
>> Some friends have just returned from 10 days walking the
>> length of the Hebrides and raved about that part of the world.

Mrs B and I had our first proper holiday as a couple in 1984 cycling in NW Scotland. We spent around 28 hours on Lewis and then Harris as part of our tour which was enough to catch the 'must try again' bug. After another visit in 88 doing most of the chain and we were addicted. Made subsequent trips as a pair and then hosteling with Mrs B's mother after she was widowed in 1990 at age of 59. Those were followed by near annual trips with kids from when they were in nappies up until 2010 when Miss B was coming up to her test and did nearly all the driving - our motto for that holiday was Jess saying 'bagsy driving' whenever we went out. A few hundred miles with plenty of single track roads did wonders - passed first time.

We then had a break until last week, our 20th visit. Miss B and her fiance lodged their adolescent Spaniel pup with his parents and drove up to join us. A few changes, particularly new build holiday homes/cottages right on shore in popular places and rather a lot of campervans including f off massive coachbuilts who's drivers struggled on single track. Lots of signage for the Hebridean Way LL mentions which runs from most southerly inhabited island, Vatersay, to the northernmost point at the Butt of Lewis:

www.visitouterhebrides.co.uk/see-and-do/activities/hebridean-way

Back next year or sooner.


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