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I have 2 great images of the valley in freezing conditions, almost all ice blue, but the file sizes were too large for me to post unfortunately. Those pictures were taken on my "proper" camera, an Olympus EM-10, a nice light mirrorless camera just the right size and weight to take on walks...

One of the walks I most enjoyed recently was a half-recce from Millers Dale to Tideswell (I'd done Peak Forest to Millers Dale the week before) on 2 December, a freezing day, and especially cold in the shady valley of the Derbyshire Wye between Millers Dale and Litton Mill. The picture shows a...

I was in Todmorden recently on a foul day and found this bit of towpath especially worrying

No doubt because Modern Railways is now perfect bound, an inferior and cheaper method which unfortunately makes it more difficult to have my copies bound satisfactorily. Paper quality has deteriorated as well.

I had a very good walk, not led by me, on Sunday with Southport Walking and Social Club, 8.9 miles from Aira Force up round Glencoyne and then down to Glenridding. Fabulous views in spite of the rather dull weather for the first half of the walk. The path from Aira to the head of Glencoyne is...

I've occasionally wondered why the Cambrian wasn't added to the LMS-GW Joint line at the time of the grouping, but I seem to recall reading that Eric Geddes and others were against extending joint lines and in fact hoped to assign more of them, especially the so-called "penetrating lines", to...

I led the Southport Ramblers "A" walk from Newbiggin on Lune (near the former Ravenstonedale station) to Ravenstonedale via the Potts valley, Crosby Garrett and Smardale on Sunday. Loads of pictures on their public Facebook group. We were unable to walk over the old Smardale Gill viaduct, as it...

I've done 2 excellent recces of the Holmfirth area, starting near Berry Brow station and walking through woods to Meltham, then via Slate Pits Wood down to Upperthong, skirting Holmfirth on a nice track called Hill Lane, with an exit there to allow those who want to go to a pub in the village...

I've had Asperger's for ages (I'm now 75), and the main problem is that it's very hard to understand what other people expect of me, so relationships are out; I've spent 60 years avoiding them, though I can form ordinary friendships up to a point. Very loud noise also makes me nervous and...

I led a 9.6 mile linear walk from Wardlow Mire to Eyam via Silly Dale, Grindlow, the Barrel pub, Bretton Clough, Stoke Ford, Hazelford and Eyam Moor last Sunday, which took us 4hr 35 mins. All 12 in the group enjoyed it, Lots of pics and a route map on Southport Ramblers public Facebook page.

I switched from a BT business line to BT OnePhone and replaced the landline with a Yealink "deskphone", which looks and feels like a landline and retained the old number. The sound quality on the deskphone is not quite as good as the old landline, but not that much worse. The package included 5...

On Sunday the Southport Ramblers A walk was a gruelling 10 miles with 2936 feet of ascent in hot sunshine from Glenridding up to Lanty's Tarn then up the north side of Grisedale to Grisedale Tarn, up St Sundays Crag and down to Glenridding via Birks. I managed to get as far as Grisedale Tarn and...

On successive Sundays I led 2 walks in the same area, with only partial overlap. I led the Walking Club's no. 2 walk from Hathersage up to the trig on Stanage Edge, then along to Upper Burbage bridge, down the bridleway to Lower Burbage bridge and by Padley Gorge to Grindleford, then back...

When I went to Lisbon I was struck by its resemblance in terms of railway geography to Liverpool as it used to be before the Loop and Link were built in the 1970s. Rossio was like Lime Street, a terminus with lines debouching from a tunnel, Cais do Sodre and the Estoril line reminded me of...

I didn't get there by bus, but I did see a bus passing near the village. I believe it was from Warrington. I did that linear park with my first cousin once removed who lives in Rainford, and we enjoyed it; there is a café nearby called Bridge Farm which is a good place for a snack. Cousin...