Today has been completely mad. British readers will be aware of the problems on the Somerset Levels and Moors caused by the flooding. For those not aware this is an area of historic water meadows that have flooded since time immemorial. It rains; it floods;it drains away.This year however the volume of rain has been…
Once again it poured down during the night and early this morning but then . . . . . oh goodness, the rain stopped and the sun came out. To celebrate Mrs Sixwheeler and I took the bus into the city and, without any agenda, just browsed a bit, stopped for coffee and came home.…
It is becoming almost impossible to stay away from the dreadful weather we are suffering. The television news and the newspapers are full of reports and photographs of the washed out main railway line at Dawlish, the seas breaking over the inner harbour at Porthleven and the ongoing disaster that is The Somerset Levels where…
There is a much acclaimed group of six butchers shops in Cumbria called Cranstons Butchers who I have been following for some time on Twitter (@Cranstons1) as they represent the best in butchery. They work with local farmers and producers to provide excellence and have been doing so since 1914. Their Twitter feed is both…
Today the good citizens of Bath have been terrified by a strange bright light in the sky. Old boys in caps and wizened crones were seen scratching their heads as they tried to find a memory of this strange phenomenon. Then we all realised that it was that thing unseen for so long – the…
Drove home from the Lake District today and, mercifully, it stayed dry for the whole journey, in fact it was bright enough to need sunglasses for some of the time. It is always a pleasure to stay at our club’s cottage which is a useful base for exploration of the Eastern Lakes. Like most climbing…
I was surprised when I finally surfaced this morning that it wasn’t raining. Last night had been a late one following our annual dinner so there no rush to get up. After breakfast I put on appropriate clothing for a winter walk and headed out. When people asked me where I was going and I…
I may just possibly be getting a tiny bit fixated by the weather. I’m well aware that we British are naturally obsessed by weather and that someone once said of Great Britain that we don’t have a climate we just have weather, but, it really has been dreadful. After a drive to the Lake District…
Today I drove to the Lake District for our Club’s annual general meeting and dinner. When I left home the weather was dry, by the time I reached the Midlands it had deteriorated and the motorway north was frightful with spray and lack of visibility. In places there was so much water on the road…
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