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At the beginning of the month we had a long weekend family break at the lovely Mount Hooley Lodge in the charming village of Alston. This is on the border of North Yorkshire and Northumberland, a really lovely spot. As you drive out of the village heading North (I think) you come across the entrance […]

My friend Steve has been retired for quite a while now and regularly has asked me to come out on a walk with him, with or without others walkers. This last Wednesday we finally managed the first post retirement walk together. We agreed we wouldn’t do anything to strenuous, but in the end we did

This months challenge in the OneLandscape group is to create an image that has lots of negative space featured in the image. Whilst Tracey and I were out walking with Charlie earlier I spotted a possible alternative image to the one that I had already taken for this challenge. The images here are the best

There’s been lots going on over the past few weeks, including holidays, furniture building and having a new bathroom fitted. This has meant that time for photograph has been limited. The weather has improved over the past few weeks, and that meant that dog walks have been easier, in the sense that things aren’t too

This trip to Fuerteventura has been booked for at least 6 if not 9 months. It was a dad and son holiday, just to spend time together. When I decided to retire this seemed like a nice bookend to my working life and I could spend it relaxing and decompressing, and thats exactly what we

It’s been mighty busy, work wise, this last few weeks, and the lead up to retirement is proving harder than I thought. The thing to cling onto is that I will have all time I need to get out and take photographs once the 24th April 2025 arrives. Liberation Day, my liberation from work. I’ve

This weekend is was all about exploring Edenfield, this is where Tracey now lives and so I thought I’d have a wander around the nearby areas and see what I could find. The East Lancashire Railway runs through the valley and there is a station, well more of a platform, at Irwell Vale. So Friday

Last week I only had one chance to get out and about, so I decided to revisit a location five been to on several occasions. That location was Werneth Low, which sits above Hyde in Greater Manchester. It’s a popular spot and even the fact that it was a Monday there were plenty of folk

On Sunday we decided we wanted to have a walk somewhere at little further away from home, that we, together, hadn’t done before. The seaside was the first decision, the second one wasn’t so easy. Most of the coastal places with decent promenades we have walked before. A quick google search showed that New Brighton

Regular readers will know that I’ve taken lots of images of the River Mersey in and around Stockport, well last weekend I had the opportunity to have a walk around Sale Water Park in South Manchester. I’d completely forgotten that the Rover Mersey hugs the edge of the water park for a good portion of