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#Cumbria

happyhiker
18 hours ago

No portfolio of #LakeDistrict walks is complete without the Langdale Pikes walk. The distinctive shape of their summits is visible from all over the area in their setting above the gorgeous Langdale Valley. A great walk. For route details see tinyurl.com/yscfdxwx

#Cumbria

ICYMI: As #RishiSunak rows back from the UK's #NetZero commitments, while pretending he's not... and Barrow (#Cumbria) celebrates new investments in #submarine production by the Govt. (via BAE systems), I ponder for @NWBylines whether the #Tories 'Military Keynesianism' is the best bet for the UK, or whether really we should be investing much more in the #GreenTransiton.

#Defence
#ClimateCrisis
#Greennewdeal

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/local-business/is-military-keynesianism-good-for-britain/

Empiricism
3 days ago

A photograph of a deforested landscape in #Cumbria #england national bleb park.

The blebs either don't know or don't care (or both) that forests provide home to a myriad of species, regulate water & sequester carbon.

This isn't the first time someone has written the facts to an uncaring bleb audience. Maybe if l were talking about developing a hotel for the blebs they'd be interested 🤔🤑

Lack of #wildlife #SoilErosion #floods #ClimateChange #EatTheBlebs, not farm animals #satire

Empiricism
3 days ago

A photograph of a deforested landscape in #Cumbria #england national bleb park.

The blebs either don't know or don't care (or both) that forests provide home to a myriad of species, regulate water & sequester carbon.

This isn't the first time someone has written the facts to an uncaring bleb audience. Maybe if l were talking about developing a hotel for the blebs they'd be interested 🤔🤑

Lack of #wildlife #SoilErosion #floods #ClimateChange #EatTheBlebs, not farm animals #satire

As #RishiSunak rows back from the UK's #NetZero commitments, while pretending he's not... and Barrow (#Cumbria) celebrates new investments in #submarine production by the Govt. (via BAE systems), I ponder for @NWBylines whether the #Tories 'Military Keynesianism' is the best bet for the UK, or whether really we should be investing much more in the #GreenTransiton.

#Defence
#ClimateCrisis
#Greennewdeal

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/business/local-business/is-military-keynesianism-good-for-britain/

Dave Smeg
4 days ago

Absolutly stunning view from the golf club over the bay yesterday.

#morecambe #bay #lancashire #cumbria #mobilephotography

Dave
5 days ago

It has been far too long since I travelled this road.

#Thursday #ThrowbackThursday #Photo #Photography #AltText

#LakeDistrict #Cumbria #England #UK

Sunshine briefly lights up a winter scene. In the far distance the mountains have their heads in the low cloud and snow on them. Nearer to the camera are the bare branches of deciduous trees and a mix of brown and green coniferous trees (Larch has needles that drop each year). The main feature of the shot is the narrow single track lane that leads into a half hidden farmhouse amidst scrubby fields and tumble down dry stone walls assisted by post and wire fencing.
A Fool And His Fuji
6 days ago
Metal railing in foreground and main focus point, background of sunrise lit tree with lake and mountains in background
mwalters
2 weeks ago

A (naturally long-exposure) photo taken on a 3D printed pinhole camera. Ilford stock.

The jetty runs into Ullswater in the UK's Lake District, behind the Inn on The Lake hotel.

#cumbria #lakedistrict #pinhole #blackandwhite #filmphotography

Black and white photograph of a jetty at Ullswater, Cumbria. 

The jetty is partially submerged with only about one third of it visible above the water. 

The long exposure and pinhole camera cause a softness to the image, which in some ways echoes the damp and misty weather.
Pete
2 weeks ago

I've been working on a route based on our cycle club's various weekly gravel ride routes and having ridden, tweaked, and re-ridden over the past 6 months or so now have a final route which I'm calling 'Mint Gravel'. It's a 160km loop around South Lakeland, Cumbria with ~4000m of ascent and is approximately 50% off-road.

Details and GPX here: https://www.mintgravel.co.uk

Boosts, shares and #FKT attempts welcomed!

#cycling #mtb #gravel #cumbria

A gravel track running next to a rocky beck flowing through a misty valley
Empiricism
2 weeks ago

Methods - 50,226 women without prior lung cancer...women reported frequency of use of wood-burning stoves &/or fireplaces

Conclusions - Higher rates of #Cancer (compared to women that didn't burn wood) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108128

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When l first moved to #Cumbria, #UK (village l now live in) l used to print & post the #science papers on the village notice board & try to inform local folk about the #health hazards of burning wood in their homes.

But, they defend their wood-burning doggedly

Tony Meredith
2 weeks ago

Barrow. It's a shipbuilding town that's nearly part of the lovely Lake District. So, in our area, we've got big tourism, smallish industry that's really big in special things, and normal economic stuff. Old towns, especially Barrow, are rundown and poor.
Here's the news. Govt is trying to level up, without spending extra money. Just magic. 1/2
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #PoliticsUK #deprivation
A northern English town looks to BAE Systems to help it ‘level up’ - https://on.ft.com/3ZaA8Vc via @FT

Lovely Sunday morning walk & swim & sheep 🥰
#LakeDistrict #Cumbria

Saskia and Kenny in front of a mountain lake
Mountain lake
View over the Lake District hills
A sheep sitting next to a stone wall

Waterfall posing and lake swimming in Grasmere Lake 🏊
#Grasmere #GrasmereLake #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

Selfie of my daughter, her boyfriend and myself in front of a small waterfall
Grasmere Lake in the Lake District

Lovely day on and around Lake Windermere, in Saskia and Kenny's adopted home ❤️ ⛴️ 🚂
#LakeWindermere #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

Myself and Saskia selfie on a boat
Lake Windermere from a boat
Saskia and Kenny in a steam train
Lake Windermere from a boat
Adam
2 weeks ago

Very hazy sun this aft. Is this because of the #SaharaDustUK in the atmosphere? @BBCRadio4 #Cumbria

Photo of the sun, which is hazy.
Ian Cylkowski Photography
3 weeks ago

It's the end of the summer holidays.

Just as a heatwave arrives!

So we got up nice and early to hike to Colwith Force, snapping some gorgeous woodland and waterfall scenery. Added extra, swirling mist and fog burning away from the mountain tops.

Plenty more photos from this day are waiting for you right here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/9/6/colwith-force-lake-district-autumn 👍

#landscape #photography #photo #photographie #nature #travel #autumn #fall #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england

A double spot waterfall emerges from a thick woodland, showing signs of autumnal colours.
A view from right next alongside a crashing waterfall, seperated by crags, and its river winds off into the distance.
A winding path cuts through a field towards a forest, with mountains barely visible above as the mist and fog swirls around their tops.
A country lane, framed by bushes, trees, and dry stone walls, leads the eye towards the rust-coloured craggy fells in the distance on a sunny day.
Dave
3 weeks ago
Three sheep posing for the camera on a  lakeland fellside, beyond, the big mountains are topped by low clouds
Dave
3 weeks ago

And to complete my triple posting....

I think this might be Evernia prunastri, commonly known as oakmoss, a species of lichen.

#Lichen #LichenSubscribe #MacroMonday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

a small cluster of lichen growing on the bare leafless branches of an oak tree
Dave
3 weeks ago
a small beck flows through the intimate scene, to the right a tussocky grass banking, to the left a tumbled down dry stone wall covered in moss beyond which we can see the feet of a couple of large trees also being encroached on by the moss
Dave
3 weeks ago

Mixing it up for Monday, a foliose Pelt Lichen growing in amongst Moss.

#Monday #MacroMonday #Moss #Lichen #MossMonday #LichenSubscribe #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

a macro photo of a mini landscape growing on top of an old wall in woodland. there's a pelt lichen and some sort of moss with a few old brown oak leaves
Pete
3 weeks ago

Much hike. Some bike. #mtb #cumbria #cycling.

Group of mountain bikers pushing up a gravel track in a mountainous landscape
Light playing on a rocky valley landscape
Dave
3 weeks ago

Wake Up, It's A Beautiful Morning

Same view, 23 minutes apart.

Woke up before the sun had climbed over the mountain and started to burn off the overnight mists.

#Windermere #Morning #Sunrise #Mistodon #Photo #Photography #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

1 of 2 A rooftop view looking out over a collection of old buildings towards mist cloaked trees beyond in the dull light before sunrise.
2 of 2 A rooftop view looking out over a collection of old buildings towards mist cloaked trees beyond as the sun gradually burns off the mist and lights up the scene. There's even a patch of blue sky appearing through the clouds.
Pete
1 month ago

What a difference a day makes. #cycling #cumbria

wind turbines silhouetted against the setting sun
shadow of a cyclist on a grassy fellside with a range of fells in the background under a blue sky
Dave
1 month ago

Early One Morning Just as the Day Was Dawning

#Tuesday #TreeTuesday #Treesday #Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

As the autumnal sunlight crept over the mountain pass it started to light up the trees in the valley bottom who were still wearing their summer outfits of green
Pete
1 month ago

A long and tough but social ride today. #gravel #cumbria #cycling

group of cyclists riding along a gravel track next to  a tarn
cyclist riding over a fellside with views of a bay in the background
two cyclists in the middle distance on a gravel track with glimpse of a lake in the background
devolute
1 month ago

This is bait. Absolutely textbook #memeirl work from a terminally online member of staff at Maryport aquarium, #Cumbria

Bait banner.

It was only a small break in the rain but what stunning conditions to be on a hillside in the Lake District!

#phototgraphy #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #LakeDistrict #lakedistrictphotography #mountains #Cumbria #weather #hiking #Olympus #OM1 #OMSystem

Moody skies brood over mountains in the lake district. Fields lead off into the gloom.
Dave
1 month ago

On Reflection

The English Lake District

#Thursday #ThrowbackThursday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

clear blue skies and mirror calm water on an autumnal morning, there are mountains and reflections of mountains, trees and reflections of trees
Justin Farrimond
1 month ago

Valley Living 2

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/valley-living-2-justin-farrimond.html

I dedicate this Buttermere view to my good friend Kim. We all need a bit of blue sky in our lives.

#PicOfTheDay #LandscapePhotography #PhotographyLovers #Cumbria #Buttermere #LakeDistrict #Valley

Colour photograph showing a small cottage below a steep hillside, alongside which are a row of trees.
Pete
1 month ago

Seeing these in my photo library has just reminded me I missed Ambleside Sports this year. #cycling #running #wrestling #cumbria

Cyclist being pushed off at the start of a grass track race. On a field with cars parked in the background and a treelined skyline.
Cyclists racing a grass track race
Sprint running race finishing in front of lakeland landscape
group of spectators watching two kids cumbrian wrestling

LONG POST ON #ELNINO / #FLOODING
As we hear of the effects of the #ClimateEmergency round the world, and see #flooding in #Norway I am reminded of #StormDesmond that hit #Cumbria between 5th & 6th Dec 2015. In 48 hours #Thirlmere in #LakeDistrict recorded 405mm of rainfall in combination with severe gales up to 81mph. This was an El Nino year.

It was the 4th major storm of the autumn. The ground and the lakes were already saturated.

#ClimateCrisis
#ClimateAction
#FloodPrevention
#Hydrology

Road on a hillside washed almost completely away, man in waterproof gear stands at the edge of remaining road looking down at the river
A Fool And His Fuji
2 months ago

Forest Foxgloves

Foxgloves are everywhere around here, this was in depth of a local forest.

#woodland #trees #flowers #petals #naturephotography #sunlight #greenspaces #undergrowth #nature #moorland #cumbria #lakedistrict #grassland #summer #foxgloves #raindrops

Foxgloves in forest, with central shot on the raindrop covered flowers, with thick foliage and trees in background
Dave
2 months ago

Chasing Rainbows

Without rain there would be no rainbows.

#Saturday #Showers #Rainbow #Photo #Photography #Cumbria #Minimal

a minimal photo of a rainbow under a leaden grey sky and dark lanscape
Dave
3 months ago

Watching the shadows chase across the landscape

#Sunday #SilentSunday #Photo #Photography #Cumbria

a photo of a mountainous landscape. There's a slight dusting of snow in the foreground, but no more beyond. It's a mostly grey sky with the odd patch of blue snd the photo is a patchwork quilt of sunshine and shadows cast over the landscape like a holy quilt.
Pete
3 months ago

Yesterday was dreary. Yesterday evening was not. #cycling #gravel #cumbria

Cow with long horns stood in bracken looking at camera
evening light casting bright and dark areas onto a wide lakeland valley
Group of cyclists heading along a gravel track at the base of a grassy valley
group of cyclists riding along a road through green fields with low fells in the background
I AmAnita
3 months ago

Ooh - just remembered I have a little something for @ceadela and @LakesStiles #Whinlatter #Cumbria

A wooden gate fills much of the photo. It has a metal latch or ‘sneck’ with a knobbed rod to open it with. There are lovely wooded mountains in the background. The sky is blue with white clouds.
Pete
3 months ago

A decent turnout for our mid-week '#gravel' ride last night. #cumbria #cycling

Cyclist riding down a grassy fell side with wind turbines in background
Group of cyclists riding up a country lane
Pete
3 months ago

Happy Summer Solstice, Hippies!

I'm not doing anything with it this year, so sharing this again: https://cycling.hypertelia.com/Summer-Solstice-Stone-Circles-Ride #cycling #cumbria

Stone circle in a grassy field with fells surrounding under an overcast sky
happyhiker
3 months ago

#LakeDistrict mountainHigh Street’s main claim to fame is that it is so named because a Roman road between Ambleside and Brougham (near Penrith) ran over it. It makes for a great walk with super views. Details at tinyurl.com/2u2ckhmv

#Cumbria #Wainwrights #mountains

A small tarn sits surrounded by mountains. The footpath approaches from the foreground.
The view over Small Water (nearest) to Haweswater.
Kentmere reservoir sitting beneath the distinct peak of Ill Bell.
The concrete trig. point on High Street. The main peaks of the central  Lake District fells are across the horizon. A few scattered rocks are scattered around the trig. point.
Pete
3 months ago

The heat has worn me right out, but too nice an evening not to head out for a little local loop. #gravel #cycling #cumbria

Bike laying down in front of a wind turbine with a range of fells in the background.
Bike stood in ground of four wind turbines.
Pete
3 months ago

An easy ride to the coast and back for ice cream. A scoop each of Rhubarb and Ginger, and Orange Marmalade since you asked. #cycling #cumbria

Sign reading ‘narrow road, bad bends, steep gradient’
Ice cream being held in front of bike leaning against pier railings
Ian Cylkowski Photography
4 months ago

Tarn Hows is always a good bet for a lovely summer evening's walk.

It's all looking a bit dry now though.

More photos are ready for you here -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/blog/2023/6/8/tarn-hows-lake-district-summer 👍

#landscape #nature #travel #summer #photo #photographie #photography #lakedistrict #cumbria #uk #britain #england

A panorama of the dead and bare trees framing a winding path around the lake into the distant fells on a clear summer's evening.
A fence through the ferns serves as a leading line down to the lake and woodland, with the mountains peaks rising above on a summer evening.
Sheep graze in the shade of a tree as golden evening light spills across the rolling land and the distant mountains beyond.
A winding country road leading into the golden forest.
Pete
4 months ago

This morning I went and re-rode the innocuous downhill where I had my big OTB last month. Stayed upright this time. #cycling #gravel #cumbria

Grassy track viewed from behind the handlebars of a bike
Pete
4 months ago

Back out on local trails yesterday evening, and what an evening it was! #cycling #gravel #cumbria

two cyclists on a gravel track
cyclists on a gravel track in a valley heading into the sunset
a line of cyclists heading down a grassy fell path
a cyclist riding down a rocky descent