I thought we had a ‘proper’ winter last year, and I think we did in terms of temperature, but this is the most prolonged period of snow I’ve seen in all the time I’ve lived in Cumbria. Actually it’s only snowed two or three days, but it’s been heavy and it’s stuck around.
I found myself...
I suppose posting photos of Bowness piers underwater didn’t help, but it seems that most people still think Cumbria is flooded and all our road bridges have been destroyed. It’s certainly been bad in some corners, mostly in the north of the county, but Bowness and Windermere were only affected for a day, and then...
The BBC predicted four solid days of heavy rain in the Lake District over this weekend. So nobody came.
What we actually got was forty minutes of drizzle and four days of empty streets. Thank You London.
My advice would be to never, ever, base your weekends away on a TV weather forecast. The best for the...
OK, so I’ve said before how much it doesn’t rain in the Lake District. Only now and then I get proved badly wrong, and it rains so hard that this happens.
No, not a bird but a jet.
While waiting to take photos for a client at the Honister Slate Mine yesterday, I saw the smartest (and closest) manoeuvre I’ve seen a jet do in the five years I’ve lived here. Unfortunately, as it was a Hawk trainer and not a Tornado, it was far too quiet and I...
