Quite breezy up here with the hawthorn, on the high ground above Rose Castle
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The Pikes
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sunny on Skelghyll and Wansfell Pike
a look of indifference from one of the locals
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the Scott Memorial and track up to Bursting Stone in the distance
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pink hawthorn at High Cross.
Around the gardens of Holehird
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under the gunnera
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low cloud on Little Langdale and Lingmoor Fell
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under the wisteria
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Hodge Close road end
misty Blake Rigg above Tilberthwaite Ghyll
we're on a walk to Yew Tree Farm
sign to 'take your litter home' by Shepherd's Bridge
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under the oaks and crags of Holme Fell
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approaching foxglove time
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we meet up with the friendly hoggets
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.... and a goat that has a taste for hawthorn.
Kents Bank Station this lunchtime
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a book exchange in the waiting room
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across the Kent Estuary; Arnside Knott
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Heysham Nuclear Reactor in the heat haze
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it's 13.42
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the round-the-Cumbrian-Coast train, spot on time
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one passenger on, one off
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On the road from Town End to Colthouse
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over Gallowbarrow, the outline of Wetherlam, very hazy this morning
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from Colthouse, into Hawkshead
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bistort and buttercups
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St Michael from the car park
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millions of bugs eating the vegetation
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hawthorn at the Baptist Chapel, Hawkshead Hill
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greater stitchwort
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clematis guarding the farm.
Onto the cycle route from High Cross
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early clouds on the high fells
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hawthorn at High Cross
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one or two timber stacks left
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for our Welsh Visitors
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the final part of the tourist track to Coniston Old Man
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not many larch left, it has certainly opened up the views
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Helvellyn
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with all the work going on here, there are still pink campions and wild flowers along the tracks.
