Today marks the end of our short walks with Wordsworth in The Lakes and how we have enjoyed them again. They give us much to think about and be inspired by. Anyone fancying a trip to the Lakes when we are able, now?
This might also mark the end of Philip's videos of days out and walks. We hope not, but both he and Sheila have served us so well throughout lockdowns and enabled all of us to escape for a short while into amazing countryside and beautiful gardens. Thank you so much for everything.
"Little Langdale was another of William Wordsworth's favourite parts of the Lake District. He wrote of the valley:
Behold!
Beneath our feet, a little lowly Vale,
A lowly Vale, and yet uplifted high
Among the mountains; even as if the spot
Had been, from eldest time by wish of theirs
So placed, to be shut out from all the world!
And so it does feel as you will see from this video.
We set out from the village of Elterwater, and then take the path alongside Howe Banks and Biel Crags to the Little Langdale Valley, stopping at the Three Shires Inn for coffee. Then down to the beck and Slater Bridge, before returning to Elterwater."
This was lovely again and so many thanks to Philip and Sheila. It felt more like an amble today but such wonderful colours in the hills, the flowers, the buildings. It made me think again about painting the houses white and looking at those rugged snow capped hills, yes I think it is right. It does make them stand out harshly perhaps but then snow does that too and it somehow intensifies things as well.
I am a great lover of natural stone walls for their colour, shape and form and because of that link to even more ancient things in creation. It is the way that stone was once used and also the way it is eroded. Am I on my own with my feels about stone?
FEEL GOOD FRIDAY
Continuing with our 'Feel Good Friday' celebrations, here are this week's two brilliant things that the world has witnessed since the first lockdown started in March 2020.
Serving once as military bases at the center of the Cold War, the green areas just west of the Iron Curtain will now become nature reserves for eagles, woodpeckers, bats, and beetles. Together the bases are 31,000 hectares — that’s equivalent to 40,000 football pitches. The conversion will see Germany’s total area of protected wildlife increase by a quarter.
A total of 48 new Ethiopian wolf pups were born this year. The species is Africa's most threatened meat-eating animal and the world's rarest species of dog. It's estimated there are only 500 left in the world.
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