Two have a convalescent walk

18 Mar 2022

A rare sunny (and mild) day combined with us both starting to get over the worst side-effects of Covid meant we decided to head for the promenade at Grange-over-Sands for…

Two go on a sculpture trail

22 Sep 202119 Nov 2021

Grizedale Forest in the Lake District is a perennial favourite of ours. We love it because it's a huge area of woodland, heath and moorland criss-crossed by walking trails. We…

Two don’t go to a garden

18 Aug 202118 Aug 2021

Biddulph Grange Chinese garden, courtesy of wheretogowithkids.co.uk I mentioned in my last post that we'd taken a rain-check on our plans to travel this week. The upside to that is…

Two go to the seaside – again

10 Apr 202110 Apr 2021

Nope, still estuary! But at least the sun shone today. This time we were on the other side of Morecambe Bay, at Grange-over-Sands, looking south towards Arnside where we were…

Two go on a coppery trail

5 Apr 2021

One of the nicest things about lockdown easing is that we can now get about locally rather than just staying in our town. We've made the most of it over…

Watery Reward

13 Mar 202113 Mar 2021

You'll have noticed I haven't been posting much about trips out lately. There's a good reason for that - thanks to the latest lockdown, we haven't been allowed to make…

Two find some early snowdrops

6 Feb 20216 Feb 2021

Yesterday's Daily Walk (TM) took in some of the maze of back lanes and footpaths around the town of Windermere including Birthwaite Road and Old College Path. It's a fascinating…

Even goats have statues…

4 Feb 2021

I've been hunting high and low for this photograph for simply ages. Although the original was a print made from 35mm film, I knew I'd scanned it but it didn't…

Two get (very) muddy

24 Nov 2020

Hunting around for new hobbies that might get us outdoors during lockdown, we decided to give geo-caching a go. For anyone unfamiliar with the term, it's a kind of modern-day…

Streams large and small…

11 Apr 2020

One of the things I love about Windermere is the sheer number of streams that wriggle their way down through the streets to the lake shores below. One or two…