Well, march might be pushing it, but we certainly took part in a protest on Saturday against the current state of Northern trains. When we first moved to Windermere, one reason for choosing the town was the fact that it had a rail station, with reasonable links to the outside world. Trains ran roughly every [...]
On Saturday we braved the bitter cold (minus 2c, to be precise), wrapped up in our woollies and headed to the Windermere Christmas market. The town held this for the first time last year, and great fun it was too. It was called 'Ja Windermere' in a slightly odd nod to German Christmas markets elsewhere, [...]
Birds can be really difficult to take good photographs of - just as you click the shutter they move, squawk, waddle away or fly off. But over the years I've been lucky enough to snap a few memorable, and unusual, shots, which I thought I'd share with you here. Seagull, Windermere This seagull was cheerfully [...]
I'm cheating a tiny bit with this one. There is indeed a flippantly-named "Windermere Three Peaks Challenge" which takes in three of the low hills at the back of the town (Orrest Head, School Knott and Brant Fell). However, two others are so close to the route that they might just as well be on [...]
I got cabin fever this afternoon so set off for a walk round the local streets - and because we'd had the first proper snowfall of the winter overnight, I took my camera with me. It wasn't sunny, but there were odd brighter gleams amongst the dark clouds, just enough to light up some of [...]
