Heading south...

Driving through snow, hail and rain, on my way to Coventry: a very different scene to Wasdale, just a couple of days ago...

Wastwater screes...

Back in Yorkshire, but just for a day. Seeing friends in the Fox & Goose in Hebden Bridge this evening, then heading south. First stop: Coventry…

Church on a hill...

A pic of Preston Patrick church, in springtime light... before I headed back across the Pennines...

Ennerdale Bridge...

I was in the Fox and Hounds pub in Ennerdale Bridge yesterday evening: another community-owned pub, like the Fox and Goose in Hebden Bridge, where I’ll be on Wednesday night. I had a roast beef dinner, a couple of pints of Ennerdale Blonde - very more-ish - and they were fine with me parking up overnight in the pub car park.

Something’s gone awry with my photo-editing software. I was busy editing pix and uploading them (McDonalds have free wifi and, best of all, you don’t even have to eat there… but just park close by). Then, all of a sudden, I couldn’t export an image into Photoshop because “Aperture does not support the image format”. Well, Aperture and Photoshop have been coping perfectly well, in tandem, with my pix these past few years… so God only knows what’s gone wrong.

The good news is that I can carry on shooting; the bad news is that I won’t be able to process the pix until I get the problem sorted. I think I’m going to need some help…

Houses in Caldbeck...

Honister Pass...

Barack Obama sounds at his most presidential at the end of his term of office. He’s stopped saying things like “Change has come to America”, having learned the hard way that congress can act as an effective brake on presidential ambitions. He’ll no doubt be cherished as an elder statesman in years to come… like Tony Blair in reverse. I enjoy listening to Obama talk… which is more than I can say about anyone in Westminster. Every few years we’re supposed to be witnessing the “end of Punch and Judy Politics”, but it never actually happens…

Horse on Caldbeck Common...

Been taking pix all day, and now I’m in Cockermouth. Every time I suggest that the town is looking better than ever, another flood comes. Maybe not now; the landscape is very dry…

Kirkstone Pass...

Had a productive day’s photography yesterday. It’s a shame to miss out on another day of sunshine today, but I have articles to finish. Another tiny motorhome - even smaller than mine - on Kirkstone Pass…

And down the other side, towards Brotherswater...