Today in pictures

[davemac]

Originally Posted by mobertol

I have been thinking Dave that you could make an illustrated guide to walks around Hyndburn! It could become your life-work -Accy's answer to Wainright

I think this thread is my guide to walks, a pictorial record of one man and his dog.

Or it could be called "one mans descent into the world of the moist gusset"

[susie123]

Today was the first time I have been out, apart from hosp visits, since my stay in hosp 5 weeks ago. Too nice to stay in, don't want to sit in the garden as I only look at what needs doing (actually after a year of neglect, it still looks OK and is getting more "cottagey". Still can't just sit around in it though.)

So we went to Farletonview fishing lake & plant centre tea rooms, at Crooklands near Milnthorpe and Kendal, for lunch, I ate myself silly as I am back on steroids and they give you the munchies. Now waiting for Richard to serve up a roast dinner in between watching the motor racing. Anyway here are a few pictures...

1. The Jacob's sheep are shorn
2. Hay making at the lake's campsite
3. Raw materials for hay
4. Dock flower
5. At the garden centre - yes I did buy some plants, for my pots, wanted a bit of colour but most of the pelargoniums etc had gone so got nice foliage plants instead.
6. Two c(l)ones having a friendly chat
7. Free range eggs for sale
8. Back in Morecambe - the Yacht Club race office on stilts
9. Street furniture on the prom
10. Wild roses round our parking area

[Gremlin]

I am very pleased you managed to get out Susie and thanks for the photos.

I won't bore anybody with a lot of pictures of my today so here is a one or two.
You can gather where I have been from the pictures.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Today was the first time I have been out, apart from hosp visits, since my stay in hosp 5 weeks ago. Too nice to stay in, don't want to sit in the garden as I only look at what needs doing (actually after a year of neglect, it still looks OK and is getting more "cottagey". Still can't just sit around in it though.)

So we went to Farletonview fishing lake & plant centre tea rooms, at Crooklands near Milnthorpe and Kendal, for lunch, I ate myself silly as I am back on steroids and they give you the munchies. Now waiting for Richard to serve up a roast dinner in between watching the motor racing. Anyway here are a few pictures...

1. The Jacob's sheep are shorn
2. Hay making at the lake's campsite
3. Raw materials for hay
4. Dock flower
5. At the garden centre - yes I did buy some plants, for my pots, wanted a bit of colour but most of the pelargoniums etc had gone so got nice foliage plants instead.
6. Two c(l)ones having a friendly chat
7. Free range eggs for sale
8. Back in Morecambe - the Yacht Club race office on stilts
9. Street furniture on the prom
10. Wild roses round our parking area

Nice that you are out and about, and with your camera, that hut on stilts draws me for some reason.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I am very pleased you managed to get out Susie and thanks for the photos.

I won't bore anybody with a lot of pictures of my today so here is a one or two.
You can gather where I have been from the pictures.

Russel don't limit your uploads, I appreciate a bit of diversity and enjoy your trucks and buses, and other people do as well, so more please.

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, today was a day to smell the roses, the early morning heat with no wind let the scent fill the air.

1. Starting at the gallery.What light through yonder window brea....oh no its a reflection.
2. Turned around without moving from the spot, took this, Moleside and Hameldon Hill.
3. The scent hangs in the air.
4.Standing in the long grass to get this.
5. It is not an established rose garden yet.
6. The ones that are flowering are doing their best.
7. I am the only one here to appreciate them.
8. Time to wander.
9. Bee on a Rough Hawkbit.
10. No bee on a Rough Hawkbit.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by davemac

Nice that you are out and about, and with your camera, that hut on stilts draws me for some reason.

I know, I posted it specially for you...

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

I know, I posted it specially for you...

Thank you, a daft thought, does it wobble when you are inside it, and does the sea lapp the legs ?

[susie123]

Originally Posted by davemac

Thank you, a daft thought, does it wobble when you are inside it, and does the sea lapp the legs ?

Think it's sturdier than it looks but not been inside to test whether it wobbles, and no it's built on the prom so they keep stuff underneath it and sometimes park cars there. Sorry to spoil any illusions!

[Turtle]

Thank you, Dave! These views remind me of the early 1960s when my family and I often visited Haworth Art Gallery (we lived in nearby Rothwell House). What I don't see here are the massive rhododendron trees, and hiding under their branches to play hide and seek. Maybe they're gone now? Inside the gallery, I would always look for the portraits of John Mercer and his family. In those days I would notice the prominent noses and look to see if we had an ancestral connection to the famous Chemist. Now I know better, as we're not connected at all. But it was fun to dream. Many thanks!

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Think it's sturdier than it looks but not been inside to test whether it wobbles, and no it's built on the prom so they keep stuff underneath it and sometimes park cars there. Sorry to spoil any illusions!

Well that had me bursting into tears, I had pictured the legs covered in muscles and sea weed, and barnacles all along the bottom, and some on the hut as well. Still I have it in my mind to visit one day.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Turtle

Thank you, Dave! These views remind me of the early 1960s when my family and I often visited Haworth Art Gallery (we lived in nearby Rothwell House). What I don't see here are the massive rhododendron trees, and hiding under their branches to play hide and seek. Maybe they're gone now? Inside the gallery, I would always look for the portraits of John Mercer and his family. In those days I would notice the prominent noses and look to see if we had an ancestral connection to the famous Chemist. Now I know better, as we're not connected at all. But it was fun to dream. Many thanks!

Glad you liked the gallery tour, the rhododendrons were grubbed out some years ago, you can now see the gallery from Manchester Road as you drive passed. If you look at the panoramic thread, pictures 1,2, and 8 show where the largest bushes used to be, and what is there now.

[Gremlin]

Here you are Dave, you said "more please" so I am happy to oblige and show you things I am interested in.

The interior picture is of a old Leyland single decker, it is the same type used in the film "Whistle down the wind".
The bus was based at Burnley and took children to school at Clitheroe, picking up all the way from Blacko to Downham. During the day it was left at Clitheroe and the crew came back to Burnley passenger, the afternoon shift would do the reverse journey.
It was while it was left at Clitheroe that they used it in the making of the film.
I drove it once or twice but it was after the film was made so I never got chance to be a star.

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I am very pleased you managed to get out Susie and thanks for the photos.

I won't bore anybody with a lot of pictures of my today so here is a one or two.
You can gather where I have been from the pictures.

That clock would have been one to add to the last competition!

[Gremlin]

Originally Posted by mobertol

That clock would have been one to add to the last competition!

It would, I have seen it many times but only took the photo yesterday.
Leyland motors used the clocks as advertising. They had them situated on all the major trunk roads.
There was one on the road up to Shap which is now in the Brewery museum at Kendal.