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when unexpected wee creatures show up on my piccies there are lots of other photos here for anybody who might like to look at them leave a comment flowers piglet walking permalink posted by peewiglet sunny woodland walk from home 8 may 2016 piggle and i had a fab walk in the woods today with our pals linda john and poppy the bluebells are out and we went to see them a bluebell lots of bluebells photographing bluebells poppy in the bluebells there were lots of other lovely things in the woods as well wood sorrel lovely grasses wee mayfly rising to the beautiful gorse next to the river garlic horsetail and wee spider pretty thing lovely snail more garlic piglet and poppy both enjoyed a dip in the river piglet cooling off poppy swimming and it was lovely to be able to sit in the first truly warm sunshine of the year poppy john and linda more pics here for anyone who d like to see them leave a comment flowers piglet walking permalink posted by peewiglet thank goodness for unreliable forecasts 8 may 2016 piglet has been keeping an eye on the bbc weather app all week but most of the news has been gloomy cloud rain hail sleet and general horribleness seemed likely to occupy the entire bank holiday weekend and as the weekend approached it seemed increasingly likely that the whole thing was going to be a complete wash out oh noes around about thursday though it began to look as though yesterday saturday might simply be cloudy with intermittent showers and so late on friday i began to have a think about where we might go for a good weekend walk we wanted a change from the dales but didn t want to contend with the weekend traffic heading up the m way to the lakes and so in a moment of rare genius it occurred to me to take a look at the howgills by dint of some quick googling i discovered that my old pal mike knipe has a year s worth of howgills route descriptions over on another old pal phil lambert s excellent doodlecat site since this is april well it was when i looked on friday i decided to go with mike s april walk which starts conveniently in sedbergh whoohoo piglet was ecstatic and she did a little dance happeeeeee regular readers may notice that this isn t piglet but since she so rarely agrees to smile for the camera i ve borrowed a picture this is just what she looked like when i told her where we were going really our route the details yesterday morning the weather at home was pretty crappy and after taking care of essential business feeding watering and mucking out a dog three cats three chucks and a horse i was undecided about whether or not to risk the rain the main reason for my hesitation was that my main walking waterproof jacket a paramo viento has had a broken main zip for a couple of months now and is unusable i ve had the jacket for about 12 years and have already had to have the main zip replaced once one of the great things about paramo i ve always thought has been their lifetime guarantee and when the zip first broke about 5 years into my ownership they happily took the jacket back and replaced it for me free of charge when i contacted them a couple of months ago though they told me that the life of the main zip had now come to an end and that i d have to pay for a second replacement at 47 50 plus postage that felt like a lot of money and i ve not had it done yet i don t really think the main zip in a 200 jacket should fail and need to be replaced twice in 12 years they also suggested that after 12 years it was probably time for me to think about buying a new jacket this from paramo one of whose main selling points has always been longevity tbh i was extremely unimpressed anyway my other jacket a cioch glamaig is great but it s shorter than the viento and lighter and i don t think of it as a first choice for very wet weather hence my ambivalence in the face of the freezing rain occurring outside my front door it s always difficult to deal with piglet s tears though and so in the end i loaded up the rucksack and then the car and we set off for sedbergh with claws and fingers crossed it turned out to be a truly fantastic day i could see some snow on the tops as we drove over but i hadn t anticipated that at some points it might be calf deep that was brilliant as piglet loves a bit of snow and so do i the weather was a little overcast as we set off up the hill the hill at the start but as we gained a bit of height it began to pick up and after about an hour it was sunshine virtually all the way looking down to sedbergh from our raised position i could see little rain showers happening all around us but we were incredibly lucky and none of them came our way like mike we didn t go up winder but instead followed a path closer to settlebeck gill settlebeck gill we crossed the gill and followed a path up to the right unlike mike we didn t take the detour to the top of crook but we took a piccy looking down at it from a higher point slightly later in the walk on the approach to arant haw looking back down to winder crook with the little knobble on top when we reached the top of arant haw we entered a different and fabulous world ahead of us lay an exciting snowy landscape and piglet stared ahead enthralled the way ahead towards brant fell at that point it occurred to me to try out the panorama feature on my new camera result from arant haw towards calders and the calf somewhere behind the climb up to calders looked steep as we set off towards it climb to calders but it was fine if a little windy and we stopped half way to admire some interlocking spurs that i vaguely remembered learning about when we were doing glaciation in geography at school about 1 000 years ago interlocking spurs we took another panoramic thingy a little higher up and again we were lucky to avoid the rain showers that we could clearly see around and about rain to the left and rain to the right without what felt like too great an effort we arrived at the top of calders on top of calders had my iphone not been running viewranger i might have thought calders was the calf but it turned out not to be we therefore pressed on again and passed a few people out enjoying the amazing weather and here was one of them crossing the lovely plateau towards us lone walker as we embarked upon the final ascent towards the calf we passed a brolly weird we left it there in the hope that the owner might nip back and pick it up brolly eventually we got to the top and we stood around chatting with a couple of walkers who d come up another way i took a photo for them and accidentally posted it to their whatsapp account whoops on top of the calf from the calf our route was due to take us towards fell head but had it not been for my trusty compass i might have set off for docker knott instead as i d forgotten that we were meant to be making a left hand turn fortunately i checked though and we began our descent in the right direction starting the descent from the calf until that point i d just been wearing a fuera smock over my baselayer but it was actually pretty chilly and therefore i stopped to get out my jacket re clothed in both jacket and fuera i prepared to continue but noticed that piglet was by that point looking a little pinched wee baby is getting cold it was probably the standing around that had done it but i delved back into the pack and got out her lovely hurtta winter jacket much better baby much warmer now the views and landscape just got better and better as we progressed there was an element of up and down of course but at the same time there was much more of a plateau than i had expected to find and it was really lovely to be able to press on through gorgeous scenery without having to make significant descents and ascents on a regular basis lovely high and level walking as we pressed on over what the map tells me is bush howe towards fell head from which we were going to descend i noticed an oddly shaped patch standing out in stark relief on the side of the fell ahead i vaguely remembered reading something that mike had written about the famous black horse of busha and wondered whether this might be it i took a piccy just in case looking now at the picture mike took i realise that what i saw was the wrong thing not entirely suprising since it also appears that i was looking in the wrong place in fact i was probably standing on the horse when i took my piccy doh the black amoeba of busha several factors combined at this point to place piglet and me in significant danger uh oh first mike had spoken of standing on the black horse and since i thought that my amoeba was the horse i began to think that i should start contouring round to the left when i reached the saddle that now lay ahead of me secondly i misread the map and wrongly thought the saddle was the point at which the path turns left towards fell head oops oops it s a good job it was snowy because i did walk a little way along the path to the left but it was immediately obvious even to the most hopeless of navigators that conditions were not right for that kind of precipitous undertaking i therefore retraced my steps and set off up the steep hill ahead instead mentally doffing my cap to mike and bruno it was only when i checked viewranger when higher up that i realised my mistake the climb to fell head had looked horribly steep but in the end it wasn t too bad we eventually reached the top finally at fell head preparing to descent to whins end and there we sat down to share a sandwich we d both have liked to have stopped earlier but there had been so little shelter that i d kept deciding to press on since i d forgotten to take the usual pocket full of mini biscuits for piglet she was highly delighted to tuck into my cheese and coleslaw roll from that point it was going to be almost all downhill and i began to wonder how long it would take us to find our way back to sedbergh first we had to get down though the descent towards whins end and as we wound our way down the steep hillside i watched traffic speeding past on the motorway far below us we spotted some fell ponies as we went on and i was hugely relieved to confirm that they weren t coos not coos thank goodness as we reached the bottom we headed left and crossed a small ravine for want of a better word and then climbed towards the intake wall i e the wall that separates the fellside from the cultivated land i mention this because i wasn t quite sure until i looked it up little ravine i d hoped to follow the wall back to sedbergh but it fairly soon became obvious that that would be difficult barbed wire and quantities of cows provided a significant hint and so at or about castley we struck off down a track and joined a lovely little lane for the last three miles lovely lane back to sedbergh the lane is a roman road the lane was almost as lovely as the fellside had been before it and had the advantage of being decorated with a profusion of spring flowers cuckoo flower may flower primroses violet blackthorn blossom little mouse ear let me know if it isn t brave dandelion early bluebell garlic mustard jack by the hedge said to be edible but you d need to be starving i also spotted a small vacated egg shell i think it was from a thrush thrush egg the three miles on the lane passed quickly and i realised i was re joining the thriving metropolis when i spotted some very beautiful flowering blackcurrant flowering blackcurrant from that point it was only ten minutes to the car and we stopped on the way home at booths to buy a pizza and a tart au citron and some creme fraiche and cheese and olives and some other stuff my sister was coming up so i though i d better lay in stores now that she s been unable to come i ll just have to eat it all myself c est la vie the weather today is just as crappy as had been forecast so they don t always get it wrong it s definitely worth taking a chance when it just might be okay though and when i finally buy a decent new foul weather jacket i won t mind if it s raining if anyone would like to see them all the pics can be found on flickr here leave a comment uncategorized permalink posted by peewiglet ingleborough two ways 25 april 2016 the first ascent the forecast was for a cloudy day but it was raining as piglet and i set off for ingleton in the car things soon looked up though by the time we reached the top of ingleborough for the first time it was snowing and as we crossed the plateau towards our first descent the wind was blowing a bit of a hoolie and the step was shrouded in low lying cloud first descent as we slipped down towards nick pot the sun began to make fleeting appearances and the rain that i d been concerned about didn t return phew piglet and i love the dales we like to do a hill or two but we don t want to walk the same route every time this one was a variation on the one we walked two weeks ago with pals but this time at clapham bottoms we turned right and climbed back up via what felt by that time in the day like the implausibly steep snout of little ingleborough quo tells me we walked a little over 12 miles but yesterday i was tired and it felt much further the route the info when we reached the top again it was sunny but freezing and we stopped for a welcome break at the shelter and shared a flapjack and a flask of coffee as we chatted with three young blokes who were boiling up a brew this was my first opportunity to properly try out my new panasonic lumix gx7 camera whoohoo i plan to learn to use it properly f stops and all that but today we mainly used the ia setting and played with a few of the artistic filtery things monochrome tree sepia sheep when i saw the rain as we were about to set off i almost turned round and went back into the house as we ambled happily along the beautiful little green lane between long scar and trow gill though i was horrified to think that we nearly hadn t been there it was an excellent walk on a gorgeous day of enormous contrasts green lane it s become a bit of a tradition now for piglet to eat a tub of scrummy wet dog food mixed up with her kribble when we return from a good day out and as she settled to her rawhide chew in front of the fire i tucked away an enormous pizza more piccies here for anybody who would like to look leave a comment walking permalink posted by peewiglet more great music 18 april 2016 there s so much great music to stumble across when listening to radio 4 podcasts leave a comment music permalink posted by peewiglet epic day out in forest of bowland 18 april 2016 looking back towards the dales unsure of what to expect of the weather piglet and i decided to stay a little more local on saturday and we set out to explore some places we haven t visited before the route the details in the end we had an epic day of varied scenery and the only blots on the weather related horizon were two short hail showers one near the start and the second when we were almost finished neither was any kind of a problem and in fact the hail looked very prett...