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pie and mushies thoughts from the end of a windy peninsula pie and mushies blog about the author sunrise over buccleuch dock january 2 2013 at 23 18 posted in uncategorized 1 comment i never tire of this view when i get the chance the light is never the same twice here the air is so clear you can see the hills of the forest of bowland sharply delineated on the horizon happy new year 2013 january 1 2013 at 20 19 posted in uncategorized leave a comment it s been a long time but it s a new year and it s the fifth anniversary of this blog so it s time to chronicle the fine town of barrow with a photo a day again to start afresh here s a shot of the waves on the beach at sandy gap queens arms music festival july 3 2011 at 21 28 posted in barrow biggar uncategorized walney leave a comment crowds packed the courtyard of the 300 year old queens arms at biggar on walney yesterday for the first queens arms music festival from noon to midnight and i suspect a good while afterwards in the back room a procession of performers of folk blues and country rock played half hour sets on the old pallet stage glastonbury it wasn t which might be no bad thing we had warm sunshine at least until the sun went down when it became surprisingly chilly and no mud no crush no prima donnas and better beer a grand day out all round more pictures of the event here noctilucent clouds july 3 2011 at 18 31 posted in barrow walney 5 comments it was a long walk home last night but what a walk from the queens arms music festival at biggar i took this picture from the walney bridge at a few minutes past 1 am with a near spring tide an hour from the full and a panorama of lakeland fells from scafell on the left to wetherlam on the right silhouetted against the sky above the streetlights that run from centre to right i wanted to show how in barrow at this time of year it never gets completely dark but apparently those shiny clouds that seem to form a halo round scafell are noctilucent clouds a phenomenon that people go out to look for because they are quite rare they are the reflections of a sun just below the northern horizon from ice crystals high in the atmosphere in fact they are the highest clouds observable in the earth s atmosphere i guess i just got lucky thank heavens for little gulls june 20 2011 at 19 43 posted in uncategorized 3 comments not in fact little gulls larus minutus but chicks of our old friend barrow s own gull the lesser black backed l fuscus i reckon these two are about two weeks old and are only just beginning to acquire their wing feathers i noted in my private journal that i saw the first chicks as tiny spotty balls of fluff on 25 may i ve been watching them just about every day since those first chicks are now less than four weeks on as big as their parents have their flight feathers and are almost ready to start jumping up and down trying to fly that won t take long and by august they ll be swooping round the docks getting ready to fly to the mediterranean in september the gull colony shares their space former railway sidings now kept surrounded by razor wire as a cordon sanitaire by the shipyard with a warren of rabbits the rabbits and the gulls get along just fine but let a magpie in and there s sure to be trouble they aren t madly keen on humans with cameras getting too close either so one has to take the chance when one can cocktail hour june 20 2011 at 19 10 posted in uncategorized leave a comment i felt like being creative at the weekend three cheap wine glasses that don t fit in any of my cupboards a box of price s utility candles and some wax crayons produced this colourful trio i could enjoy this kind of thing i could even make them for sale maybe what do you think twilight on the walney channel june 16 2011 at 23 52 posted in uncategorized leave a comment tomorrow night i m hosting the friday quiz at the queens arms biggar so any spare time i ve had today has been devoted to devising fiendish questions to flummox the punters if you re in the area why not come along the quiz is always good fun so in the absence of a fresh photo here s another take on one of my favourite subjects the view from the walney bridge this time on a high tide at twilight enjoy bowling in the park june 15 2011 at 22 18 posted in barrow crown green bowls rant sport leave a comment i was back bowling in the league today after a three week layoff brought about by two successive byes which seems to me like bad planning on the part of the league but who am i to judge and what better way is there to spend a pleasant summer afternoon than on the bowling green today s match brought the bottle green and cream though today most of us stripped off the bottle green and played in cream shirts of the barrow island team face to face with park north whose home green is one of those in barrow park i enjoyed a 21 9 win so i get to keep my place in the team at least for now i have a bad habit of winning every other game playing in the park got me thinking when i was young even into early adulthood public bowling greens were one of the things public parks offered you could hire a set of woods for the session for a nominal fee and enjoy an hour or so on the green my parents used to to exactly that if you wanted to try out bowls it was an inexpensive way to find out if it was for you looking around it looks as though barrow park boasted at least six greens and i can imagine if my experience elsewhere is anything to go by that they were well used on a sunny summer evening by casual players now one of those has been turned into flower beds two are abandoned and neglected two are the preserve of the park north and furness abbey teams respectively and one is open for public hire although i ve never seen anybody playing on it it is no longer possible to hire woods so you can t just try it out the crown green bowler only needs two woods as opposed to the the flat bowler s four and if you keep your eyes peeled you might pick up a second hand set for twenty pounds or so but that seems a lot for a pensioner or somebody on benefits to try out and that reminds me of another thing bowls is a game of guile and concentration and judgement it doesn t demand youth or physical agility so players can complete well into one s senior years it s a great way for older people to keep fit and it does seem to work very effectively i should note that there are some very good teenage players indeed it s galling to get a thrashing from a 13 year old and it s great that young people continue to play but the sad truth is that bowls is dying almost all the pub greens have gone the way of the municipal greens sold off for housing or car parking and only the private clubs survive some of them barely it would be sad indeed if this seriously addictive game were to die and another thing there are no municipal tennis courts in any of barrows parks any more i don t know what the situation is in the rest of the country next monday comes one of the great british summer rituals the opening of the wimbledon fortnight and on tuesday when all the british players bar andy murray i hope have been eliminated comes another regular ritual asking what s wrong with the state of british tennis well i can answer that there s no longer the opportunity for anybody to play a casual game of tennis unless they join a tennis club and that never comes cheap the local park used to provide that opportunity now local authorities can t be bothered providing them ghost rider in the sky june 15 2011 at 21 19 posted in uncategorized 2 comments i caught this shot of the sign outside the riding school at biggar on walney last night as i was leaving the pub the sky was absolutely terrific and the light quite magical my new local june 14 2011 at 17 59 posted in barrow pubs uncategorized walney 1 comment have i mentioned that i m now hanging out here the little village barely a hamlet actually of biggar is a bit of an oddity it s one of the original farming settlements on walney and it s been there since long before barrow existed never mind there being a bridge over to walney it sits huddled against the saltmarshes of the walney channel and before the bridge before the ferry the only way to the mainland was by boat or by walking across a causeway at low tide even now it feels a bit weird with an end of all things atmosphere in its remote isolation but like all of walney it remains firmly within the borough of barrow in furness as it was in the old county borough before that there s no bus service it s either a car along one of two narrow lanes or a half hour walk from ocean road and perhaps that s why it s been colonised by some of barrow s most affluent residents the only reason non residents might want to visit has been the queens arms its location was its unique selling point and its location is superb with its proximity to the beach stunning views and general sense of rus in urbem but in recent years it hadn t been much more than just ok it did a reasonable if unadventurous evening meal but the beer was only so so and the atmosphere not particularly welcoming in the end a couple of years ago it closed it stayed closed for over a year and then something remarkable happened two women mary rudkin and julie matthews from bolton were tipped off about the vacant property by a friend neither had any experience of running a pub but they threw themselves into reviving the queens arms with gusto out went the tat provided by the brewery and pubco marketing people in came an assortment of genuine bric a brac a piano books games jigsaws and a bank of six handpumps it took me until a warm saturday at the beginning of april when i diverted from the beach to check out what was happening and barely had i stepped inside the door and ordered a pint of locally brewed beer than i felt like an old friend dropping in local children were engaged in making bunting not your average red white and blue bunting but bunting made of scraps of old dresses and curtains i picked up a programme of events and my eyes nearly popped out there are friday quizzes a book club a film club an art class mary an artist is considering turning derelict outbuildings into an art gallery a knit and knatter night and the pièce de résistance the wednesday night buffets where everybody shares a table and for a modest gbp 15 00 gets what they are given an imaginative four course meal provided by julie often using produce from the garden or foraged from the local hedgerows i haven t tried this yet but i m lining it up for my birthday treat in august if you want to try this and from what i hear it s worth every penny phone julie or mary on 01229 471880 no they haven t paid me for this item it really has become a special kind of place and although it takes me an hour to walk there of an evening but what a walk it s definitely my local from now on as it happens i m going there tonight it s now the venue for my new writers group the regal writers and we re having our second meeting there this evening next page pie n mushies barrow daily photos sunrise over buccleuch dock happy new year 2013 queens arms music festival noctilucent clouds thank heavens for little gulls cocktail hour twilight on the walney channel bowling in the park ghost rider in the sky my new local search for archives january 2013 july 2011 june 2011 november 2009 october 2009 september 2009 june 2009 may 2009 april 2009 march 2009 february 2009 january 2009 december 2008 november 2008 october 2008 september 2008 august 2008 july 2008 june 2008 may 2008 april 2008 march 2008 barrow blogs the queens arms biggar other city daily photos ashton under lyne by martin clark bostonscapes us by fenix hyde cheshire by gerald isle of man by babooshka nottingham by gails_man other photo blogs morecambe sands striding edge this will hurt me resources around the world city daily photo pages about the author follow me on twitter tweets by enitharmon blog at wordpress 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