Author Archives: Condor

Good, solid, rain, more or less all last night and the local lanes are flooded. Not a ‘walking’ morning along here but a bike – with mudguards – has little problem with all this. The Orange Ball was fine at … Continue reading →

A far better morning weather-wise today. It was warm and windless – the turbines again stationary. Unusually a pair of swans were asleep on the reservoir. Sadly, on the canal, a pair of swans have, for some reason, abandoned a … Continue reading →

Just looking through bedroom window and seeing an opaque grey wall deemed an earlier than usual countryside foray. Well, a two-minute walk to the lane for heavy mist pics. About an hour later and all is changed by the rising … Continue reading →

A warmer and sunny (Bank Holiday) morning – ideal for a bike-ride or walk, away, if possible, from urban, work-a-day traffic. For many though these days self-propelled locomotion is deemed ‘hard-work’ and avoided at all costs! But for an increasing … Continue reading →

Bright but cold sunshine again today for the morning ride around the local lanes and, even early, quite a few were out pedalling or walking and, just looking. Quiet and still – especially, this morning, the wind-turbines on the distant … Continue reading →

Sunny but cold this morning – in fact over the fields there was a hint of frost early on. And a clump of (possibly?) Spanish Bluebells were found along the hedgerows. They’re quite different from the ones along the reservoir … Continue reading →

Sunny and dry this morning around Elton Reservoir and Bury & Bolton Canal. A morning or two ago I watched (with awed interest!) as a motor-mower cut the grass along the forty-five degree sloped reservoir embankment. Today, I noticed, that … Continue reading →

Quite a sharp nip to the air this morning but there were many out and about Radcliffe lanes at around nine-ish. I did notice something this morning though and it was very ‘real’ as you might say. From Elton Reservoir … Continue reading →

May the second is well-different from May the first! Hardly any wind, dry and fairly warm this morning as the (roughly) five-mile circular-tour of Radcliffe lanes and waterways was done. Along the way one or two pics were taken, but … Continue reading →

Tuesday, May the first – which means that; later next month – it starts to go dark! But, no rain means a ride & walk along the far banks at Elton Reservoir. It is from this side that the reservoir … Continue reading →