Snakes on a moorland! - Local - Derbyshire Times

Snakes on a moorland! - Local - Derbyshire Times

This is one type of snake we shouldn't expect to see in the Peak District !

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/11 ...

Just four more to go after this one. Will this last handful of sculptures save the day ? How many hares will feature ? 

To start the last third of the exhibits we have Empire State with Bowler - Mirrored ... 

 

Once again I am underwhelmed I'm afraid ...



I can see that they're 'fun' ...



... but now the hares look half-starved ...



The position is wrong for them too, in my opinion. They should be in front of a large privet hedge so they contrast with the hedge. Instead they're in front of a busy background ...



I keep wondering if we're supposed to compare them with King Kong ...



... but all I can do is post this final photograph so that you get some idea of the scale of the actual sculptures.

 

I'll never make an art critic ...

A Farm Journal ~ from the 16th to the 30th April 1867

My great great great uncle John Bayliff Bowman lived at Summer Hill, near Monyash in the County of Derby.

The Bowman family, who were Quakers, had three farms, One Ash Grange [which John Bayliff Bowman often referred to as O.A.], Cales and Summer Hill [which he usually referred to as S.Hill or S.H.]

In this photo John is fourth from the left. My great great grandparents, Ebenezer and Hannah Bowman, are the third and fourth adults from the right. John and Ebenezer were brothers and their parents are the elderly couple in the middle, Henry and Mary Bowman.

"A Farm Journal"continues :~

 

3 - 16 Showery Q[uarterly] M[eeting] home at night

 

4 - 17 Fine harrow[in]g N[ethe]r Intake for drilling

 

5 - 18 Little rain but fine har[rowin]g & sow[in]g 3 cwt p[e]r ac[re] bone dust

 

6 - 19 Ditto

 

7 - 20 Very showery all day plough[in]g broke cake & gr[oun]d at Cales & strained the breaker - Very hindering weather for sowing grass grows well lambs come slowly some die of inflam[matio]n Hog dead 

 

1 - 21 Fine

 

2 - 22 D[itt]o B[akewe]ll Fair no cattle sheep very low Hogs selling at 30/- worth the money last latter end - pigs large show & very low good stores at 20/- to 25/- cheese 50/- to 68/- 

 

3 - 22 to 6 - 26 sow[e]d broadcast Far piece & Kiln close S.H. & harrow[e]d in very wet state [Over the top of this entry John Bayliff Bowman had written] Martin Milligan came - 7/6 & meat p[e]r week

 

7 - 27 Very showery & thundery - put 40 hogs in lane yesterday for first time one of Jesse's lads to tend them @ 2/6 p[e]r week - 10 cows on seeds at S.H. began mid of week & all out at Cales - 20 sheep to lamb yet - a fine one dead in Intake -

 

1 - 28 Fine

 

2 - 29 Fine

 

3 - 30- Fine growing day showery SA & I to Heanor  

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/10 ...

This is a bit more like it !

This is Barry Flanagan's Leaping Hare on Crescent and Bell ... 

We start off with what appears to be where birds perch overnight.

So, moving on swiftly, the tenth exhibit is positioned by Strid Pond at Chatsworth ...



 

This sculpture just seems so lively. The hare seems as though it's running around the garden ...



 

I think the fact I like this is reflected in the number of photos I took and the number of angles I took them from. This sculpture excited me.



 

At one stage he even jumped right over me ...



Probably one of my favourites, if not the favourite, so far.

I spy a Cavalier ...

Stand at the north-western end of Fennel Street in Ashford in the Water and opposite The Elms is a house half-hidden by a hedge. If you can peep over the hedge then you may get a glimpse of this ...

... on the front of the building. Now, to me, he looks like a Cavalier but why he's on the front of the house I have no idea. Anyone else know ?

Walk up Vicarage Lane and cross the end of Pennyunk Lane until you can take a path on your right across one field. This enables you to cross the B6465 and follow a path through more fields towards Longstone Lane. This path can get muddy in wintertime ...


   
Sometimes it gets too sludgy as does the path on the opposite side of Longstone Lane. The good thing about this latter path is that it brings you to the Monsal Trail. The only problem there are the bikes ... but assuming you can avoid them [and they can avoid you] head eastwards until you reach the bridge over Longreave Lane. At this point you can leave the Trail and pass under the bridge to cross the A6020. 

Cross the road carefully here because many of the cars hereabouts are hellbent on getting where they're going at least five minutes sooner than they have to be there. Take the private drive [which is also a public footpath] leading towards Churchdale Farm ...



Beyond the hall, which you get a glimpse of to your right, the path descends down one of those banks which is easier to walk up than down ... especially when it's muddy.



Towards the bottom of the bank there used to be an impressive though rather daunting tree looming over all pedestrians ...







Since these photos were taken I believe this old tree has fallen down.

The path rejoins the A6020 and then you're just a few hundred yards along a pavement to reach Ashford in the Water again.

Just the sort of short walk if you're not too sure about how far you feel like walking. 

This walk was followed on the 2nd January 2011

Length of walk ~ 3 miles *

Total mileage walked so far in 2011 ~ 5.2 miles

Total mileage between the 1st September 2009 and the 2nd January 2011 ~ 534.25 miles

2 of 2011

* distance calculated on Ordnance Survey's Getamap

Fallow Buck Dance

Fallow Buck Dance, a photo by kev747 on Flickr.

Great photo by one of my contacts on Flickr [kev747] ~ this is one of a number,.

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/9

OK, before I push my mouse to one side for the evening here's Exhibit No. 9 of the Beyond Limits exhibition at Chatsworth.

It's called Elephant and yes, it's by Barry Flanagan ... 

I rather like where this is positioned too ... there's no clutter surrounding it.



It's in between two lines of rather attractive 'wavy' hedges ...



Is it me or is its tail out of proportion though ?