It was one of those grey days we get in the UK. Even when there's some blue in the sky the overall impression is of grey ... unless it was my mood perhaps.
Look behind this image of Toll Bar Cottage, a few hundred yards west of Hassop Station. There are bits of blue sky ... but no sunshine ...
I certainly wouldn't fancy opening my front door to have a main road slapbang outside.
Leaving the road behind me I followed the field path towards Great Longstone and reached Buskey Cottage where I noticed a planning application for the proposed conversion of an open barn to a garden room.
I'm showing my ignorance again ... but, pray tell me, what exactly is a garden room ?
A quiet lane runs from Buskey Cottage into Great Longstone itself.
On the way I passed Arma Meadow ... at least that's what it seemed to say on the millstone next to the stocks ...
One of the reasons I had decided to walk into Great Longstone was that I had seen my cousin Richard a couple of days earlier and he had mentioned he'd got another butcher's shop. Here it is ...
I hope it will go well.
Within a few years I wonder how many red telephone boxes will be left in the UK. Images like this are likely to get rarer and rarer ...
I think the old village cross will last a lot longer.
Crossing the path over the Monsal Trail, not far from Thornbridge Hall, this dressed stone gatepost caught my eye. How long it would take to dress a slab of stone like this ? Who did the job ? Presumably some stonemason who got paid a pittance.
Back on the Monsal Trail, heading back to the car at Hassop Station, there were signs of what a hard winter it had been. The bark at the bottom of this tree had been fetched off by a hungry rabbit ...
I'm assuming it was a rabbit what done it.
It was beyond here where I sat on a bench beside the Monsal Trail and had a piece of our Christmas cake. There's nothing like it ... it tastes much better out in the open.
All that remained was to walk another mile along the Monsal Trail to reach Hassop Station.
Length of walk 3 miles
Total walked so far in 2010 ~ 24 1/2 miles
Total walked since records began [er, 1st September 2009] ~ 154 1/2 miles
5 of 2010
Look behind this image of Toll Bar Cottage, a few hundred yards west of Hassop Station. There are bits of blue sky ... but no sunshine ...
I certainly wouldn't fancy opening my front door to have a main road slapbang outside.
Leaving the road behind me I followed the field path towards Great Longstone and reached Buskey Cottage where I noticed a planning application for the proposed conversion of an open barn to a garden room.
I'm showing my ignorance again ... but, pray tell me, what exactly is a garden room ?
A quiet lane runs from Buskey Cottage into Great Longstone itself.
On the way I passed Arma Meadow ... at least that's what it seemed to say on the millstone next to the stocks ...
One of the reasons I had decided to walk into Great Longstone was that I had seen my cousin Richard a couple of days earlier and he had mentioned he'd got another butcher's shop. Here it is ...
I hope it will go well.
Within a few years I wonder how many red telephone boxes will be left in the UK. Images like this are likely to get rarer and rarer ...
I think the old village cross will last a lot longer.
Crossing the path over the Monsal Trail, not far from Thornbridge Hall, this dressed stone gatepost caught my eye. How long it would take to dress a slab of stone like this ? Who did the job ? Presumably some stonemason who got paid a pittance.
Back on the Monsal Trail, heading back to the car at Hassop Station, there were signs of what a hard winter it had been. The bark at the bottom of this tree had been fetched off by a hungry rabbit ...
I'm assuming it was a rabbit what done it.
It was beyond here where I sat on a bench beside the Monsal Trail and had a piece of our Christmas cake. There's nothing like it ... it tastes much better out in the open.
All that remained was to walk another mile along the Monsal Trail to reach Hassop Station.
Length of walk 3 miles
Total walked so far in 2010 ~ 24 1/2 miles
Total walked since records began [er, 1st September 2009] ~ 154 1/2 miles
5 of 2010
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