Archive for The Ramblers
Walking Class Hero: On the Salford Wind
Monday, February 14th, 2011
I’m a big fan of the work of L.S. Lowry – I’ve got a print of his ‘Going to Work’ in my hall – but that also means I have ‘Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs’ going through my brain quite a lot.
Walking Class Hero: Done Deal
Monday, January 17th, 2011
Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine and not forgetting the mighty Noggin the Nog. Lady Dedlock, Sam Weller, David Copperfield and the splendid Wilkins Micawber…
Walking Class Hero: In the Bleak Midwinter
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Almost as I shut my front door the few flakes fluttering lazily down from leaden skies turned into a howling blizzard
Walking Class Hero: The Frozen North
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Leeds made its money during the Industrial Revolution from wool. And boy some of them made stacks and stacks of it.
Walking Class Hero: Trail Blazer
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
The RSPB Dearne Valley and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council are working with community art company Spearfish to regenerate a large vandal hit underpass
Walking Class Hero: Reasons to be Cheerful
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Isn’t it strange that many of the sayings that you used to scoff at when young turn out to be true?
Walking Class Hero: Sound and Vision
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Our guide was featured on ‘Secret Britain’ when they covered the medicinal leeches of Dungeness. See, I told you the wildlife was exotic…
Walking Class Hero: Walking the wall
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Everywhere blues, reds, and greens creep upwards like a bright giant lichen
Walking Class Hero: Hotter than July
Monday, July 19th, 2010
These colourful birds thrive round here lighting up the skies with flashes of luminous green while dominating the dawn and dusk choruses with their airborne shrieks
Walking Class Hero: Smoke on the Water
Friday, June 25th, 2010
The Merchant Taylors and the Skinners have always disputed their precedence, so once a year, at Easter, they exchange sixth and seventh place… the origin of the phrase “at sixes and sevens”
