Thursday, 9 February 2023

A short walk on the flat

 Thursday 9th February 2023

My first walk since before Christmas. The breathlessness has improved a little and walking on the flat is fine. Various medical administrations continue which are frustrating but too boring to itemise here.

I have posted, more often in the past,  about my regular Thursday walks with my friend Pete - we go back to the Sixties when a  group of us from Bradford climbed and revelled together. In the recent inclement weather, and in consideration of my own relative immobility we have just been going to Café Ambio since Christmas but today was fine and sunny with milder temperature. We walked up the converted railway path from Halton upstream from Lancaster on the river Lune and covered about a mile each way followed by a pleasant hour at Ambio (chocolate Guinness cake and tea. Ah!)

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Blogger is having one of its moods insisting on the underlining of my captions. I have tried everything I know including un-formatting and I have better ways to spend the rest of my evening unravelling this.

Easy going and welcome sunshine

New build houses accross the Lune all with comprehensive solar panels


Here we turned back after walking under the bridge. We have walked this path many times but never noticed this sculpture before - must be new?


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Model making has become almost obsessive. Here is my latest just finished today, the Westland Sea King. I am glad to say that I have never had the need for a ride in one of these but I know some who have. This one is marked up as the one flown by William during his time with Air Sea Rescue.




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6 comments:

  1. bowlandclimber10 February 2023 at 08:07

    Bloody hell - did you see my car in the carpark? I cycled to Glasson and back (11.30 - 2,30) Lovely day. Good to hear you were out.
    No I've not noticed that instalment above the tunnel.

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  2. Sir Hugh10 February 2023 at 09:22

    BC - We were walking there from 12:30 to 1:30.

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  3. Gayle12 February 2023 at 08:31

    Good to hear that short walks are feasible again and hopefully you can start to build slowly back up.

    The lighting you've used in your photos draws the eye nicely to the aircraft, to the exclusion of the background, making it look like the real thing, rather than a model. Looking more closely the dining chairs were a bit of a giveaway!

    Mick has been winched from the sea into a Sea King, but fortunately only during training, never in an emergency.

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  4. Sir Hugh13 February 2023 at 09:23

    Gayle - Well at least there is some improvement. Whether or not it will improve further remains to be seen but I suspect it will be a gradual process.

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  5. Phreerunner14 February 2023 at 16:43

    That helicopter is superb Conrad. It was good to be able to admire your models at first hand last Friday, and thank you for the tea and cake.
    M

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  6. Sir Hugh15 February 2023 at 09:27

    Phreerunner - Thanks.

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