The Visitor's Page ~ December 06

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Austria.
To all the family at Loweswater,
I enjoy the family site and visit regularly. Have a Merry Christmas and
I hope that 2007 is good to you all and enables you to bring beautiful photographs of Lakeland
to me on the Northumbrian Coast.
Good Health and a Happy New Year.
Peter.

Hi Roger.


Just wanted to wish you and your family a happy New Year.

I'm green with envy after seeing your amazing walks over Christmas. Only ever seen one inversion when I stood on top of the Cow and Calf at Ilkley last winter.


All the best Joe

 

" Christmas Robin " ~ by Joe.

Merry Christmas Roger and Ann and thank you for the beautiful Christmas card of the two dogs on top of the mountains.

What a life they have-they seem to be having the time of their lives! Thanks once again for all the wonderful pictures taken on the Buttermere walk. Last time I emailed you- I said that your pictures were the most beautiful shots of mountains I had ever seen. However, I have to take that back, because the Buttermere pictures were even more incredibly beautiful. What a wonderful day you must have had to be surrounded by such beauty. I loved the effect of the clouds, like billowing seas, with only the peaks of the mountains showing-moments to treasure for a lifetime!

Thanks once again-I really enjoy your site and love reading about all your adventures and especially enjoy the outstanding photography!!!

Kathleen Wesley ~ Canada

Hi Roger,
I was just browsing generally the other night,looking for pictures of the fells,when I came across your wonderful site. I tend to be more interested in pictures of the lake district featuring animals, dogs in particular, and don't usually bother with sites that insist on giving all heights in metric only (me being an imperial die hard, but it's a pet hate of mine.) I have been a keen fellwalker for years having completed the Wainwrights his outlying fells, walks in Limestone country and most of the Howgills, always accompanied by my dogs. The walks just would not be the same without them, even when I take the odd trip on the mountain bike the dogs are always with me and always lead the way. It is me that has to try and keep up with them.
I have attached a couple of pics....

1st. pic Tasha above Grizedale Tarn ~ 2nd.On SeatSandle ~ 3rd.being a stylist and finally Spencer at Red Tarn below Pike O Blisco.
See You Mike.

Female Sparrowhawk

~ by Lesley

Hi Roger,

Loved your latest pictures - can't believe you took all the Keswick ones on your phone - they're so clear.

I hope you don't mind me saying this but I have a strong feeling the Sparrowhawk is actually a "she" - much larger and no orange tinted breast. Although I live in suburbia down here both male and female are regular visitors - wonderful to see but unfortunately on odd occasions I do hear a squeal which alerts me to their arrival and I daren't look at what is held within their talons.

Love the photos of Harry looking for his stick. Just like Ember - their sticks are so important to them and I love the way they'll abandon one stick and then pick another up. We leave a trail of sticks in our wake along the woodland paths!!

Have a good Christmas up there in Loweswater.

Best wishes to Ann, and hugs for Harry and Bethan, from Lesley

 

Male Sparrowhawk

~ by Lesley

Hi from co Wicklow away over here in Ireland.

Were getting married in June (both for 2nd times) and are booked in for honeymoon in the Lakedistrict

The dogs are such infamous feature of your site.I am a huge animal lover myself, as you can tell, having had dogs but an ageing cat restricts having one again at the moment.

Will be checking in on any walks you do over the christmas period.

Seasons Greetings!
Judy Fitzpatrick

 

Hi Roger.

Just sending a couple of shots from our visit to Castell Henllys iron age village near Cardigan. It's built on the original iron age site. Fascinating place.We were in Pembrokeshire early July this year, the only place in Wales it was cloudy all week - sods law.

Its not true what people say about the Welsh. I found them friendly and helpful,very much like the people we met in Donegal when we took my Mother and Father back home last year. It was a wild rugged place but I loved it.

Bye for now . . . . Joe

 

( What !! Do people ever say anything bad about us Welsh folk ? )

(Yours truly - the friendly and helpful editor )

Castle Henllys, near Cardigan, on the North Pembrokeshire coast ~ photos by Joe Boyle.

Re : 28th November 2006 Blowing the remainder away on Binsey

 

Dear Roger,

His Royal Hairyness Ollie tells me that "being of far more advanced years" than Harry, this is the closest he felt he needed to get to the trig point on Binsey summit.

He's more than happy to leave the new sport of Trig Point Topping to a younger generation and is personally very pleased just to have made it to the summit".

Best wishes, Jayne Hill

 

Hi Roger.

.I found the link to your site on Ann Bowker's excellent web site.

She is great isn't she !

 

We live in a small village called East Bierley, pronounced Buyerly. I was not expecting you to post all the pictures I sent but, feel free.

 

Hope you like these photos from our recent visit to the Lakes.

Sorry about the short messages with the photos. Will send some shots of our surrounding area, hopefully with better text.

All the best for now . . . . Joe

Easy Jet - Buttermere style - Sue alongside Buttermere.

Go away . . . it's mine !

Castlerigg Stone Circle

Catbells from Keswick Boat Landings

Top of Catbells ~ Me (Joe), Netty, Vikky (daughters) Matt, Sue (my good lady), and Saffy the dog.

Dear Roger and family,

Thank you for your email and it is a privilege to have the email/pictures on your fantastic web site.

James is fine, but hasn't been climbing in a year or so, but he did go up to theAquilu De Midi (3800m via Cable car ) Chamonix in August of this year.

I didn't complete the BGR in 2005, finished in Wasdale, will be back for another attempt soon! I did the North Face Tour De Mount Blanc Ultra race in 2006 instead of the BGR, 100 miles and 9000m of ascent through France Italy and Switzerland, fantastic scenery (still not the Lakes though, no George Fisher's!!) I work at Hull Black's now, well I have for the past 2 years, only a small shop not the range you have!

Kind Regards

Jonathan & James

(Oh, he climbed Scafell Pike and Helvellyn in 2005 plus a Wild camp at Angle Tarn, Bow Fell)

Aquilu De Midi, Chamonix in August 06

Hello Roger and Ann,

I spoke to you on my way up to Great Gable last Friday and looking through my photographs have snapped a picture of you scrambling up Taylor Gill Force behind me, so I thought I would send you a copy.

I found your Web site inadvertently whilst looking for information on the Priests hole cave, and recognised the Two Dogs. Naturally the Web site is now added to my favourites. Keep up the good work and look forward to reading your further adventures.

Keith.

 

The scramble up alongside Taylorgill Force ~ Keith Cook.

Dear Hiley Family.

Just a few words to say how much I have enjoyed your web site, friendly, funny and very informative. Would like to send you some photos of my own, if that's alright. Living in a small village in West Yorks between Leeds and Bradford we do have some lovely countryside, but it's not the Lakes.

Anyway, keep up the good work and great photos. All the best. Joe Boyle.

Flamborough Head ~ by Joe Boyle

Rock Pool Reflections

Becky's Birthday by the sea

His son and daughter exploring under Flamborough Head

Dear Ann & Roger,

Really nice to meet you today on the summit of Birkhouse Moor. I wait with trepidation to see how I look on the photo. At least I can point people to a web site with me on it! But seriously, please don't feel any obligation to post it online as it may scare surfers away ;-)

I do like your web site. I'll have a good browse around when I have the time. I've had a peep at the Online Fellwalking Club site although I've never had much success with yahoo sites previously. Perhaps I'll lurk for a bit and sign up when I have more to contribute.

It's amazing how often you meet fellow "Wainwright Disciples" on the fells, as someone on top of Bowscale Fell described himself recently. Here's hoping I have the health & fortune to meet many more in the coming days, weeks and years.

Kind regards, Brian Finnegan

 

Striding Edge ~ Brian Finnegan

Hi Roger,

I've been a visitor to your web site for some time now, and enjoy seeing details of your walks and the wonderful photographs.

I've just had a lovely weekend in the Lakes, staying in Keswick with my wife and seven year old daughter. (Managed to bag Wainwright number 108 - Latrigg.)

On Friday afternoon we visited George Fisher where I was attended to by an extremely helpful chap while choosing a new Berghaus jacket. Looking at your site again this evening, and the pictures of your 25th wedding celebrations, I realised that the "helpful chap" was in fact you!

Attached is a photograph of the jacket's first outing at Buttermere. Keep up the good work!


Best Regards - Mike Brown.

Hi from Ontario Canada!

Just had to comment on the superb colours your pictures portray--especially the Catbells and Newlands valley ones! What wonderful vistas--how lucky you are!!


Autumn has been glorious here this year, leaves are late changing but are starting to come down now. It's pretty where we live in Wainfleet Ontario, but oh, what I would give for just one fell!


We do appreciate your continued efforts so very much.

Thanks, Linda Logan
P.S. Good luck with the play!

Ontario Colours ~ by Linda Logan

Ember ~ by Lesley

Hi Roger and Ann.

Have just been on the Northern Light web site and saw some of your wonderful pics from your Iceland trip. You must have had a wonderful time as I went into the site regularly to get updates on sightings etc. You just about saw everything going didn't you. Will you put some of your photos on your web site as I'd love to see some more - especially the way you display them??

I recognised Dettifoss and the mud pools and fumaroles straight away from my trip to the Myvatn area in 2003. What a wonderful country Iceland is.....

I'm off on my Chalice trip on Sunday week and really looking forward to it.
If I get any good photos I will forward to you - may see a humpback but nothing like yours I suspect!

Look forward to seeing more of your photos.
I have attached one of Ember - bet your two were pleased to see you come home!

Best wishes
Lesley

Hi,
Just been looking at your Boxing Day shots on Low Fell.


We decided to park just outside by the red telephone box on the same day & had a quick walk / slide around the roads, but I thought you would like to see a photo taken sometime ago of your back garden !


The photo actually won print of the year about 5 years ago at Copeland Photographic Society Whitehaven.

The print is a B&W infra red shot taken in May.

Regards
Ian

High Harrington. Cumbria.

Oak Cottage Garden ~ infra red photo by Ian Inglis

Jonathon and James

Dear Roger

It was a pleasure to meet you and to chat! In case you haven't a clue who this is, I chatted with you at George Fishers last Monday and Friday, while James (a 6 year old) looked through the binoculars at Keswick.

James made it up Skiddaw, or should I say up to Latrigg car park, and any flat bits, the ascents were done on my shoulders!! Jenkin Hill was very very tough, the little mite weighs 5 stone, and a 20lb pack didn't help matters (so a very slow ascent of Skiddaw was made) We flew a kite on the summit (a small one). On the Tuesday after a climb up Honister pass from Seatoller, James completed leg 5 of the Bob Graham round (Dale Head, Hindscarth, Robinson) in mist and rain. On the Thursday he climbed Tarn Crag from Grasmere via Easdale Tarn, we dropped into a nearby valley and after injuring my ankle ( which slowed progress dramatically) became night-bound , (left head torches at YHA) the stony path was very wet and without vision very dangerous, so James had his first nights sleep al fresco in my fleece, balaclava etc and a survival bag, he snored his head off, while I spent a sleepless night shivering, waiting for first light and a coffee in the Swan. Had a great week, just sad I've got to wait a month for my next visit.

Brilliant Web site

Kind Regards, Jonathan Steele / James Steele
 

To make up for reminding you of work, here's another photo ~ Jonathon Steele.

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