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Dull, grey, wet ...and beautiful
I hadn’t visited the lakes for a fortnight and so was looking forward to my visit on Friday. It turned out to be cold, not freezing but...
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gileslury
Oct 30, 20211 min read
A rich life
WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep...
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gileslury
Oct 24, 20214 min read
Oh Deer
Anyone who has read some of my previous blogs will probably think I’ve become a bit of a twitcher. It’s not that I haven’t written about...
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gileslury
Oct 14, 20212 min read
The Grand finale
There are always things that I enjoy on my excursions to the lakes: a vista with a background of trees in a huge variety of greens to a...
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gileslury
Sep 24, 20213 min read
Geese, geese and more geese
This week’s visit to the Lake was a little unusual as I’m normally on my own. I’ve learnt that my slow pace as I gaze around and...
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gileslury
Sep 16, 20212 min read
One for sorrow, two for joy.
Yes, I know these two little birds aren’t magpies but bear with me… The original version of the Magpie nursery rhyme only ran to four...
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gileslury
Sep 6, 20212 min read
Why Woody won’t be reaching for the sky
“Hi, I haven’t seen you for a while” I say to one of the frequent bird watchers I’ve encountered on my visits to the lakes. “Well, I’m...
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gileslury
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Why I don't vlog
I recorded this for work for a short video we produced in support of Mental Health Week, which explains my rather gentle tone. Tilly...
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gileslury
Aug 26, 20212 min read
They’re back
Stocker’s Lake is a beautiful haven as these early morning pictures, I hope, demonstrate, and as such it is a calming influence after a...
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gileslury
Aug 22, 20212 min read
Everyday beauty
I often write about, and take pictures of things that are unusual, things that stand out from the ordinary, but this week I want to...
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gileslury
Aug 11, 20212 min read
Like father, like son? Well maybe not
Perhaps the two most famous major metamorphoses in nature are those by which a tadpole becomes a frog, and the transformation of...
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gileslury
Aug 6, 20212 min read
Egrets, I have a few
Up until my last visit to Stocker’s Lake I had seen only a few egrets and taken some pretty average photos of them, but on this visit...
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gileslury
Jul 28, 20212 min read
The sound of silence
Walking around Stocker’s Lake early in the morning, I have often thought how quiet and calm it was. Rarely do you hear the noise of cars,...
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gileslury
Jul 25, 20212 min read
In praise of herons
Herons are tall, a bit gangly and remind me of old men, with their grey, black and white plumage and long thin legs. Yet I never seem to...
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gileslury
Jul 20, 20212 min read
Reflections on Claude Monet
Claude Monet, Detail of The Water Lilies: Morning With Wllows, Musée de l'Orangerie Walking around the lake this morning I got to...
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gileslury
Jul 9, 20212 min read
1000 ways how not to take a picture
I set out for one of my weekly walks and, having seen them the previous week, I decided I would try and get one or two good pictures of...
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gileslury
Jul 4, 20213 min read
Blue is the colour
Blue is one of the three primary colours. It is the colour of planet earth when seen from space. It is strongly associated in nature with...
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gileslury
Jun 29, 20212 min read
The young ones
One of my recent walks coincided with Father’s Day and, with the lake full of ducklings, goslings, cygnets, grebettes and cooties, it was...
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gileslury
Jun 27, 20211 min read
Iris-istible
This isn’t so much a blog as a visual essay. My walk a couple of week's ago included spotting two Muntjac deer, a little egret flying...
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gileslury
Jun 26, 20213 min read
The Society of Twitchers
I've become a member of a friendly informal society which seems to have its own code of communication. Wandering around the lakes I’ll...
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