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Lucy

Lucy

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If you just want to swim outdoors, rather than wild, there are organised places at Pillaton and Chasewater.
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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Glam said:
Excuse my ignorance folks, it may have been mentioned elsewhere. But are there places round here that you go can Wild Swimming? Probably fould up with sewage sadly wherever it is.
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Glam,
Women I know go swimming by the Essex Bridge at the back of Shugborough.
Why's it always women ?
 
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DeltaHotel

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Essex Bridge, Isn’t there a sludge pipe upstream from there? Pillaton Hall Farm is well organised but you need to join
https://nowca.org/
So free, with poos, or pay, with loos. Swim anti-clockwise to avoid the bends
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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... a tenner.

I was going through the things in a plastic box that used to travel round with me on a daily basis a while ago. It had useful stuff in, first aid items, small tools and odd spares, etc.

There was also a small notebook. I flicked through it, in case there might be anything still of interest and an emergency tenner fell out.

As this is all from about fifteen years ago, the emergency note is of little immediate use, for two reasons.

1, It is a £10 note and an area where it would be suitable legal tender is a long way away.

2, It is, as I said, from a while ago, and so it is a paper note and not even legal tender on the big island now.

I'll see if I can swap it for a current one one day...
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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... this.

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I initially wondered if it might be an owl pellet, but it looks rather too vegetarian - Google says that crows do it occasionally and it was on an area of the lawn that they often use for social gatherings.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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... (well, yesterday and my mid-week walking companion, rather than me) a sheep with a broken leg, at around 2,000 feet up the mountain, grazing and seeming to manage reasonably. But, this greatly concerned my friend and we couldn't come up with a means of alerting the owner. The concern carried on through the day, as she is very animal-friendly, until we decided to divert off from the final part of the route and head for a road that would take us back in a more civilised way.

This required sneaking through a farm and we found the farmer there as we approached.

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Transiting the fields was negotiated without any issue and the opportunity was taken to report the injured sheep.

The response was "Oh, her? She did that two years ago and it doesn't seem to bother her much!"

We proceeded back to the car with easy consciences.

There were nine of us in this splinter group by that stage, and it was notable, although I couldn't get a clear picture of the process, that one of the dogs was diligently herding us down to the last gate. If I tried to hang back for a photo, I was nudged back into the group...
 
The Hawk

The Hawk

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Gramaisc said:
... (well, yesterday and my mid-week walking companion, rather than me) a sheep with a broken leg, at around 2,000 feet up the mountain, grazing and seeming to manage reasonably. But, this greatly concerned my friend and we couldn't come up with a means of alerting the owner. The concern carried on through the day, as she is very animal-friendly, until we decided to divert off from the final part of the route and head for a road that would take us back in a more civilised way.

This required sneaking through a farm and we found the farmer there as we approached.

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Transiting the fields was negotiated without any issue and the opportunity was taken to report the injured sheep.

The response was "Oh, her? She did that two years ago and it doesn't seem to bother her much!"

We proceeded back to the car with easy consciences.

There were nine of us in this splinter group by that stage, and it was notable, although I couldn't get a clear picture of the process, that one of the dogs was diligently herding us down to the last gate. If I tried to hang back for a photo, I was nudged back into the group...
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EasMid

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It was reported a few years ago that a Chinese businessman had paid a fortune for that reg number (about £500000 IIRC)
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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... a lime kiln.

This one came as quite a shock to me - I have been recording any that I come across, as an appendix to the ongoing record of roadside water pumps that has been going on for a few years now.

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Lime kilns are a good bit rarer than pumps, but I currently have fourteen now, in the general area of interest.

The shock came as I realised what I was looking at, as it is not much more the fifty yards from the boundary of the garden here.

I've seen it a great many times over the last thirty years, but without giving it much thought - I just finally registered it as I was putting their bin in this morning.

The hedge in the background is the far hedge of the garden nextdoor...
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Glam said:
Excuse my ignorance folks, it may have been mentioned elsewhere. But are there places round here that you go can Wild Swimming? Probably fould up with sewage sadly wherever it is.
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Blithfield - Thursday 24th - 6 to 8pm.

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