Two Yards Of Lard
Father of three, teacher of mathematics, cantankerous git.
Based in Silverdale near Lancaster with woods, estuaries, Morecambe Bay, limestone hills and pavements, and reed filled mosses all on the doorstep; a view of the Howgill fells from upstairs windows on a good day.
Hiya Mark
This is Alison (or Bongo as Uncle calls me), womtigs nice neice. Love your pix, however I’m very jealous of your Crianlarich weekend. When me & Dave went up, the weather was atrocious and that was the first weekend in May, so we didn’t get any decent walking done. We have 4 kids between us (blended family y’know), which is hard work so we were gutted on our one weekend away together on our own (a rarity), we were kind of confined to quarters, still, the bar comforted us!! I think you’re very brave being a teacher, let alone a teacher of Maths. I’m a Pharmacist and have to teach undergrads, postgrads and Dr’s at our Hospital but I don’t think I could do secondary school kids – scary! I just get flashbacks of what those naughty kids did to those teachers in Grange Hill. Ha! Anyway enough for now. Time to feed the rabble.
Cheers
Alison
Hi Mark,
I hope you are well, we have enjoyed reading your blog. I am writing to you about our free widget that may be of interest to you and your readers.
The free widget allows you to map out all local walks and trails in any area in the UK quickly and simply.
Since you are located and/or concerend with areas of outstanding natural beauty, it will be very useful to your site users for you to showcase on your site the walks and trails available in the surrounding areas.
Here is an example on a site http://www.large-luxury-holiday-homes.co.uk/chichester-walks.html, but you can set the longitude and latitude to your local area easily.
Please let me if you would like one for your site and I will send over installation instructions. Instructions are for non-technical audience and it takes 1 to 2 mins to install.
Thanks again and please email me with any questions.
Best wishes,
James
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James Drewett
I’m not really a reader of blogs, but I have a specific question. You seem to know Stankelt Road in Silverdale. Is there a strange little bungalow, which has been there c.100 years but looks as if it might have been temporary? I believe its address might have been 35, Stankelt Road, but this may be wrong. It was still there in the 1970s.
I’m sending this from work – please reply to my home address, given above.
Thanks,
Nick Barlow
Hi Mark,
I wanted to give you the heads up since this seemed up your alley for you and readers of Beating the Bounds. We are gearing up to launch a new website called Sierra Club Trails. It’s (as far as we know) the first-ever comprehensive hiking wiki…A website where anyone can post their favorite hikes and anyone else can edit the descriptions so that the trails are constantly up-to-date. The site is up and running in a beta test now, and we’re planning to launch it this Thursday, July 9th – so I wanted to make sure you were in the loop.
http://www.sierraclubtrails.org
What makes this site unique is that it’s a wiki – i.e. anyone can update or edit the trails that are posted. So if I post a trail in, say, Yosemite, and you’ve been there recently and saw that part of the trail is really muddy, or the bugs are bad this time of year, or if camping spots are getting really popular and should be reserved in advance, you can update that.
In addition to hiking and paddling trails, the site also features tips for hikers, a birding blog, photo contests, and Nature Notes, a series of audio features based on interviews with naturalists and Sierra Club Outings leaders. Sierra Club Trails is also an online community where users can create profiles and meet other hikers and nature-lovers, as well as join discussion forums with topics like the best trail mix recipe or whether guns should be allowed in national parks. Community members can form groups around a particular outdoor interest or place.
Does this sound like something you’d be interested in covering for your blog?
The link is http://www.sierraclubtrails.org – and the logo is on Flicrk here – http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2604/3701119013_84723f28d9.jpg
Thanks!
Natalie Gaber
Sierra Club
85 Second Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 977-5526
media.assistant@sierraclub.org
Hi Mark, I wrote a post a while back on good walking blogs and included yours: http://www.deaddinosaur.co.uk/social-media/my-top-15-walking-blogs-uk/
I was wondering do you have an email address at all? I have an opportunity for you which might be of interest.
hi, i have been reading your blogs and just wanted to say how good and easy they were to read.
nicola
Hi Mark,
I noticed your links to related nature sites on the right-hand side of your blog and just wondered whether you might consider adding a link to my UK nature site (link above)?
Many thanks,
Richard
Hi Richard – consider it done!
Hello.
We at http://www.christiansonic.net would like to make a link exchange with your blog.
Please contact us using the contact page on our website.
Thank you.
Matthew,
You might notice that my blog is principally about walking and natural history. My Blogroll is blogs I like on a similar theme. Whilst I do occasionally stray into music and even more rarely into spirituality, a Christian music blog is not really my scene. So …thanks, but no thanks.
Hi Mark,
I hope you are well. I work for a company called Jam who are closely involved with the No Surrender Charitable Trust. I am trying to raise some awareness around their recent fundraising Mount Kilimanjaro climb and their bid to bring new people on board for next year!
In case this is something that you may be interested in I have pasted some information below.
It would be really great if you could pass this on to anyone that you think might be interested, or even better if you are personally interested in it , it would be lovely if you could give it a little mention on your site.
Thank you so much for your time, if you do mention anything about it if you could let me know I would really appreciate it.
Many Thanks
Rosie!
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On September 23rd 2010, 21 supporters of The No Surrender Charitable Trust travelled to Africa to face the 19500ft climb up Mt Kilimanjaro. Having raised an incredible £100,000, the trust is now appealing for volunteers to tackle next year’s epic climb.
Set-up by the late Jason Boas, The No Surrender Charitable Trust provides a unique support system for young people suffering from cancer and other life threatening illnesses through a global social networking site, http://www.no-surrender.org.
Proceeds from the 2011 climb went towards this Social Network, with further funds directed to the running of the prestigious Jason Boas Research Fellowship at UCH working hard to find breakthroughs in pancreatic and other cancers. The 2011 walk aims to do exactly the same, further drawing attention to this innovative charitable initiative.
To register for No Surrender updates and find out more about going on next year’s climb, please visit this link: http://www.no-surrender.org/support/
Follow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=50698919142
Hi Mark,
I was wondering if you would be interested in blogging about our Walking with Wildlife campaign that we are running at WWT wetland centres this June. http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit-us/walking-with-wildlife
I see you are near to our centre in Lancashire, Martin Mere. We are running a special competition as part of the campaign and I wondered whether you might like to have a go at the Martin Mere challenge? It’s based on orienteering and aims to get people to explore the different areas of our reserves and grounds.
Apologies for approaching via your blog. I can always send you more information via email. Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks,
Jenna
Hi Mark did you check out :-
http://teddytourteas.blogspot.com/2011/06/its-all-marks-fault.html
cheers Danny
Things aren’t built to last like that these days. Surely you can find some more examples? (heh heh)
have these Millstones lasted long enough ?
http://teddytourteas.blogspot.com/2011/06/addingham-high-moor.html
cheers Danny
Hi Mark
I have put a video together on the merits of insoles to help foot, knee or hip pain which your readers may find helpful. If you agree, here is the link for your blog. http://youtu.be/LX7dWt–CZw .
Regards
Matthew
Hi,
I run http://www.walksandwalking.com/
I get quite a few enquiries asking if I have any walking routes in the North. The furthest I’ve ever been from London is Snowdon…
I just wanted to ask if you would be interested in writing a “Top 5″ (or top 10, 20, 100!) of the best walks in the North you’ve completed for my website?
I’ll give you full credit, links etc and will set up a new category page for you.
Please let me know your thoughts?
Many thanks,
David.
Just discovered your blog…very interesting to read and beautiful to look at. Happy walking!
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Hi Mark,
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Thanks,
John
Just come across your blog and wanted to complement you on your nature photographs. I have a number of walks on my website http://happyhiker.co.uk if you fancy trying them with lots of photo opportunities.
Hi,
I came across your blog recently and thought that it was a very good read. I too really like some of the photographs which you have taken out on some of your walks.
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I represent The Great Outdoors Superstore, the largest Outdoor Clothing and Equipment retailer in the North East of England. If your interested in finding out about complementary ways in which we could work together I would be more than happy to discuss this with you.
Kindest Regards,
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