About
January 24, 2008
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.
March 17, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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
March 4, 2009 at 9:47 am
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
July 8, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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
October 27, 2009 at 3:32 pm
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.