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I have been going outside a lot more during the day, my wife is worried about what the neighbors will say
My wife bought home two of her friends today, they got to meet Joanne, her one friend asked if she could take a photo of me, this was my pose
North west of Bamford and sitting at the head of the Ladybower Reservoir Win Hill provides some of the best views in the Peak District.
The ascent from Hope, via Twitchill Farm, gives stunnig views across to Lose Hill and the Great Ridge
At 1,516 ft, it is almost surrounded by water. The River Derwent to the east, the River Noe to the south west and Ladybower Reservoir to the north. A ridge running north west links it to Kinder Scout and stops it from being an island.
On top of Win Hill lies Win Hill Pike, a small conical shaped crag that can be seen for miles around. Win Hill Pike has an Ordnance Survey triangulation point, or trig point on it's highest point.
With 472 ft of relative height, Win Hill is only 20 ft short of qualifying as a Marilyn. A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a prominence of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit. The name was coined as a punning contrast to the designation Munro, used of a Scottish mountain with a height of more than 3,000 feet (914.4 m), which is homophonous with (Marilyn) Monroe.
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Fingerpost Sign
Located on the Ladybower side of Win Hill at the start of the walk.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been conducting the campaign "There is a world to win" to raise public awareness of the global impact of climate change on nature.
The pictures I made myself.
The song is called 'Walking in the air' and was composed by Howard Blake and is sung by the Dutch Vajèn van den Bosch.
I hope you like it.
Lyrics in the commercial:
A world without dead Coral
A world without endangered species
A world without melting ice caps
A world without droughts
We are losing this world because of climate changes
There is still a world to win
Help us
Check how you can save the world on wnf.nl/windewereld
The two grey birds are the Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) is a seabird in the family Sternidae. It is the only member of the genus Larosterna.This uniquely plumaged bird breeds on the coasts of Peru and Chile, and is restricted to the Humboldt current. It can be identified by its dark grey body, white moustache on both sides of its head, and red-orange beak and feet.
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La Flèche Wallonne aka "The Walloon Arrow" is the first of the two Belgian Ardennes classics.
50th Edition: April 16
BERNARD HINAULT (1954), nicknamed "le blaireau" or "the badger", is a French former road bicycle racer.
Hinault is undoubtedly one of the strongest and most versatile riders in history. He was the best time trialist of his generation and could beat the specialists uphill and even in the sprint.
His versatility is evidenced by the number of Grand Tours and cycling classics in which he triumphed. After Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx, Hinault was the third rider to win the Tour de France five times. This achievement was subsequently matched only by Miguel Indurain. And... surpassed by Lance Armstrong with seven wins....
In addition, Hinault won the Tour of Italy three times and the Tour of Spain twice. Hinault is also one of the few riders to win the Tour of Italy and France in one season. He even did that twice, in 1982 and in 1985.
His name appears several times on the roll of honor of the Walloon Arrow, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour of Lombardy. Hinault hated the cobblestones of Paris-Roubaix, but he also triumphed in that prestigious race in 1981.
(Photo Cor Vos, 1986, cycling news)
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Proverbs 3:3-5
Tilcara, Argentina.
Just north of Salta and Jujuy (pronounced like Mr Burns saying hello on the telephone) is a small town called Tilcara in the Quebrada de Huhuamaca. A spectacular valley/canyon. I stayed here for 2 nights. I tried to get sunset the night before, but the clouds just weren't having it. The second night was a wee bit better. I sat perched on a steep rocky cliff for an hour waiting for some colour. And this was the best I got. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose.
Locally people know this as BYT, The Big Yellow Thing, and according to my niece some of her fellow students refer to it as Archimedes’ Balls. It has an official title ‘Galway Yellow’ and was presented to the University by P.J. Carrol & Co. Ltd., along with the Arts Council. Since then it has been placed on Galway City Council’s protected structure list. While that might surprise many of those who pass by the sculpture every day, it’s worth remembering that, as a representative example of King’s early work and of ‘modern’ Irish art in the 1970s more generally, Galway Yellow has a value beyond the intrinsic merits of the piece itself.
Brian King was born in Dublin in 1942, he studied in the National college of Art and Design in Dublin , where he lectured for a number of years and, and then became the Head of the Department of Sculpture from 1984–2004.
He participated in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art from 1964 to 1978, won the Carroll’s Award 1965, And served as its President for the last ten years. In 1969 and 1983 he represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale, on the former occasion becoming the first Irish artist to win the major individual prize. His public commissions are typically large-scale metal sculptures in an abstract, minimalist style, based on simple geometric forms.
Solo exhibitions include Dawson Gallery, Dublin (1968,74,75); Ulster Museum , Belfast (1973); Project Arts Gallery, Dublin (1980); Taylor Galleries , Dublin (1979, 82,88,90) and the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (1982). He has participated in major group exhibitions across Ireland and Europe, and his work is held in public collections including The Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin; Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork; RTE; Bank of Ireland; Allied Irish Bank; University of Ulster and University College, Dublin, and Farmleigh House, Dublin.
Was supposed to go and visit with Flickr friend Dave up in North Yorkshire on the bike.. But cancelled due to the weather. Would be no fun on the motorway with alternating low sunshine, strong side winds, torrential rain with some hail chucked in too! So went out for an hour on Navi in the nearby countryside dodging most of the showers.!
Great scenery with the fast moving sky, sunny intervals, the odd rainbow and dark looming clouds..!
Picture taken here on New Road just up from Ladybower with Bamford Edge to the right, Win Hill in front and Bamford to the left..