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Johnny you rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard.
'Cos hells broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals the cards.
And if you win you get this shiny fiddle made of gold.
But if you lose, the devil gets your soul.
I like keeping at least one fiddle out of its case so that it can easily be picked up and played on impulse.
The sign of Cat & Fiddle Inn, at the road summit between Buxton (Derbyshire) and Macclesfield (Cheshire). This is the second highest inn in England, at 515 m (1,689 ft) above above sea level.
The inn itself was originally built in 1813 and is just inside Cheshire by a few metres, Derbyshire being not far behind the camera. The inn is completely surrounded by bleak Pennine moorland typical of much of the Peak District National Park. Apart from its own outbuildings, it's completely on its own. The bleak gloomy aspect is how it really was (heavy cloud and rain) when I took the photo - at midday! The inn was shut for the Christmas/Boxing Day holiday.
CAT & FIDDLE PASS
The road here (A537) is popularly known as the 'Cat & Fiddle Road' because the inn is one of the few landmarks and significant buildings along its uppermost stretches. Although not usually referred to as a pass, it is one of several pass-like roads over the high moors between Buxton (Derbyshire) and the towns of the Cheshire lowlands to the W, and I like to refer to it as the 'Cat & Fiddle Pass'.
It has long stretches of irregular tight bends and twists on both approaches to the summit especially on the Macclesfield side (behind the camera), and is a challenging drive at the best of times, let alone in winter at night. It is a favourite amongst motorcyclists but has been voted the most dangerous stretch of road on Britain mostly on account of its frequency of motorcycling accidents. However recent improved safety measures have reduced the accident rate.
GEOLOGICAL NOTE
The view looks S to Whetstone Ridge (547 m). The boggy moorland here is underlain by shales, sandstones and grits of Carboniferous Coal Measures (Westphalian).
--- information from British Geological Survey Sheet 111: Buxton (solid edition) 1:50,000 (1978) and www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/viewer....
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Photo
Brian Roy Rosen
Uploaded to Flickr December 26, 2015
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The Cat and the Fiddle. Original fantasy artwork by Kenneth Rougeau based on the following nursery rhyme: "Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon, The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon."
Fiddly
complicated or detailed and awkward to do or use.
Not to be confused with -
fiddley
A Nautical term:
The vertical space above a vessel's engine room extending into its stack, usually covered by an iron grating. Also applied to the framework around the opening itself
Also spelled fidley.
A wide opening above a fire room through which pass ventilators.
A framework of iron about the ladder of a hatch in a ship's deck leading below the deck.
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Candid street shot, Innsbruck, Austria.
A classic view - the strong angular shape of Bow Fiddle with rock-pools in the foreground, Portknockie.
12 frames each ISO100 1s @ f/13, over the course of 1min32s including minor adjustments to tripod angle in changeable light; stacked and blended in hugin afterwards.
I quite like it in this semi-desaturated rendition; it seems to bring a melancholy mood to the scene, not entirely unrealistic.
Also in vintage colour.
Copyright (C) Tim Haynes 2015
Using dried seaweed and sand stained with ground up red rock, I created three spheres to hold the seaweed stalks. It was very, very hot today and the damp sand was drying extremely quickly which made the work very fiddly and difficult as I struggled to get the seaweed to stick into the surface as it kept breaking up.
Author: Mayson, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1835-1904
Title: The Stolen Fiddle
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.
Publication Date: 1897
URL: archive.org/details/38671171.2088.emory.edu
Description and Synopsis:
This rather plain, cloth cover fittingly depicts a small violin or fiddle.
Zeiss Ikon Contax II, Zeiss Jena 2/50mm Sonnar, Rollei Retro 80's, monochrome, 35mm, black & white, tone control with PS,
Atlanta (Carter Center), Georgia, USA.
19 May 2018.
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The Cat & Fiddle Inn is at the summit of the road between Buxton (Derbyshire) and Macclesfield (Cheshire) and is the second highest inn in England, at 515 m (1,689 ft) above above sea level.
The view looks NNW to Shining Tor (559 m) and its summit is a border point between Cheshire (to the L) and Derbyshire (to the R). It is the highest point in Cheshire.
The inn was originally built in 1813 and is just inside Cheshire by a few metres, Derbyshire being not far behind the building. The inn is completely surrounded by bleak Pennine moorland typical of much of the Peak District National Park. Apart from its own outbuildings, it's completely on its own. The bleak gloomy aspect is how it really was (heavy cloud and rain) when I took the photo - at midday! Also, the inn is constructed of local gritstone, with local gritstone on the roofs, and these have weathered almost to black. The inn was also shut for the Christmas/Boxing Day holiday so there were also no lights in the windows or illuminations.
CAT & FIDDLE PASS
The road here (A537) is popularly known as the 'Cat & Fiddle Road' because the inn is one of the few landmarks and significant buildings along its uppermost stretches. Although not usually referred to as a pass, it is one of several pass-like roads over the high moors between Buxton (Derbyshire) and the towns of the Cheshire lowlands to the W, and I like to refer to it as the 'Cat & Fiddle Pass'.
This road has long stretches of irregular tight bends and twists on both approaches to the summit especially on the Macclesfield side (in the direction of the camera), and is a challenging drive at the best of times, let alone in winter at night. It is a favourite road amongst motorcyclists but has been voted the most dangerous stretch of road on Britain mostly on account of its frequency of motorcycling accidents. However, recent safety measures have reduced the accident rate.
--- www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSzV-50utA
GEOLOGICAL NOTE
Shining Tor (skyline L) is underlain by Carboniferous Chatsworth Grit, the uppermost grit of the Millstone Grit Series (Namurian).
--- information from British Geological Survey Sheet 111: Buxton (solid edition) 1:50,000 (1978) and www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/viewer....
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Photo
Brian Roy Rosen
Uploaded to Flickr December 26, 2015
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: DSC_5495 - Version 2
Bamboo forming a giant bower part of a lighting installation at this years laser light show ..
Brisbane Festival
South Bank . Brisbane
Fiddlehead of the Ostrich fern. Zenitar 50mm f1.2, @f2.8, Canon mount, Canon 70D. (No EXIF data is recorded by this lens.)
A bit blurred, but it should be: A one-handed shot at 1 second exposure with the fiddle in the other hand - a spur of the moment thing.
Both of my previous helmets out on the road at the same time?? Surely some mistake? My friend had come over from Greece to stay for the weekend and wanted to go up the legendary ( nay notorious) Cat and Fiddle pass - the A537 Macclesfield to Buxton.
I say notorious because the C&F as we like to call it has been branded as Britain's most dangerous road. A destination for bikers from all over the world (including Greece, obviously) some would say it is Britain's best road.....including me.
It was pretty cold and windy so it was good to nip inside for a warm up.....and the slowest arriving Cappucino in history