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Another one from Sunday evening, this time after the amazing light display. I particularly like the purple tones of the sky with the heather.
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Headed up onto Win Hill last night for sunset. The light was good on the way up, and as I've now come to expect, it disappeared just as I reached the top ready to photograph.
Then just as the sun was about to dip below the horizon, the light came good for a brief time.
Difficult conditions as the wind was blowing quite hard, but a pleasure to be up there all the same.
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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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_Hill
From Win Hill Pike, looking north over Ladybower Reservoir. The road to the left of the road bridge is the famous A57 Snake Pass which was at one time the main road between Manchester and Sheffield.
Not a good day for views being rather misty and murky...still i enjoyed it and at least it never rained.
Yeyyyyhhh! I’ve finally cleared enough room on my hard drive to start uploading some more recent shots! =^D
A couple of weeks ago we had a very hectic and exhausting weekend. We had 2 boys, in 2 separate tournaments, in 2 separate cities, and only one car. Luckily, the schedules were such that we were able to make it to all the games.
Both teams have had a rough year of hockey (so far) and therefore we honestly never banked on either team going on to the semi or final games on the Sunday.
Torin played in the Walter Gretzky tournament in Brantford (Walter, arguably the most famous hockey Dad in the world, was present & signing autographs the entire weekend). The tournament was held in the brand new Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre. What a nice facility! → And, for once, the arena lighting was wonderful! Bright, no netting AND no glass to shoot through! !!! It was suuuwweeet! =^D I really wish I could have taken my time to get some nicer shots of the building (and Walter’s honorary parking spot) but I had calls of “Come ON Mom, we’re going to be late!” coming from the idling car behind me.
Torin’s team unfortunately got eliminated in the semi-finals but the boys gave it their all to the bitter end! It certainly says a lot for our local hockey league to have 3 Waterloo teams and 1 Kitchener team as the final 4 teams (in Torin’s division) in the whole tournament (for those who don’t know, Kitchener-Waterloo are joining cities). In the end, it was at least a Waterloo team that walked away with the gold. =^D
Kolton’s tournament was in London, Ontario. For a team that has yet to win a single regular season game, it was like something straight out of a Hollywood movie! They ended up winning the gold and to top it all off, Kolton got the MVP award in the final game.
All-in-all the weekend was a great success and, more importantly, we ended up having a really great time. =^D
Thank you for all of your kind comments, visits, faves and invites. I do appreciate you taking the time to stop by for a wee visit. ♥ =^D
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The wait is over, today my friend Pixel Fox and myself are very happy to share with you the building instructions of the Winchester!
I want to say a huge thanks to Sylvain from 1001 Bricks and Marc a.k.a. Roamingstudio for their help in making this possible.
This zip file contains the following:
PDF instructions, one file per floor - total size 16MB.
These are the step by step building instructions, similar to what LEGO produces for its official sets.
Note that “Shaun” and the “Winchester gun” are not LEGO products and can only be purchased via BrickArms resellers (www.brickarms.com/).
If you ever decide to build your own Win either based on our design or your own, please send us a picture or post it in this dedicated Flickr group.
Thank you all, it’s been a great ride.
Yatkuu & Pixel Fox
My wife told me she wanted to take a few photos of me as Joanne so she can send them to her friends, as you can see by my smile I let her take as many as she wanted
The cloudless evening gave the scene a very even glow and some lovely diffused colour, the last of the days sun light were catching the rocky outcrops of Win Hill. This was taken looking up towards the Ordnance Survey trig point and down the Great Ridge to Lose Hill, Back Tor and Mam Tor in the far centre of the background.
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