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Blog 50 Diary, April to June, 2023

Following on from Blog 47, here is a slightly shortened version of my diary for the second quarter of 2023: Sunday, 2nd April – Walked along the Pennine Way from Malham to Malham Cove, Gordale Scar, Janet’s Foss, Hanlith and… Continue Reading →

Blog 49 Exit

For over three years I have been adding to my website every month. It now seems to me that nobody is ever going to find the time to read it all and that there is no point in my adding… Continue Reading →

Blog 48 Sixty years on

Stan Holroyd recently sent a message to the Wainwright Facebook site in which he mentioned the Scouter magazine. I replied to say that I had written an article that was published in that magazine in 1960, and here it is:… Continue Reading →

Blog 47 Diary, January to March, 2023

Thursday, 5th January – A man from K.T.D. called to install my new colour printer. Friday, 6th January – Chris Butterfield called with some books for me to sign. I gave him a large Snowdon panorama in case anyone wants… Continue Reading →

Blog 46 Correspondence

Here are some quotations from letters and faxes that I sent to Kate Cave of Frances Lincoln in 2005 in connection with the revision of The Eastern Fells. I have made changes to clarify which parts of the page are… Continue Reading →

Blog 45 Wainwright Facebook Group

In my 15th blog I quoted messages published in the Wainwright Facebook site between December 2018 and July 2020 in which I was involved. Here are some more messages that were published between July 2020 and January 2023. I have... Continue Reading →

Blog 44 Diary, October to December, 2022

Saturday, 1st October – Went by taxi to Glenridding to meet ten other members of the Wainwright Society and two dogs for a walk to Keldas and Grisedale. It seems to me that the people and the dogs enjoyed the… Continue Reading →

Blog 43 Geography and other things

In my 9th blog I mentioned some interesting information about distant places that I have read about from time to time. Here are some more: The Mediterranean, Black, Caspian and Aral Seas are all remnants of the Tethys Ocean, which… Continue Reading →

Blog 42 Ancient history and other things

Ancient history Here are some interesting facts in this field that I have read about over the years: In a book about Mastermind I read that in 1130 B.C. Brutus, the grandson of Aeneas of Troy, became the first king… Continue Reading →

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