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Having lunch out at Salt's Diner in the mill at Saltaire with our, quite small, school reunion group. We were in the same year at school but none of us were friends back then yet we all really enjoy getting together now, sharing memories and life experiences.

It stayed dry today until I met up with Sally in the Co-op car park at 2pm for our walk. It then poured down while we walked (or paddled) up Lister Well, across to Prospect then back down Folly Lane into the town. It stopped just as I got home again at about 4pm.

Curlews yesterday and frog activity in the pond this morning! It could be that Spring is a possibility despite the wet gloom and the snow still sitting against the walls and on the ditches.

Happy Birthday Stanley!

Big Kev wrote: ↑13 Feb 2024, 19:05

Wendyf wrote: ↑13 Feb 2024, 18:22 RIP Steve Wright. A part of our lives for many years.

We posted at the same time...

Exactly!

RIP Steve Wright. A part of our lives for many years.

Interesting!

First curlew of the year for me. Caught it passing by this morning on my bird song app. Sorry I can't share the sound!

Gloria wrote: ↑12 Feb 2024, 08:31

Big Kev wrote: ↑12 Feb 2024, 08:29 I'd never had guessed that, good one Gloria

I thought it was too easy

Never seen one!

Is it a kettle?

Cathy I have pootled regularly, in fact I've been pootling in the garden this morning but I have never bimbled....ever.

Pleasant morning here. Just learnt that a farmer has cleared a way through the snowdrifts between us and the pub at Black Lane Ends.
Misty down Salterforth way!

Sue wrote: ↑09 Feb 2024, 14:40 Home by two. All over till Monday , no ill effects as yet

Good!

Is it a tedder? I don't know who made them though .

Stanley wrote: ↑08 Feb 2024, 14:44 It has never stopped snowing but it has also never snowed heavily. I hope this also applies up on the hill.....

No it doesnt!
Luckily we don't have to go anywhere and it should disappear quite quickly tomorrow.

It has gone beyond the trying stage up here. Easterly winds and snow aren't a good mix!

Is it for raking muck?

On Sunday Stanley posted a photo of a sledge being used for collecting hay. We have these photos of rushes being collected in the Colne collection, they were taken at Foster's Leap Farm, Wycoller in 1948. 47.397 - Fosters Leap Farm, Betty with sledge and rushes, 1948.jpg 47.396 - Fosters Leap Farm, ...

I've just had a look at the British Newspaper Archive and there are many references to the Girls Friendly Society in the Clitheroe Adveriser and Times between the 1940s and 1960. Run by Clitheroe Parish Church.

It looks as if it's used to dig something out then kill it! Rats?

I set out intending to walk, Col was going to drop me off at the end of Warley Wise Lane so I could walk a circuit round the lanes but after I had got soaked just putting the binbag out at the roadside I quickly changed my mind! I got blasted with bitterly cold wind and rain just walking back home.

Our power was finally restored just before 6pm yesterday. They replaced the insulators on a pole in the field below Broom House Farm. What is concerning is that pole was one of a number which are only a couple of years old.

We had stronger and more persistent wind yesterday than during any of the recent named storms. A brief lull is expected this morning then wild again later and through the night.

I spoke too soon, it has gone off again. There are northern power vehicles and men in orange jackets across the valley on Bleara Road.

Yes Kev we do. Freezer, electrics involved in the central heating, TV, WiFi and the bore hole pump all run off the batteries. We are all set up to survive power cuts. It just came back on 5 minutes ago though! It's interesting to see where the power line goes from the reported cuts. Down Harden Clou...