November 3, 2009
Many years ago I started to collect postcards, both old and new. Lake District postcards were a part of that. From time to time I go back to it. Recently I was looking at an album containing several cards of Dove Cottage, Grasmere which 200 years ago was the home of the poet William Wordsworth. [...]
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January 28, 2009
Over the past thirty years of driving up to Whitehaven, I’ve often looked across the valley to Muncaster Castle on the hillside above the River Esk not far from Ravenglass. Last week, though, I had reason to stop there. On my way north in the morning, and looking for somewhere to spend the night before [...]
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