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We're Yorkshire through and through. But now and then it's good to check ont neighbours.
Saturday's view from Walla Crag, looking down into the Jaws of Borrowdale.
Not bad, Cumbria. 👍
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We're Yorkshire through and through. But now and then it's good to check ont neighbours.
Saturday's view from Walla Crag, looking down into the Jaws of Borrowdale.
Not bad, Cumbria. 👍
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We're Yorkshire through and through. But now and then it's good to check ont neighbours.
Saturday's view from Walla Crag, looking down into the Jaws of Borrowdale.
Not bad, Cumbria. 👍
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We're Yorkshire through and through. But now and then it's good to check ont neighbours.
Saturday's view from Walla Crag, looking down into the Jaws of Borrowdale.
Not bad, Cumbria. 👍
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We're Yorkshire through and through. But now and then it's good to check ont neighbours.
Saturday's view from Walla Crag, looking down into the Jaws of Borrowdale.
Not bad, Cumbria. 👍
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New sketch | Herdwick sheep resting - BW Sketch part of my sketch-a-day project.
Posting every day since 2013Sketches from only £25.00
#2026 #ArtPrint #BlackandWhite #Domesticanimals #drawing #FineArt #gicleé #Hand-drawn #HardyBreed #Herdwicksheep #HomeDecor #illustration #LakeDistrict #Livestock #print #SeanBriggsArt #sketch #WallArt #Walldecor
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Some photos from today’s wanders
#lakedistrict #windermere #cumbria #nature #photography #landscape -
Some photos from today’s wanders
#lakedistrict #windermere #cumbria #nature #photography #landscape -
Some photos from today’s wanders
#lakedistrict #windermere #cumbria #nature #photography #landscape -
Some photos from today’s wanders
#lakedistrict #windermere #cumbria #nature #photography #landscape -
Some photos from today’s wanders
#lakedistrict #windermere #cumbria #nature #photography #landscape -
Murder at the Bridge "A midnight drowning below Ouse Bridge exposes a connection" Sale: $3.99 to FREE by Bruce Beckham Rating: 4.5/5 (1,319 Reviews) #Crime #Mystery #Thriller #Detective #British #LakeDistrict #Whodunnit #BookSky
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Attempted and successful library tourism in Edinburgh and Northern England
Beyond the NLS, Scotland has various libraries within the country. There’s over twenty public libraries in Edinburgh alone. The day after I visited the NLS, I traveled to Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RGBE) by bus. This garden is akin to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. It has a beautiful plant collection, and a special library. However, the library isn’t accessible from the garden, a clear barrier to entry. Furthermore, the science, learning and archives section is only accessible by appointment. That is too bad. If it had been accessible from the garden I may have visited it. There are museums and various collections within the garden as well. Every plant has a specific identifying number associated with it.
Note: This serves as the beginning of my series, which begins, chronologically, with my guest post on Reel Librarians, on February 11th, entitled “Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland: Library tourism redux.” It will be reposted on here over a month later. There will be two more parts of this series, focusing on my continued library tourism in London and Belgium coming later this year. Links to those will be added to this post later.
The RGBE website describes the library as providing the “basic tools” to support research and organization of biodiversity into a “manageable framework to underpin ecological and biological research.” This makes it even more unfortunate that the “extensive” library, said to be the Scottish national reference collection for “specialist botanical and horticultural resources” with over one million items, cannot be accessed from the garden itself. A pamphlet purchased for two pounds says directly: “no access from Garden,” putting this barrier into writing.
Photograph of part of a pamphlet noting that the RGBE library cannot be accessed from the garden (My photograph)The second part of my vacation involved staying one week at HF Holidays’ Derwent Bank house, which sits on Derwent Water lake, to hike throughout the acclaimed and well-known Lake District, in Cumbria. Some of the hikes were arduous, although that might not be the case if you were physically fit, unlike myself, who wasn’t as fit as other hikers. I wanted to hike there as it was blazing hot in Baltimore, where I live. Other hikers were primarily from England and the Netherlands. The hikes often involved going through sheep grazing areas, avoiding sheep poop in the process, with beautiful views, and a visit to the Castlerigg Stone Circle.
On the fifth day of hiking, on July 31st, the coach bus I was riding in, with fellow hikers passed by the Keswick library. It looked to be one big room filled with desktop computers. Further research indicated that this library offers printing, loanable dementia bags and storysacks, hearing aid batteries, and more. It’s located off the town’s main street, with some nearby parking lots (they call them “car parks” in England), plus a bus station 200 yards from the library. It also hosts board games, a Lego club, jigsaw puzzle building, mindful coloring, books to help with well-being and health, and more.
Lastly was a bookshelf almost akin to the Little Free “Library” collections in the U.S. (but without serving a physical manifestation of a “desire to privatize the world”), at the Penrith train station. See you at the next post, where my journey continues, in London!
© 2025-2026 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.
Sources used
- “Derwent Bank Lake District,” HF Holidays, 2025.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Blogposts, fictional archives, Ancestry’s monopoly on federal records, the Little Free “Library” deception, powerful ICJ decisions, and the DNC’s sidelining of pro-Palestinian voices,” History Hermann, 3 Sept. 2024.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Here’s four photos I took from my third-floor room at the Derwent Bank house of @hfholidays.co.uk on August 1st, the last day I was there, looking down at the beautiful garden, and down across the Derwent Water lake to the beautiful landscape across the lake. I revised the image slightly from the original using an Instagram filter on here. I only stayed for a week, and this was only the second part of my trip (the first part was going to #edinburgh) but I throughly [sic] enjoyed my time there, even if the hikes could be rigorous at times,” Instagram, 9. Aug. 2025.
- Hermann, Burkely. “Photos of the Castlerigg Stone Circle which I took on July 28th, a place also known as the Druids Circle. I used some photo tools on here to make these images even better and pop out more, as the originals were rather dark. #castleriggstonecircle,” Instagram, 9. Aug. 2025.
- “Keswick Library,” Cumberland Council, 2025.
- “Libraries,” City of Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Library & Archives,” Longwood Gardens, 2025.
- Miline, Simon. “Why our work matters,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Our History,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
- “Penrith (North Lakes) (PNR),” National Rail, 2025.
- “What We Do,” Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2025.
#CastleriggStoneCircle #castleriggstonecircle #Cumbria #DerwentBank #Edinburgh #England #gardens #HFHolidays #Keswick #LakeDistrict #lakes #libraryTourism #LongwoodGardens #maps #memory #museums #NationalLibraryOfScotland #Penrith #publicTransit #ReelLibrarians #restrictions #Scotland #shortBlogs
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A bit of news about a favourite local eatery. They serve drinks!
#LakeDistrict #Heft #wine #sommeliers
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Hardest lead of the day for me. Another epic line, if not quite as striking as the apparently famous Jean Jeanie just to the left. Definitely tougher, despite being the same grade on paper. Such an impressive face of rock and so many interesting lines up it. Weirdly, I almost found this harder than the HVS on the diagonal crack just above, which I managed to second clean despite a couple of awkward gear retrievals.
#Climbing #TradClimbing #ClimbingIsMyPassion #Kendal #LakeDistrict #LimestoneClimbing #TrowbarrowQuarry -
Workington Marina and River Boats
#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #harbour #history #tiltshift #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #urbanphotography #building #boats #wrecks #photographer #workington #reel #reelvideo
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Berries
Seems a little early but we're seeing wild berries ripening
#naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #photography #photographer #flower #sunshine #berries #flowerslovers #macrophotography
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Flowers of Wordsworth House
Really beautiful garden of flowers there.
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/jonny-easton/rise-of-the-flower#naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #cumbria #lakedistrict #photography #photographer #flower #sunshine #flowerphotography #reel @your_lakedistrict #flowerslovers #flowersandmacro
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Trawlers and Harbour
Not sure all of these will do much work anymore.
#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #harbour #history #tiltshift #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #urbanphotography #building #boats #wrecks #photographer
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Protip: When hiking, take a minute to stop, turn around and take it all in 🥾⛰️#lakedistrict #ukhiking #HikingUK #hiking #cumbria #uk #hikingadventures
