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A Stay In The Lake District #7
Descending Cat Bells
Been following this series from day one? Then you’ll know this is the seventh post. It relates to our return walk on our fourth day in the area. New to the series? You’ll find links to earlier posts at the end.
The descent from the summit of Cat Bells is around 1215 feet (about 370 metres) in terms of the drop. In terms of distance, it really depends on which route you select, but our walk back was just short of 2 miles (3 km).
The main path back down is easy to spot once you’re at the summit. But you need to know different routes lead away from there. What you seek is the path that immediately tends downward, to the left. Others take you to different destinations. Click here to continue to read this free of charge on Medium
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#CreativeWriting #LakeDistrict #Photography #Tourism #Travel #Writing -
A Stay In The Lake District #7
Descending Cat Bells
Been following this series from day one? Then you’ll know this is the seventh post. It relates to our return walk on our fourth day in the area. New to the series? You’ll find links to earlier posts at the end.
The descent from the summit of Cat Bells is around 1215 feet (about 370 metres) in terms of the drop. In terms of distance, it really depends on which route you select, but our walk back was just short of 2 miles (3 km).
The main path back down is easy to spot once you’re at the summit. But you need to know different routes lead away from there. What you seek is the path that immediately tends downward, to the left. Others take you to different destinations. Click here to continue to read this free of charge on Medium
I’ve been doing this for a while now. I’d be interested to know how readers react to this. If you have an opinion about the way I’m currently sharing non-writing topics here on the blog, please let me know. Would you prefer the full post to be placed here on my website, or are you happy to visit it on Medium. Please use the comments space below to give your opinion. Thank you.Rate This
#CreativeWriting #LakeDistrict #Photography #Tourism #Travel #Writing -
A Stay In The Lake District #7
Descending Cat Bells
Been following this series from day one? Then you’ll know this is the seventh post. It relates to our return walk on our fourth day in the area. New to the series? You’ll find links to earlier posts at the end.
The descent from the summit of Cat Bells is around 1215 feet (about 370 metres) in terms of the drop. In terms of distance, it really depends on which route you select, but our walk back was just short of 2 miles (3 km).
The main path back down is easy to spot once you’re at the summit. But you need to know different routes lead away from there. What you seek is the path that immediately tends downward, to the left. Others take you to different destinations. Click here to continue to read this free of charge on Medium
I’ve been doing this for a while now. I’d be interested to know how readers react to this. If you have an opinion about the way I’m currently sharing non-writing topics here on the blog, please let me know. Would you prefer the full post to be placed here on my website, or are you happy to visit it on Medium. Please use the comments space below to give your opinion. Thank you.Rate This
#CreativeWriting #LakeDistrict #Photography #Tourism #Travel #Writing -
A Stay In The Lake District #7
Descending Cat Bells
Been following this series from day one? Then you’ll know this is the seventh post. It relates to our return walk on our fourth day in the area. New to the series? You’ll find links to earlier posts at the end.
The descent from the summit of Cat Bells is around 1215 feet (about 370 metres) in terms of the drop. In terms of distance, it really depends on which route you select, but our walk back was just short of 2 miles (3 km).
The main path back down is easy to spot once you’re at the summit. But you need to know different routes lead away from there. What you seek is the path that immediately tends downward, to the left. Others take you to different destinations. Click here to continue to read this free of charge on Medium
I’ve been doing this for a while now. I’d be interested to know how readers react to this. If you have an opinion about the way I’m currently sharing non-writing topics here on the blog, please let me know. Would you prefer the full post to be placed here on my website, or are you happy to visit it on Medium. Please use the comments space below to give your opinion. Thank you.Rate This
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A Stay In The Lake District #7
Descending Cat Bells
Been following this series from day one? Then you’ll know this is the seventh post. It relates to our return walk on our fourth day in the area. New to the series? You’ll find links to earlier posts at the end.
The descent from the summit of Cat Bells is around 1215 feet (about 370 metres) in terms of the drop. In terms of distance, it really depends on which route you select, but our walk back was just short of 2 miles (3 km).
The main path back down is easy to spot once you’re at the summit. But you need to know different routes lead away from there. What you seek is the path that immediately tends downward, to the left. Others take you to different destinations. Click here to continue to read this free of charge on Medium
I’ve been doing this for a while now. I’d be interested to know how readers react to this. If you have an opinion about the way I’m currently sharing non-writing topics here on the blog, please let me know. Would you prefer the full post to be placed here on my website, or are you happy to visit it on Medium. Please use the comments space below to give your opinion. Thank you.Rate This
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New sketch | Grasmere lake gate - BW Sketch part of my sketch-a-day project.
Posting every day since 2013Sketches from only £25.00
#2026 #ArtPrint #BlackandWhite #drawing #FineArt #gate #gicleé #Grasmere #Hand-drawn #HomeDecor #illustration #LakeDistrict #landscape #print #Scene #SeanBriggsArt #sketch #WallArt #Walldecor
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New sketch | Grasmere lake gate - BW Sketch part of my sketch-a-day project.
Posting every day since 2013Sketches from only £25.00
#2026 #ArtPrint #BlackandWhite #drawing #FineArt #gate #gicleé #Grasmere #Hand-drawn #HomeDecor #illustration #LakeDistrict #landscape #print #Scene #SeanBriggsArt #sketch #WallArt #Walldecor
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New sketch | Grasmere lake gate - BW Sketch part of my sketch-a-day project.
Posting every day since 2013Sketches from only £25.00
#2026 #ArtPrint #BlackandWhite #drawing #FineArt #gate #gicleé #Grasmere #Hand-drawn #HomeDecor #illustration #LakeDistrict #landscape #print #Scene #SeanBriggsArt #sketch #WallArt #Walldecor
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Between Manchester and Yorkshire is an idyllic autumn spot named ‘best accessible walk’ in the UK
The weather might be cooling down as we head into autumn, but this time of year can be…
#Manchester #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU ##Parenting #Britain #Dovestones #GreatBritain #LakeDistrict #Lancashire #Littleborough #lymepark #ManchesterFamily #Oldham #Rochdale #Stockport #Yorkshire
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1201174/ Between Manchester and Yorkshire is an idyllic autumn spot named ‘best accessible walk’ in the UK ##Parenting #Britain #Dovestones #England #GreatBritain #LakeDistrict #Lancashire #Littleborough #LymePark #Manchester #ManchesterFamily #Oldham #Rochdale #Stockport #UK #UnitedKingdom #Yorkshire
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Maybe a trip to the #LakeDistrict next? Joanna E. Taylor & Ian N. Gregory present this innovative, interdisciplinary study bringing together #LiteraryStudies on #Literature & #History of the Lake District 1622-1900, with tools from geography & #digitalhumanities
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Realtime pollution alerts needed on Windermere, campaigners say after boy nearly dies https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/16/realtime-pollution-alerts-windermere-campaigners-say-boy-nearly-dies #LakeDistrict #Pollution #Water #WaterIndustry #Swimming #Environment #UkNews #UnitedUtilities
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My happy place. Thinking of the Lancrigg Hotel, just outside of Grasmere. (2025) Late afternoon sun.
#UK #Grasmere #LancriggHotel #LakeDistrict #Darktable #NikonD800E
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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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Paw Print
Perfectly placed paw print I found next to pebbles on the beach
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#lakedistrict #landscapephotography #coast #beach #sand #photography #photographer #sunshine #pawprint #pebble #shadows #monochromatic #monochrome #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephotography
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Posing Birds
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#landscape #pond #cumbria #LakeDistrict #water #sunshine #duck #photography #photographer #fujifilm #landscapephotography #birdphotography #birds #birdsonearth #birdsofinstagram #birdsoflinkedin #pigeon #seagull
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Flock of Gulls
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#landscape #coast #waterways #shoreline #cumbria #LakeDistrict #sea #harbour #sunshine #seagull #photography #photographer #fujifilm #landscapephotography #birdphotography #birds #birdsonearth #birdsofinstagram
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Fly By
Convoy of gulls passing by
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#landscape #coast #waterways #shoreline #cumbria #LakeDistrict #sea #harbour #sunshine #seagull #photography #photographer #fujifilm #landscapephotography #birdphotography #birds #birdsonearth #birdsofinstagram
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Take Off
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#landscape #pond #cumbria #LakeDistrict #water #sunshine #swan #photography #photographer #fujifilm #landscapephotography #birdphotography #birds #birdsonearth #birdsofinstagram #birdsoflinkedin
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Ducks
Went for a wander by local pond this morning
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#landscape #pond #cumbria #LakeDistrict #water #sunshine #duck #photography #photographer #fujifilm #landscapephotography #birdphotography #birds #birdsonearth #birdsofinstagram #birdsoflinkedin
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Chiffchaff
At least I believe it is 😅 (please say if it isn't!)
Lens: Tamron 18-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di III-A VC VXD on a Fujifilm X-T30
#landscape #woodland #cumbria #LakeDistrict #trees #sunshine #chiffchaff #photography #photographer #fujifilm #landscapephotography #birdphotography #birds #birdsonearth #birdsofinstagram #birdsoflinkedin
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Another favourite image from my 30+ year photographic career. Continuing with UK landscape, this is looking from Whitbarrow in the South Lakes towards the high fells, specifically Wetherlam and Bowfell.
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Tilt-Shift Shots
Couple of aerial images run through tilt-shift effect.
Drone: DJI Flip
#lakedistrict #buildings #landscapephotography #photography #photographer #town #trees #river #penrith #urbanphotography #morning #dronephotography #aerialphotography #djiflip #TiltShiftPhotography
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United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/16/united-utilities-refuses-to-hand-over-data-on-sewage-discharges-into-windermere #UnitedUtilities #Waterindustry #LakeDistrict #Environment #Pollution #Utilities #Business #Protest #UKnews
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#Sewage dumped illegally in #Windermere over 3 years
by Joe Crowley
October 17, 2024"A water company repeatedly dumped millions of litres of raw sewage illegally into one of #ngland's most famous lakes over a three-year period, the BBC can reveal.
"More than 140 million litres of waste were pumped into Windermere between 2021 and 2023 at times when it was not permitted, our analysis shows, and #UnitedUtilities failed to report most of it.
"It means the company's #IllegalDumping of #sewage into the lake went on for far longer, and was far more extensive, than was previously known.
"United Utilities said some of its sewage releases into #Windermere were 'potentially non-compliant' but that it #SelfReports 'over 94% of potential pollution incidents to the #EnvironmentAgency'.
"Matt Staniek, a campaigner against sewage pollution and founder of #SaveWindermere, said Windermere was 'the jewel in the crown of the #LakeDistrict #NationalPark, and it's being used as an open sewer'.
"It is sometimes necessary to release sewage into rivers and lakes to stop the wastewater system from being overwhelmed by #HeavyRain but this #pollution can damage the environment, causing harmful #AlgalBlooms and even killing fish.
"In January this year - after BBC Panorama revealed the company had downplayed the severity of dozens of #pollution incidents, some involving Windermere - United Utilities retrospectively reported some discharges into the lake from October 2023 onwards."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrj70dynk1o#WaterIsLife #SelfReportingCompanies #Crapitalism #FishKill #IllegalDumping #UK
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Lake District sewage campaigners launch nuisance complaint in legal first https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/26/lake-district-sewage-campaigners-launch-nuisance-complaint-in-legal-first #UnitedUtilities #Localgovernment #Waterindustry #LakeDistrict #Environment #Pollution #Utilities #Business #Society #Rivers #UKnews #Water #Law
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I was scrutinising a #BikeTouring rig outside a cafe in the #LakeDistrict yesterday. Turns out it belonged to a young person #CycleCamping the #LEJOG over a 5 week period. Their humility, enthusiasm and friendliness quite restored my faith in (some of) humanity. I hope the weather stays fine for them.
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Protect Windermere from sewage, campaigners urge UK party leaders https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/11/protect-windermere-from-sewage-campaigners-urge-uk-party-leaders #UnitedUtilities #Waterindustry #LakeDistrict #Environment #Pollution #UKnews #Water
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There were a lot of cool vendors but - being v focused on securing treats - I only captured Just Desserts & Bay #Fudge (both excellent) 🌱
+ the #AdoptDontShop t-shirts sold by Farplace, a no-kill #rescue which puts on #vegan festivals around the UK 🥰 🐾
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Penrith #UKFood #BritishFood #Cake #Pie #Food #FoodPorn #Vegan #VeganFood #Veggie #Vegetarian #DairyFree #EggFree #EcoFriendly #Eco #LowCarbon #WhatVegansEat #Veganism #PlantBased #NonViolence #Dessert #PlanetFriendly
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Cumbria Vegan Festival goodies! 🙌 🌱
inc the unmissable Farplace hotdog 🌭, quiches by a French chef 🇫🇷 & some top notch classic British desserts 🇬🇧 🍰 😍
Couple more shots below 👇
#Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Penrith #UKFood #BritishFood #Quiche #Cake #Pie #Food #FoodPorn #Vegan #VeganFood #Veggie #Vegetarian #DairyFree #EggFree #EcoFriendly #Eco #LowCarbon #WhatVegansEat #Veganism #PlantBased #NonViolence #Dessert #PlanetFriendly #Local #SmallBusiness #Abolition #HotDog #Liberation #Justice #Donut
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Borrowdale rainforest in Lake District declared national nature reserve https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/22/lake-district-borrowdale-rainforest-declared-national-nature-reserve #TheNationalTrust #Treesandforests #NaturalEngland #LakeDistrict #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife #England #UKnews #Plants
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Untreated #sewage illegally pumped into #WindermereLake
by Joe Crowley
May 15, 2024"Millions of litres of #RawSewage were illegally pumped into one of England's most famous lakes after a fault, the BBC can reveal.
"#UnitedUtilities failed to stop the illegal #pollution of Windermere, in the #LakeDistrict, for 10 hours in February and did not report the incident to the Environment Agency until 13 hours after it started.
"An almost identical incident occurred at the same location in 2022.
"The firm says it took urgent steps to resolve the incident in February.
"A pumping station in Bowness-on-Windermere, in Cumbria, normally sends sewage to Windermere Wastewater Treatment Works.
"But United Utilities documents, obtained by the BBC, show how a telecoms fault on the night of 28 February caused the main pumps to stop.
"A separate set of emergency pumps then discharged untreated sewage into the middle of Windermere, which is part of a Unesco World Heritage site.
"It is England's largest lake and one of the country's most popular natural attractions."
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Plinth
Random shot along a stone plinth.
#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #stone #plinth #trees #carlisle #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #urbanphotography #building #cumbria #lakedistrict #abstract #sunlight #monochrome #photographer
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Meanwhile in the #LakeDistrict it transpires that #UnitedUtilities have found a cheap way of dealing with the #sewage crisis... they just downgrade the #pollution notifications knowing the Environmental Agency would sign off on the downgrades with no site visits.
Not sure if its the result of #austerity, institutional indifference or corruption... or perhaps all three.
But whatever it is, there #LibDems are right, a criminal investigation is required!
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Frosted Bridge
Not had much frost of yet, but Saturday was cold.
#landscapephotography #parklands #wood #plants #woodwork #lake #naturephotography #nature #sunlight #greenspaces #cumbria #photography #photographer #lakedistrict #fujifilm #frost #viltrox #bridge #autumn #autumnvibes
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Over in the UK, #TheGuardian newspaper has finally caught up with the fact that people take drugs amidst the beautiful fells of the #Cumbrian #lakedistrict .
Which takes me right back to a party scene I wrote for my #Brexlit #novel "Cold Island", set on the 1st of May 1997 (Tony Blair, "Things can only get better" #AncientHistory) in Loughrigg cave near #Ambleside .
#EbeneezerGoode 💊💊💊💊