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51-57 Whiteside to Scar Crags
51-57 Whiteside to Scar Crags NW Fells Buttermere To say it was the most beautiful day of summer would be possibly not true. It was the only day of summer – Saturday 24th August 2019 The Bank Holiday Weekend. After 3 abortive attempts to take on rounds of 5 or more Wainwrights and only achieving […]
Continue readingPhotoshoot Fleetwith Pike no 50
Photoshoot – Fleetwith Pike no 50 It was the call I had hoped for; Cumbia Life were interested in my story. Not just the Spin A Round challenge but the whole back story, the where the Spinning and Weaving business idea came from, why I was spinning Herdwick, how the business was growing. Interview behind […]
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Whiteless Pike Number 49 Planning for what to do with my child-free summer holiday fortnight – of course ticking off a serious number of Wainwrights. But this was not to be. Why? It rained solidly for 2 weeks. I felt sorry for the campers who had chosen just these weeks for their holidays and felt […]
Continue readingWho Knows Where the Time Goes?
A lot has happened since I last wrote. I am the wrong generation to understand the need to for the constant update on Social media and as a result I am 20 Wainwrights ahead of where I was last time I wrote. Looking at the list I felt quite emotional at the thought that […]
Continue readingGoing Solo – Souther Fell and the Top of Honister
Souther Fell : No 23 On Saturday 15th June 2019, after a wonderful morning learning how to blend wool on a blending board at Mungrisdale – a simple and most effective process making ammonite-like rolags for spinning – I set out alone for the first time with the wheel to head up Souther Fell looming […]
Continue readingThe Escape Room – Fairfield Horseshoe
A Rip Roaring Romp Having notched up 13 Wainwrights in stunning, clear, calm weather before the official launch on 2 June on Latrigg, the blustery, wet weather served as a wake up call that this was not going to be easy. And so I spent a week watching the weather wondering if I would be […]
Continue reading“Launching” the Spin-A-Round Challenge
“Launching” the Spin-A-Round Challenge It had taken 2 years to get to the point that I could “Launch” the Spin-A-Round Challenge. Life, building works to our house, business and family matters had always contrived to take precedence, so it was on 2 June 2019 at 9am, 2 years after I had bought my mountaineering spinning […]
Continue readingTaking a Spinning Wheel Mountaineering
Taking a Spinning Wheel Mountaineering I was very impatient to try out the chosen wheel, so having picked it up from The Threshing Barn https://threshingbarn.com/ at Farfield Mill https://www.farfieldmill.org/ we set out for the the most easily accessible but remote-feeling place on the way home – Ravenstonedale. This is a limestone plateau, which means the […]
Continue readingChoosing a Mountaineering Spinning Wheel
Choosing a Mountaineering Spinning Wheel I can’t imagine in the history of googling that many people have ever googled “Mountaineering Spinning Wheel”. I have seen people with drop spindles taking them around the world and with them to feed the goats, but I did not want to spin with a spindle. I wanted to make […]
Continue readingThe Four the Merrier
I am quite a solitary person, and although we were hosting Wwoofers for just 1 week at a time, having a relative stranger full time in your life was quite exhausting. We do provide a separate building for the Wwoofers, but when they arrive alone, we want them also to feel part of the family, […]
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