It’s about time I made one of my quirky little videos about one of my favourite local spots, the iconic White Nancy on top of Kerridge Hill overlooking Bollington. This video constitutes something new for me, it is the first (to go online) which actually features a sort of reflexive monologue, it also has a [...]
Categories: Scattered ramblings
Tagged: bollington, video, white nancy
I’m still pursuing the prospect of a move to Bollington, or rather the Bollington Kerridge borderland. All of this ‘house hunting’ malarkey has required a very considerable amount of cycling which has of course helped to re-build my stamina no end. I have met a lot of interesting folks on my travels into the more [...]
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Tagged: bollington, Chanan Hanspal, moving home, night ride, Pharoah Sanders
Called as if by the alluring enchantment of a Siren quite possibly? I’m considering a move after twelve years of relatively stable home ownership in dear old Prestbury. There are reasons for this, some of which are private (but not hugely significant) others have to do with some newly acquired and deep seated desire for [...]
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Tagged: bollington, moving home, prestbury
The weather has been slightly more unsettled today with a little intermittent drizzle. Lighting conditions will still not permit me to undertake a few local photo experiments, which I have in mind; but things are bound to change soon. Heading out of Bollington and deep into the night. Last night I managed to do a [...]
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Tagged: bollington, bollipot loop, light painting, night ride, photography
Last nights Bollipot Loop ride (Prestbury, Bollington, Pott Shrigley, Bollington, Prestbury) did not go quite to plan though this ‘perturbation’ shall we say, constituted one of those events that helps to restore my faith in human nature. It was a lovely clear but temperate night with a gorgeous unclouded sky, Venus shining out in the [...]
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Tagged: bollington, bollipot loop, cycling, halcyon days, night ride
Life continues to trundle along in low gear, but I’m getting by and enjoying the personal freedom though now it is interspersed with moments of intense boredom and pangs of restlessness. I am in the running so to speak, for a council job in a department concerned with environmental and building issues, the term ‘environmental’ [...]
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Tagged: bollington, metiorite, night time, white nancy