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Northumberland, Personal, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge

Lovin’ Summer

Gallery | Posted on July 27, 2014 by northumbrianlight

Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer lovin’. Thus far it has been a fabulous summer in Northumberland and fortunately we have no plans to go anywhere until the Autumn – what is the point when we live in this glorious county.

This was my summer lovin’ week in Northumberland:

Sunday – heavy rain overnight but the skies are clear:

Monday – temperatures are rising and it is becoming almost ‘too darn hot‘:

Tuesday – an evening walk along the Tyne at Corbridge – it is looking low:

Wednesday – remember this heat in the bleak, dark December days:

Thursday – a view across a sweltering county from Hedley on the Hill:

Friday – There is talk on the local news of the heat damaging road surfaces – can’t resist it can they – no good news without the obligatory bad. This one seems to be holding together:

Saturday – sailing through Kielder Forest:

(click on the images to enlarge)

Northumberland, Personal, Photography, Writing

Along the Tyne

Gallery | Posted on December 29, 2013 by northumbrianlight

I am on rations; I have been told that I have been eating and drinking far too much over the festive period but I know this to be completely untrue. It is a well-known fact that around the winter solstice, trousers shrink and only begin to expand again as the light returns. Consequently, in order to stretch my clothes, we embarked on a long walk around Corbridge and Riding Mill along the banks of the Tyne. It seems to have worked, I am sitting much more comfortably; I think I will reward my scientific endeavours with another mince pie 🙂

Happy New Year all!

We picked up the Tyne at Corbridge heading east towards Newcastle and leaving the river at Riding Mill Station opposite Styford Hall; the return route was along the A695 (click on the images to enlarge).