Monday, 1st September, 2025 – Uploaded my latest blog with a link to the panorama correspondence, not only to tell people about that correspondence, but also to remind people that there is more to my website than my diary.

Wednesday, 3rd September – Identified smooth hawksbeard, which I found flowering in Garth Heads.

Thursday, 4th September – Rain was forecast, but I decided to go on the Kendal Ramblers walk because I would be visiting unfamiliar places. Met the members at the Leisure Centre and took four ladies in my car to the start of the walk in the village of Low Bentham. They paid me £12. Passed through a field that was full of yarrow and saw the beautiful old house called Robert Hall. On three occasions, I saw a frog in the fields, but each time I was too far behind the others to tell them about it. I was told that nobody else saw one. Some of the paths were difficult, and some were dirty, and I was unable to follow our route on the map. I suffered from cramp later on, which is a sign that I have taken on too much.

Wednesday, 10th September – Found wall rue growing outside my back door.

Saturday, 13th September – Found a large-scale map of Great Hallingbury from 1897 on the internet, and kept a note of the address so that I can find it again. Somebody on the radio said that the stretch of the Menai Strait between the two bridges was called the Swellies, a fact that I neglected to mention on the panorama from the Marquess of Anglesey’s Column.

Sunday, 14th September – Finished reading A Very Short Introduction to the Cell, which is full of facts that I didn’t know and words that I haven’t come across before.

Chris and Priscilla called. They enabled me to get the Wainwright Facebook site, the Ordnance Survey maps and the scanner using the new computer. Chris said that he hadn’t received the blog I sent him on 1st September and that the reason it has taken him so long to upload the scenes from television was that he has had to do it one scene at a time.

Monday, 15th September – Took a photograph of a garden on my way to Booths. Tried to find the email I sent on 19th August so that I could add it to my blog, but I didn’t keep a copy. Eventually, I found it at the foot of an email that I had received.

Saturday, 20th September – Remembered that I have copied my collection of scenes from television to my computer, which means that I shan’t have to borrow the copy of it that I gave to Helen.

Sunday, 21st September – Went for a walk on my own from Winton to Church Brough. I tried to follow the route I took last year, but in the first section, I came to an uncrossable stream, and in the second section, I found that I was following the wrong river. I also failed to find the tree that I went there to photograph, but I did photograph an unfamiliar fungus. When I got home, I listened to a radio programme about attempts that are being made to understand the complex sounds of whales.

Tuesday, 30th September – Met members of the Kendal Ramblers at the Leisure Centre and went in another member’s car to Backbarrow for a four-mile walk through beautiful woodlands to Low Wood and Bigland Tarn. I didn’t get left behind because there was no room for other people to pass me.