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Saturday, 4th October – Went on a six-mile walk with members of the Wainwright Society from Glenridding to Silver Point in the wind and the rain. I didn’t pay for parking the car at Glenridding because I couldn’t find out… Continue Reading →

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,… Continue Reading →

Friday, 1st August, 2025 – Went for a walk in the old part of Kendal with the Kendal Ramblers. The leader stopped to talk from time to time. Saturday, 2nd August – Went for a walk on Castle Hill because… Continue Reading →

Tuesday, 1st July – Submitted my June diary and my scenes from television as two separate blogs so that I could be sure that the diary would be uploaded. Wednesday, 2nd July – Found my diary on my website, but… Continue Reading →

Friday, 6th June – Watched some of my selections from ‘Flight over Spain’ on my website and found that the pictures were far too wide compared with the height. While I was watching them, Chris phoned and said that on… Continue Reading →

Thursday, 1st May, 2025 – Tried to send my April diary to Chris for uploading to my website. I couldn’t do this using the new computer, but I could do it using the old one. Consulted the table of sales… Continue Reading →

1. Introduction From 2003 to 2013, I devoted my life to the revision of twelve books by Alfred Wainwright. Kendal in the Nineteenth Century was not among the twelve because it was a description of the town as it used to… Continue Reading →

Wednesday, 2nd April, 2025 – Went to the Wainwright Facebook site and found some photographs of myself on Scout Scar. Then I noticed that one of the photographs was moving, so I turned up the sound, and I could hear… Continue Reading →

Saturday, 1st March, 2025 – Collected my new computer. It cost £600. When I got it home I found that I couldn’t connect it to the modem or to the printer. Wednesday, 5th March – Took the car to the… Continue Reading →