Winter Greetings everyone

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Steal softly through snow

Unusually for this area we have about a foot of snow. This started falling last night, while we were out with friends for a pre-Christmas meal. We played a game of Desert Island Dinner, taking turns to name and describe favourite songs, which we could not hear – which sounds weird, but worked. The plan [...]

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Peaceful re-entry

Another few snatched miles of local walking – drifting north, away from home, maybe even away from 50… My ‘no pubs next to stations’ rule is easy to follow at Burscough Junction, as the ‘Junction Hotel’ is derelict, though a notice on the door referring to ‘peaceful re-entry’ by the owners suggests it might soon [...]

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Aughton Park to Town Green

Just a little local walk today. I had planned to continue the main journey but work and some slight under-the-weatherness have intervened. So I continued my journey between the stations between Ormskirk and Liverpool, starting about a mile from home at Aughton Park, where what looks like small copses on the map seems to be [...]

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Better than light: New Year dawn

Although I don’t go in for New Year resolutions, I have decided to do do more local walking in between the main legs of the trip, which will tend to be less frequent as the start-points get more distant. My first idea is to walk to Liverpool along the Northern Line train route, hiking station [...]

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