Posted in sidetrips, tagged #uksnow, edge hill, edgehill, ormskirk, ruff wood, snow on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
forking paths in the park I walk through on the way to work
the hunched roofs of Ormskirk, which never fail to remind me of H. P. Lovecraft’s Dreams in the Witch House for some reason (?)
at work, another trip to the roof garden – I seem to be the only one ever up there, catching [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged edge hill, edge hill university, edgehill, ehu, l, ormskirk on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It occurred to me that, by adding ’spurs’ on to a couple of bits of the walk I’ve already done, and when the time comes navigating to a particular site in Warwickshire, I could join up Edge Hill (the University) with Edge Hill (the Liverpool district) and Edge Hill (the Civil War battleground.)
With this in [...]
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged maghull, ormskirk, walkinghometo50 on January 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Later in the walk, getting to start points will present difficulties. However as the previous day’s leg finished at my house, I had zero travel time to the start. I headed out over the small hill at the back of where I live, territory I only know from dark early morning trips to the paper [...]
Posted in Accounts of the walk, tagged moss, ormskirk, southport pier, starting out, walkinghometo50 on January 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It was a good day to start something – fresh blue sky, a rainwashed town, smell of new air. Reached the end of the pier, took a look around, and started walking towards Brighton. (But on this day aiming only to get as far as Ormskirk, where I live.)
The sea is famously distant from Southport, [...]
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