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Blea Tarn Back to the centre – the compass point. This belatedly added entry marks the end of the project and my reluctance to let it go. Writing the blog signals an ending but the thoughts and memories persist and […]
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Blea Tarn 24th June 2010-07-06 Back to the centre of the circle but via Harrop Tarn from Thirlmere rather than up from Watendlath. We enjoy this route and savour the ‘newness of return’ to an earlier swim that started the […]
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Brewery Arts Centre The Monday following a well attended preview of the show, I received a telephone call from the Brewery. Did I know that one of my diary paintings had been damaged? A technician had observed an L shaped […]
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The Brewery Arts Centre 30th April 2010 Preview night of the exhibition and it’s underway – that cocktail of people and art brought together in one place for a brief encounter. Always unpredictable in it’s results and, seen from a […]
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Gurnal Dubs 16th April 2010 What was the last swim round the circumference of the circle is the penultimate of the project. A final swim – a return to Blea Tarn, the start of the swim at its centre – […]
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Gurnal Dubs 16.04.10 This is the last tarn in the circle before we revisit the centre, Blea Tarn, and finish the project. We have swum here before so that the novelty of an unvisited tarn was replaced by a heap […]
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Blea Water 13th April 2010 The high level of Blea Water exposes the surface to strong SW winds that drive the water into a see-saw motion. Downward draughts from High Street accentuate this rhythm and create the pulsing overflow of […]
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Blea Water Tarn 13.4.10 Long drive round Shap and through to the head of Hawes Water, thoughts of the watery lost village of Mardale beneath its surface. Set off into an increasingly wild setting as we ascended to the tarn, […]
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Ullswater 8.4.10 We walk along the edge of Ullswater until we are opposite the small island we have swum to before. It is dull and overcast – strangely tranquil – and already a sense of closure is present as we […]
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Ullswater, 8th April A short walk in on a busy Easter week day full of trippers and walking groups. We find a relatively quiet spot on the shore, previously visited. The busy activity of boats on the water and walkers […]
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Bowscale Tarn is on the swim circle and therefore (roughly) the same distance from Blea Tarn – the centre – as all the other tarns. Yet try as we may it felt like we were going to some sort of […]
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13th March 2010 Bowscale Tarn We approach Bowscale Tarn from the northeast, from outside the circle, having driven up the M6. The tarn sits on the north side of Blencathra on Bowscale Fell and it’s the most northerly point of […]