I’ve often mentioned Friars Crag before and
frequently show photographs taken there.
What I haven’t said before is that I often stroll along there with my
early morning coffee and start my day with views that would be hard to
better. I know not everyone is lucky
enough to have such a place outside their door but, if you can, you could take
your coffee out in the garden or maybe a short stroll will take you to a little
park area. It beats every morning on the
settee or at the kitchen table and you never know what you might see. Friars
Crag is a honey-pot to visitors during the day but in the early hours it’s a
different world where the sights and sounds of the natural world dominate.
At the Trust we are working to make it
possible for as many as possible to enjoy this outdoor world when they visit here. As part of that we are constantly checking
the condition of the furniture in the area.
Furniture in this context includes walls, fences, gates, stiles, bridges
as well as benches. Chris, our Whitehaven
Ranger, joined me one day recently as we carried out a survey of the condition
of the furniture in the Castle Crag area. We took Chris’s two lurchers and Daisy
with us and they had a great day of course.
It was a good, productive day. We found a few things that need doing; where
we could we actually did a few small jobs as we found them and we also spotted
a tree beside a path that needed immediate attention. The foresters dealt with that the next day.
Daisy here:
Chris’s dogs can run really fast but I can
keep up with them – just. But they got
tired really quickly. I’m more middle
distance.
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