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... they managed to shrug [b] off seven inches of rain in twelve-fourteen hours... [c] [a] - suburb/satellite village of kendal; [b] - well, most old settlements in cumberland & county westmorland's fells are designed & built to cope with water descending from above - leastways, those settlements as've survived long enough to be considered "old" are; [c] - seathwaite is reputedly the inhabited ...

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18th November

..., so we returned; but the moon came out, and opened to us the church and village. Helm Crag in shade, the large mountains dappled like a sky. We stayed long upon the bridge." Dorothy Wordsworth, 1801 (Westmorland) A really blow-y day, raggedy clouds all across my window. Walking to work in it was fun - I do love the wind, it makes the world feel alive ! Byslantedlight, 2009 (Cambs.)

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17th November

... now closed over the Lake [Ullswater], and we wander in darkness, save that the mist is here and there prettily coloured by the wither'd fern, over which it hovers." S.T. Coleridge, 1799 (Westmorland) "Cottages [at Laugharne] favourable only to vegetable life - Hot-bed of wild weeds on their roofs and ivy on their walls - but the shrivelled shrimps of cold and hunger - swarthied tenants. Here ...

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10th November

... A fine clear frosty morning. We walked after dinner to Rydale village. Jupiter over the hilltops, the only star, like a sun, flashed out at intervals from behind a black cloud." Dorothy Wordsworth,1800 (Westmorland) "Thursday night, 1/4 after 7. The sky covered with stars; the wind up; right opposite my window, over Brandelhow... an enormous black cloud exactly in the shape of an egg - this is...

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8th November

... that tossed about the leaves, and tore off the still green leaves of the ashes. ...The whole face of the country in a winter covering. We went early to bed." Dorothy Wordsworth, 1800 (Westmorland) "Brilliant sun, black cloud and slight shower. The column of a rainbow arch sprung up out of Herefordshire from among the blue hills and golden oaks tipped with sunlight." Francis Kilvert, 1871 (...

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7th November

...The Michaelmas daisy droops, the pansies are full of flowers, the ashes opposite are green all but one, but they have lost many of their leaves. The copses are quite brown." Dorothy Wordsworth, 1800 (Westmorland) A gorgeous day today - all high blue skies and hopefulness! A little cold, but not too bad - though I was glad of my coat, and gloves for my fingers whilst we watched fireworks...

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4th November

... to the top of Seat Sandal. He was obliged to lie down in the tremendous wind. The snow blew Helvellyn horizontally like smoke - the spray of the unseenwaterfall like smoke." Dorothy Wordsworth, 1800 (Westmorland) "It is raining in torrents. The light is greenish and unnatural, objects being seen through water. A roar of rain in the plantation, and a rush near at hand, yet not a breath of wind....

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Darkling Eclectica Hallowe'en Episode

.../ Francis Poulenc; M.Durufle, G.Pretre, French National Radio-Televison Orch. Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani Gloria/Organ Concerto Classical / Stan Rogers Witch of the Westmorland Between the Breaks...Live! Folk Turtle Island String Quartet Spider Dreams Spider Dreams Jazz Bob Brozman Mysterious Mose Hello, Central, Give Me Dr. Jazz Jazz / Brave Combo Flying Saucer Polkas for...

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31st October

...its pink-color'd berries that shine beautifully in the pale sun." John Clare, 1824 (Northants.) "A very fine moonlight night - The moon shone like herrings in the water." Dorothy Wordsworth, 1800 (Grasmere, Westmorland) "The full moon glided on behind a black cloud. And what then? Who cared?" S.T. Coleridge, 1803 (Cumberland) I thought the rain was set in for the day when I first ...

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30th October

..."It is a breathless, grey day, that leaves the golden woods of autumn quiet in their own tranquillity, stately and beautiful in their decaying; the lake is a perfect mirror." Dorothy Wordsworth, 1802 (Grasmere, Westmorland) "Glowing soft red clouds on blue." John Ruskin, 1870 (Denmark Hill, Surrey) A pink tinge to begin the day - quite red it looked, in fact, from my window, but the day ...

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