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'Nature must prevail for our own well-being.' Attenborough

27/2/2022

Kestrel near Scout Scar

In 1793 Wordsworth fled Paris, disillusioned by Revolution in France. Abandoning his lover and daughter, he was in deep depression. His visit to the Wye Valley was restorative and five years later he reflects upon the healing power of Nature in his poem Tintern Abbey. David Attenborough and Simon Schama consider how Nature helps us cope with the ‘craziness of all the world. We are part of the natural world, not divorced from it. It is our essential cure and Nature must prevail, for our own well-being.’

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Collateral damage consequent on housing development off the Brigsteer Road

22/2/2022

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Building begins at Ghyll Brow

The scale and extent of Collateral Damage shocks us. At Brackenwood, aka The Ghyll, mature trees have been felled and a barrier erected to close off the short-cut footpath from Underwood to the Brigsteer Road, prior to work beginning on SUDS (sustainable urban drainage system). No-one told us about the tree-felling, SUDS, or footpath closures. There are no notices at footpath entry points, nothing on footpath closure, nothing to tell us what is to happen here, or why or when. So we investigate, of our own initiative.

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Habitat loss, Brigsteer Road

17/2/2022

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Shock discovery of tree-felling

Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice threaten to bring down trees and power lines. Weather forecasters do all they can to prepare us.

What happens here today comes with no warning. It is shocking and bewildering. We do not understand what is happening. No one tells us.

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Cunswick

10/2/2022

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A day of floodlights sweeping the fells, followed by shadows. On the horizon, a fell of sunlit snow. A kaleidoscope of the elements.
There's a cold wind so we drop below the cairn on Cunswick Fell and sit looking toward Kentmere, trying to make out what we're seeing in all that is subtle and transitory.

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The road to Brigsteer Rise, Ghyll Brow

9/2/2022

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Photograph taken 9 February 2022

9 February 2022
A large red for danger sign reads ROAD CLOSED. Beside it, another sign reads ROAD CLOSED HERE for 6 weeks 7/2/22. A red and white barrier is placed in the road, with red and white cones.
How would you interpret what this means?

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Brigsteer Rise, at Ghyll Brow

7/2/2022

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Meadow saxifrage that flourished at Ghyll Brow

In lockdown, we walked from home to Scout Scar. The Nature Cure was essential to our well-being. It always is. On foot from Kendal, past Ghyll Brow, past Stainbank Green to Scout Scar, seeking peace, engaging with the natural world and with local people who have long held this place in high regard.
Road closed for 6 weeks, from 7/2/22,' reads a road-sign. With our direct and daily route prohibited we have less freedom than in lockdown. It undermines our way of life.

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Jenny Brown's Point to the sea-hides at Leighton Moss

1/2/2022

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Red-breasted merganser windswept

Wild horses on the incoming tide at Morecambe Bay. A rough wind and a louring sky send patterns of sunlight and shadow racing over the water. We hear woodland birds but it’s too cold, too wild to go bare-headed around Jenny Brown’s Point. Out on the water there are wild waves and not a bird in sight.
As we walk the embankment at Quaker’s Stang a flock of lapwing takes to the air. There are starling and a flock of greylag geese on the salt marsh pastures.

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'Nature must prevail for our own well-being.' Attenborough

Collateral damage consequent on housing development off the Brigsteer Road

Habitat loss, Brigsteer Road

Cunswick

The road to Brigsteer Rise, Ghyll Brow

Brigsteer Rise, at Ghyll Brow

Jenny Brown's Point to the sea-hides at Leighton Moss

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