Beatrix Potter's 'Yew Tree Farm' still thrives in England's Lake District
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New podcast discussion on Between a Drowning Man
I’m very pleased to announce that Mark McGuinness’ excellent poetry podcast, A Mouthful of Air, which has recently featured poets such as Mona Arshi, Judy Brown, Rishi Dastidar, Ian Duhig, Mimi Khalvati, Clare Pollard, Tom Sastry, and Denise Saul, has recorded a discussion about my new Salt collection, Between a Drowning Man.
Mark’s method is to focus on one particular poem and between us we…
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Freezing temperatures and clear skies created pristine conditions for a reflection of snow-covered fells in Buttermere in the Lake District, England. Charlotte Graham. The Times.
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A legendary Lake District creature reported by and boasted of by a particular boatman starting in 1900. A fairly successful charismatic appeal to tourists with tales of this small winged hedgehog with a somewhat lengthy tail.
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As with doctors, British farmers make their daily rounds too.
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Good place for a picnic—Castle Crag, Cumbria, UK 2012
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Rowing Boat from England dated around 1890 on display at the Windemere Jetty Museum in the Lake District, England
This boat belonged to Beatrix Potter when she bought Moss Eccle Tarn, a small mountain lake, in 1903. The boat wa pulled out of he Tarn in 1976 as it had sunk in 1950.
Beatrix's stories were inspired be her childhood family holidays in the Lake District. Later when she settled down in the area she married local solicitor William Heelis. She would campaign to protect Windemere's natural beauty by buying up several farms and leaving 4000 acres to the National Trust.
Photographs taken by myself 2020
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