Ilam and the Manifold Valley New Year's Day, 2013	Ilam Church	Ilam Hall
Castern Hall	Beeston Tor with Grindon beyond	The Manifold from the rim	lunch
The submerged stepping stones	Returning having failed to find an alternative way	Shugborough & Cannock Chase February 2013	"Hockney Trees" on the Satnall Hill
Snowdrops	Cattle in Shugborough Park		The Bull
		The Triumphal Arch	more cattle
The House	swans on a flooded field		Crossing the Sherbrook River
a sight of a stag		Silverdale, Keele and the University February 2013	Keele Church
The Clockhouse, Keele University	Clockhouse Drive	Keele Hall	The new sculpture in Union Square
		Sculpture and the chapel
Flash, Knotbury and Three Shire Heads March 2013	The Weslyan Chapel, Flash		a cold start above Flash
near Knotbury	Danebower Quarry	crossing the Dane
The Dane	Three Shire Heads		Fall on the Dane
	Alpaca below Flash
Apedale April 2013	The 12.00 noon; waiting to depart
departure
		Rudyard Lake Railway April 2013	tree rings
girls rowing club	Rudyard	Merlin and train travelling south to Rudyard
King Arthur with train approaching Hunthouse Wood station	King Arthur running round its train at Hunthouse Wood
Whixall Moss April 2013		Along the former railway track
	The Moss	Robin	An abandoned peat factory
The Moss	Roundthorn Bridge	Can you see the owl on the post?	Long eared owl
	Although it looks like a statue, it did move!	Cannock Chase May 2013	The Katyn Memorial
Crow	The Sherbrook River	The stepping stones	Still going strong
	The Chase
Cheddleton, June 2013	Churnet Valley Railway Waiting to depart from Cheddleton	The restored cross	domestic fallow deer
Alpaca		Dad - on Father's day	crossing the Coombes Valley brook
an orchid	stuck in a bog	just withdrawn	modelling the mishap
The dove cote Whitehough Hall	Whitehough Hall
St Leonnard's, Ipstones		a converted chapel	Consall Forge the canal and railway from the Black Lion
Churnet Valley Railway Departure from Consall Forge	Ilam, Dovedale and Hall dale June 2013	Ilam Church	Ilam Cross
Thorpe Cloud	Dovedale: the footbridge		braving the stepping stones
	Ilam Rock	Hall Dale	Heidi and Oliver German wayfarers
			Castern Hall
Buxton Walks July 2013	The Golf Course from Watford Farm	Buxton from the path	Solomon's Temple (Grin Low)
Axe Edge	Burbage	Axe Edge	Solomon's Temple Walk
	inside the temple	Buxton Dome and Park
Walk to Corbar Hill and Cross		Buxton and Solomon's Temple	towards Chrome Hill
Hare bells	Orchid on a walk round Tittesworth Reservoir
Monsal Trail July 2013	Just after the start at Miller's Dale	Meadow Sweet	Orchid
Rough Chervill		Lady's Bedstraw	Purple Loosestrife
Margarites	Bladder Campion		Knapweed
Towards Litton Tunnel	Litton Mill		Litton Tunnel
Cressbrook Dale	Cressbrook Hall		Monsal Dale from Monsal Head Viaduct
Great Longstone Station	Bakewell Station	Bakewell from the Trail
The Stiperstones August 2013	The Devil's Chair		Corndon hill
	attempted self photo ...	... success!	The way ahead
Return to the ridge Devil's Chair on the left	The Brown Clee Hill August 2013	The summit from the fort	Caer Caradoc (right) and Hope Bowdler
	Titterstone Clee Hill	Memorial	Looking back to the south summit
	The summit	Some of many horses	The Malverns
Approaching Pat's 78th birthday		Not a telephone box but ...	... a library! The Little Red Book Stop, Abdon
Caer Caradoc September 2013	Swallows gathering for their African Journey Cardington	The Lawley from the Cardington Lane	Caer Caradoc summit
Coffee time	Up to the ridge	The Lawley	Hope Bowdler Hill
living with ...	... medicated angina!
Macclesfield Forest September 2013	Shining Tor from Nessit Hill	Tegg's Nose from Nessit Hill	on Nessit Hill
Shutlingsloe	The Cat & Fiddle from the Standing Stone	Scabius?	Bees and Insects enjoying the nectar from ?
Up Charity Lane from Forest Chapel		Tegg's Nose from Hacked Way Lane
Shutlingsloe from Trentabank September 2013	Tegg's Nose and Ridegate Reservoir the following week	Damp and Misty	Cobwebs and ...
... very wet grass	Black sheep on Piggford Moor	Our Goal, with the mist beginning to clear	On the summit of Shutlingsloe
			Where we had been from the rdige beyond the Hanging Gate
Brown Clee Hill September 2013	Another misty start Clee Burf	The summit: Abdon Burf
		Abdon Burf from the Five Springs	Clee Burf from the Five Springs
Nearly at the second summit, Clee Burf	Teatime near Cockshutford	Hanchurch Woods October 2013	The Water Tower
Speckled Wood		Fly Agaric (amanita muscaria)	Fly Agaric just emerging
Along the Isar Munich, October 2013	Weißenberger Platz	Outside the Gasteig
St Maximillian Church	The Power Station	near the Zoo
The Thalkirchener Brücke		The Isar beyond the Marienklausenbrücke	Feuerwehr excercises
		Graffitti under the Mittelerer Ring
Walker Barn & Tegg's Nose November 2013	Tegg's Nose from Ridgegate Resevoir	from Warrilow Head farm	Walker Barn Methodist Church
Macclesfield Forest and Shutlingsloe from Tegg's Nose	Shutlingsloe from Tegg's Nose	Bottoms resevoir from Tegg's Nose	descending the Nose
Ferry Meadows Peterborough November 2013	with Paul and Rosalind
Cormorant		A carved owl
Cannock Chase December 2013	A cold start
Christmas Walk Macclesfield Forest 22nd December	climbing up to the forest edge
Decorated tree in the forest			Charity Lane
Shutlingsloe	Shining Tor	Forest Chapel	Christmas Day Apedale
		Boxing Day Shining Tor	Fog with snow and ice underfoot
	Summit		Our single glimpse of the sun
The bothy chapel on Foxlow edge	The Wrekin 29th December	Start at the southern end in the sunlit woods
The Wrekin Aerial with dirty weather on the way	The summit in the late afternoon	The Breiddon Hills and the flooded Severn	Ironbridge Power station in the sunset
The Brown Clee (Abdon Burf)		A lovely walk!

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