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This is All About me

This is All About me...

Hello and welcome to my world!

I'm a fifty-something year old adult, who really should know better than to speak from the heart with passion and conviction about subjects as wide ranging as gardening to walking. I love spending time outdoors in both urban settings, for example my back or front gardens and in rural settings.

The Walking thing

We'd all love to swan off to the Lake District every weekend... ...it's not always possible, for me anyway. Some times I have to stay a bit closer to home - Southport in the north-west of England, where it's pretty damn flat. And herein lies the pay-off, we have The Moss and a magnificent, changing coastline to walk alongside. So while it would be fantasic to be up Great Gable, Skiddaw or Helvellyn each and every Sunday, it's not like I'm stuck for stunning scenery and each time I go there I notice more. Dare I reveal that the West Pennine Moors has come to be one of my most favourite places in the world? No surprises there then! I know I have still a few of the lesser known summits of this enormous land mass to explore and at some point in time maybe mother nature will see fit to not rain for long enough to go and tick off the following unconquered tops:

  1. Bigger Hill: Turton Moor
  2. Black Hill - again, there are two!: Anglezarke Moor & Darwen Moor
  3. Bowstone Hill:
  4. Brown Lowe: Smithills Moor
  5. Burnt Edge: Wilder's Moor
  6. Cartridge Hill: Darwen Moor
  7. Counting Hill - I've done one but there are two!: Anglezarke Moor
  8. Egg Hillock: Horrocks Moor
  9. Grain Pole Hill: Anglezarke Moor
  10. Grindle End: Turton Moor
  11. Hanging Stones: Turton Moor
  12. Healey Nab: Grey Heights
  13. Hurst Hill: Anglezarke Moor
  14. Little Hill: Turton Moor
  15. Nab End: Anglezarke Moor
  16. Old Adam's Hill: Anglezarke Moor
  17. Old Man's Hill: Turton Moor
  18. Round Loaf: Anglezarke Moor
  19. Souls Hill: Turton Moor
  20. Turn Lowe: Darwen Moor
  21. Whimberry Hill: Horrocks Moor
  22. White Hill: Darwen Moor
  23. Wives' Hill: Darwen Moor
My absolute favourite? Well that's a poorly kept secret, I adore Pendle Hill

The Gardening thing

This started when along with a card containing £80 for my 50th birthday, my boss gave me a Téte a téte daffodil...and I loved it. I put this solitary charmer (I''m going on about the plant now, not my boss), in the front garden and for a while...forgot about it. Then, all of a sudden, one year in February the little flower popped up again. Given that I had essentially planted it in leaf litter and no more than an inch of rock-hard soil this was something of a miracle. The next time that I was in a garden centre with Chris (my other half for those who don''t know!) I wanted to get a companion for the solitary narcissus. Within a month I had about seven of them, we were going to different garden centres just to buy different varities...I get a little enthused it''s fair to say!

And now he's getting Arty?

In the Summer of 2011 - September to be honest, I gave up smoking. This now meant that I had to find a distraction, something to occupy my mind and hands. Drawing did fit the bill, I got into drawing portaits...and was bloody awful! Now, I'm getting ever closer to retirement aga - it's still a decade away but I want to improve and draw other things than once beautiful women - I make no apologies for appreciating beautiful ladies, I just wish I could do them justice on paper! It would be really nice if I could start to produce decent landscapes in watercolour or even Acrylic - I have a self imposed ban on oil paints - I remember how badly my mum's set used to smell, so I won't be going down that route, but there's always the chance I might pickup oil pastels which are not smelly at all.