High Life in a Windmill

We take our ‘wanderings-in-a-landscape’ weekends seriously at the Silent Eye! Last year, for our December pre-winter solstice weekend, the two organisers–Barbara, (my cousin), and I, dragged a dedicated group of folks up the rain-sodden slopes of the West Pennines in Lancashire to visit the ruins of what had been a glorious landscaped garden created by the founder of the Lever Brothers soap empire – now Unilever.

It rained all day on that Saturday, and, when we got to the top path, it blew a gale… December is like that. We tell those attending, please come equipped!

The day was saved by good planning – a pre-arranged (early) Christmas lunch at one of several pubs and a carefully (pre) parked, large car with which to rescue most of the drowning folk!

Learning from this, the ‘North-West team’ decided that it would be good to spend a couple of preparatory days in the geography of our chosen spot for the December 2016 pre-solstice weekend, – the island of Anglesey, last refuge of the Druids…

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