Since the substantial snowfall on Thursday evening, temperatures have remained low, with further flurries topping things up nicely — and more on the way Monday evening if the Met Office have got it right!
Most of us that spend a lot of our leisure time in the outdoors end up developing wide-ranging interests that complement our chosen activity. Many become adept at identifying the resident flora and fauna, perhaps even specialising in a particular taxa. Other rich seams of interest include geology, industrial archeology and human history in the landscape, and photography.
I’ve just enjoyed a very relaxing weekend up in Derbyshire, staying with friends on the south edge of the Peak District. It never fails to amaze me just how much of the Peak I’ve yet to explore. Having been based in Nottingham for seven years (first at Uni, and then whilst working at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby), the Peak was on my doorstep (albeit a mighty 25-mile step) for long enough to have made countless day and weekend trips to this, Britain’s first national park. And yet there are still huge swathes that I’m pretty much a stranger to.