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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 10h

Bessyboot and Rosthwaite Cam rising above Seatoller.

Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 10h

Steve Uglow in Seatoller House discussing the famous Trevelyan and Exeter annual (human) hare & hounds race during our podcast recording this afternoon.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 10h

Ancient yew perhaps 500 years old in Johnny Wood close to Seatoller. Discussed during the recording of our Countrystride podcast this afternoon, set to go live on Friday.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 1d

Enlightened. Silly typo clearly I’m not with it today.

Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 1d

Unlightened. Creativity boosts the economy and comes in all mannerof forms and most certainly is not all digital or AI. Can we have it elsewhere in the British Isles?

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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South Devon Green Party @southdevongreens.bsky.social · 2d

Bringing back hope.

Leader Zack Polanski makes a powerful case for taxing wealth not work in the Green Party's new party political broadcast.

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 2d

The Rollright Stones on the Cotswold ridgeway near Chipping Norton. If you would like an authentic signed print @ £40 (like the one attached), please email me on [email protected]

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 2d

Typo... I meant Beakcareful.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 2d

Peakcareful.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 2d

Boiling cold water.

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JenHenders @jenhenders.bsky.social · 3d

The power of water thanks to Storm Amy at Low Force Waterfall Middleton Teesdale💜xx

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 2d

I presume so got there shortly before 5pm in a fierce storm.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 3d

To be honoured by my peers is really special. Nonetheless CS is a team effort Dave and my wife’s unstinting support for no financial benefit.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely to share a pleasure in a landscape that means so much to so many. My youthful attention was always directed to the romance of the Yorkshire Dales from my mother’s roots.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 3d

My exuberance has a sane platform, marshalled by Dave’s clever editing.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 3d

We share your emotional pleasure. Out again this coming Wednesday discovering the story or Seatoller and its magical secret hideaway sunless setting.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 3d

Not forgetting Helen’s unstinting support.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 3d

Not forgetting the unstinting support of Helen too. There are no financial upsides to podcasting.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 4d

Punny you should say that.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 4d

Thank-you Elizabeth. Up there with David goes my wife for her essential support. The whole seven-year commitment has cost us dearly, there are no financial benefits from podcasting.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 4d

Thank-you Jenny. I should also mention the huge contribution and support my wife has given to enable this massive undertaking… which has cost us massively, there are no financial upsides to podcasting.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 4d

OWPG inaugural Members’ Award, received this evening, to say I’m chuffed is an understatement. But I also give due credit to non-member and producer David Felton, without his genius this could never have happened.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 4d

View of the River Greta in spate from Calvert Bridge and the adjacent Tollbar Cottage in Keswick.

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 6d

Henry Jenkinson Gate, walk guide author and the reason Fitz Park at Keswick is open space for all, rather than be smothered in dwellings and guest houses in the second half of the C19th

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 6d

Out this afternoon recording a Countrystride podcast about the famous Latrigg Trespass of 1878. Our charming and highly informed guest Sheila Wiggins from Bournemouth, a descendant of the principal champion of the cause Henry Jenkinson. Whose name adorns the gates of Fitz Park.

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