http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com Environmentally friendly cottage in the lake district with a belvedere and red squirrels Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:05:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’ve seen them occasionally, but rabbits generally are not frequent visitors in Seldom Seen. But this last week we’ve had several sightings round the cottage. We’re not sure if it is one or two of them – and it’s an important point. Maybe they have been driven to higher ground ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/the-hole-and-the-rabbit It’s been a year for winter walking in the Lake District – storms and heavy snowfalls have left frozen tarns, iced up becks and transformed landscapes. A covering of snow paradoxically both conceals and reveals. A drumlin (see photo opposite) on the route to Sergeant Man above Easedale showed ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/kit-for-winter-walking Offered a lift to the Furness peninsula last Friday, I couldn’t resist the chance to explore a part of the southern lakes I’d never visited before and take in Black Combe. This is energy landscape: 12 miles up the coast is Sellafield, while out in Morecambe Bay 30 giant wind ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/kingdoms-turbines-and-wind I'd seen there had been people skiing recently at an elevation of 600 metre on Blencathra (KesMail February 2010). What I hadn't anticipated to find last week was a 300m long 'blue run' on a wide gully below Blaeberry Fell (See Photo opposite), about two miles beyond Keswick and ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/blaeberry-fells-blue-run After months of debate about climate change and the environment, the Copenhagen summit – long heralded as the last chance for a binding agreement on carbon emissions - ended on 18 December with a non-binding Accord. It was a disappointing result – no targets, no defined timetables, no commitment ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/too-warm-for-comfort You may remember 'dreaming of a white Christmas', but it's not often these days that the snow actually falls on the right day. This year though it's been different with cold weather and lots of snow - and ice - across Cumbria. It's not been great for driving and hundreds ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/dreaming-of-a-white-christmas We've always thought that The Larches is in a great position at the foot of Whinlatter Forest but now we know that it's also just minutes away from what is recognised as one of the region's principal new sporting attractions - the Altura and Quercus MTB mountain bike trails, ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/mountain-bikes-lure-visitors Judging by the emails I keep getting for winter holidays in foreign places, you’d think that we never see the sun in the UK. Yes it has been bad these last ten days in the Lakes with so much rain, but it didn’t stop our weekend party of friends enjoying ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/to-the-lakes-for-winter-sun It's usually docile, slinking its way without fuss through the marshes to Bassenthwaite and beyond. But this last week the River Derwent has shown another very different and violent face. With unprecedented rainfall of over 300 mm in 24 hours last Thursday in Borrowdale, the sheer volume of water pouring ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/wettest-day-in-a-millenium It's centuries old but climate change and carbon emissions have made it highly relevant now. I've just completed our new hi-tec haybox [Internal dimensions: 53mm x 34mm x 30mm] and it's passed the proof of concept stage with flying colours. Two slow cooked dishes, a lamb and mushroom curry ... http://www.lakelandbelvedere.com/hi-tec-haybox%e2%80%99s-green-flavour