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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: shelagh on May 16, 2016, 03:16:47 PM

Title: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: shelagh on May 16, 2016, 03:16:47 PM

Brian and I had a quiet walk lasting just about an hour. It's a winding inclining path through a mixed woodland.  We met no one.

Title: Re: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: shelagh on May 16, 2016, 03:18:32 PM

Towards the end of our walk we found just the one.

Unfortunately all the green you see ready to spring up and take over is Himalayan Balsam.

Title: Re: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: Maggi Young on May 16, 2016, 03:30:52 PM

A beautiful quiet place -  a shame about the Himalayan Balsam though. There are sheets of it along the River Dee in the centre of Aberdeen - it is pretty- but a menace.

Title: Re: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: johnralphcarpenter on May 16, 2016, 07:52:23 PM

Lovely Shelagh; hope you picked some wild garlic leaves for soup!

Title: Re: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: Hoy on May 16, 2016, 08:54:51 PM

I like that place, with and without Himalayan Balsam :)

A bit different from our walk today!

Title: Re: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: shelagh on May 17, 2016, 12:03:31 PM

Looks lovely Troy.

Title: Re: A Walk in Ringley, Lancashire
Post by: ian mcdonald on May 17, 2016, 10:36:43 PM

My memory of himalayan balsam was when I had to go to a training school in Ilford. The small stream there was covered in the stuff and it smelled awful in the hot sun.