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RSPB Ham Wall - 4 miles and 30 birds including 2 new ones for 2026, which takes the total to 96. Oiseau du jour is Glossy Ibis.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Cadbury Castle circuit - 14th October 2026. A pleasant perambulation. In his work of 1542, John Leland identifies Cadbury Castle as being the "real" Camelot. Honest, guv!

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ham Wall and Shapwick Heath - 8.5 miles and 30 birds including 3 new ones for 2026, which takes the total to 94. Oiseau du jour is Kingfisher.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Steart Marshes stroll - 5 miles and 31 birds including 5 new ones for 2026. ODJ (oiseau du jour) is Greenshank.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Limington, Yeovil Marsh and Draycott - a sunny Somerset stroll with a few stray clouds and one incredibly overgrown bit. Of all the days to leave the tools of justice at home. 7.5 miles

Is there a sadder sight in Somerset than an apple orchard full of windfall?

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mill End to Wallington and back - 7.8 miles, mostly sunny and a few showers. Another nice stroll in Hertfordshire.

Bridget has a poorly toe and can’t walk very far…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Barkway to Reed and back - 7.6 miles, mostly sunny and a bit of a breeze at times. Another nice stroll in Hertfordshire.

Milestone - London 35, Ware 14, Cambridge 16

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Barkway to Barley and back - 7.3 miles, mostly sunny and a couple of showers. A nice stroll in Hertfordshire.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Wainwright 214 - Fleetwith Pike - 10th July 2026. Job done. 3.7 miles, 1100 feet of up and down. And 30 degrees.

Buttermere, Crummock Water and Loweswater

Today’s route - 3.7 miles, 1100 feet of up and down. And 30 degrees. The straight line is an old tramway…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Wainwright 213 - Yewbarrow. Some people leave it until last because it’s the last one in the last book. Don’t do that. Tackle it early!

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Wainwrights 210, 211 & 212 - Middle Fell, Seatallan & Buckbarrow. The absolute worst conditions I have ever walked in. 6.5 miles, 5 hours 40 minutes, 2,900 feet of up and down.

Today’s route - 6.5 miles, 5 hours 40 minutes, 2,900 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Wainwrights 208 & 209 - Haycock & Caw Fell. A 10 mile epic, 3,200 feet of up and down. Perfectly pleasant if it’s not raining for the whole first hour, just a long way to go! And very wet underfoot!

Today’s route - 10 miles, 3,200 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Wainwright 207 - Kirk Fell. Some Wainwrights are lovely. Some are just nasty. This falls into the latter category. Never again. 7.5 miles, 2,400 feet of up and down.

Today’s route - 7.5 miles, 2,400 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Wainwright 206 - Pillar (not the one from Eldorado). 8.75 miles, 3,020 feet of up and down. The 8th highest mountain in England. A sunny and cloudy day in the fells.

Today’s route - 8.75 miles, 3,020 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Afternoon bird walk. 19 birds including Tree Pipit, House Martin, Tree Creeper and 2 Grey Herons fighting with Mallards. Added bonus of 2 red squirrels too!

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Wainwrights 202 and 203 - Stony Cove Pike & Hartsop Dodd - 2nd May 2026. Book 2 complete. 7 miles, 2,000 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Owler Tor and Winyards Nick - 5th April 2026. A very windy day with added stinging hailstones…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A very nice 7.5mi walk along Stanage Edge, down to Bamford and back up again. Added 9 new birds to the 2026 list: chiffchaff, reed bunting, wheatear, skylark, meadow pipit, curlew, blackcap, mistle thrush and siskin.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

A Yorkshire adventure. Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Saltaire, Salts Mill and a David Hockney exhibition.

Inside large old mill building, paintings on walls, high brick ceilings

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Derwent Water wander - 2nd January 2026. A chilly winter wander down to Calf Close bay and back. 22 birds spotted to start the year list off well. 5.8 miles.

The 'Hundred Year Stone' is a sculpture by Peter Randall-Page located on the shore of Derwent Water between Calf Close Bay and Broomhill Point. It was made in 1995 to celebrate the Centenary of the National Trust. Carved out of a boulder of volcanic rock from the Borrowdale Valley, the unusual design represents ten segments across ten rings

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Wainwright 201 - Knott. Book 5 completed. It was snowing. Lunch in Great Lingy Hut. 6 miles, 1670 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Wainwright 200 - Mellbreak. Lots more frozen boggy bits and a nice (occasionally steep) ascent from the south. 7 miles, 1600 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Wainwright 199 - Mungrisdale Common. He commented that it "has no more pretension to elegance than a pudding that has been sat on" and that “precious holiday hours should not be wasted here”. 5.7 miles, 1420 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Wainwright 198 - Hen Comb (Chicken Comb). A perfect winter day in Cumbria. 7.1 miles, 1620 feet of up and down.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Spotted this misleading bench today. I was sceptical. The use of the word “near” makes it technically correct, but Boudicca is said to have died on a different bit of Watling Street to where this bench is placed, about 60 miles south east of this location… And it was most likely AD60 or 61…

Wooden bench. Text reads IN LOVING MEMORY OF BOUDICA QUEEN
OF THE ICENI
WHO DIED NEAR WATLING STREET
AD60

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Christmas cake is finished. Just got to wait a few more days to eat it. Went square this year for a change…

White iced cake with snowflakes, plastic holly leaves and plastic robins.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Well that’s it for another year. Out of office is on.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This week I had a 2 1/2 hour meeting. I thought those days were over but apparently not. Hooray for Friday…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Today’s free dog is my old friend Noel…

Small black dog with an increasingly white muzzle…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

In the words of Rob Newman, “somewhere there’s a third division football team missing a manager”… #TOTP

Robert Palmer on Top of the Pops in 1988

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Given that a few of my friends have already got their Christmas decorations up, it must be time to open a Christmas beer.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Bit of culture tonight, nice cask pint followed by a film festival of short independent films.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The last of the garden tomatoes for this year.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Autumn colours in the garden.

Tiny lilac nemesia flowers with bright yellow dots in the middle

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The only way to start your #ALTc25 day… No square sausage but there are tattie scones…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Last change of trains for my #ALTc25 journey. I’ve not been to Crewe since early 1992 but walking underneath the platforms brought back a vivid memory of that…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Journey to #ALTc25 begins… See you in Glasgow…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Durlston Country Park - 10th October 2025. A short stroll along the cliffs.

Large stone globe with a map of the world

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Brownsea Island - 9th October 2025. A beautiful day on the island.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

RSPB Arne - 8th October 2025. Another 5 miles and now up to 100 birds for the year. Today’s highlights - Goldcrest, meadow pipit and black tailed godwit.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Would hot cross buns have been better?

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Currently enjoying @puiyin.bsky.social’s favourite festive treat…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Badbury Rings ramble - 7th October 2025. 5.25 miles. Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges.

Mushroom, mushroom - thin white mushrooms with sticky caps

Mounds and ditches from an Iron Age hill fort

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

RSPB Arne - 6th October 2025. Five miles and 31 different birds including Dartford warbler, marsh harrier, redshank and whimbrel. Total for the year is now 96…

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Bloxham and Red Post bimble - 5th October 2025. A mostly sunny stroll in the Dorset countryside, 6.6 miles and 26 caches.

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Rich Goodman @bulphan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I can’t remember. Is it Easter or Christmas in the first week of October?

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