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Liking Live Chat
I saw a Derbyshire Police reel last week that explained their aspiration that telephone calls to 101 are left to those people less able to use mobile devices to ‘live chat’ with the police. Hmmmffff thought i, as someone that has cause to ring 101 reasonably regularly as a countryside ranger and sometimes sits on…
Happy Birthday Trig
And so it was that a day after the Peak District National Park celebrated its 75th birthday, another icon of the British landscape climbed out of bed, put on its pipe and slippers and said ‘move aside youth’. Happy 90th birthday today to the humble ‘trig point’. The Ordnance Survey’s first trig point was erected…
Mind The Step
What to do on a wet Wednesday … Start on the first stepping stone. Go all the way down the waterside path to the wrought iron gate at the bottom. Come back up. Go steady on the wet roots and beware all of it after heavy rain. Carry your winter call-out rucksack for added fun. …
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