tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post2160564646750091986..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The magic of KeswickBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12689629372532218192014-07-15T06:25:17.344+01:002014-07-15T06:25:17.344+01:00@L - I hadn't realized (or I had forgotten) yo...@L - I hadn't realized (or I had forgotten) you were a British medic - and at one time working in the same health authority and medical school region as myself.<br /><br />@Adam - Well, that's how it looks to me - but of course not everybody feels the same about Keswick or responds the same way (or, it may take a while); and I now have many layers of memories to add depth to my appreciation. <br /><br />Keswick would certainly be the kind of place I would like to visit with you if you made it to England; but unfortunately I already am semi-decrepit, and can only walk the flattish paths (and not, for the past couple of years, the peaks) due to my arthritic/ swollen/ unstable right knee - which is only kept-going (postponing replacement as long as possible) by regular steroid injections. <br /><br />Still, I walked seven miles around Derwentwater without ill effects; and managed (but only just!) a four mile round trip of Waller Crags which involved some fairly steepish stuff. It's not the same as doing the Newland's Round, or Haystacks - but wonderful nonetheless. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-56548499675295438122014-07-15T05:16:41.618+01:002014-07-15T05:16:41.618+01:00It looks and sounds like a dream. Your landscape ...It looks and sounds like a dream. Your landscape posts are your most poignant ones.<br /><br />Maybe someday before we are completely decrepit you and I will be able to see some of these places together.Adam G.http://www.jrganymede.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-89090895899979983062014-07-14T19:16:38.858+01:002014-07-14T19:16:38.858+01:00I worked in Carlisle and Whitehaven for a year and...I worked in Carlisle and Whitehaven for a year and am now quite sad that I never really got to appreciate the natural beauty of Cumbria. Once however my car broke down a couple of miles after exiting the motorway somewhat near Barrow-in-Furness. It was almost sunset and there seemed to be no civilization around. What I experienced was absolutely gorgeous, not breathtaking, but calming beauty. The kind of place Bilbo Baggins would wistfully miss I suppose!<br /><br />Taking the train from Manchester to Carlisle gets you some great views, but it is obviously not like the experience of <i>being</i> there.<br /><br />It is rather sad that some Carlisle residents I spoke to consider the Lake District an ordinary sort of boring place they would rather escape from in favour of somewhere more cosmopolitan like Manchester or *shiver* London and Newcastle.<br /><br />There really is magic there and I hope to experience it fully before I become unable to. Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful time and place.<br /><br />Incidentally patients from Keswick (locals, not tourists), tended to be some of the nicest people I have had the pleasure of meeting.Luqmannoreply@blogger.com