Mikes weather bits & Photo Blog: House price rises

Monday 26 October 2015

House price rises - again & Zorin? whats Zorin?

Must be a slack news day at the Express with another revelation about house prices soaring by 25% - - - The guardian covered a similar story in June? - - -

The Mail however tells us that a month of the booze is good for us Mmmm- - -

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Having completed one of our old walks in Chatsworth the other day

we decided to do another one which we hadn't done in a number of years

Hartington is a 25 minute drive away and deep in the Dales and normally swarming with tourists

Luck was with us though as we managed to find a parking space by the duck pond in the centre of the village

remembering the walk wasn't as hard as i though and we wandered past this really old fashioned corner shop with its jars of sweets in the window

we were soon up on the top of the high ground above the village

and striding along the familiar path

another great view but the path here and at a number of points now is very stony and Sally is finding it uncomfortable

we hit the top end of Biggin dale and there is a little respite

with a grassy patch or 2 but the stony path lasts all the way down to the river just up ahead

thankfully the walk up Dovedale is a well used path and quite flat

Sally puts on a brave face

its surprising how few people are about if this was summertime the track would be very busy

i make a mistake on the route out of Dovedale and we end up climbing back up the side of the Dale

luckily we can see our destination and soon enough emerge only a few metres from the normal end of the walk. This stone figure is outside an art studio on the edge of the village.

Driving home we decide that today should be declared a wine day and we pop into the shop before settling down in front of the log burner. I measure the walk and its a shade under 6 miles - - -

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poking around on the internet i come across a site that says Miss windows XP? - Get it back Its an article on an operating system called Zorin. Having been an XP user on many a machine i peruse the content and decide to give it a go. I download the system and install it on an old Windows Vista machine and at first look its very user friendly. Its a Linux OS but with a "normal" windows front end and it does react a lot like XP - - -

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