Paradise Paved?

Lancashire County Council in their wisdom , have decided that the lovely woodland path I have been walking for the past thirty years is to become a bridleway.
Everything that was nice about it has been destroyed, temporarily I hope, and despite assurance from Mr Ian Hart that it would really not be very different , this is the depressing sight that greeted us last Sunday.
Click this link and Judge for yourself.



This is the path that Willow and I walked almost daily for years.
Further along there was a locked gate in a wall. Sometimes we sneaked through to a lovely linear wilderness.
Now the gate is open and access is freely available but I just don't want it.


The path is a straight line from one end of the valley to the other with no tree branch at lower level so the poor cyclists and horse riders won't be impeded.


Withnell Parish Council have laid down and let Lancashire County Council walk all over them.
(I could print the email which says that some of them objected but to no avail.)
Our council tax has paid for this.

Fortunately on the other side of the Goit is a more acceptable path.
A sheep track with old trees with beautiful gnarled roots

uneven and full of stones, and deep puddles and mud in places.

Just what you expect in the countryside.

Another one

My tryout blog is going to have a photograph now and I want it here .Don't forget you can visit my real blog here



Not here so lets upload one now and see if it will got where it should.
No, it didn't so I had to move it.
In case anyone is actually reading this I will tell you thats its the bear on the bench on Dick Lane.
This bench was put there as a memorial to a man by his wife. She puts flowers on the bench from time to time. Its a lovely addition to my walk as I can sit on it for a rest before the 'final ascent' uphill and home.
But the bear appeared in his dirty bedraggled state about February 2007. I think he dropped off the dustcart but I might be wrong. He sat there until about May then disappeared. In September he was back and has been there ever since. No one knows where he came from or where he went on his brief holiday,and he doesn't say a word.