{"id":3,"date":"2007-07-06T19:53:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/2007\/07\/06\/a-walk-to-crag-head-is-prozac-for-the-brain\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T11:17:20","slug":"a-walk-to-crag-head-is-prozac-for-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/archives\/3","title":{"rendered":"A WALK TO CRAG HEAD IS PROZAC FOR THE SOUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>What do you do when it has rained for days with no sign of stopping?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 I was on the phone with a friend from across the water when I heard a bleating sheep pass my window.\u00a0 Not so unusual for the Lakes BUT not in front of my window.\u00a0 I looked out and there was a whole herd running down the road.\u00a0 Sally, our Estate Manager, quickly reined them into\u00a0a holding bay.\u00a0 HELP!\u00a0 They were eating the trees and literally taking whole cleavers and\u00c2\u00a0sucking them down.\u00a0 I raced downstairs.\u00a0 A local farmer just happened to drive by.\u00a0 We walked them back to their field in the pouring rain &#8211; me with a stick looking stern at the back, Sally bravely opening the gate, and Bill leading the gang in the car.\u00a0 Three fields down there was a two meter gash in the wall.\u00a0 A couple of pallets were found to fill in the gaps&#8230;. Onto the real story &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.h2associates.com\/craghead.htm\">Crag Head<\/a>, part of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brantwood.org.uk\">Brantwood Estate<\/a>, is total heaven.\u00a0 The path is a feast for the eyes &#8211; every colour of green sparkling in the wet cloud.\u00a0 The terraced landscape and earthen\u00a0rock paths (it is solid rock beneath) make each step a treat.\u00a0 The higher one goes, the more varied the landscape.\u00a0 The closer to Crag Head the more open the moorland.\u00a0 Right now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkive.org\/species\/ARK\/plants_and_algae\/Narthecium_ossifragum\/\">bog asphodel <\/a>is bright yellow, there are a few pink flowers on the heather, the orchids are tall and bold in their pale purple splendour and the juniper trees look wild in the wind.\u00a0 The glacial erratic at the top reveals a 360 view of all the mountains surrounding.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I know why Ruskin said, &#8220;There&#8217;s no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.&#8221; Brantwood, Coniston, 7 July 2007<\/p>\n<table border=\"5\" borderColorLight=\"#909090\" align=\"center\" borderColorDark=\"#000080\" cellSpacing=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.h2associates.com\/titles.htm\"><font face=\"Arial\">Previous Letters<\/font><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when it has rained for days with no sign of stopping?\u00a0 I was on the phone with a friend from across the water when I heard a bleating sheep pass my window.\u00a0 Not so unusual for the Lakes BUT not in front of my window.\u00a0 I looked out and there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0050c0a.netsolhost.com\/thelastword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}