Mark Richards
@fellranger1
Linescape artist and presenter of the Countrystride podcast
What’s a holiday if you don’t spend some time writing letters and postcards, or stopping off in stationery-named places to post them? Huge shoutout to the Post Office in Sticker for stocking loads of pretty 1st and 2nd class stamps! #PostboxSaturday 😄✍️✉️📮❤️
Tower Bridge and the Tower itself, any sign of the ravens?
London skyline today - old and new buildings
Fulfilled a lifelong dream today. A glass of honeyed wine and thou...
Can anyone name the stories linked to this shepherd and his collie dog?

This is the magnificent dolmen of La Roche aux Fées in Essé (Ille-et-Vilaine) with the trilith portal entrance on the right of this card from c.1905. If you count the number of blocks you never get the same number twice as they play tricks and move around.
As a mother - as a human - I find it very difficult to look at these photos and not weep. “Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks…” theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
A debt-free, quiet life is richer than a flashy life built on borrowed money.
Track attraction.
Bagot goats having a lazy morning in Levens Deer Park.
Lovely day, walking in the Lake District is not all t'rain.
I still harbour happy memories of this season's show of May blossom. So, as a reminder, this evening I drew a bank of hawthorn in the old Clowsgill Quarry at Hallbankgate.

Wonder how many homes are could be said to replicate BBC Radio 4 programmes? Here’s one in Renwick.

Last afternoon tootle with my wife over Hartside Pass to Alston. En route by Renwick where the Reading Room 1838 caught my eye with its 4 metal letters ‘S’. On the wall. Seems it was a local surname as the farmhouse gate at Outhwaite is also centred on that letter.


Maiden Way Roman road descending from the Pennine watershed ridge of Melmerby Fell (much of it a shooter’s track) to a ford of Rowgill Burn. Before rising to cross the A686 Hartside Pass road continuing from this gate as to Epiacum Roman Fort.

