Nigel Stead

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A photo of Beacon Tarn in the foreground with some of the high fells of Coniston in the distance. The water is very blue, and so is the sky.
Photo of a stream fringed on both banks by small trees. The water is shallow snd flowing over the rocky stream bed. It’s late afternoon and the sun is getting lower.
A large wooden stile over a dry stone wall. The sky is blue with some nice white clouds. There are hills in the distance.
A photo of a tarmac single-track lane. There are bushy hedgerows each side.
Short clip of a bike race. The cyclists are racing downhill to cross an old stone humpback bridge over a river.
A black cockapoo sitting on a garden chair and listening to music coming from the pub in the village.
Short clip of cyclists Christopher Laporte and Wout Van Aert signing a jersey during a training climb on a high mountain.
A large field of sunflowers in the Dordogne, France. The yellow stretches out into the distance under a blue sky.
A stone bridge over the River Dronne at Brantome, north of Perigueux. There are four main arches. There is a house with blue window shutters behind, and further back a forest.
Photo a river in the Dordogne region in France. Trees on the banks are reflected in the water. The sky is blue.
A wide bend in a single track road curving off to the left. The road is tree-lined and shaded by all the greenery.
Short film from France TV of leading riders in the Tour de France riding down the street and waving to the fans in anticipation of the race beginning this weekend.
A photo of a black cockapoo. She has been playing on a beach and has sand everywhere. And she feels cold because she’s been in the sea.
The back of a car with 4 dogs, from left: a black cockapoo, a chihuahua, a golden retriever, a brown labrador.
A photo of a growth of wood cranesbill. It is a purple geranium flower. It has appeared from nowhere.
A photograph of a lake taken from high. It is long and narrow and seems very still. There is a forest rising up from the left hand shore. In the foreground is a very green valley with woods and sheep pasture and a whitewashed farm house.
Picture of a fell under cloudy skies. A mix of green grass and brown rocks. A ridge slopes gently down from the summit right to left.
A summit cairn on Holme Fell in the Lake District. It is conical and made from hundreds of rocks and stones. There are peaks on the right in the distance sticking up and theyare the Langdale Pikes.
Photo is of Wayland’s Smithy. It’s a Neolithic burial chamber. There are large stones, menhirs, guarding the entrance. The burial was beneath a raised earth barrow. Taken in winter. There are trees with no leaves and weak sunlight.
A sign left by fairies advertising their flapjacks. It is on a small table covered by a lace tablecloth with a bottle of water and some flowers. It says- ‘The forest fairies have been making flapjack. You will find it in the witch’s pantry’.
A waterfall seen through the trees. A good fall of water from nearly a day’s rain.
A photo of a lake in Cumbria. The water is very blue and is reflecting the trees and clouds.
A photo across a valley of a conical shaped fell skirted by woodland. The sky is very blue and there are some white clouds. There are other mountains in the distance.
A sheep shelter in the Lake District. It has stone walls and also old enclosure markers in the middle. There are crags in the background.
Entrance to an old mine entrance on a Lake District fell.
A pint of Birra Moretti on a pub-garden table.
A road with fells behind. There is low cloud lingering from earlier rain and sunshine from the setting sun.
A ewe with her 2 babies in a sheep pasture.
A photo of a stream. The sun is shining on the clear water. There are rushes on the right bank, and trees growing on the left bank are overhanging the stream.
River Duddon in Cumbria after a rainy night. Rapids framed by lots of trees.
Whincop in Cumbria. An old, stone built and isolated farm set in sheep pasture and moorland with fells rising behind.
Woodland with wild garlic in the foreground and bluebells behind.
A photo of a mountain stream just before it drops down a waterfall. There’s part are boulders on the stream bed and trees overhanging on each bank.
A stream in Cumbria before it reaches the waterfall. There are rhododendron bushes on the bank and big rocks in the stream bed.
The River Esk in Cumbria. A small river in Cumbria. It is lined with rocks and overhanging trees. There’s part of an old rope swing in the top left hand corner.
A simple stone wall stile on a footpath down to the Fickle Steps on the River Duddon.
A photo of the Duddon from stepping stones across the river. The water is clear and shallow and the banks are lined with trees.
A view looking down a Lake District fell. There is a beck in the foreground. Coniston Water can be seen in the distance.
A grassy clearing in the woods.
A photo looking out over a beach. The tide is out, and there’s plenty of sand, rocks and seaweed. A headland covered with grass is in the distance.
A photo of a Yellow Casqued Hornbill sitting on a perch in a zoo. It has a large bill with pale blue face colouring and a kind of rusty orange feathering on its head.
Red Dell Beck going downstream. I’m going upstream 😥
Red Dell near Coniston looking down the valley.