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hope you all find what you’re looking for in 2007…

One evening every year this town congregates at one end of the gorge on which it sits and shuffles through it, carrying homemade willow and tissue-paper candle-powered lanterns…great opportunity to say hi to the neighbours, witness some amazing fire sculptures, eat drink and generally be merry.

Clearly we had angered the gods, though - this year it culminated in an impressive downpour - fortunately the assurances that tissue paper lanterns are more-or-less waterproof were correct.

Went for a great long walk on Sunday, about ten miles taking in Cown Edge and Lantern Pike. At the former, I noticed a plume of smoke appear in central Manchester.

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Went for a spin in this bad boy the other day. We took off from The Grouse, zoomed over Hayfield, towards Chapel-en-le-Frith, then turned to buzz over Kinder Low and the Downfall and towards Glossop before turning back to The Grouse.

Of course, if you’re not from round ‘ere, this will mean nothing to you…