Hi there,

Now that the novelty of my MP3 player has worn off a bit, I thought I would blog about the walk that I went on this Sunday gone. I went with my Spice group for a 'Malham Meander'. It was a good day, but tempered by a sad lamb near the end. For those that have not been to Malham, it has a magnificent limestone edifice at Malham Cove that is essentially a sheer cliff that people used to abseil from, but that has been banned due to the presence of rare birds nesting there. We went up over the hills, to Malham Tarn, and then descended towards the top of the cliff where you can walk across the strange rock formation caused by millions of years of rock erosion. However before that I saw a lamb hiding behind a rock, bleating, and it's mother was no where to be seen. I reckon it must have been in a bit of a state because it allowed me to stroke it, and it was trembling. I really felt sorry for it. The thought crossed my mind that I could take it home and put it in my back garden to keep the grass down, however I thought it might look really dodgy walking through Malham with a lamb in my arms, and besides the farmer might come after me with his shotgun. So I had to leave it there, and when I got back to the village I reported it to the visitors centre. They said that they would inform the farmer who does his rounds looking for injured animals. Any way, that made me feel a bit better about it, having to leave the poor lamb there.

this is a link to a really good website showing pictures of the area, including the Cove.

http://www.leaney.org/outside_the_lakes_walk.php?walk_id=504