wigton physics

  Part of the old landscape was just above water level at Haweswater today. If you want to see which bit it was, you'll need to check th...

 I'm always a sucker for a new sundial design. I really liked this one with seats in Porthcawl.

 We climbed up to the lowest level at the Seathwaite Graphite Mine - graphite being called wad in the old days. These two rocks were lying a...

  I found a lovely guide to ageing trees from their girth here . Sadly I didn't measure the girth of the Borrowdale Yews but Internet ch...

  We weighed ten 2p pieces. We got two polystyrene cups. We labelled them A and B. We put the coins into B. We measured 60 cubic centimetres...

  On page 8 of the Red Pike (Buttermere) chapter, Wainwright says that the subsoil next to Scale Force is coloured red due to syenite. I can...

 I've posted about ploughing boulders before. This is a very good example on the slopes above Tray Dub in Langstrath. The pole is 90cm l...