Welcome to the FAARTALS website, brought to you by the Fairfield and Avondale Retired Teachers & Lecturers Society. As you can see we are mostly about walking in the countryside, preferably up and down hills and perhaps a little slowly as befits our venerable status. We are protected by, St. Petronilla, patron saint of [...]
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For the third time in eight days we have been up this route and with good reason! The views are stunning at any time of year, but when the snow was around it looked completely different to today when there was mist in the air which broke to give good patches of blue. [...] I think it would be good to have a separate post to record worthwhile wildlife sitings over the coming months. To start this off, we walked today beside the river Bradford and spent some time watching at least one dipper 'doing its stuff', fairly oblivious to our presence. Several other dippers were seen further [...] [ 31 May, 2007; ] A tale of jealousy, escape, passion and purity. Locked away by her father before escaping across the Alps and then unrequited love in the Bavarian forest. This was the turbulent life for young Petronilla. She was the stunningly beautiful daughter of a devout Christian in 4th Century Rome. This possessive father locked [...] [ 7 August, 2007; ] [...] [ 25 December, 2007; ] [...] [ 3 June, 2007; ] [...] Controversy about the post of Chief Faartal rages [...] [ 1 March, 2007; ] [...] [ 10 July, 2007; ] [...] |
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