Yesterday’s run saw me don trail shoes again and head off “up the back”.
“Up the back” being any run that starts from the back of our house and starts on the climb that leads to Weatherly then usually onwards and upwards towards Friardykes. Sometimes, from there I will keep going till I get to Whitadder Resevoir, but yesterday, constraints of time and all that, I just wanted to go up – have a bit of a nosey around the wind farms then head back.
No wonder the roads are so busy just now. There must easily be a hundred or more guys working up there. It’s like a small village with all the huts and buildings that have gone up.
However, there was one that intrigued me. Friardykes itself has been a ruin ever since I’ve known of it (11 years coming up for), and I’ve always liked it. Up until very recently it was in the middle of nowhere. Not even a road, as such, led to it – just a very rough track. It has always been the type of place that if it was renovated would be the type of place I would like to live. Complete isolation.
So. I was surprised to see that they have indeed renovated, not the cottage, but some of the older outbuildings. The roof’s on the windows have all been replaced. It looks quite nice. Shame it’s in the middle of a dirty big, ugly wind farm now and not the wonderful woodland it used to sit close to.
Perhaps it’s going to be a site office. I imagine that a huge installation like this will need 24 hour cover.
Wonder if there’s any jobs going? It would only be a twenty five minute commute – by running shoe! And once the construction guy’s bugger off and the wind mills “weather in” a bit – it might be nice up there again. J


