Vera Chandler

ARTIST Frank Gordon took this picture of a poor, lost teddy bear sitting in a tree beside an old track between Settle and Long Preston. Frank tells me he and his wife, Sheila, were walking along the track, variously known as Hunter Bark or Edge Lane, when they spotted the forlorn ted. Frank suggests we ought to run a ‘spot the teddy’ competition. “How did he get up there? Did he run away from home and decide to spend the night in the tree for safety,” says Frank.”He must have overslept.”

IT just goes to show how careful you have to be when setting out for a walk - as this picture of the trig point at Pendle Hill shows. A colleague, who does a lot of the guided walks for the paper, set off to the summit of the hill when the weather was quit respectful, but the fog came in on her way up, and once at the top, vision was very restricted - and freezing cold to boot. She tells me despite being fairly familiar with the paths on the hill, it was far from easy navigating her way back down, and she has pledged to take a compass at all times, from now on. After all, one cannot rely on mobile phones - even with a compass app.