Tag: icicles
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Cocky-bells and ickles
Some ickle icicles or ice-bugs, ice-licks, ice-daggles. And snipes, and cockle-bells, aquabobs, and clinkerbells. Northerners might prefer tankles, shuckles, or just ickles. Then there’s daggers, and cancervells, Cocky-bells, and dagglers too. And not forgetting glaze and rime. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Grýlukerti
An exploration of the rocks of Cook’s Crags on Easby Moor. And lots of icicles in the overhangs. The Icelandic word for icicle is grĂ˝lukerti which literally translates as GrĂ˝la’s candle. GrĂ˝la was an ogress who lived a cave in the mountains with her thirteen boys. At Christmas, she would come down to the villages…