{"id":6189,"date":"2025-04-04T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?page_id=6189"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:16:34","slug":"boring-postcards-3-mallerstang-skies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/?page_id=6189","title":{"rendered":"Boring Postcards 3: Mallerstang Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"930\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mallerstang-Skies-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6187\" style=\"width:365px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mallerstang-Skies-cover.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mallerstang-Skies-cover-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mallerstang-Skies-cover-768x657.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Mallerstang-Skies-cover-600x514.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new book in the Boring Postcards series has been published on Blurb.co.uk. The third volume in the series constitutes a collection of photos of the skies above the Mallerstang valley in Cumbria, England (and therefore also joins the collection of Mallerstang photo books). The book can be previewed for free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blurb.co.uk\/b\/12478659-mallerstang-skies\">[here]<\/a>. The introduction to the book reads:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis third volume of Boring Postcard images displays the skies of the Mallerstang Valley, they also contain some of the features of the valley: the Nab on Wild Board Fell; the cairns on Mallstang Edge; the Mary Bourne sculpture called the Water Cut; Lammerside and Pendragon Castles; the sheep of the valley. In doing so, however, it allows the enormous variety of (not so boring) Mallerstang Skies that I have recorded over the years to be shown, for winter high pressure blues, to summer cumulus, to the storm clouds that sweep in from the West; the Helm Cloud cascading down Mallerstang Edge from the East; some spectacular sunsets; and some of the fifty shades of grey that are all too frequent in Mallerstang Skies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book in the Boring Postcards series has been published on Blurb.co.uk. The third volume in the series constitutes a collection of photos of the skies above the Mallerstang valley in Cumbria, England (and therefore also joins the collection of Mallerstang photo books). The book can be previewed for free\u00a0[here]. The introduction to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6503,"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6189\/revisions\/6503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mallerstangmagic.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}