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For around about 8 years, I’ve had a perpetual new years resolution : “This year, I want to drive a tractor”. As a kid, growing up in part in a village where my bezzy mates were farmers lads, tractors were kind of a big deal. I think I’ve travelled in the cab of a tractor before – certainly in the… Read more →
We’ve made it to Bobbybees campsite near Filey. Food done, fire on, beers open. Some lovely people have assembled for a joint birthday. 4 dogs 7 kids and a few strategic adults to feed them. Could be the last night under the stars for a while. I’ll miss this! Right, I’m going off the grid for the rest of the… Read more →
Today we were taken to one of those hidden gems of a place that only the locals know about. After a beautiful walk through ancient woodland and huge pine forests – oozing a beautiful heady aroma of pine, we arrived in the magical little valley where we spent a very enjoyable hour or two. Plunging into the pool and… Read more →
In the CREW credits for the play at St. Dogmaels Abbey, the following two people are acknowledged for SET; Robert Fitzmartin and Henry VIII The second name, made me chuckle. When Henry abolished the monasteries, this abbey, along with the others got sacked and probably trashed. Over the next few hundred years, what was left of the site was plundered… Read more →
I went our for a couple of rounds tonight with my way better than me at disc golf buddy. I was on form (even though I say so myself) as got round the 9 holes in 33 ‘smashing’ my previous nrear 7 year old PB of 34. The second round… not so hot. A cracking way to spend a beautiful… Read more →
I may as well get this out of the way first: The Title Role of King Lear was played by Joseph Marcell, who played Geoffrey in the massive 90s mainstream TV hit : The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. To be honest, I was a tad worried that he’d been pulled in as a bit of a ringer – to give… Read more →
Whilst you were watching the mens final from Wimbledon, we had a day by (and in) the River Nidd near Harrogate. There’s a spot known by a few as ‘Bilton Beach’ about half way along the path that takes you from Bilton in Harrogate to Knaresborough (map link). Armed with a picnic, a couple of beers and some friends we… Read more →
On my way back to the car after a beautiful dog walk around Birk Cragg near Harrogate this morning, unexpectedly, I ended up learning a whole bunch of stuff on the fascinating subject of bees. I spotted a modest little sign tucked into verge saying “Claro Bees ——->” Do they sell honey? Is there a colony of bees there? Could… Read more →
Marketed as a professional film, Kodak Ektar 100 35mm claims to be “The World’s Finest Grain Color Negative Film”. The quality of the result it is utterly unique. I shot a roll mainly last weekend – mainly outdoors under the big sky light of the East Coast of Yorkshire. I used a LOMO LC-A which I feel really suits this… Read more →
Drawn by the some’uts ‘appening in Grassington rumors (Grassington Festival), we set Fathers Day Outing coordinates for upper Wharfedale in The Yorkshire Dales yesterday. Grassington is one of my favorite places. Even though it gets hammered with tourists with the rest of them, it never seems to sell out, or worse, have that air of ‘us and them’ that so… Read more →
Why is it that some people think it’s OK to leave litter on The Stray? (A central public green space in my hometown of Harrogate, North Yorkshire). Not just the odd sweet wrapper, but the remnants of a whole ‘picnic’.This morning, at about 06:00 I walked my dog, near the bit of The Stray that currently has the Fair on… Read more →
I visited The Atom this evening. In Wycoller, Lancashire, near a row of gnarled old trees wrapping their limbs around what looked like a row of gravestones – slabs of rock forming ancient ‘vaccary walling’ (a sight worth a visit in its own right) squats The Atom. It’s one of four art installations involving the construction of series of 21st-century landmarks called Panopticons. The whole landscape… Read more →
For over 30 years, a true community event called Bilton Gala has taken place on May Day Bank Holiday Monday, in the heart of one of the oldest and biggest suburbs of Harrogate called (you guessed it) Bilton. If this year’s Bilton Gala was a newspaper, it would be a bank holiday special edition of The Sun, with a headline… Read more →
Without sounding like some old hippy, I had a beautiful experience of nature this morning. I walked up the upper reaches of the ‘new’ Nidderdale Greenway or the ‘Harrogate – Killinghall – Ripley’ cycle path’ that I blogged about last week. Bathed in golden light and dawn chorus, just me and dog. We even saw a deer. She popped out… Read more →
More day is great. Doing outdoor stuff after work at this time of year is still such a novelty and it’s coming up two weeks since the clocks went forward. I’d got into such a habit over winter of finishing work and heading straight home – back indoors. This evening, I went for a mini walk. I’d done the same… Read more →
Pantone colour of the year 2014 has just been announced. Radiant Orchid : t.co/JOWHUmzPpX
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