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Sky picture haiku
celestial ships from another universe fantasy Yorkshire sky Filed under: haiku, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing, Yorkshire dales Tagged: Haiku, photographs, Photography, Writing, Yorkshire,...
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Sanity and sense of elderly ladies; incompetence (shady dealings?) in...
It’s a while since I managed to write a post here, and even longer (about a month) since I was able to pay close attention to the many excellent blogs I follow. The same has been true of my other...
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Picture haiku: rowan
Green satiated Winter songsters’ sanguine store Shiver prophesy I haven’t been motivated to try a haiku for some time. As often happens, a ‘like’ – on my previous post – took me to a new world. Not...
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Back with Romania, classic mini and VW bay, Yorkshire, food, immigration and …
Grumpytyke is back, I hope fairly frequently, after a long absence, and I’m trying to decide whether to resume with the wide ranging subjects which I wrote about before – Romania, VW campers, classic...
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Boxing day: a walk, Menston pub lunch & A Christmas Carol ballet
Boxing Day was restful: a superb walk up to the Chevin Inn for lunch. Time in the afternoon to watch again some of the great dancing in ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the New Bradford Playhouse by watching my...
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Superb VW camper safari to Malham Cove; elderly iPad project off to a great...
Malham Cove, N Yorkshire (click the pic to see larger) A wonderful sunny Yorkshire day rounded off a great week with a trip to Malham for Lofty, the VW Bay camper, to show off his new MOT and annual...
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Two short Yorkshire walks close to home – Menston
View of Otley from the top of the Chevin Two reasons to stay right where we are in Menston in Yorkshire, Otley Chevin and the Washburn valley. Catching a bit of news on the radio this morning I was...
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A special day doing nothing special. A haiku
View from our ‘front’ window. Most of the trees are still largely green. Few leaves have fallen The obvious signs of autumn are coming late this year. Most of the leaves are still on the trees, even...
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A walk in the sun, seeking Petronela
Petronela. An extraordinary attire but I don’t like that look in her eye! Sunday 15 October An extraordinarily warm mid October day prompted a complete mind shift from yesterday. Then a spot of baking...
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Library: women’s rights, Yorkshire cooking and the Brontës. Oh, & chicken...
I’ve said in recent posts that I don’t believe in coincidence and that I’m easily distracted. Venturing upstairs to the reference and study section of Keighley library after my morning double espresso...
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God’s own country – Yorkshire, on a perfect day
High above Malham Cove on the way home – definitely ‘God’s own country’! A beautiful day for the final day of the half-term holiday, with “Arctic” weather threatened for the weekend by forecasters....
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Doing nothing special for a special day
The sun was so bright it chopped a slice of my head off; I think this is the first ever ‘selfie’ of the two of us, in the deserted pub. Today is Petronela’s and my 17th wedding anniversary. Why the...
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Wonderful winter walk – to Bleachmill, Menston
Bleachmill house A perfect day to meander down to Bleachmill House, our favourite short walk from our village, Menston in the Wharfe Valley, one of Yorkshire’s beautiful dales. ‘Icing on the cake’ is a...
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A wee wander in wonderful Wharfedale
Paul Hudson, for those not in the BBC ‘Look North’ tv area, is the much maligned weather forecaster. The stone probably is more reliable! Yesterday (Tuesday) was one of those wonderful Yorkshire days...
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Another wee wander in Wharfedale – Otley Chevin
My post of a few days ago was about wandering a little further up the Wharfe Valley than where we live. The final picture in the gallery in that post showed Otley Chevin, at the foot of which nestles...
View ArticleI’m back – a plug for Scala Radio, brilliant
Sorry (again) for the recent silence. I’ve been a bit poorly (again). A bit of explanation at the end of this post. I have a somewhat eclectic taste in music but I wouldn’t have thought at my advanced...
View ArticleAre you one of those trying kill me, with corona virus?
I commented last weekend about the increase of traffic on the road on the other side of our village park. After that I read about increasing traffic in the Yorkshire Dales and about the abuse one...
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