The Tetley, Leeds
The papers are full of the joys of leaving London and moving north. Young people are finally seeing the benefits of cheaper housing, cheaper beer (though not restaurants unless you […]
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The Lister Arms, Malham, North Yorkshire
When the weather is fine in November get your boots on quickly and get walking, before the weather notices and takes a turn for the worst. It can be glorious […]
Millgate House, Richmond, North Yorkshire
Hiding in plain sight. Sometimes somewhere is so obvious, so familiar that it gets overlooked. Especially when it’s on your doorstep. Welcome to Millgate House in Richmond, North Yorkshire. It’s […]
Notting Hill Carnival, London
Well, it started in 1959 apparently. In St Pancras Town Hall, of all places although, after sixty years this is the 53rd Carnival? Claudia Jones started it in 1959 to […]
Murano, London
It’s been a bit of an Italian summer – not the temperatures up in Yorkshire – but the language training in the Veneto and Torcello. Compared with last summer – […]
Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern, London
When we’re “up to London” we like to take in a gallery or two. Nothing compares with the offering in Yorkshire (YSP, Hepworth, etc….yawn…Ed) but we’re alway open to new […]
Thackeray’s Restaurant, Tunbridge Wells
A funny sort of a day. It’s Day 2 of the new PM, that dastardly figure Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, generally rumoured to be an habitual liar and someone […]
The Café at Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire
There’s a little almost derelict Priory near Osmotherley in North Yorkshire. It’s the ruin of a 14th Century Carthusian order dissolved, like many others, by Henry VIII when he set […]
CB Inn, North Yorkshire
Before we head off to the sunshine in Vietnam and Cambodia [why?…have you seen the sky in that picture?…ed] we’ve had a couple of walks, terminating in Yorkshire’s remote pubs […]
Tan Hill Inn, North Yorkshire
If you’re old enough to remember the Everest Double Glazing ad, featuring Ted Moult [who??…ed] then the Tan Hill In will be familiar to you. But, in all likelihood, probably […]
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