Paradise with FRJ
Well, a quick update from deepest, dry Yorkshire. These wild and wooly areas are looking particularly arid and savanna like. We’re sure we saw lions prowling round the garden the […]
Well, a quick update from deepest, dry Yorkshire. These wild and wooly areas are looking particularly arid and savanna like. We’re sure we saw lions prowling round the garden the […]
So, we’re in a heatwave. Likely to be the hottest EVER! Met Office issues first ever Red Heat Warning. Might be 40deg, although such hyperbole is rarely realised and it’s […]
So, can it really be two years since we wrote this post and left it languishing right through the Great Covid Disaster? Yes…it can. It’s clear that Bristol has become […]
At some stage in the past couple of years a dear friend suggested we cycle to Paris. From London, not North Yorkshire. COVID-19 put paid to the adventure in 2020 […]
So, cataclysmic change. You’ll find an entry (eulogy) in this blog for the Yorke Arms at Ramsgill, in Nidderdale. Place of worship, scene of many, many celebratory meals over many […]
The days of the paternalistic approach to looking after your workers has, apparently, long gone. To be fair, for many employers in the industrial and post-industrial period, it had as […]
Often promised but very nearly never realised. Our last attempt to visit this fish heaven saw The Shack closed for a new arrival. Our alternative choice wasn’t worth recording so […]
The seaside towns along the Yorkshire coast divide, almost, neatly into two types. Staithes, Runswick Bay, Sandsend and Robin Hood’s Bay are fashionable, charming reminders of times gone by when […]
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 […]
Britain (and America) is permanently in love with Georgian architecture. It seemingly evokes a period in which we would all like to live. Beautiful buildings, fabulous fashions, all simple and […]