Origin Northallerton
Northallerton. Population 16,832. County town of North Yorkshire. Home to one of Bettys outliers. Barkers wonderful department store. The Aladdin’s cave that is Lewis & Cooper – the north’s (better) […]
Northallerton. Population 16,832. County town of North Yorkshire. Home to one of Bettys outliers. Barkers wonderful department store. The Aladdin’s cave that is Lewis & Cooper – the north’s (better) […]
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 […]
We’ll, we didn’t really intend for our first significant foray after 18 months of confinement to be to Paris. A long awaited cycling trip to accompany a good friend saw […]
Another revisit. This time to our old favourite, the Drunken Duck between Windermere and Coniston. Oh how we’ve missed you. After a typical glorious Yorkshire summer, over here in the […]
So, episode 2 in the great Lockdown Saga. Let’s hope we’re moving towards the end of this trilogy – more drawn out than Thomas Cromwell’s life and times. We’ve been […]
It’s been a long, long, lonely winter, as the Beatles might have said, before heralding the sun…and spring and, hopefully, an end to the [necessary?] measures that have restricted all […]
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 […]
It’s been a funny old few months with this lockdown thingy (absolutely essential lockdown thingy…Ed) and normal restaurant appreciation has been postponed. Great invention by pubs, cafés and restaurants to […]
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 […]