Seven Days In

OK, it's Sunday Morning, cold, there's a forecast of snow, and it's back to work next week. However this week has been grea...

Quite amazingly this week I have had two twelve hour plus sleeps, one managing to sleep through the alarm the day after finishing work....

Well it's Friday and I'm waiting for my hire car to be delivered so I can drive down to Ampleforth to the holiday cottage for a...

This week has been mental and could be deemed as stressful. Planning always helps but when things go wrong it can be disconcerting. It ...

I may have posted this before , but Ampleforth along with Whitby is one of the few places I could probably live. Obviously I love Newcas...

It's quite funny how simple things can have unexpected consequences. I'm on holiday in Ampleforth and manages to forget a lot o...

Starless...... I must admit that the first time I came across this ominous beauty of a phrase is when King Crimson used it as the ...

Its's been a SAD day, that's SAD as in Seasonal Affected Disorder, as you know I seldom let life get me down, but today's weathe...

TDF Helmsley It's raining, but the sun is now out. Didn't get to see the Deputies last because I was too  shattered and it...

St Mary's Church , Thirsk I always thought Thirsk was a place in Scotland , I think it sounds Scottish, but Scotland appears to hav...

The first full day of the holiday in Ampleforth , staying at the same place sadly for the last time. This is it here. That's th...

Most Monday mornings are a pain. Today's, for me , is different. First of all its sunny after a grey and drab weekend weather wis...

This is my 200th blog post this year, so I can still obviously use a keyborad. At some point I want to try and dictate a post into my p...

Apparently last night we had storms. There was thunder and rain here and the weather here was a bit miserable during the day, but it's N...

I'm sitting here writing this at 4am because I can't get back to sleep. The main reason for this being I went to sleep at 8 pm l...

After a great week , relaxing wise , back home from Ampleforthwith a garden to mow. The journey back was uneventful and easy . There's a...

Today was the last day in Ampleforth , tomorrow it's time to go home. Certainly needed time away from work to recover from the cough and...

These days I seldom do specific posts about cottages we've stayed in, but this one is exceptional. The owner Rose is very welcoming and ...

Still feeling the after effects of whatever I've had , but well impressed with the cotage which sensibly has it's own wifi , though ...

Just back from another excellent holiday in Oswaldkirk. The cottage (Honeysuckle Cottage) is excellently located close to Ampleforth and He...