Seven Days In

Just reading the excellent "Notes on a Nervous Planet" and something came up that applies to me. I continually feel that I d...

Not having Facebook active seems to be giving me more time. I could use this to do other things but I;m probably reading more, watchin...

It's strange at times when you are trying to do a lot of things simultaneously, your focus obviously drifts and because you are w...

Today I walked ten miles, which is a long way for me, especially on the last day of the month. It was basically Helmsley to Riveaulx a...

Today was the day I expected to record my lowest step count (the lowest is 2,800 last year at Helmsley), the footpaths are icy with me...

I went out for a short walk this morning and getting towards the end of the road I saw a car which I thought was turning into my road,...

The Sugared Butterfly Today I had the best Hot Chocolate I've ever had at Sugared Butterfly in Helmsley. It used to be The Old Poli...

After finally getting up today after a good night's sleep today has been a sort of normal day. It's nine o'clock and I don...

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

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...

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 ...

Last June I did 35 posts , more than 1 a day. This June that's unlikely, but I will still be posting, and hopefully will have a fe...

Sausage Week A good friend told me it was National Sausage Week in the UK and there's at least one website with all the detail...

The second installment of the holiday entry. We approached Oswaldkirk on a Friday night in the dark and fog , with ice on the roads , not he...