Seven Days In

We're in the middle of summer and a week of rain is forecast. The good thing is that you don't need sprinklers and water plants...

Sometimes there is nothing to write about, well there are a couple of small annoyances but I would rather report on positives than ne...

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,...

Clay Bank View - One of Many This week I have been near Stokesley in Yorkshire. You can find stuff on TripAdvisor here about the area b...

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...

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...

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...

For some reason I am posting a lot at the moment. I don't know why it's nt as though I have anything interesting to say. But wa...

Today I've driven about bit's of Yorkshire , visiting Rievaulx Terrace and Abbey before scurrying off to visit The Durham Ox at C...

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

Just back from a a short break in Robin Hood's Bay. This place is a triumph of inventiveness, and not a place to drive for the faint hea...

The first attempt to visit Castle Howard was stopped by snow and ice on the approach road , but we got there eventually. The huge country pi...

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...

Just to say we're back from a week in Oswaldkirk , Yorkshire , which included being cut off by snow, not being able to get a mobile phon...