Porter Valley in ice and snow
23
Nov
The snow arrived on Tuesday night. But not until Thursday did a steel city lull release me to walk with steel city canine, in the cold and sparkling, up the Porter Valley. * * *
Category Archives: travel
A rubber tramp in Redcar – again
9
Nov
On Monday I left steel city house at 21:03, driving northeast at a steady fifty mph to pull in just before midnight at a deserted layby on Loverose Lane, near the confluence of the A61 and A1 northeast of Ripon. … Read More »
Early autumn on Arran
10
Sep
The human world grows more frightening, and those who rule it more unabashedly ugly, by the hour. All the more vital that we meditate in whatever ways work best for us on the beauty of life itself. On the lovely … Read More »
Back home and catching up
21
Jul
I took a week out to go fishing – or would have if I hadn’t quit fishing decades ago. These days vanning and camping does it for me. On my first morning, Sunday last, I awoke by the lovely Stour … Read More »
Beach scenes in Suffolk
21
Jul
Dunwich Woodbridge Bait digger at Martlesham Creek’s entry to the Deben Estuary Aldeburgh Aldeburgh Looking north from Aldeburgh to Sizewell B nuclear power station, top left Aldeburgh Dunwich Dunwich Aldeburgh Dunwich Anne died on her 70th. Remembered on a bench … Read More »
Morning stroll at Grimsby Fish Docks
27
Jun
Monday night we camped at Laceby, ten miles southwest of Grimsby, at a carp fishery with a field for tents. I shared the van with Tebay, Jackie the small tent with Jasper. In the morning I emerged from the shower … Read More »
Cleethorpes and Tetney Marsh yesterday
17
Jun
Next time you’re in Grimsby – for a Trawlerperson’s Convention, say, or to watch Grimsby Town give Man City a caning – you’d be literally and certifiably insane not to tootle seamlessly into the Humber Estuarine jewel of Clethrepos, playground … Read More »
Steel City garden
12
Jun
It’s good to be back in Sheffield. These pix were snapped today on my phone while we took in Burbage Rocks, Carl Wark and Higger Tor on a short clockwise constitutional, ten minutes from Steel City House. * * *
Pulpit Rock on Constitution Day
19
May
Constitution Day is a big deal here. Every year, on May 17, Norwegians dress in traditional attire to mark the second oldest written constitution still in use. Signed in 1814, thirteen months and a day before her French ally’s nemesis … Read More »
Sunday on the fjord
14
May
Penetrating 205 kilometres (127 miles) inland, with an average breadth of five kilometres – in places far less – and reaching a depth of 1300 metres (0.8125 miles) Sognefjord is the longest and deepest in Norway. The PR folk have … Read More »