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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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. * * *
Approaching Oban on the ferry from Mull * * *
Our history lives on in our language. We have Saxon words for livestock, French ones for meat – cow-bœuf .. sheep-mouton .. pig-porc – because the conquered Saxons merely tended what their Norman overlords got to eat. Here in Peterborough Cathedral, … Read More »
Endcliffe Park Cafe, where stunned witnesses gathered for hot tea and mutual solace South Yorkshire Police say they are closing in on the Endcliffe Park snow-pornography ring that today left park visitors, many with small children, in shocked dismay. Some … Read More »