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Category Archives: History
NC 500 The End of the Road
It was time for the final part of our journey and so we aimed for Culloden to see the place where the Scottish, well the Jacobites to be specific, stood against the English for the last time. You can’t really … Continue reading
Wild in the Country Day 2
The majesty of the wilds encourages you to reconsider values. These rocks, these meadows, along the coastline, formed between 200 and 145 million years ago, are totally untouched by our present situation. They don’t care if we have a bad … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Blogging, Freedom, History, Humour, Life, Lifestyle, Opinion
Tagged Alum Works, Browns of Robin Hoods Bay, Coast Walks, East Yorkshire, Hiking, Hot Chocolate, Raven Hall Hotel, Ravenscar, Robin Hoods Bay, Trekking, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Coast
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Are You Naughty?
I’ve been called ‘Naughty’ many times. Obviously to spare the innocent I couldn’t possibly recant them all, Dick Emery springs to mind😂 Our illustrious leader has told us not to be naughty, fat chance there Toryboy. So it looks like … Continue reading
Seaside, Smugglers, a Dragon or the Devil
There is something quite romantic about white horses, not the majestic, virile stallions. I mean the oceanic type, whipped up by the breeze. Although I’m sure there are a few mares who would disagree. Today we went to Filey and … Continue reading
Show Us Wot You Got
“Bring her to Thornton-Le- Dale,’ said the big brusque North Yorkshire farmer as he slapped Crystal on the rump. Any other site and you may be wondering exactly what I mean? This particular Crystal was a 300-kilo heifer who my … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Farming, Freedom, History, Life, Opinion
Tagged 1980's, Agricultural Shows, Animal Feeding, Butchers, Cattle, Cattle Shows, Farming, Food, Kids Farming, Knavesmire Butchers, Life, Reflections, Reflective Life
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A Rat, A Pea Man and a Bit of A.I.
Five am, the sun rises over the cornfield and the last thing you need to see is a drowned rat in a cattle trough. But hey ho, it happens. As I fished the rat corpse out of the trough I … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Farming, History, Humour, Life
Tagged Agricultural Shows, Animal Feeding, Animal Raising, Artificial Insemination, Blogging, Cattle, Cattle Shows, Cattle-feed, Country, Country Folk, Country Life, Farming, Humour, Life, Reflections
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What’s So Special About the Past?
The alarm clacks its two bells at six am and I can hear Chuck Berry’s, ‘My Ding a Ling’ playing somewhere in the house. Normally I go back to sleep – I am only fifteen and a full day in … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Bradford, History, Humour, Life
Tagged 1970'S, 1972, Child Labour, Chuck Berry, Days Gone by, Engineering, Factories, Factory Work, Fifteen, Glory Days, Life, My Ding a Ling, Remember, Reminiscing
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Memories, Smells and The Bus
The aroma of the bus. I have never been able to identify it. Plastic seats soaked in decayed human sweat, a definite metal acidity and stale smoke? But at six o’clock in the unearthly hours of 1973, it was easy. … Continue reading
Oh! The Working Men’s Club
Picture this. A warm alluring bar, rich, mellow music, intimate seating and culinary delights to tease your taste buds into a frenzy. Well, a Working Men’s Club wasn’t quite like that. When I was a lad this was our Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in 1970'S, Blogging, Dancing, History, Humour, Life, Opinion, Over 50's, people
Tagged 1970'S, Bingo, Humour, Life, Northern Dance Bands, Pie and Peas, Social Clubs, Tetley Bitter, Working Class, Working Men, Working Men's Club, Working Women
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To Flee or to Fight
The sun creeps over the mountain ridge, casting its first shadow deep into the canyon – far away in the distance a blur is moving fast with the speed and agility of a Pronghorn. Look closer and you see someone … Continue reading
Posted in Athletics, Blogging, Freedom, History, Life, Mexico, Opinion, Running
Tagged Athletics, Blogging, Born to Run, Charlie Robinson, Christopher McDougall, Copper Canyons, Life, Mexico, Opinion, Running, Tarahumara, Travel
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