Category: mountains and valleys

getting out

  • Last weekend I was East of the Pennines ( read this marvellous link from Wikipedia -Long Live Wikipedia!) – this weekend I am West. I have been told by a reliable source that it rains a lot more in Manchester than Sheffield, as the rain is often used up by the time it gets to Sheffield over…

  • The wordpress people try very hard to help us in our quest to post a day through 2011. This  photo challenge  is easy, as I seem to be ‘looking up’ a lot, even when I am down. Sometimes you cannot avoid the upward looking. Especially if you are going up! It helps to look up,…

  • We stayed the night in our rural abode, well not actually ours, as in we own it,more is the pity, but the place where we were staying. We had the bright idea of inviting the other people staying down the road for a barbecue. As most of the crowd were vegetarian, with a couple of…

  • OH MY LORDIE! Where did the time go?…I looked at the date and there it was! Today is the longest day…I must have blinked and May and June just went …..Tomorrow it will start to slowly get darker again. I am in deep shock. It always seems absurd for the kids not to be on holiday…