Posts tagged 'rural'
02 October 2011
The Sound of Northumberland
I have been to listen and watch Kathryn Tickell twice over the last month, once in Ripon and then at the Sage with her new show, Northumbrian Voices with her band and her dad - actually her dad, Mike Tickell, also came to the show in the Holy Trinity...
Read more11 August 2011
St Wilfrid's Procession In Ripon (30 July 2011)
Today was the annual St Wilfrid Procession through Ripon. This celebrates our city's patron saint, St Wilfrid, who was one of the great northern saints and important people of early Northumbria. He is very unlike the ascetic Irish (Celtic) saints t...
Read more09 August 2011
Aldborough Agricultural Show (24 July 2011)
After a couple of weeks away, we return home to glorious weather; blue skies and really hot. Normally, we are still away this weekend, so we generally miss the local show - the Aldborough and Boroughbridge Agricultural Show - which is gentle like th...
Read more02 August 2011
Walk Around Some Of Glenkiln Sculptures (16 July 2011)
Sometimes you come across something truly beautiful. Something simple, yet seemingly perfect. So it was the other day when, on the way from a week near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries & Galloway we turned off the A75 near Dumfries to Shawhead and the...
Read more27 July 2010
Of Meat In Dumfries And Galloway
21/7/2010 - I am sitting here at a table overlooking a glorious lake; not some picture postcard view across Lake Como in brilliant sunshine, but a grey, overcast day with some low lying wispy clouds moving slowly across the conifer plantations opposi...
Read more03 July 2010
North Yorkshire Walk - Thornborough Henge
On Thursday 1 July 2010, I did one of Axel's Random Walks near Nosterfield and Thornborough in North Yorkshire. I recently bought myself an Ordnance Survey Explorer Map of Ripon & Boroughbridge (#299) and in the top left corner you can just find...
Read more01 July 2010
Inspired And Humbled By Jennyruth Workshops
Sometimes you visit some people, who really are so good and wonderful that it shames you a bit. The people at Jennyruth Workshops are some of those unsung heroes that underpin every society in the world; they just get on with it, doing good work, da...
Read more23 June 2010
Short Walk In Boroughbridge - Yorkshire
Saturday evening saw the roads quieten off as everyone hunkered down to watch England in their first match at the South African World Cup. The constant background noise from the A1 disappeared as it only ever does on Christmas Day - England hoping f...
Read more11 June 2010
Ripon Water Walks - Walk Along Ripon Canal
Ripon is blessed with lots of fabulous waterways and green corridors through the city. One of the most noticeable is Ripon Canal, which cuts a straight caesura into the centre of the city, with the canal sitting on your left as you come in along Bor...
Read more31 May 2010
Ripon Water Walks - Along The Ure
I mentioned in my first blog about walks in Ripon in North Yorkshire that I did not believe that Ripon had only been settled as a monastery in 650AD. I believe this basic historical fact about Ripon's history even less now after walking along the Ri...
Read more29 May 2010
Can We Save Ourselves From Global Warming?
I went to a public lecture by Professor John Beddington who is currently Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government. He was lecturing on Climate Change as a University of York Biology lecture. And yesterday he was back in London attacking climate s...
Read more27 May 2010
Visit to Milk Shake Bar in Ripon
Yesterday evening, the Steenberg family finally went to visit the milk bar in Ripon. It was a treat after we took the kids to Evensong in Ripon Cathedral on Monday evening for the Whit Monday service; that was beautiful with the service sung by the...
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