
(12th September 2024, 12.5 miles) The following morning, and after an excellent, large breakfast requiring intense, uninterrupted attention, we prepared to leave Darrowby/Grassington and packed away our overnight stuff ready for collection. I had arranged for Sherpa Van to transport our two wheelie bags between overnight stops. This meant having the bags packed, zipped and […]

(11th September 2024 – 15½ miles) We had last been in Skipton two years previously. Back then, Jim and I were hiking the Dales High Way – a smashing long distance footpath which I have yet to write up and post to The Walking Gardener. Sorry. But hey. Enough self flagellation. On this our second […]

100 miles on foot through Yorkshire and Cumbria In 1643, the 60 year old Lady Anne Clifford inherited the lands which should have been hers at the death of her father 38 years earlier – but instead were grabbed by her uncle. But even 38 years late, her inheritance was one worth waiting for. As […]
She seems to get submissions from “all over” the “English” speaking world, Dave, so maybe it's “universal”.
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Thanks for that Stacy. I hadn't seen that “blog” before. “Very funny”. Is it an American phenomena? I can't say I've noticed it here – though having written that I will now see “” everywhere. “Chortle”.
“Dave” – oh, dear can't “stop”
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It's kind of like the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks, only they're all necessary. Very nice “cow” “parsley”.
Please don't violate your emoticon principles on my behalf!
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