Month: August 2017 (page 2 of 3)

My kind of country

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August 13

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August 12th A day with lots of plans

The day started with a trip to the Halifax Agricultural fairIMG_4578IMG_4582IMG_4583IMG_4585IMG_4587IMG_4592IMG_4594IMG_4605IMG_4606IMG_4610IMG_4615IMG_4617

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A David Hockney garden

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Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon

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Sheep racing (chased by a sheep dog)

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My host, Nicola, preparing for the civil rights lecture

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Street art on the square

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Nicola all decked out for the conclusion of Happy Valley Pride week; a disco at the Trades

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August 11th. Another day without plans . . so I went to Manchester by train (38 minutes) to buy a part for my ailing laptop

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Manchester cathedral was the venue for many of my ancestors’ weddings. It’s undergoing major refurbishment inside and out

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Bee keeping on top of the tower!

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A street art installation encouraging kids to read over the summer holidays

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A chili lunch outdoors on a chilly day

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At the National Football museum

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From my window back at th’ mill

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A drag makeup workshop

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Bourgeois and Maurice cabaret

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Watch one of the songs they performed:

A Day with no plans: August 10th

I decided to go back to Todmorden Market

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Yummy! 

Then my laptop went on the blink which necessitated a trip to the Mac store in Leeds: 50 minutes by train

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I discovered this underground river underneath the railway station in Leeds!

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This larger than life statue was above my head in the shopping centre

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Back home on my deck overlooking the canal I tucked into the goodies I’d purchased at Todmorden market

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In the evening I attended a cabaret called Listen with Mother. Here’s my Airb&b host (and Happy Valley Pride director)  checking the guest list.

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A hike from Haworth to Hebden Bridge

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There was heavy rain overnight and I wasn’t sure that we should risk a long walk over the moors but I’d been wanting to take the old Haworth road with its scattered farms and pack horse trails.

 

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Stoodley Pike in the distance 

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Guess which one I ordered from this menu at the Robin Hood in Pecket Well

 

 

 

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Basking on the beach in the Caribbean? No, the Crown in Hebden Bridge

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Day 2 in Shetland

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Street scene in Lerwick

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The school where my guide James boarded

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Outside cabin for the 12 hour sailing from Lerwick to Aberdeen

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Au revoir, Lerwick

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Reading a book by Ann Cleve’s about Shetland. In was her detective series on tv that first attracted me to these remote islands

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Morning in Aberdeen through my cabin window

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Changing trains in Preston

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First day of Happy Valley Pride

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Opening gala was a quiz night at Old Gate

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These were tough questions!

A day in Shetland

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Croft house museum

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Exploring West Orkney

 

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Neolithic burial mound – Unstan tomb. 5000 years old

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Emerging

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Inside

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Is this a Shetland pony?

East Orkney

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Our tour group and guide, Clive. Mull Head nature reserve

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Italian chapel constructed by prisoners of war out of 2 Nissan huts. Tromps d’oeuil everwhere

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Outside the chapel

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Yummy

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View from my bed at 10 pm. There’s a jet skier in the bay, Orkney.

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