We always buy "crisis pasta" (ie the fresh stuff) for such an emergency post the big shop. Don't bother with any sort of sauce. Couple of mins boiling, a drizzle of olive oil and some parmesan and you're good to go. A few pines nuts if we have any, quickly toasted, as a bonus
Enough canons for a 21 gun salute I'd assume
Exciting fact. Me and my mate Paul wrote the first computerised training database for what was then the Crosse and Blackwell Beans factory outside Trowbridge as part of my btec computer studies course in 1990. The factory now makes Shredded Wheat. I don't know how good their training database is
I thought they'd be going as the Jimmys
Thumper.from Bambi saying "if you can't say something nice, don't say nothin' at all"
Oh my id forgotten that (read, blanked it out). Just had 10 spare minutes sitting on a bench outside High Wycombe station so watched it. That certainly is "of it's time" (thats the nicest thing I can think to say)
Yeah, cheers for that Captain @kirkie.bsky.social . As if anyone needs an official list.
*goes off to pick the ones that will upset dan and mike. Can we all agree to put FotD at no 1 just to wind them up?*
I made the mistake of looking
A black and white image from Birmingham New Street station. Ignore the branch of Holland and Barratt even though that's central to the image. Instead the focus is on the right hand side. It's the front half of the mechanical marvel that is Ozzy the Bull, built for the Commonwealth Games
Ozzy!
I can't say I ever have thought about it
Book cover for about a boy with two pairs of legs..a man and a boys
I'm guessing About a Boy
Three deer are wandering on the field in the distance. The image is framed by a charming tree
Low sun rising above the hills and casting some fine shadows from the trees and hedges
Another shot from a few feet above the line of the river Tees with low sun on dewey grass casting some lovely colours
Morning! Early morning (almost #sunrise) in the Dale #Teesdale
Thorin exposes his chest and sings about bling
Sunrise on Romaldkirk Lower Green
Sun rise through the woods by the river Tees
Henry in the bluebells as the sun rises
Crisp clear morning by the Tees
Nice bright, frosty start this morning in the Dale
#Teesdale #sunrise
US Air Force barely in the air above my house
Teesdale. Tabriz. It's easy to get them confused. Hello USAF. Please don't attack my garage.
A great read as always Ned, but I can't help but be left with this image in my head of Rob Hatch and Chat Stephens
What was the first thing you recorded on it? Ours was a recording of torvil and dean
Starmer is using kittens to wage a vicious class war on middle England
Labour's grotesque obsession with kittens is bankrupting middle England
The economic illiteracy of kittens will impoverish generations to come
The sinister plot to force kittens on the British public is a national scandal
Allister Heath really hates kittens.
I did the archaeological excavations on the site they put those rather unflattering flats.
Presumably if a lady has a stone cold terrible reputation they are welcome?
:-) you got the query bang on - namely to sing the 275 and 285 radio 1 jingle! I find it hard to believe that Dan and Mike don't know. All that headbanging has cooked their noggins
A view back down to Gunnerside village and looking up Swaledale. The floor of the Dale is looking very green and the hills roll up pleasingly behind. For what it's worth, Swaledale is my favourite of the Yorkshire Dales
The droveway rising up and away from Gunnerside. Tall walls and a few gnarled trees mark both sides of the track which is grassed over but much pock marked by mole hills
The view down the Dale towards Reeth
This was my first proper walk using poles and with Henry attached to a waist belt. So I propped my phone on a stone wall, videoed Henry and I walking past, and extracted this still from it as a record
Final set of pictures from Saturday's walk in the #YorkshireDales. From Gunnerside we walked back on some probable old droveways over the edge of the hills back to the car.at Surrender Bridge
Some details on the pics in the Alt Text.
Mine shop ruined building in the foreground with the level Adit cut into the hillside behind
A close up of the Adit of the Bunton/Sir George level at Bunton mine. The entrance is quite tall compared to some adults and in good condition . Some greenery is growing from the walls and water is flowing out.
A look back at the mine workings with lots of spoil tipped down both sides of the Gill. Mine shops can be seen on both sides of the valley and some remains of the washing floor can be seen on the valley floor
The Barbara level Adit is visible in the centre of the photo. A stone wall structure cutting into the hillside. A track way along to the various mines on that side of the Gill passes above it and below a vast pile of spoil is tipped into the valley below
Bunton mines either side of Gunnerside Gill (they probably have different names but I'm not sure). #YorkshireDales. Some details on the pics in the Alt Text.
The mine complex viewed from the east side of the valley. In the foreground there was a long narrow building on this side of the river. A single slab of stone about a metre wide and 3 metres long leads over the gill to a whole series of other buildings
A view from up on the western side of the river looking south over the mine buildings. The stone slab bridge over the gill can be better seen in this photo
I'm not quite sure of the nature of this structure. It's location suggested an elaborate Adit entrance but it's form is more like a lime Kiln. I'm suspecting the latter though it was hard to see how the lime was dropped in as it is built into a near vertical cliff face
A bit further down Gunnerside Gill you come to the particularly scenic remains of Lownathwaite Mine. #YorkshireDales. Some details on the pics in the Alt Text.
I've stuck a few (non stile) posts with pics from the walk up with lots of rural mining. Got a couple more pics/posts to go
View up the top of the Gill from the former mine shop, now hunting shed, at Blakethwaite. There's some hints of snow on the north facing slopes of the Gill. In the valley, where Cross Gill is joining the main river there are the low walled remains of some former use. Probably some mine buildings. From this point we started to head off road and down the hill on a vague path to the valley floor
A view back up the gill showing the vertical face in the rock on the western side of the valley. The gill is fairly narrow still here but running quickly through it's channel
Further down the valley we come to the washing floor of another part of Blakethwaite mines. The fine ground is evidence of the extensive breaking up and cleaning of the mine spoil to extract the ore and Galena. A ruined mine shop building can be seen part way up the hill on the left
Another view down another sharp sided section of the Gill where over millennia the water has forced it's way through the rock
The upper end of Gunnerside Gill in the #YorkshireDales. Some details on the pics in the Alt Text.
Saw them in Newcastle last weekend and totally agree. We were having "a rowdy Newcastle Saturday night in Suedeland" . And he wasn't wrong
Henry at Level House Bridge. Hard Level Gill is rushing over a limestone river bed here. One side of the river has been revetted to maintain the mining track heading up the hill. The bridge over the gill is a magnificent stone construction
The lunar landscape of Melbeck Moor where it sits above the Old Rake Vein. A number of mine shafts, like the one whose spoil forms a doughnut shape to the right hand side of the image have been dug and from them the extracted spoil broken up and checked for ore
An old stone breaker machine still sits, disused, on the top of the moor. Underneath and all around it can be seen the crushed up results of its efforts. The sky here is partly obscured in cloud and pockets of snow still sit on the piles of spoil
The view down North Rale vein. The vein can be just about traced to the far distance on the picture,.slightly right of centre, marked by the crushed spoil from the mine shafts. One of which can be just made out marked by wooden fencing preventing an unplanned descent. Either side of the vein is more traditional boggy moorland
Further up onto Melbecks Moor, the remains of the lead mining works have left the landscape looking like the surface of the moon. Even more so on a day like today where clouds were hugging the hill.
#YorkshireDales. Some details on the pics in the Alt Text.
Part of the building remains of Old Gang Smelt Mill. A short way up river from Surrender, Old Gang became the main smelt mill in the Arkengarthdale and Swaledale area.
At Old Gang the flue from the mills rises much more steeply out of the valley than at Surrender. However that structure on the top of the hill is not the end of the flue however. That continues across the top for another 1/4 mile or more
Henry at Old Gang Smelt Mill
The landscape of Old Gang. The Smelt Mill can be seen in the distance nestled besides the river. In front a small bridge crosses over to mine levels on the opposite bank. Some other buildings related to the Spence and Foss mines are in the middle distance. Up on the hill top to the left can be seen the remains of the peat store that fueled the furnaces of the mill
Old Gang Smelt Mill in the #YorkshireDales. Some details on the pics in the Alt Text.
