My 634 post – All my Yesterdays? well, a few of them

  I thought that I’d do an update as I haven’t done one since my 550th in June.  I am glad that the experiment in cutting down my blog post by posting every few days doesn’t seem to affected my views.  Posting every day (which I managed for a full year) was getting very time-consuming: life  and Bookstains were

A postcard from Yorkshire

We’re always going off to Haworth, (famous for being the home of the Bronte family).  Nothing much changes in Haworth.  We’ve even stayed there a few times, at the bottom of the hill in a 16th century hotel called Haworth Old Hall.  One time, a bat flew in to the bedroom – so I bit

Legless fish and other food oddities

Haworth Old Hall a lovely place to stay I had a few nice meals whilst I was away.  One of them – a Venison Noisette in red wine, bacon, onion, mushroom and juniper (Haworth Old Hall) was absolutely delicious.  Another contender was something called Lamb Jennings – described as being slowly braised until it falls

Jorvic Calls

I will be back by the time your read this post.  I have been away celebrating my birthday.  Where have I been?  Where do you think?  To one of my favorite cities ever York – that’s where! I never get sick of going to this place and we always eem to find new and exciting

What I’m Reading at the moment; ‘Branwell Bronte’s Barber’s Tale’ by Chris Firth

I am  in that inbetweeny period where I have no new books to read (sob) so I’m having to rely on old ones: ones I have read years ago, like ‘Samuel Pepys’ Diary’.  Occasionally I come across a book I’ve bought and for some reason or other, haven’t got round to reading.  Well, such an occurence

Haworth Revisited

It’s been yet another sunny day!  I can’t quite believe it.  Now why couldn’t it have been like this when we went to Haworth last week?  Here’s another couple of pics we took in that wuthering place:- disconcerting Bronte bronzes  More posts about Haworth Staying at Wuthering Heights (as one does) Did the REAL Charlotte

Black Sheep Branwell: It wasn’t ALL Rock and Roll…

It’s Sunday, so it’s just a quick post again. Whilst in Haworth I visited Branwell Bronte’s exhibition.  It’s a small one, but it at least affords us a more rounded picture of Patrick Bronte’s tragic son.  There were small water colours, poems both in tiny form and a more ordinary format. Small plays and even

Staying at Wuthering Heights (as one does…..)

We stayed over night in Haworth for the first time.  It was wet and windy, living up to it’s wuthering reputation.  We stayed at Haworth Old Hall, built in the 1600s and full of atmosphere.  This was the original Wuthering Heights!  I’m talking about the very first  film  of Emily Bronte’s book, made in the 1920s of