...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Occasional posts on other matters, or those of interest to people less interested in specific creative endeavours
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a beautiful winter warmer, spicy, creamy and smooth. It’s also perfect not to waste the scrapings from making your pumpkin man. Obviously the amount of flesh you get depends on how thinly you scrape the inside of the lantern, but as in all my recipes the amounts are open to alteration. If your pumpkin is about a foot in diameter you should be OK.
Reading Time: 2 minutes We stopped off for a quick wander round Kelham Island on the way back from Derbyshire. This is somewhere I have wanted to have a look round for some time, and certainly want to go back and spend a bit more time in. I am …
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s rarer at the moment that I have been able to get out to intereting places and have some time to actually focus on photography recently, but I recently got the chance on a flying visit (for family affairs) to Kippford in Kirkcudbrightshire. This is …
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kind of in lieu of any real holiday, what with the impact of the cost of living making us totally boody skint again, we’ve had our annual funded-by-my-trade-union day jaunt to Whitby again. The weather has been decidedly nicer this time around compared to last …
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s no secret that my train geekery, particularly classic UK diesels comes out fairly often (hey, I am a bona fide ferroequinologist, don’t ya know), and I am very lucky to have the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway so close. It’s also a good ting …
Reading Time: 2 minutes l have been meaning to go and have a look at the Midland Road Depot for a while, but it has always seemed a bit out of the way for a special trip (Laziness, I know). But when my son had a Rugby day in …
Reading Time: 2 minutes Ever since attending an interview for York many years ago (which due to the presence of a friend studying there became a somewhat extended drinking break) I have very much liked the campus at York, due to the well known Brutalist influenced architecture.
Reading Time: 3 minutes A welcome return after cancellations due to Covid19 has been the annual free trip to the seaside provided by Unison. I love Scarborough. It’s both beautiful and tacky, pompous and run down. I love the winding old streets and the ostentatious Victorian hotels and the …
Reading Time: 3 minutes For all the time I have spent on canals, one stretch I have rarely walked any of is the stretch up out of Leeds staring at Kirkstall. Starting off the canal is pleasent, but unexceptional, passing first Kirkstall Lock and the non-descript fields which are …
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is another little post to just report on and remind about the little things that you can do so close to your home. In Leeds we are very lucky to have lots of exciting pockets of beauty in the city, if you can find …
