Wild and Woolly

It has been a stormy night and I am very glad we have adopted ‘Plan B’, if we’d managed to pull off ‘Plan A’ the house would not have a roof on at the moment, it would be bound in scaffold and swathed in tarpaulins and I doubt any of us would have got much [...]

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Original Mountain Marathon 2009

Mr Uhdd has phoned to say all is well and he and his partner have completed the Original Mountain Marathon,  they have as the saying goes ‘been accounted for’. Yesterday he tells me was tough.
I wonder what state his feet are in.
(Here are some feet I photographed earlier.)

He didn’t ring home till [...]

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Wind Against Tide

We’ve been away, to south Devon,  it’s a place that all our family loves, but sadly the purpose of our visit was a family funeral, sad and emotional as it was, it was never the less a funeral that had just the right sense of place and celebration of life.

We arrived in good time [...]

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Will the Real Police Inspector Gadget Please Stand Up

On Meeting fellow blogger and author of Perverting the Course of Justice, Police Inspector Gadget

Like all texts and emails from Inspector Gadget, it told me all I needed to know without the waste of a single key stroke. “Will be in the Dog and Duck from 2pm”. Gadget and I have been reading each other’s [...]

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Late Summer

Last night we had a top of the range sunset, I didn’t even try to photograph it; it was just too spectacular and too big, not to have been downgraded by pixilation; not only that it was just very pleasant being outside of an evening, with good company and a glass of wine, goodness knows [...]

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Big Cow, Little Cow

This young man, worked really hard at showing his calf, he was a picture of composed concentration.

I discovered, despite his young age that he is an old hand in the show ring, I think Rowan spotted him at Bakewell Show last year. Not only was the calf immaculately  turned out, look how neatly his [...]

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By Train to Fort William

Mr Uhdd is running in the Ben Nevis Fell race this weekend, its a race he has run before
 
So he and Tom and have gone by train to Fort William, it’s a long journey, how much do you think the train tickets cost? From a village station south of Manchester to Fort William return?
Tom’s [...]

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Spectator Sport

Sheepdog trails at Hope Show, a spectator sport suitable for all the family

Or if you prefer a solitary occupation, with a pack of four company;

although I suspect you can’t teach an old dog new tricks..
 
Hope Show 2009,Hope Sheepdog Trails and Agricultural show 2009

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Hope Show

August Bank holiday Monday, means Hope Sheepdog Trials and Agricultural Show. (I’ve shown you a shot of the Hope Valley before) Hope Show, as it more usually known, is a traditional sort of agricultural event, cattle,sheep, horses, dogs, tractors, beer, burgers and ice cream, all you need for a grand day out.
I nipped in and [...]

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And the Light Shineth in Darkness;

This plaque on the door of Sherford  parish church, Sherford, Devon caught my eye

Maybe they didn’t think electricity was here to stay, or perhaps it was just for reasons of economy.
 
That they inserted the electric light bulb into the original oil lamps. Or just possibly it might have been, that having lived through [...]

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