So Fresh You Can Hear the Moo

 A Staffordshire milk bottle turned up on our doorstep

Canal Bricks

Bricks from the Rochdale canal, with thanks to James Archer!

Slacks Farm

Off the beaten track, Deer Hill & environs

Slate Pits, Hey Gate, Holt Head

Some great Yorkshire place names a cock stride from my door

Eek! Visions of the Daughters of Albion

Nebuchadnezzar

Bits of Blake's caged beast

The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (extreme apologies to Blake)

The Spirit of Emin meets Blake's Man-eating Lizard

The Spirit of Emin meets Blake's man-eating Lizard

Fiery Serpents& Unmade Beds

Tate Liverpool scribblings

Tracey Emin's Bed & incidental pillar

Not sure my 1998 bed would have made the Tate....

William Blake & Tracey Emin

A trip to the Tate at Liverpool for a most unlikely pairing....

Hand Luggage Only

Time flies by when you're the driver of a train...

Train Window 10.02

Train to Liverpool

Orange Wood & Helme

Sights and sounds around Helme this afternoon. A large flock of geese flew across Blackmoorfoot Reservoir, so high up they looked like a long line of ants being pulled by a string. A kindly twitcher with his binoculars out told us they were heading for Southport......

Wassail, Wassail, All Over Town

Wassailing: traditional drinking expedition, where people went door-to-door with their wassail bowl, sharing it around, singing  in exchange for gifts....

More Sycamore

Derided for being non-native, the sycamore is actually quite useful