Road to Recovery

Time to get better.

 

Things That Go Bump in the Night!

Love and best wishes Fi! You kept your amazing sense of humour despite being very poorly!

 

Acute

 

The Acute Care ward, Calderdale. Think Formula One Pit Change but with beds. More amazing staff.

A special thankyou to Shannon for a helping hand and Sam for the elastic band.

The Heart of the Matter

Thanks to the skill and care of the amazing teams at Huddersfield A & E and Calderdale Royal Hospital Coronary Care Unit, Acute Enhanced Care Ward, 5 paramedics, a first responder and 2 first aiders I am home safely after 2 trips to hospital in scary circumstances.  

 

Scooby Doo C.C.U

Just some of the amazing people who kept me going. Only some of you I had the energy to draw and a special thankyou to Ann of Brighouse, Quizmaster Jean and Rose & Family from Copley!

 

Calling International Rescue

The F.A.B. cleaning team on Coronary Care!

 

The Last Straw Broke the Camel's Back

 

Octopus Trap

I've got a Broken Heart!

 

The Ironing Board of Horror

 

Angiogram Anxiety......squirting dye round my arteries. Turns out they're all healthy!

Peace Descends

The doctors said I had a broken heart.......

 

Tako Sumo!

 

Shouty Lady on the Coronary Care Unit, treated with utmost professionalism by the staff .......

whilst I hid in the corridor. 

The Tunnel of Terror

MRI scan to check heart for damage.....80s music and it just had to be Heart FM. I was doing OK until  Michael Jackson came on. Eek! Please make it stop!!

 

Testing Times

Having cycled to work as usual, no-one was more shocked than me to be in hospital having my heart checked out after collapsing in A & E........

 

Kath Stewart's Broken Heart Club Band

News of the Stews Summer Special

A surprise event led to a scary trip to A and E.....and some testing times. 

 

Not all Who Wander Are Lost

I liked this carved wooden plaque on a footpath sign....

 

Wharram Percy

Visiting the site of the abandoned Mediaeval village at Wharram Percy, I had the whole wold to myself...it was very atmospheric, but strangely not so eerie as visiting Duggleby Howe or Sharp Howe round barrows..... no sudden gusts of wind, soaring crows or flapping pheasants to unsettle me!

 

The Pilgrimage of Grace

The Wolds Way followed the route of a walk commemorating the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace....

 

Goodmanham- pagan temple site

In 627 King Edwin converted to Christianity and his high priest smashed the pagan temple at Goodmanham! It was replaced with a church.

 

Tempus Fugit!

Time Flies! Thanks to the kind guide at Londesborough Estate church, who showed me all the old sundials, including a 10th century one and an old Anglo Danish cross, obscured by netting up in the doorway. 

 

Heslerton Shrunken Medieval Village

Top stay of the whole trip: Manor Farm, East Heslerton, where the Lunns made me very welcome, took me to the chip shop and told me about the excavations of the medieval village in their field. Just brilliant- and there was even a bath!

 

The Kevins

 I kept being overtaken by Kevin, last seen at the Humber bridge and using Sat Nav to intercept his wife between the Wolds Way legs......if you'll pardon the pun.  I prefer my 4 paper maps........

This was me eating my tea and feeling rather cold in my hut air B and B...when there was a man bearing sourdough......

Brantingham Sheep Wash

 

 

Old Jeremy

I quite liked Old Jeremy's headstone in the churchyard at Welton

 

Dick Turpin Woz 'Ere

Welton was a lovely  spot, Wolds village with a link to Dick Turpin

 

Lady Well, Beggar's Bush, a Mammoth's Leg and the Market Weighton Giant!

 

What an interesting part of the world- lots of wells with pagan origins and reputed powers, remains from the last Ice Age when the Vale of Pickering was a great big lake... and the home of the tallest ever Englishman.....plus a very nice curry in Market Weighton

Wolds Way Dogs

Here are a small selection of the well behaved hot dogs I met, along with their friendly owners at South Cave and Swindale....

 

Let's Off Road!

 

Some time later, after a climb up onto the start of the Wolds I unexpectedly encountered some off roaders who were somewhat lost .....

The Kevins

Day 1: I met the Kevins, of which more later......and shortly after starting on the shoreside path, I met a friendly family from Pontefract, who walked with me to North Ferriby 

(AKA The Wolds Way Campers!) 

Wolds Way - Hessle

The walk starts on the shores of the Humber estuary at Hessle, going under the mighty span of the Humber Bridge, site of mills for whiting, made from chalk quarried here (shown on old map..)

 

Yorkshire Wolds Way

Wonderful Wolds Way Walking this May!

All packed and ready to go!!

 

Tram trip to Benidorm on the Lemon Express, cut through rocks and gorges; Commemorative plaque and some old machinery, preserved at Gata station

 

Nut Crushing

Jesus Pobre Artisan Market, Spain, where pilgrims may visit, but not dogs and you might see a man crushing almonds to make turron, local delicacy....

 

El Forn

Favourite watering holes on our recent trip to Spain

 

Guess the Proverb

This month's Drawing challenge from Pen & a Pint......draw your favourite proverb. I'm not sure you'll know it , as I've not really heard it outside our family members, so my Nanna Nield may have made it up!

 

Answer: They don't make diamonds as big as bricks

Sad Clown

Hmmm

 

Flea Circus

The marvelous Pen & a Pint drawing challenge (courtesy of Calder Graphics, Huddersfield) this month featured the theme of circus. I can't recreate the big top here, but if you look closely, you can see the holes where the poles were attached. 

 

Polesworth

Spot the missing bricks

 

Spurs

Ouch!

 

In Praise Of British Workmen

Much maligned, minus the builder's tea, wolf whistles and a place to park your bike at half moon, they really did do a good job. And a sense of humour too. Top work gents!

 

A Man's A Man For A' That

Happy Burns Night....Robbie Burns wrote this poem in January 1795. Happy birthday Dad.

See also: Midge Ure's performance at the Opening of the Scottish Parliament. "Vienna" it is not!

 

Ogley Junction- No Access

We look forward to the day when we can chug up towards the three spires of Lichfield after canal restoration...............

(I note I have inadvertently called HS2 "HST"!) 

 

 

Canal Milestones

Having spent ages locating old turnpikes and milestones I'm now on the lookout on the towpath

 

Canal Hazards

 

Fradley Junction ....and warning signs at the Toilet Factory