Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Category: Wheeldale Moor

  • Proposal to explode a nuke under the North York Moors

    Proposal to explode a nuke under the North York Moors

    Cracking sunrise this morning as I was running over Simon Howe Rigg, south of Goathland. Just the tetrahedron of R.A.F. Fylingdales breaking the horizon. I recalled the old golf balls of R.A.F. Fylingdales — built in the early 60s — now replaced by the tetrahedron. It’s not quite the same. Yesterday I ventured onto Wheeldale…

  • A Green Goddess

    A Green Goddess

    Headed to Wheeldale Moor to look at the standing stone known as Blue Man-i’-th’-Moss but minded of a comment from my wife that this week has been rock week I diverted to seek out a goddess, a Green Goddess. During the hot dry summer of 1976, the North York Moors became tinder dry resulting in…