Out & About …

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

Day: 26 December 2019

  • Robin Hoods Butts

    Robin Hoods Butts

    The large expanse of heather moorland between Scaling Dam and Danby Beacon is one of the bleakest moors and at its bleakest at the height of the winter. I am reminded of Christina Rossetti’s poem published under the title “A Christmas Carol”: In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron,…