Out & About …

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

Category: Roseberry Topping

  • Roseberry summit

    Roseberry summit

    So here it is merry Christmas, as the song goes. I managed to summit Roseberry before most of the Christmas climbers, and while the sun was shining over Middlesbrough. Thirty minutes or so later I was surrounded by a flurry of snow.

  • The Glover Landscape Review

    The Glover Landscape Review

    In May 2018 the Government commissioned an independent review led by journalist Julian Glover into whether the legislation for our National Parks and AONBs issued over 70 years ago, is still fit for purpose. The subsequent report was published in September 2019, and became known as the Glover Landscape Report. This 168 page report contains…

  • Another cracking morning

    Another cracking morning

    But a wee bit zneesy below the cloud. Above, the tranquility was disturbed by the sound of gunshots as the seasonal cull of pheasants was in full swing. Or maybe the shooters were after partridges, striving for that rarest of presents to give to their true loves — the partridge in a pear tree. Rare…

  • Football Women Barred

    Football Women Barred

    100 years ago today, the Daily Mail carried the following report:— FOOTBALL WOMEN BARRED F.A.’s DECREE. “UNSUITABLE GAME” FOR GIRLS. The Football Association yesterday decided to request the clubs under their control not to allow the use of grounds for football matches between women mainly because the game is unsuitable for women. The following resolution…

  • Cockle Scar

    Cockle Scar

    I’ve had my eye on this photo for some time, but either the view is dull looking from this way or very contrasty the other with Roseberry silhouetted. It’s taken looking down Cockle Scar, Roseberry’s steep skirt of Staithes Sandstone Formation on its western side. This morning, a sprinkling of overnight snow puts some depth…

  • Kissing Gate, top of Thief Lane

    Kissing Gate, top of Thief Lane

    At the top of Thief Lane there is a five-bar metal gate which I heard had succumbed to the ravishes of Storm Arwen but it seems the farmer has wasted no time in fixing it so I had to make do with the adjacent kissing gate. I’d thought of entitling the post ‘Gate-crashed‘, which is…

  • Roseberry from Carr Ridge

    Roseberry from Carr Ridge

    It seems a bit of a waste. Posting a distant photo of my local hill. I had planned a wander over Urra Moor. A dull start but I could see this patch of sunlight slowly making its way over the Eston Hills. I figured sooner or later it would shine on Roseberry. I wasn’t disappointed.…

  • Roseberry Topping looking splendid this morning

    Roseberry Topping looking splendid this morning

    Just a couple of weeks ago, I heard a joke. It was not told to me specifically but to the handful of blokes I was with. It was not new, I’d heard it before, many years ago. I won’t repeat it but essentially it was playing on the assumed intelligence of our neighbours across the…

  • COP26 continues and I am getting more confused about the statistics brandied about

    COP26 continues and I am getting more confused about the statistics brandied about

    We are told that, as a species, our activities emit 34 gigatonnes of CO² per year which would need around 68 million square kilometres of forest to ‘sequestrate’ — this is about half the planet’s land area, so a bit unrealistic. These numbers are vast. Gigatonnes. I can no more visualise a gigatonne than I…

  • Flying on a wing and a prayer

    Flying on a wing and a prayer

    Now that the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference is underway in Glasgow I was hoping to feature a photo that shows the effect of climate change on our North York Moors. But, unless you live in an area which has been subjected to flooding or fires, any effects are either incrementally small or subtle. Right…