Out & About …

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

  • Dunglass Collegiate Church

    Dunglass Collegiate Church

    Stopped off for a bit of exercise on the way home from Edinburgh and stumbled across this fine ruined church. The brown tourist sign pointed to ‘Dunglass Collegiate Church‘ which I admit I had assumed would be some Victorian church associated with a school or college. But worth a ½km detour. I now learn that…

  • Wardie Bay

    Wardie Bay

    Lovely start to the morning across the Firth of Forth, but by the afternoon it was snowing in Edinburgh. Wardie Bay is sandwiched between the ports of Granton and Leith.

  • Grey seals, Horsecastle Bay

    Grey seals, Horsecastle Bay

    Stopped off for a run around St. Abb’s Head to break the journey up to Edinburgh and surprised to come across several seals hauled up on the beach with their pups. They were Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), and were seemingly unperturbed by the closeness of the popular footpath. The pups were no longer cuddly fluffy…

  • 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…

  • Arncliffe Hall

    Arncliffe Hall

    I’ve often passed by this place just after starting my walks or runs but the higher hills have always had the greater pull. From the grand titled tome “History and Topography of the City of York: And the North Riding of Yorkshire: Embracing a General Review of the Early History of Great Britain, and a…

  • A blate cat maks a gallus moose

    A blate cat maks a gallus moose

    A dreich morning at Bloworth Crossing. Lots of water around — on the ground and in the air. Actually ‘dreich’ is quite an apt word to use on St. Andrew’s Day, the patron saint of Scotland — and also of golfers and fishermen, but that’s by the by. The word comes to us from, of…

  • Catoptrical wonderment

    Catoptrical wonderment

    After the storm of the weekend, Cod Beck Reservoir looks very serene this Monday morning.

  • 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…

  • South Gare – Storm Arwen

    South Gare – Storm Arwen

    Even though Storm Arwen was abating, a north wind of 66 mph was still forecasted. A good day for blowing the cobwebs away. And a high tide to boot. The South Gare breakwater, guarding the entrance to the River Tees, was completed in 1888 as one of a suite of projects to improve access to…

  • Bousdale Hill Farm

    Bousdale Hill Farm

    Early morning jog up Roseberry. The day before the storm — Arwen, I hear it’s been named — a character from Lord of the Rings? A farm had been established on Bousdale Hill, the long spur extending northwards by Roseberry Common, by 1868. Prior to this it would have been rough upland pasture. The farm…

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