Out & About …

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

Tag: thaw

  • The thaw begins

    The thaw begins

    With the forecast expected to top 11ºc later today the thaw is well and truly underway leaving the tracks of Cliff Rigg Wood a lethal sheet of ice. Apparently, glocken is a Yorkshire term for the thaw, when the snow clears, a word derived from Old Norse. The modern Icelandic word glöggur, to become clear,…