It was a beautiful winter’s day as we shut the gate, left the garden and our locked-down ducks, behind. A dry and sunny Tuesday was the perfect mood-lifter and I was feeling particularly upbeat: today my walk was going to be fun. I had company. My youngest son Jake was back for Christmas from universityContinue reading “Like it or Loathe it? A ‘Marmite’ Walk to Crow Hill”
Author Archives: Martin Moorman
The Angry Bird of Elland and ‘Hell, Hull and Halifax’
The usual morning ritual applied. I fed and watered them and they glared at me. It was just past 8.30 on a cool, crisp and sunny Wednesday morning as I opened up the shed where our ducks reside. Six angry birds! For the 3rd day in a row our Lockdown ducks (incubated by my daughterContinue reading “The Angry Bird of Elland and ‘Hell, Hull and Halifax’”
The North South Divide
As a ‘comer in’ – born a southerner but now long term resident of the north – I can perhaps better understand the various arguments that linger around the old chestnut of which is best: North or South? Politically at least, it appears to me that the north has ALWAYS been the poorer relation. I’mContinue reading “The North South Divide”
A Collector’s Item: In Memory of my Dad
There’s a well known saying that ‘one man’s meat is another man’s poison. For me that saying has certainly taken on much greater significance in recent months as I have contemplated what to do with a bequest of Pewter left to me, in his Will, by my late dad. Dad, known as Ted to hisContinue reading “A Collector’s Item: In Memory of my Dad”
Happy Christmas and Why I Won’t Let it End in Tiers
The worst kept secret this side of Watford Gap has just been announced. Halifax and West Yorkshire, where I live, have just been placed in the highest Tier; (Tier 3) by Boris et al, when ‘Lockdown 2’ ends on 2 December.
The Curious Incident of a Double Trudge up Ripponden Bank
Ask anyone in my part of West Yorkshire if they would enjoy walking up Ripponden Bank and I’m sure they would think you mad to even ask! Ripponden Bank is steep and long.
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