NORTH TO GLAISDALE

The last two pictures above show the front of the cottage with a slightly disguised Liverpool United house plaque and the view from the rear of the cottage over Egton and then up to Goathland Moor where I followed John's car journey for 18 minutes. The earlier pictures are taken during our walk through the dale at Glaisdale then back across the moor. The top display is on the bank opposite our cottage. There is a display of "scarecrows" throughout the village as part of the village gardens open day.

Monday 25th June, our last summer (?) day in Harrogate, was a day of deluge and floods across Yorkshire. We left the garden in good shape, but waterlogged.
On Tuesday night we had a beer at the Bishopthorpe Club and provided the guest audience for J&T’s Rock and Roll Club. We were impressed. They were very good.
Kerry accompanied J to see their Mum and Dad’s names in the Book of Remembrance at the Scarborough Crematorium on Wednesday 27th June. They came back to Malton, and had lunch at The Wentworth Arms in Old Malton where Kerry did waitressing in her College days. They then walked round old haunts- The Grammar School, The Avenue and round the town. I called on my eldest cousin Brian Boyes in Malton, then drove over to Cloughton with Brian to see another cousin John, and have a beer at the Blacksmiths Arms. John is a very accomplished oil painter and he showed us some of his many paintings. In the evening, J & T took Kerry and me to see Beauty and the Beast at the Old Opera House in York. It was very good.
Kerry’s college friend, Christine, and her husband David, offered us the use of their holiday cottage in Glaisdale. So on Thursday we were off up to the North Yorkshire moors. Because of flooding in Pickering, we drove to Glaisdale via Castle Howard, Hovingham, then on small moorland roads through Hutton le Hole and Rosedale. Kerry bought some walking boots and socks in Whitby on Friday and these were given their maiden voyage over the moors on Saturday morning. We walked up Glaisdale then out of the valley onto the moor and back to Glaisdale along part of the Coast to Coast walk, a total of around 12km. (see photos). We are staying in an old miners cottage high up in Glaisdale with spectacular views over the Esk valley and across the North Yorks Moors. J&T visited on Friday and when they left I was able to follow their car with binoculars for 18 minutes until they disappeared over the moor top. The forecast of heavy rain curtailed our weekend walking ambitions, so we settled for tea and scones in Sandsend on Saturday and in Staithes on Sunday. The scenery is spectacular and the rain clouds add to the general drama but make photography difficult.
Kerry did a fitness test at York Hospital on Friday morning. (Post hospital check.) She passed with flying colours. She reached stage 4 of the test. Apparently most patients don’t get past stage 2. Nothing wrong with her heart, so the trip to hospital was most likely a severe digestive responsive.