I had set out early enough to factor in some walking and photo snapping around two villages that are close to Goole - Airmyn and Hook. These low-lying settlements sit close to The River Aire and The River Ouse respectively and were familiar to Young Tasker Dunham - the author of "A Yorkshire Memoir" - when he was but a boy.
Near to the football ground, there is a nice little cafe run by a young Polish couple. For the umpteenth time I met up with my friend Tony there and another Tigers fan called Carl.. I had what they call "a British breakfast" and afterwards a buttered toasted teacake with a mug of tea.
All three of us were hopeful when we marched through West Park to what is now called the MKM Stadium. After all, our beloved team had won their previous three matches against tougher opposition than The Lilywhites - Preston North End.. However, on the day,Preston were the better team and we could not resent their victory by just one goal to nil.
It takes just over an hour to drive back to Sheffield where my devoted wife had prepared an evening meal of grilled Lincolnshire sausages, fried mushrooms, baked beans and dauphinoise potatoes. Just what I needed to assuage my disappointment. Clint was left outside shivering in the February cold. He is too big to make it through our front door.
Poor Clint! He missed out on the warmth and the delicious dinner. It does sound like a full and pleasant day. (except for the score of the game)
ReplyDeleteI guess that's life Margaret. You have to take the rough with the smooth.
DeleteA ship at anchor on the Ouse, unloading wood chips from Sweden.
ReplyDeleteNow this is economics I can understand.
As reassuring as a toasted teacake in an English caff, before t'Pub opens.
Tasker got me thinking about Goole just like you.
*The Air Up There - Old Goole.*
*Drive from Old Goole to Goole.*
*Goole. Venice o't'North.* All YouTube.
I like the Village Hall in Hook and St David's Church, Airmyn.
As for me, I have been on the road in wintry Northumberland.
*Snowy Shilbottle to Alnwick Dash Cam, 1st March 2018.* YouTube.
Somehow the name Shilbottle has a Tasker-esque ring to it.
A young woman who works in my local bookshop hails from nearby Morpeth.
Even more wood pellets are imported via Barrow-in-Furness from Canada and transported to Drax by train via the Settle-Carlisle railway line. By burning wood pellets they claim to be carbon neutral. Many ex coal miners around here have forthright opinions about this.
DeleteMorpeth. That is where Emily Davison the suffragette martyr is buried.
Delete*The U.K. Must Stop Subsidizing Its #l Climate Polluter: Drax.*
DeleteSasha Stashwick October 26 3021. NRDC (online).
NRDC works to safeguard the earth - its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
*50 Years Protecting People and the Planet.* NRDCflix. YouTube.
Was your "British breakfast" the same thing as "a full English breakfast"? If so, I'm amazed you could eat that evening meal.
ReplyDeleteIt was a pretty small breakfast Catalyst. One fried egg, one sausage, two rashers of bacon, some fried mushrooms, some baked beans and one slice of toast. Definitely not a belly buster.
DeleteThe Village Hall looks lovely. Dauphinoise potatoes?
ReplyDeleteGot it, thank you Google. I should try dauphinoise potatoes next winter, I think I'd like them.
ReplyDeleteDauphinoise potatoes take a little longer to prepare but well worth the effort.
DeleteThat was a very active day to visit villages and then spend time at foot ball.
ReplyDeleteI slept well last night Red.
DeleteLosing out to a better team, and by just one goal, is not so bad. Your favoured team will learn from this and do better next time.
ReplyDeleteGood walk, good meals; altogether, a good day under those grey February skies.
It was a good day and good to spend a couple of hours with two other Hull City nuts.
DeleteSt David's church could have been in Wales. I was disappointed when United lost on Friday. A controversial handball and awful penalties instead of a replay. Great photos YP.
ReplyDeleteI watched that match. If that was not a handball by Duncan Whatmore then I am a banana.
DeleteIt is fortunate that you are such a good loser when you support that particular football team. I am sure the sausages were a welcome consolation.
ReplyDeleteYou have to be able to take the ups with the downs when you support Hull City.
DeleteWhat a difference the sunshine makes - it all looks quite depressing - so grey. To match the results of the football match, though it's good to hear that you bore the winners no ill will.
ReplyDeleteCould you not find a blanket, or duvet, to cover poor shivering Clint? He'll think more kindly of you.
Korean cars like their people care tough Carol.
DeleteThanks to narrowboat YouTubers, I know how to pronounce Ouse. I expect Polish make the best full English breakfasts.
ReplyDeleteThere's a pretty little village on the Ouse
DeleteWhere the people know to mind their Ps and Qs
Watch Harry Enfield (YouTube) who likes his coffee-to-go Polski style:
Delete*Harry and Paul - Polish Cafe.*
*Cafe Polski - The Date.*
*Cafe Polski - The Romantic Card.*
You stalking me? You're a bit too late. A whole load of my ancestry is in Airmyn churchyard. You missed Mrs D.'s clock.
ReplyDeleteWestfield Banks Island was at one time - 1920s-50s - connected at low tide to the south side where you took the picture from. Some lads who played there called it Wezzecks. One tells a story about falling asleep, getting cut off and having to stay the night. When he got home in the morning his dad asked where the hell he'd been, clipped his ear and told him he'd better hurry up or he'd be late for school.
Yes I am stalking you. I have my hunting dogs Beelzebub and Satan, my rifle and my deerstalker hat. I cannot understand where this Westfield Banks Island was and it was not indicated in OS mapping from 1888.
DeleteLike Homer, Tasker never nods.
DeleteLike Virgil, Mr Yorky never naps.
Wherever I ramble, you guys have been there already.
*Driving from Skegness to Ingoldmells 1st December 2020.*
YouTube. Entrancing.
English seaside towns, out of season, out of fashion, haunt us.
Who are we stalking, unless they are the Dear Friendly Ghosts?
Our parents, grandparents, and millions like them ...
Another name for the one in your top picture. You could walk across to it at low tide from Westfield Banks - the left bank in the picture.
DeleteVery wintery looking scenes, low, grey clouds, pressing down on everything.
ReplyDeleteI had to look up Dauphinoise potatoes as well. In the wilds of Canada, we call them scalloped potatoes:)
There was a protest here yesterday. A trucker protest, supposedly, but really just noisy, angry people who think that only their ideas matter and screw everybody else. I restrained myself and didn't give anybody the finger. For me that's a win.
Well, I'm sorry your team lost but at least the guys rooting for the other team were happy.
ReplyDeleteThat is not helpful, is it?
In the Isabele Dahlhousie series by Alexander McCall Smith, the protagonist's husband's potatoes dauphinoise make Isabele so very happy.
The question is, if you had known they were going to lose, would you have gone anyway? I expect you would. You don't strike me as a fair-weather fan.
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