The old Haxey Gate Bridge
Well I have just got home from the Sunday night pub quiz up at "The Hammer and Pincers" and you will be pleased to learn that for the second week running we were the highest scorers and therefore took all the loot. It's a nice feeling when your general knowledge and your hunches hit the mark. Once again we scored twenty three out of twenty five.
In other news, our darling Phoebe came to see us this afternoon but she was not her usual lively and mischievous self. She normally wolfs down the little Sunday dinner I have prepared for her but today she just wasn't interested.- the reason being that on Friday afternoon she received the chickenpox vaccine and is now experiencing adverse effects. She just wasn't herself and spent a good amount of time in her grandmother's arms. Grandpa was out of the equation. We are hoping she will be greatly improved after a nice, long sleep. It seems that many small children have no after effects but for a few the chicken pox vaccine causes short term health issues.
Abandoned Langholme Manor
Track by The River Idle's embankment
Stones Bitter? You know how to torture a poor blog writer from the North country. Smashing photos yet again!
ReplyDeleteI thought of you as I downed my last one - the foam head leaving tidemarks in my glass as the amber liquid was merrily consumed... glug, glug, glug!
Delete4 of anything would put me under the table--or in the bathroom. Love all the photos but especially the second and last ones. Such ambiance! Poor Phoebe, I hope she's better soon. My 2 month old grandson just got his first vaccines; he seems to be doing OK so far.
ReplyDeleteShirley's cousin Margaret could certainly whack you in a drinking contest. It would be called "The Margarita Margarets Challenge" and only bona fide Margarets would be allowed to enter.
DeleteI can only manage one drink and I'm drunk. I'm a cheap date:)
ReplyDeletePoor Phoebe, hopefully a good sleep will help. Jack didn't have a nap these past two days and by 5pm he's a bear.
She's still not right this morning. Only one drink? Would that drink be a whole bottle of gin?
DeleteAnd when little kids don't feel well they are cranky. they don't understand what is going on. It's good that they are being vaccinated.
ReplyDeleteSmall children cannot fake it.
DeleteAgain, that last one is sadly beautfiul.
ReplyDeleteThe fog was starting to lift at that point.
DeleteAnother set of superb photos. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your second pub quiz win in a row. Tomorrow night, my team and I are booked for the quiz at our Irish pub for the first time since last spring. I guess we'll do reasonably well but I don't expect us to be the highest scoring team - but then you never know.
I am sure Phoebe will be right as rain again after a good sleep.
Sadly, she has woken up not much better than yesterday. If you wear a tiny microphone with a hearing device you will be able to contact me for quiz answers during the quiz - then you should come first.
DeleteI hope Phoebe is much better by now. your photos are lovely. Congratulations on the Pub Quiz.
ReplyDeletePhoebe is still not right. We are so used to her liveliness, mischief, singing and giggles.
DeleteYes, ok. Very nice photos indeed.
ReplyDeletePre climate change, the farm I grew up on often received frost and frozen puddles and sometimes snow. While I can't remember ever feeling cold, I do remember that I would have my bowl of cereal before catching the school bus. I would open the oven door and sit on a chair with my feet on an oven shelf. The melted lines on my rubber soled Grosby slippers told the truth.
Another abandoned house. Which do you think we stay in?
The manor house is too good for you and R. You'll be in the tumbledown farm workers' cottages shown in the last post. They are just across the road from the manor house. You can have one each. Send me £100 and I will arrange it for you.
DeleteI hope that Phoebe is feeling better. They didn't have chicken pox vaccines when my boys were little......people had chicken pox parties so that their kids got it while they were small. (Not nice having it as an adult)
ReplyDeleteShe is still unwell this morning and Young Frances is having a day off work to care for her little darling. Maybe we could have ripped off our masks and had COVID parties just like Johnson and his gang.
DeleteIt's a wonder you were able to recall answers to the quiz with all that beer. Best wishes to Phoebe getting over her jab. Think I shall collect my favourite photographers in a blog soon.
ReplyDeleteThe beer helps to unblock my brain cells, making the knowledge flow like a mountain stream.
DeleteWell done on winning the quiz again.
ReplyDeleteInteresting photos - especially the one of the wooden boxes - presume you came upon them abandoned along the way? The first two are my favourites - the second is wonderfully atmospheric.
Poor Phoebe, I hope, after cuddles with Grandma, she's feeling better by now. As a child I didn't have chicken pox and caught it when I was in my early 40's! I appreciated why children felt so miserable.
Those big crates were in a farmyard I had to walk through. Still used at harvest time. Phoebe is still not herself this morning. Getting chickenpox in your forties must have been very unpleasant.
DeleteI hope Phoebe soon feels well again, and I hope that your head is not still as foggy as those photos after 4 pints!
ReplyDeleteYorkshire blokes can consume far more than that before becoming foggy.
DeleteI like the photo of Crate Henge. Poor Phoebe. Just have to love and cuddle her until this passes. Children are so sad when they they're not feeling well.
ReplyDeleteShe won't be going to nursery school again tomorrow so Shirley and I will be looking after her. Hurrah!
DeletePoor little Phoebe. I like the photo of the crates.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if my picture tells you how big those crates are.
DeleteMore great shots! I'm impressed you could compose any kind of blog post after four pints! LOL
ReplyDeleteI guess having the vaccine is better than having chicken pox, so there's that.
Why not see if you can make a cogent blogpost after four pints of bitter or four of those fancy martinis you like to guzzle?
DeleteBreaking news ...
ReplyDeleteThe tottering tower of wooden crates has been shortlisted for the 2023 Turner Prize.
Lorry driver Stan Stopover said he never intended to make a statement.
*To be honest, I just dumped the crates in the first place I could find, but some Good Samaritan called Mr Pudding sent the photo to the Turner Prize Committee in London, who see the boxes as a metaphor for collapsing society all around us.*
Stan, who has been married three times and is a loving Dad to sixteen children, was interviewed in his favourite watering hole, The Itchy Pig.
*If I win the Turner, I hope to buy the abandoned Langholme Manor and turn it into a gourmet pub. Jamon Iberico and Pate de Campagne will be on the Menu every day, but Yorkshire Pudding is a bit too down market for my taste.*
With your cutting intellectual wit you can be so cruel Professor Haggerty! Boo hoo!
DeleteLangholme Manor would be ideal as the Melvin Barry Hines Residential School of Creative Writing.
DeleteI know the author of Kestrel for a Knave (filmed as Kes) was born near Barnsley but a writers' residency school needs to be handy for country walks & pubs.
I once had a long conversation with Barry Hines - mostly about "Kes" and years later in her capacity as a nurse my wife assisted him as physical ailment threatened to consume him.
DeleteYour memories of Barry Hines would make a lively post.
DeleteShirley's care of him is something to be proud of like our great NHS.
Stan Barstow published his little known novel *A Raging Calm* in 1968.
Keith Waterhouse said in the blub:
*Barstow is the only novelist of substance still living in the North.*
Waterhouse & Willis Hall adapted *A Kind of Loving* for the screen.
1968 was the year Barry published *Kestrel for a Knave*.
He had written an earlier novel, *The Blinder* (1966).
So Barry may have been the last of the greats living in the North.
There have been many fine Northern poets published by Bloodaxe in Newcastle and Carcanet in Manchester.
Stan died in 2011 in Portadawe, South Wales.
I had thought of writing his biography, but that would have meant asking for interviews with his wife Connie, his son & daughter, and his latter partner Diana Griffiths, the radio playwright who outlived him by only a few years.
Stan's son is a photographer of note and I even found his daughter on Linkedin, who was a beautiful child of 14 as I remember her in 1972.
Hope Phoebe feels better soon. Congrats on the quiz win!
ReplyDeleteI feel my comments should be more clever now that I am an award-winning commenter but I am struggling... :)
The Awards Committee do not value pretence. They prefer the honesty and pleasantness that has characterised all your previous comments Ellen!
DeleteI hope she feels better soon, and great photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks for dropping by again Travel.
DeleteI am green with envy. I have participated on a handful of trivia teams over the last decade and have always had great fun on the quiz and the comradery. But to my knowledge, there isn't anything that occurs regularly and I'm not a regular on a team. I'm a bit younger than you so perhaps there is still hope.
ReplyDeleteI know you live a long way from a large town or city so finding good pub quiz locations must be tricky. By the way, you are only a few months younger than me junior!
DeleteWatch yourself, Mr. P. You are beginning to drink as much as I do. I found that there is no rhyme or reason as to why children suffer -or not- from immunizations. Or adults for that matter. I absolutely love the last picture with all the horfrost on the ground.
ReplyDeletePlod along the track Cathy and you'll find me lurking in the trees. - Heathcliff
DeleteSorry to hear about poor Phoebe. Judy and I got our first Shingle's vaccines last week and typically I had no reaction but Judy was down with severe stomach pain for one day the day after her shot. Apparently shingles and chickenpox are caused by the same virus.
ReplyDeleteYou took some great pictures during your walk. They are exceptional.
Poor Judy! I trust you nursed her back to full health. Did you wear a nurse's uniform and fishnet stockings?
DeleteBut of course, mon ami.
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