More Snow

The School Yard - great at playtime!

Snow coming down

Looking up Grewelthorpe Street from dorrway

Very un-seasonal, the snow is falling pretty hard at the moment.  It does look good with the feeling of Christmas in the air, although driving is very interesting indeed!

Archie in village in snow

Snowing!

A good 3 inches of snow in the garden.

Cars covered

Angus helping to remove snow with broom

Road to Kirkby and Grewelthorpe

Our first snow of the year and it is a bit early! But it is giving us all a feel for Christmas

Eves gets second at "Grewelthorpes got talent"!!!

Eve did a great performance to win second and £50 att the local talent quest.
It was a great afternoon and Eve had worked hard at practice, so she was very pleased to get a place.

'It was scary but great to win.'

Diabiolos, playgound, Eve in stocks

'I got soaked to the skin!'

Wandering in town in summer there is often things to do. Here is Eve getting sponge thrown at her by brothers - why she volunteered  I will never know!
'Neither will I!' Eve said after.

Eve and Angus loved the diablos.

Archie loves that playground.

Beehive making

We are looking to put beehives in the land, as well as possibly making them to sell. Here is our first effort. Internet - design. Kevin - cutting. Angus and Archie - Drilling holes. We hope to get it out to the land before the swarming season ends so that we can catch some bees before autumn.

Kevin does some work!

Yep, Kev did a bit of work for someone. Built a cupboard.

Good fun, although since I did it it the dining room, the need for a shed or workshop is obvious.







The cupboard is intalled in customers house and now there is more work to do doors and walls in house.

Harlow Moor Gardens

"Aaaaah, it's a lion!"

Kevin took Archie and his friend Sonny to Harlow Moor garden with the pre-school for the morning. They had a great time with all the kids, eating Alpine strawberries and climbing and checking the plants.

'He's behind you!'

Up and down and up and down.

3 Peaks walk

David Noble (left)      Mike Houghten(middle)     Kevin Ison(right)

This past weekend we all went out for a fundraising walk of 25miles and 3 very tough mountains to go up with the "Yorkshire Dales 3 Peaks Walk".

Rona and Eve, Angus and Archie went off with a load of others to a waterfall walk while us 4 went on the walk.

Fantastic views, but the last mountain was almost vertical and last 2 miles for me were me looking like an old grandad with my knees telling me it was time to have a break.

We camped two nights and had a great time.

This is the start of a "Adventurer Club" for the children at the School. Mike, the teacher (middle top) is looking to raise £2000 for tents and training (certification) for a bunch of us parents so that it will be easy to get parents to take the children out for outdoor activities.

There is plenty of activities they can do around here, but as usual you need to be certificated up to the eyeballs, but we consider this worthwhile if we can get the school kids out on canoes, bikes, abseiling etc.

Lot of steep hills.

Going down.

Fun run in local village

Rona running well in 10K.

A very long run and all they got was a cup at the end!

Every year they have a fun run and serious run in the village. Great fun for all. The 10Km run is taken seriously and people from all around come to it.


Rona and friends did the 10K run while Kevin and the kids did the 2k fun run. Archie spent most of it on the shoulders of Kevin! Angus and Eve ran it at good time.

The rest of the day is spent eating, drinking, playing rounders with a large group from the village.

Angus ran fast.

Most of the 10 k runners are "serial runners" and propbably sloped off home to practice for another village run next weekend!