My postman is absolutely brilliant and really lovely fella but he's got a thing about bad drivers and bad parking and we're on the same fb local group so I hear about it there too 😁 I was talking the other day with my mother and we were saying that his grandkids are going to grow up and remember grandad for moaning on about crap drivers and shit ( Read more... )

Gorgeous horseshoe door and doorway at tiny Upsall village near Thirsk 💜💜💜

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Rather unexpected and somewhat "You what?!" news is that American TV network HBO which specialises in dramatic series such as The Sopranos and Game of Thrones, is actually planning a remake of All Creatures Great and Small, the original BBC series inspired by James Herriot’s novels. The main town where Herriot had his veterinary surgery, Darrowby ( Read more... )

I am so shocked & sickened by this. It is Horrific & a deep shame to the beautiful market town of Thirsk. Beautiful Thirsk, James Herriots own Darrowby, the world famous caring vet, to have this happen here. To have my beautiful market town connected with this attrocity to animals ( Read more... )

Deeply saddened to hear of a fatal accident just outside Thirsk. The 90 year old driver who died at the scene overtook the hay wagon & is understood to have collided Headon with a car coming in the opposite direction. The mother airlifted with one son to the hospital, her other son taken by ambulance. My postman was one of the first through the ( Read more... )

Friday I actually got to do my own food shopping for the first time in a few years. My father took me & my powerchair to town but it was So cold my pain was already building high & the TN doing small attacks. Heading home at 4.50pm it Smashed my face & was nasty all night ( Read more... )

My beautiful ancient market town with its square cobbled marketplace is not wheelchair friendly but has a lovely Christmas Tree this year :-)

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Yesterday Tilly took me into the bank holiday market. First time I've been round town since mid January, picked up a few bargains in Oxfam. I was however rather startled when reading through the books there to find one a book entitled A Hot Place in the Sun by Fanny Bake. With what??! signs going off in my head, I re-read the author name, Fanny ( Read more... )