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Hillwalker.
Founder #SitClub #BillsBenchesHolmeValley
Born 1945
Holmfirth Peak
Neither cap doffer nor forelock tugger
Centrist
Grandpa
Prostate Cancer coper, inter alia.
Indeed, I'm off out, crutches very excited, today's adventure will be to, drum roll.....
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LIDL😃
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The magnificent, multi-drop Cautley Spout waterfall, a fine but very steep ascent into the Howgills Fells.
#YorkshireDales #Spring2017
#Memories
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
More stuff....
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
More testing....
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just messing about with new mobile, different sharing method to last.,.......
......getting there,......slowly 🙄
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Birthdays in December.
Grandson December 1st......age 10
👇👇

Mine December 13th............age 80
Grand niece December 15th age 20
Well that's a neat coincidence 😄
10 80 20
Pic, Westmorland upper Borrowdale, looking east, Howgills on the far horizon
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I knew the church opposite my home was the premier church in the #HolmeValley
Didn't realise you could watch every service live, on YouTube.
Here's a video from Remembrance Sunday when my grand niece was handed the Union Jack to carry out to the parade.
#RAFCadet
Video off my laptop screen.
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Pre digicam days, pic of a photo on the Singalila Ridge, zooming in on Kanchenjunga the 3rd highest mountain in the world.
#Sikkim #Nepal #November2002
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
3 years ago today, afternoon walk up a hillside above home.
Pic 2, zooming in to an atmospheric Black Hill, pic 4, surplus apples put out annually for local 'critters'to feast on.
This week has been good. The first time I've been able to wear normal footwear for 8 months
Thanks to Locala podiatry🙏
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I normally restrict political posts to twitter BUT....
.....Badenoch has just said that the 'RIGHT TO ROAM ACT' has given unions the right to go onto employers premises....FFS !!!!
#Dystopia
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
More info re 'Age Addition' 80 plus year pensioners.
Approx 3 million pensioners age 80 or over, who receive the extra 25p per week( £13 per annum) totalling an annual cost of approx £39 million per annum. Cancelling will cause no outrage, Rachel.
PS my World Cup final ticket in '66 cost 50p(10 bob)
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It's a real thing, if you get to 80, you'll get it, how barmy🙄
Google DWP 'Age Addition'
"I do not believe it"
#Meldrew 🤪
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Woo Hoo !! Party time 🥳🙄
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Same over t'other side of the hill.
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Almost to the day, the first snow of winter here, today.
#HolmeValley
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This Monday, last year, the first snow of winter fell on the #HolmeValley
#Holmfirth
#Digley
#WestNab
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
"For Whom the Bell Tolls"...
Proper funeral weather here today.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Courtesy of Google photos, these just popped up.
The first football match I took my youngest son to.
April 1989.FA Cup semi
We were seated in the rear of the stand above the terrace where 97 fans lost their lives.
Hellish,tragic, traumatic to witness
#HillsboroughDisaster #RIP97
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Just been reported ONLY 3 NHS Trusts in the UK have met the 3 requirements for rapid referral for Cancer Care
I've said it before, I feel fortunate to live in an area served by one of them. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust
#ProstateCancer
Also my GP surgery, #Elmwood Holmfirth in top 1%UK 💙
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Armistice Day.
In our village churchyard lies a young man who was killed by improvised explosive device (IED) in March 2012.
In the same incident, 3 other soldiers also from the Yorkshire Regiment were killed.
RIP young Jake.
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
....and Isabelle, about 10 years ago on Scout Scar, Kendal, with her mum and dad and 'Heskey' the westie 🌈 enjoying the view.
In the 2nd pic, making a splash in Little Langdale's Blea Tarn.
She'll be 20 in December, 2 days after I'm 80.....
'Tempus Fugit'....
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
...and further down the road, there's Isabelle marching impeccably with the 'Union Jack'🇬🇧
#RAFCadet
In total, there were 4 lads killed by the same IED, all from the 'Yorkshire Regiment'...
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Following Sunday's post,the Armistice day parade, passing down from the church opposite my home.
My 'grandniece', bearing the 'Union Jack' 🇬🇧leading the marching at the front of the military contingent.
Many military attend because there's a local lad buried here who was killed by an IED in Iraq.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
My 'Grand niece' centre, with the Union Jack, about to lead the armistice day parade from the church opposite my home.🇬🇧
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Day's end, SE Lakes.
Coniston Fells skyline.
@lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social
#CarefreeDays 😊
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM