Meet the Family

 Couldn't resist this lovely photograph.

Darling daughter Lorna now outgrown by our grandsons James (left) and Ben.  

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A Silver Lining (and some Christmassy Pictures)

 We are in a mild period of winter weather just now.  It has become my habit to go to the roof room and attempt the Daily Telegraph crosswords for enjoyment justified as brain training,  The other morning this was the scene which greeted my arrival by lift.  A patch of sunshine to the west with a heavy cloud above it - but with a silver lining:

What a view eh?  I put it on Facebook and it is getting lots of likes and shares.  Not as many though as this set of pictures of a deserted but Christmassy Settle earlier this week as I walked home with the town to myself from Townhead surgery.  311 likes and rising. View them in reverse order to follow my route and click on any pic to enlarge:

A Place to SETTLE

 Steam Railway December magazine 552 has hit the bookstalls and my article about the water tower is in it - all SIX pages of it.  Here are the first two - a double page spread.   If you want to read the rest you will have to buy a copy.  There's a lot of magazine for your money - we're on pages 88-93.

They had asked TV's Tim Dunn for suggestions about re-used railway buildings to feature.  He put our water tower at the top of the list apparently.

Snow? No Snow.

 Parts of the UK have been seriously disrupted by snow the last few days.  Nearby south Cumbria declared a major incident as motorists were stranded in their vehicles, sometimes in far-flung locations for many hours.  One had to endure 19 hours without  food and water amid Arctic temperatures.

Settle meanwhile, though freezing cold has had nothing more than an occasional dusting.  This morning though we woke up and , as normal, switched on our bedroom monitor to check on the weather, beamed to us from a rooftop camera.  It was still too dark for a colour image but hey!  Snow I thought.  So convinced was I that I took a picture of the screen:

Then dawn dawned and colour kicked in.  What a disappointment.