Ten things for which I give thanks this week…
1 – After a pretty rainy week, Saturday morning dawned sunny…
2 – The reservoir above the village is now brim full, although the Yorkshire hosepipe ban is not yet lifted, it shouldn’t be long 9not that we need to water now lol)…
3 – I am always grateful to live in such a beautiful place and so, the sun out, I went up to “The Nab” to take a photo of Silsden village for you…
This is the reverse of the view from our house – The Nab is at top left…
And turning the camera round, here is the outcrop of Millstone Grit that forms The Nab. And yes, there is a quarry up there where agricultural workers with little to do in Winter, would carve millstones, water troughs and the like, out of the rock.
Whilst I was up there, a fog bank rolled in below me to the right…
And one more shot…
4 – Gratitude my daughter’s quite young Border Collie, Winnie, is sweet-tempered and settles down after initial excitement at greeting a visitor, quickly enough fo next weekend we shall be baby-sitting her at our house…
5 – By dint of Harrisa pepper, Dragons teeth deployment of sticks and thorny rose clippings, I seem finally, to have deterred the nameless cat who has been scratching in my bulb containers…
6 – I finished the very last task of my Poetry Postcard Festival participation for this year – a Cento poem using lines from each of the 43 poems on a postcard I received during July and August this year – it’s the post before this one, here on the blog…
7 – My friend who runs Collaborature – an online journal for collaborative poems, and I, have now topped 1,000 lines of what is turning into a novella written in Pushkin or “Onegin” sonnets after his book Eugene Onegin. You can read our epic “Shipmates” here.
8 – I shall have a busy but different week at work since my bosses are opening a self-storage warehouse in an old office building and they want me to be there for the first week to help get it running.
9. My grandson Dillon and his girlfriend Izzy, will be living at home with their parents Bev and Don in the next village, Addingham for the next year, having spent the Summer touring in their small camper van. They have asked me to teach them how to paint which will be fun…
10. Grateful to have been inducted into The Hall of Hostinae of Ten Things Thankful and for all the lovely messages of welcome from you all…
The scenery is beautiful. That fog bank looks scary. Looks like you have a productive work week ahead being in-charge of a warehouse. All the best.
Thanks Cai, there will probably be less opportunities for photographing the landscape through Winter (though you never know) so I am making the most of it and sharing…
Beautiful countryside! Enjoyed seeing the photos.
You’re welcome Kristi – whereabouts do you live?
Dude! Photogenic geography or what?
Grat #4 Dogs! Perfect lifeforms is all they are.
Grat #6 sounds interesting… alas when it comes to writing poetry, I am totally meter-deaf… can appreciate it when I read it, but other than haiku (which surely tempts everyone to write…sorta like the intro to Smoke on the Water to anyone handed a guitar. lol) I will remain an interested observer.
have an excellent week
and thanks for joining us on this curious journey
Thanks Clark, glad to be here…
You live in such a beautiful area. If I can ever save enough money and go to England again, I want to see Yorkshire.
I like cats, but for heaven’s sake, them scratching up your bulbs is taking things a bit too far. I hope it stays away now.
And I would like to visit the US too, though I think that until Trump is gone, I doubt I would be let in with what’s on my phone lol. I believe the sticks are what has done the trick, the planters now look like D-Day landing beaches…