Ten things for which I give thanks this week…
1 – Snow was forecast this week, and sure enough, it came, but I was grateful it was just a dusting on the hills since it was a drive to work day…
2 – The weather forecast also alerted me to wrap the olive tree against frost, in good time, so we are now stuck with this ghostly shrouded prescence for the Winter…
3 – A giant toddler has been let loose on the sky with a white crayon – anyone remember Harold and the Purple Crayon?
4 – Last weekend I was in our local town, Keighley, and saw this shop window, and as you know, I love repetition and took the first shot, but then went inside for more repeated ballas of wool. However the best bit, was I got talking to the shop owner who turned out to be a mine of information about fabrics and I mercilessly picked his brains (he was delighted – really!) for my A to Z upcoming in April, on the subject of Fabrics. He was made redundant in the ’80’s, and turned to recycling waste from the fabric mills around Yorkshire – cardboard and polythene, obviously, but also waste fabric pieces. He started sorting the latter and sold them back to mills that reprocessed them and included a percentage in new yarns. In ten years, he went form having £200 in the bank, to £100,000! Where there’s muck, there’s brass! Best of all, he alerted me to the fact that so many fabrics are “Warp knitted” as opposed to older weaving techniques – think T-shirt “Jersey” material…
5 – It was my day to take the Micro-biology samples from work, for testing at a firm at Luddenden Foot, in the Calderdale Valley. I always love this drive and the drive home “over the tops” and this Thursday it was crisp, sunny with blue skies and mercifully, there was so little traffic, I was able to dart into the little quarry/layby on the wrong side of the road and take the following pictures and a video. It is one of those spots where you could point the camera in any direction and get a beautiful shot as proved by the panoramic video.
If any of you want to come and live in “God’s own county!” (Yorkshire) – you would be most welcome…
And further up, emerging onto the moors, this Wild Rose bearing rosehips…
6 – And no Ten Things of Thankful without a texture shot, this week, Autumnal, frosty leaves…
7 – We had a most enjoyable hour reading our poems at the dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night Live session yesterday – read a poem about COVID lockdown in Crete, where we were fortunate to spend 6 months out of harm’s way… https://how-would-you-know.com/2025/11/this-is-crete.html
8 – Our new business (by which I mean my boss’s family) – a Self-Storage facility, opened without mishap this week and we had the first customers! I did various bits of design in the run-up and may pop in to give a hand as it gets busy…
9 – Beverley had her birthday and was delighted with the brightly coloured inside, unglazed outside Tapas bowls I bought for her in Aldi six months ago, you have to buy then when you see them as when they’re gone, they’re gone…
10 – Despite her depression, Barbara has taken charge of buying Christmas presents for the family and has almost completed the task!!!
It does appear that Harold has taken to the skies!
Your “wrong” side of the road seems “right” to me, and not just literally. No matter how it is described, though, I’m glad you were able to get those beautiful photos!
Let’s not disagree about who drives on the right side of the road lol and Harold certainly was in evidence! Have a good week!
What a great list. I loved Harold and the Purple Crayon.
I love Harold and Maude and Harold and the Purple Crayon equally, if that’s possible., Ali..
Beautiful photos and video. The sky is spectacular and so are the scenery photos.
I know people who relocated to a country with beautiful scenery but the down side is they couldn’t do work that afforded them their preferred level of comfortable living.
That yarn shop owner is really very lucky. Its very tough to achieve a second wind occupation or business.
May you experience a good week ahead.
In my first job, a guy who worked in the office, moved to Jamaica and everyone was very envious, but a few months later he was knocked off his bike and killed cycling home from a bar – you just never know what’s down the line…
On a happier note – have a wonderful week…
you know how, sometimes you start to read something and decide how it (the sentence or phrase) ends before you finish?
so I’m reading your Grat #3 and I finished the sentence with ‘and Maude’*
Good work on the 360 video pan… nicely level through out and pause for the troll cave.
cool
have an excellent week
*in my defense and offset any criticism of rushing the phrase in question, at least on my computer screen had the line truncated such that it showed as “….Anyone remember Harold and (end of line)
I remember Harold and Maude as well as Harold and the Purple Crayon. Very different Harolds!
Harold and Mauide is such an iconic, if cult, movie I forgive you for leaping to conclusions Clark…
Your country is beautiful and I’d love to visit someday.
The shop owner sounds like he made a brilliant move.
I’m very happy the olive tree is safe and very much enjoyed your post today.
It is a beautiful country Mimi and I hope you could get to visit it one day – meanwhile, have your best week – Happy Thanksgiving…