After the floods of February, the lockdown comes. We are distracting ourselves with chicken care, pruning, weeding and garden waste. Daily walks are quiet wi...

Well, Pateley Bridge made it through the floods after Storm Ciara if only just. All the fields this side of the river were overrun with water which, although...

Fewston reservoir was as busy as it gets last Sunday, not that you would be able to tell by the photo. One dog, five children and four adults pottered around...

Windswept, wind blown and wonderful. Three words to describe the beginning of the new year this time around. With so much focus on environmental issues at th...

In other places, they may welcome in the New Year with the ringing of bells, but up here most people welcome it with a good long walk. The air was perfect fo...

Summer is gone and we are getting frost in the air already. Even the berries are falling now as we begin to remember the snow and ice of last winter. Early m...

It's difficult to believe that it is nearly show time again. After the vintage car rallys and the 1940s weekend, the show ground is set to reclaim itself for...

Wow what a wonderful weather we've been having at River View and what a sweet relief it has been having those refreshing swims in the River Nidd. The joyful ...

We are nowhere as near along with our orchard as we would like at River View Pateley. The paddock at the back of the holiday cottage is as full of ancient ba...

It is a five kilometer walk to the top of the caravan parks and back from River View Pateley holiday cottage. Just enough to fill an hour at any time of the...

The first of our crab apples are standing tall this springtime on the path from River View holiday cottage towards Pateley Bridge. We released the saplings f...

After the seemingly endless months of snow, a blazing hot early May bank holiday seemed a heaven sent reward ay River View Pateley. Children stripped down t...

We could not have asked for better weather for our cycling fans at River View Pateley for the Tour de Yorkshire.  After a cold winter that seemed to go on fo...

​​ We've pinched this title from a Nick Harkaway novel that this morning's walk reminded us of. Fog came down on the moors above River View Pateley, and whit...

The schools shut. The roads half closed. The world was bathed in white. Our walks this week have been to the sound of crunching snow, the crystal kind that m...

Winter is harder on the chickens at River View. The water jug freezes and so do the pellets. Worms hide deep in the soil and on the worst days, our hens don'...

City dwellers visiting Pateley Bridge this Halloween are experiencing shocks and thrills. Locals and walkers have been picking up handless gloves and footles...

​Just a fifteen minute drive Up Dale from River View Pateley, Middlesmoor is a world away. Looking down the valley at Gouthwaite and the rolling hills is bre...

The leaves are starting to fall and it is time to think about the orchard plans at River View Pateley. The apple pruning workshop I went to earlier in the ye...

Growth in the hay meadow caught up in spades at River View Pateley despite an unusually dry start to the year. Guests at the holiday cottage oversaw a bumpe...