Night time spectacular!
Winter is a time for enjoying the night's pleasures. The Yorkshire Dales is one of England's darkest areas. On a clear night, we see...
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- Nov 23, 2016
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Hygge Yorkshire!
All those candles and throws miss the point of Hygge, or so my radio told me this morning. In sparsely populated Scandanavia, Hygge is...
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- Oct 18, 2016
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Chickens are top dogs at River View
We have six brown hens outside the bedroom window at River View Pateley. Children will give you six individual names for them, although it i
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- Oct 11, 2016
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Everything you would expect from a show, plus a few things you didn't.
Nidderdale Show is the last agricultural show in the season and a popular time to visit our Dales holiday cottage River View Pateley.
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- Oct 11, 2016
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How not to fall asleep while counting sheep
Steve has just put a small herd of Dartmoor on the field in front of River View Pateley. They have a with a job to do: eat off the grass lef
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- Sep 12, 2016
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Pastoral paradise
'Painter of light' William Turner left a pictorial record of his visits to other areas close to the cottage like Fountains Abbey, Masham Mar
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- Sep 10, 2016
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Best seats in the House
Eat your heart out Rio; Nidderdale has its own premier sporting event. The Nidderdale Sprint Trainthlon takes place every second weekend in
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- Jun 30, 2016
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See Jenny, think Sue and Mike
A lovely couple of guests who visited us last week left us a flower to remember them by.: "lychnis flos-cuculi" or, more simply, "Jenny". Je
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- Jun 24, 2016
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Fishing for birds
We accidentally feed grouse and pheasants every time we put grass seed out on the lawn. (By my calculations, there is an attrition rate of a
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- Jun 2, 2016
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Fresh-baked summer
The fields clothed themselves in sunshine today and we have to say they scrub up well. Buttercups are pushing their way through the summer g
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- May 25, 2016
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Down by the river
With warmer weather, it is time for dogs and children to take to the river in front of the cottage. On the right day, the air rings with the
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- May 17, 2016
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Hay there!
The field in front of the cottage is prettying up with wildflowers this month. Meadow buttercup, cuckoo flower and sweet vernal grass inters
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- May 9, 2016
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Spring is sprung
Half of Pateley have been watching this brood of ducks since the little ones hatched in March. Great conversations for dog walkers and rambl
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- May 2, 2016
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Tour de Yorkshire: Tour de Force
Cycling is a hard sport for hard athletes and, it turns out, hardy spectators. Stage one coming through Pateley Bridge this Friday proved th
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