We have had our rainy days and overcast skies but the past few days have been warm and balmy. Children went to school coatless. There was...

Almost a year in the making, our new two bedroom barn conversion is now ready to welcome guests. We designed it to give the best views up...

We had a deer in the meadow the other morning. Sitting out in the sunshine for a pre-work coffee, we watched her leap across the freshly...

Easter is usually the start of the season in Pateley. On a hot weekend we would expect a large contingent of day trippers too. This year...

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

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

​​ 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...

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...

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...

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