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September sunshine
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...

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Sep 16, 20201 min read
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Introducing Hill View Pateley!
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...

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Aug 29, 20201 min read
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Celebrating summer at long last!
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...

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Jul 21, 20202 min read
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Quietest Bank Holiday ever
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...

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Apr 13, 20201 min read
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Strange times
After the floods of February, the lockdown comes. We are distracting ourselves with chicken care, pruning, weeding and garden waste....

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Apr 4, 20201 min read
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Lake View Pateley
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...

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Feb 26, 20201 min read
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2020 Vision at River View Pateley
Windswept, wind blown and wonderful. Three words to describe the beginning of the new year this time around. With so much focus on...

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Jan 5, 20201 min read
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Walking in the New Year
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....

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Jan 2, 20191 min read
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Autumn fading into winter at River View
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...

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Nov 6, 20181 min read
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Looking forward to the Nidderdale Show
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...

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Aug 8, 20181 min read
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Scorching summer of 2018!
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...

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Jul 29, 20181 min read
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Windswept apple blossom
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...

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Jun 1, 20181 min read
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Walking the back way from River View Pateley
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...

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May 25, 20181 min read
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Release the hedgerow
The first of our crab apples are standing tall this springtime on the path from River View holiday cottage towards Pateley Bridge. We...

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May 18, 20181 min read
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TGI springtime!
After the seemingly endless months of snow, a blazing hot early May bank holiday seemed a heaven sent reward ay River View Pateley. ...

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May 11, 20181 min read
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The Tour de Yorkshire wore sunshine in Pateley... and what a race!
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...

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May 6, 20181 min read
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The Goneaway World
​​ 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...

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Mar 16, 20181 min read
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Life on pause
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...

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Mar 5, 20181 min read
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Winter goes on at River View Pateley
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...

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Feb 23, 20181 min read
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Eerie dismembered clothing takes over the countryside
City dwellers visiting Pateley Bridge this Halloween are experiencing shocks and thrills. Locals and walkers have been picking up...

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Oct 30, 20171 min read
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