"There are loads of blackbirds!" cried the five year old when we stepped out into the BIG Garden Birdwatch at River View Pateley this...

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...

All those candles and throws miss the point of Hygge, or so my radio told me this morning. In sparsely populated Scandanavia, Hygge is...

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

Nidderdale Show is the last agricultural show in the season and a popular time to visit our Dales holiday cottage River View Pateley.

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

'Painter of light' William Turner left a pictorial record of his visits to other areas close to the cottage like Fountains Abbey, Masham Mar

Eat your heart out Rio; Nidderdale has its own premier sporting event. The Nidderdale Sprint Trainthlon takes place every second weekend in

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

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

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

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

The field in front of the cottage is prettying up with wildflowers this month. Meadow buttercup, cuckoo flower and sweet vernal grass inters

Half of Pateley have been watching this brood of ducks since the little ones hatched in March. Great conversations for dog walkers and rambl

Cycling is a hard sport for hard athletes and, it turns out, hardy spectators. Stage one coming through Pateley Bridge this Friday proved th