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 morning dog walks mean crisp grass underfoot, and the General runs around like she is a puppy again and that ever...

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 its intended purpose this September.  Here's a look back over previous years to get us in the mood.

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 from their plastic wrappers now they have reached their first birthday.  In amongst the honeysuckle, the hawthorn...

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 to swimming costumes and took to our river, and even their shocked screams in the freezing cold water were the so...

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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 white swallowed the sky, the vistas and anything more than 50 feet away. 

The space that was left held its own eerie b...

​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 breathtakingly beautiful. Turn around and the eyes can drink in the apparent wilderness of the kind of moorland tha...

No, we don't mean "hawt" like the social media term for attractive, we mean the type of heat that reminds you of the underworld. 

Toft Gate Lime Kiln, just next to the outdoor sculpture installation Coldstones Cut, is a fairly benign place these days. The grass has grow...