R's rue

Long time visitors to "Yorkshire Pudding" may recall that one of my favourite stomping grounds in the local countryside is Stanage Edge - just over the border in Derbyshire. It is a 3½ mile millstone escarpment running north to south and over the decades I have taken many photographs there. A few years back, another photographer who used to post to the "Geograph" website referred to me as The King of Stanage Edge and that is a sobriquet that certainly meets with my approval.  I had another walk up there on Tuesday afternoon and of course came home with yet another set of  digital images in my Sony bridge camera. The top and bottom pictures show abandoned millstones carved long ago. It is thought that the hand carving of millstones along the escarpment had ceased by World War One. The industry was at its height in the middle of the nineteenth century. The picture above shows a stone "window" close to Robin Hood's Cave Stanage Edge is very popu...

   I felt like a Sunday afternoon film today. Nothing too taxing. Just something to wash over me . It had to be Downton Abbey a new Era . Now watching Downton is a bit like attending a works reunion or a night out with old school mates.  You are visiting with people that you like but you haven’t really got enough time to talk to. 24 main characters within a two hour storyline?  Therefore everything plot line is hurried and save for a couple of scenes, most of the pathos and drama is lost. It must be slightly annoying for some to watch their favourite characters, for instance   Anna, Mr Bates and Danka who just stand around muttering the odd word and I had to smile at Imelda Staunton who popped up in three scenes only to say something like I need a cup of coffee and I’m off to a sleep before exiting stage left. But it’s very silly and lovely to look at , what with Downton being used as the  backdrop for a cinema shoot as most of the toffs re...

 Swinging from the rooftops  Singing from the treetops  May the light Shine through  That darkness  Tries To cloud from R's rue https://ift.tt/ECN4tkv