#ontheroad in Yorkshire

D A F F S

Driving through Norfolk yesterday stopped at the roadside stall selling 'daffs' and met the lovely Shirley selling them outside her house for her son.

#ontheroad

Staring at the North Sea this evening before getting prepared for tomorrow's trip up the Blackwater Estuary with the local fishermen - harvesting oysters two ways!

#essex

H A P P Y E A S T E R 🌷🌷🌷

#cumbria

T H E D A M S O N R O U T E

A glorious day to explore the backroads and damson orchards of the Lyth Valley, one of my favourite road trips.
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The damson orchards of the Lyth Valley are unique, surrounding each small farmstead and growing along stone walls and hedgerows in the valley.

#cumbria

Love a gated road especially when it's in an unexpected place 😊!

#ontheroad in Cumbria

F L A M B O R O U G H

On a misty and atmospheric morning I went along to North Landing to see Richard coming in on his traditional wooden fishing coble ‘Prosperity’. This is the only place along the Yorkshire coast where boats are hauled up on wooden rollers.

#flamborough

The very lovely Ryedale Folk Museum are celebrating REAL BREAD WEEK with three new podcasts about farming, milling and baking in Yorkshire - check them out here:

www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk/working-towa...

New magazine: Baking A Better Tomorrow | Sustain Stories of Grain Changers reshaping the bread we eat

BAKING A BETTER TOMORROW

Celebrating the start of Real Bread Week with a beautiful new magazine created by UK Grain Lab, The Real Bread Campaign, Better Food Traders and The Organic Research Centre.

It’s available as a free digital download here: www.sustainweb.org/news/feb26-n...

A85 TO OBAN

First road trip of 2026 ahead of the big snow.

#scotland

🎄 M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S 🎄 from Yorkshire 🎄 and wishing you all a peaceful and happy New Year! 🎄

Thank you everyone for your support and for following my photographic journey on land and on sea - see you next year 🥰

#ontheroad

Alice's brilliant herring hat and beautiful songs from Brown Bread Choir.

At Clovelly Herring Festival

#devon

V O L C A N O N I G H T

Alnmouth, September 2025

Back in the 1930s and 1940s more than 300 tons of damsons were sent down to the jam factories of Lancashire and Yorkshire. The income from the damsons was often used to pay the annual rent of a farm. Now the growers just pick to sell on the roadside or for private customers.

T H E D A M S O N R O U T E
Aug / Sept 2025

One of my very favourite road trips is along the Lyth Valley following the damson signs to the farms in the low fells. And this year the harvest has been huge with so many stalls along the route.

#cumbria

Stiffkey saltmarsh
5.24am

#norfolk

S E A L A V E N D E R

Stiffkey, Norfolk

One more #SheepOfTheDay from Greenholme: congratulations to Joshua Capstick, who won first prize in the Lego model class in the handicrafts tent with his splendid Rough Fell tup

T H E B A Y

Last light.

#morecambebay

T A N H I L L S H O W

Another wild and windy day for the annual Tan Hill Swaledale Sheep Show up in Arkengarthdale/Swaledale this week.

#yorkshiredales

K E S W I C K M A Y F A I R

The judges table for tea, a Herdwick tup, Anthony Hartley’s trophies including The Edmondson Cup for the best shearling.

This was first presented in 1928 and is the most coveted cup in Herdwick showing. It was also once won by Beatrix Potter.

Love a proper paper tide table 😊

This bank holiday weekend is the very last chance to see FARM / MILL / BAKE at Ryedale Folk Museum.

Free entry
10 – 5

A special thank you goes to Nelly Trevelyan, Ryedale Folk Museum and all the farmers, millers and bakers who worked with me to share the story of bread in our region.

#bread

Thank you for visiting x

Why a man walked 53 miles dressed as a curlew over Easter Matt Trevelyan, formerly a puppet maker, made his lightweight costume out of polystyrene and bamboo

Such a great story - inspiring, beautiful and important.

#nidderdale

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

World Curlew Day is a grass-roots initiative which champions curlews worldwide. Created by Mary Colwell in 2017, the day shines a light on the dangers curlews face due to habitat loss, land-use changes and climate pressures.

WORLD CURLEW DAY
 
Over the Easter weekend, Matt Trevelyan,  a FiPL officer for Nidderdale National Landscape, walked the 53-mile Nidderdale Way to raise awareness of one of our most iconic and threatened birds: the Eurasian Curlew – dressed as Cathy the curlew.

#nidderdale

🐰 H A P P Y E A S T E R 🐰

Cruffin and hot cross buns - from Haxby Bakehouse and Stark Farm Bakery.

#yorkshire

O N T H E R O A D

Road tripping in and around Pallas-Yllästunturi National Park and the reindeer herding areas

#finland

The snow is now compacted and frozen and can hold your weight so I am also free to wander away from the cleared path for the first time. This is not normal for April.