Sunday, 31 August 2025

Sunday lunch

Last weekend we were in the Yorkshire Dales with our elder daughter. We met her from the London train with the long Bank Holiday weekend ahead of us, ready to enjoy each other's company, good walks on the moor top and a trip to the Wensleydale Show. Just what the doctor ordered! We did a fair bit of pottling about. The Dales are usually full of the sound of water, streams and waterfalls aplenty, but this year the sound and sight was very much subdued, just a trickle wherever we went. Hawes.
We went to Hardraw for Sunday lunch, a lovely village and a popular pub. (I went in through the front door!)
Himself has placed his order and is waiting for his food, it will be coming with a large Yorkshire pudding and a lake of gravy!
A peep over the bridge shows another sad trickle of water.
It was perfect weather for walking on the moor.
Evening sun from our window shining on the other side of the dale.
Posted by at

10 comments:

  1. Granny Sue31 August 2025 at 19:25

    Oh what a beautiful place. I want so much to visit Yorkshire again. My only time there was so fleeting
    I think i might have to use the back door at that pub!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Share my Garden2 September 2025 at 03:07

      it is my home county so I'm more than a little biased about it. The Green Dragon is full of character (and characters), lovely old furniture and real fires. What's not to like!

      Delete
  2. Susan Heather31 August 2025 at 19:57

    Lovely photos. I have been reading of the canals being closed down due to lack of water in the reservoirs. Hope you get some rain soon.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Share my Garden2 September 2025 at 03:08

      Copious rainfall at last, Susan, I don't recall ever being quite so grateful for it.

      Delete
  3. Librarian31 August 2025 at 23:07

    That pub looks exactly like my kind of place!
    Your photo on the moors is wonderful. Like you say, just what the doctor ordered. The lack of water is certainly worrying, but it is much nicer to walk without getting stuck in quagmires of mud all the time, isn't it.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Share my Garden2 September 2025 at 03:09

      It was a perfect stay and not often that I get to walk on the moor top in my shirt sleeves!

      Delete
  4. jabblog1 September 2025 at 00:51

    The lack of water is worrying. It seems to be a growing problem. Whoever thought we would run out of water in UK?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Share my Garden2 September 2025 at 03:13

      A delight to have a substantial downpour at last. A lot of leaves have dropped but those remaining on the trees are looking much happier. The water butts are full and I've stopped saving the bathwater!

      Delete
  5. local alien1 September 2025 at 02:24

    Lovely English countryside. Everything looks so green even with your lack of rain.
    Great Hippie sign! Are there still hippies these days?

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)