Just been to my Ex's * for Wigilia, Polish Christmas Eve, which is celebrated more than Xmas day, kids used to love it, as they had 2 lots of present opening. * Of Polish parents who came here after the war, after being torn away from their families in their late teens to work in Nazi labour camps.

Getting facial defoliation, Xmas🎄5 years ago, in Ramsden Clough. #HolmeValley @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Have a lovely Christmas all you wonderful #BlueSky folk. Pic 1) This day last year. Pic 2) A lonely, living moorland tree, in Xmas garb, I stumbled across 7 years ago today, Snailsden way, #HolmeValley 🎄 @peakdistrict.bsky.social

A pleasant surprise, I got this card from Turbo Jo, who resides on twitter. Having found my address, I can only assume she works for... MI5 CIA GCHQ KGB ...or 'Big Bert's Debt Recovery' 😬

My Leeds family are in Rome, looks like that place could do with a lick of paint 😄

Breaking News !!!! 🙄🤣

Re the 'Donkey's Lugs'....this is the first time I've noticed them....expand and 👀 Comical really.

'oss ont'ill, December, 7 years ago. Spot the donkey's lugs👀 #HolmeValley #Shergar 🤔

Church bell practice...you can hear these miles away on the hills...even more when you live next door to them 😵‍💫 #HellsBells #HolmeValley

December, last year, Junior experiencing his 2nd 'Broken Spectre' 👀, this time on #OtleyChevin #Grandson Sharing special moments 💚 💚 #HappyDays

Past walking in the quiet country between Wet Sleddale and Swindale. Knobbly terrain incorporating mini peaks such as Seat Robert and Willy Winder. Easy to get lost on in mist. #ShapFells #Cumbtia

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Don't know what's happening, subconscious into conscious. Going around singing songs from the early 60's,word perfect and this 🎵What have the waiting years to bring us What do the mists of the future hide Gaiety, sorrow, joy of achievement Yearning, endeavour, peace and pride Old school song

youtube.com/watch?v=gK-S... FAO @iantease.bsky.social Saw your post and thought of this.

80th birthday today My big walking days came to an abrupt end in February But eh, I've got a multitude of glorious memories and photos. Here's just 4 of them out of 1000's 1..Black Cuillin ridge from Bla Bheinn 2..Amadablam 6812m, Everest area(click needed) 3..Upper Eskdale 4..Crib Goch, Snowdonia

Thinking of all my social media friends in Cumbria and past friends in Orton, as Amber weather warnings are issued. I remember the devastation caused by Storm Desmond, December 10 years ago. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Pic, current wallpaper on Santander App, view from Lingmoor Fell over Side Pike, Langdale.

The only form of transport in the Everest area of Nepal. #Yak #Dzo Poor mans Yak. Nepal 2010.

Do you all remember this re the 25p a week extra pension I'll get from Saturday when I'm 80 It gets even more farcical, now HMRC have got to recalculate my tax bill. A benefit due to my ongoing circumstances has had to be recalculated along with council tax For 25p extra per week which nobody needs🤪

An enjoyable august afternoon spent at Patterdale show. James Rebanks, shepherd and author, pictured with his son in pic one. #August2017 @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social #HappyDays 🙂

Today's adventures, Muscular Skeletal assessment at Holme Valley Memorial Hospital. Deja Vu, a year on #SitClub lives on...

Just binge watched 'Prisoner 951' on BBC iPlayer. The story of Nazanin Zangari-Ratcliffe's imprisonment in Iran. One of the most powerful things I've ever seen on TV. Totally gripping. Think of the courageous women who are still incarcerated in this tyrannical regime 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

The magnificent, multi-drop Cautley Spout waterfall, a fine but very steep ascent into the Howgills Fells. #YorkshireDales #Spring2017 #Memories

More stuff....

More testing....

Just messing about with new mobile, different sharing method to last.,....... ......getting there,......slowly 🙄

Birthdays in December. Grandson December 1st......age 10 👇👇 Mine December 13th............age 80 Grand niece December 15th age 20 Well that's a neat coincidence 😄 10 80 20 Pic, Westmorland upper Borrowdale, looking east, Howgills on the far horizon

I knew the church opposite my home was the premier church in the #HolmeValley Didn't realise you could watch every service live, on YouTube. Here's a video from Remembrance Sunday when my grand niece was handed the Union Jack to carry out to the parade. #RAFCadet Video off my laptop screen.

youtube.com/watch?v=3o4i... Epic Bergersen in Prague.

Pre digicam days, pic of a photo on the Singalila Ridge, zooming in on Kanchenjunga the 3rd highest mountain in the world. #Sikkim #Nepal #November2002

3 years ago today, afternoon walk up a hillside above home. Pic 2, zooming in to an atmospheric Black Hill, pic 4, surplus apples put out annually for local 'critters'to feast on. This week has been good. The first time I've been able to wear normal footwear for 8 months Thanks to Locala podiatry🙏

I normally restrict political posts to twitter BUT.... .....Badenoch has just said that the 'RIGHT TO ROAM ACT' has given unions the right to go onto employers premises....FFS !!!! #Dystopia

More info re 'Age Addition' 80 plus year pensioners. Approx 3 million pensioners age 80 or over, who receive the extra 25p per week( £13 per annum) totalling an annual cost of approx £39 million per annum. Cancelling will cause no outrage, Rachel. PS my World Cup final ticket in '66 cost 50p(10 bob)

It's a real thing, if you get to 80, you'll get it, how barmy🙄 Google DWP 'Age Addition' "I do not believe it" #Meldrew 🤪

Woo Hoo !! Party time 🥳🙄

Almost to the day, the first snow of winter here, today. #HolmeValley

This Monday, last year, the first snow of winter fell on the #HolmeValley #Holmfirth #Digley #WestNab

Do has Dale says, he's talking sense for a change😁

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"... Proper funeral weather here today.

Courtesy of Google photos, these just popped up. The first football match I took my youngest son to. April 1989.FA Cup semi We were seated in the rear of the stand above the terrace where 97 fans lost their lives. Hellish,tragic, traumatic to witness #HillsboroughDisaster #RIP97

Just been reported ONLY 3 NHS Trusts in the UK have met the 3 requirements for rapid referral for Cancer Care I've said it before, I feel fortunate to live in an area served by one of them. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust #ProstateCancer Also my GP surgery, #Elmwood Holmfirth in top 1%UK 💙

Armistice Day. In our village churchyard lies a young man who was killed by improvised explosive device (IED) in March 2012. In the same incident, 3 other soldiers also from the Yorkshire Regiment were killed. RIP young Jake.

....and Isabelle, about 10 years ago on Scout Scar, Kendal, with her mum and dad and 'Heskey' the westie 🌈 enjoying the view. In the 2nd pic, making a splash in Little Langdale's Blea Tarn. She'll be 20 in December, 2 days after I'm 80..... 'Tempus Fugit'....

Following Sunday's post,the Armistice day parade, passing down from the church opposite my home. My 'grandniece', bearing the 'Union Jack' 🇬🇧leading the marching at the front of the military contingent. Many military attend because there's a local lad buried here who was killed by an IED in Iraq.

My 'Grand niece' centre, with the Union Jack, about to lead the armistice day parade from the church opposite my home.🇬🇧

Day's end, SE Lakes. Coniston Fells skyline. @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social #CarefreeDays 😊

Microsoft Edge wallpaper. Mongolia. Eldest son, who lives in Japan, travelled from Shanghai, China to Europe by train, in the mid 'noughties' On the 'Trans Mongolia Express'via Ulan Bator onto Novosibirsk, Russia. Then on 'Trans Siberiaa Express"to Moscow He said Mongolia looked like the Pennines 👀

A past sundown above home, 2020. PS. The Blue-sky posting glitch seems to have self corrected. #HolmeValley

Gotta say, the series on BBC 2 'Highland Cops' is well worth a watch for lovers of 'The Highlands' for the scenery alone. Last weeks episode was superb in that respect. Catch up available on i'Player.

HELP!!! In the last few days, I've had a problem, after selecting past pics on my mobile, then clicking onto send to Blue-sky, the pics download but all I get is the current Blue-sky timeline, the pics seem to vanish into cyberspace, any ideas?

Thinking about the 'Windrush Generation' in the UK, who must be worried about friends and family in Jamaica as 'Hurricane Melissa' makes landfall. 🙏🙏🙏