Youngest son and kinship son is in Portugal with the Huddersfield Town FC footie team for preseason training and a friendly game. Footie mad, as if counselling suicide attemptees isn't stressful enough 🙄😂

Azteca Stadium memories. 1970 W Cup, England, the holders, lose 1-0 to Brazil side widely regarded as the greatest team ever. England the only team to test them. The first W Cup on colour TV 1986, England losing to Argentina, Maradona's hand of god Pic Local contrails. 🎶All gone to look for America

Random footie post Emley,the village I grew up in, population approx 1,000. Emley AFC got to the 3rd round of the FA cup, away at West Ham who were riding high at the time The West Ham team included Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and John Hartson, who scored the winner near the end. 2-1. Superb effort

In my 80th year, a year ago, I spent my first ever stay in hospital. A week in the 'Acute' ward at Calderdale RI, this time last year. Grandson visited, didn't pull any cannulas out 😬 and raised my spirits. On my return home the Yukka was in full flower. I am in far better fettle a year on☺️ 💙NHS

Ran into Andy Leader, in Holmfirth this afternoon. Many of you will remember him in the other place before he bailed out, with the handle @MadeInHolmfirth Sadly he's now disabled, using an electric mobility contraption, suffering from M.E. Andy is far younger than me, sad. Pic, Holme Valley sunset.

Goodbye old friend🥲 faithful workhorse, over 14 years you've driven the equal of 6 times around the equator, 150,000 miles. I've had far 'sexier' cars but none so versatile We've shared the glorys of The Lakes, Peaks, Dales, Snowdonia, and Highlands and grandson adventures. A newer chariot is here.

Fun and games crossing the @peakdistrict.bsky.social Pennines right now. Woodhead Pass closed due to moorland fire. Snake Pass closed due to landslip.

What an incredibly stupid country we've become ! Looking back 10 years to 23rd June, 2016. 'Eejits to the left, Eejits to the right, into the valley of idiocy rode the dumbass electorate'... #NotTennyson

7 years ago today, a Google photos compilation, on Bleaklow's southern edges #ShelfStones USAF Superfortress wreck. @peakdistrict.bsky.social #Memories 😊

Major Oak is dead 😢Long live its saplings 😃 @dribelad.bsky.social

#MondayMotivation When you realise you are likely to expire before your new debit card 🤔🙄😂 Pics, a past sunny June day exploring a pathless side Clough, near Dunford Bridge @peakdistrict.bsky.social It's been a rollercoaster ride. No regrets 🎶🎵 #JeNeRegretteRien 🎵🎶 #Piaf😊

Breaking Noooos !! "The Straits of Ooor Moose to be reopened, biggest news ever, very big"... #NotOorWullie #Amooosing #WeAreNotAmoosed 🙄 I need to get out mooore. "Thankyooo for yooor attention to this matter"... #CabinFever

5 years ago, sweet wildflower meadows alongside the Leeds -Liverpool canal at Ridley, W Yorks. #Grandson

Another compilation, courtesy of Google photos, June 2018. A return to the @peakdistrict.bsky.social following 8 years with a Cumbria base. It was good to be back, with the bonus of the glorious spring and summer of 2018☀️ A sun drenched day exploring the Upper Derwent valley from Slippery Stones😃

A multitude of rock formations that I've photographed over the years, courtesy of Google photos. @peakdistrict.bsky.social 'Rock n Roll days' #Memories 😊

...and following on from my video post... Pic 1) On the far horizon can be seen the humps of Barrow Stones and Bleaklow Stones (pls expand pic) just to the left of the turbine Pic 2) Black Hill and Holme Moss. 2 years ago, on an evening like this, I'd be up there somewhere until sundown #HappyDays😊

Drove up to the S Yorks edge of the #HolmeValley The wind turbines which you can see from the Upper Derwent Edges doing what they do. @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Alarm clock's going off at home, no snooze button option 🥱

youtube.com/watch?v=GD2T... ♥️ Epic.

#FingerpostFriday A day early. Confusion in the bog. #CoasttoCoast #Westmorland2014

June 2013. The ascent of White Coomb. #SouthernUplands Pics 1) 2) Wild Goats. Pic 3) The route up White Coomb, gained by crossing the stream above 'Grey Mare's Tail' waterfall. Pic 4) Loch Skeen from above. #MoffatHills 💚 Quiet, underwalked. #Scotland

We are about to get a good wetting. Courtesy of Netweather Radar. #HolmeValley

#AI Breaking News !!!! 'Artificial Intelligence' may have been around longer than was originally thought.

youtube.com/watch?v=3H_V... Previously posted on twitter, a moving, fitting song for a hillwalker whose days on the hills and mountains are over. Beautiful words, no regrets, glorious memories. Enjoy your days on the hills my friends, enjoy 'The Joy of Living' 🎵🎶

#FingerpostFriday Howgills background, from the last time I was there, 2018. 💚 #Orton #Westmorland

Thunderstorm right now, to the south of here, Sheffield and S Yorks.

Ah that's better, feel free to imagine 🥶 Around Cook's Study and Snailsden. #HolmeValley @peakdistrict.bsky.social

M62 right now, major problems all the way between Cleckheaton W Yorks and Rochdale, Gtr Manchester. The stuff of nightmares 🫣😬😳

Got my Tilley hat out, it's seen the Himalayas, Alps, Snowdonia, Lakes and Peaks, many a Munro.... It's evolved to have new ventilation features. Like me, it's seen better days🙄🤣 #Characterful 🔆☀️🌤️😎🤠

👀🌤️☀️🔆😎 It's gonna be too hot 🙄🤣

Scenes at Reform HQ when they realise the first Englishman to win the US PGA title in over 100 years is of Indian heritage. #Golf

Stunning cloudage on a summer's evening, above Bamford @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Birdsong on Otley Chevin, spring last year. The last time I was there with my grandson. How I miss those shared adventures with him 😔 #Wharfedale

#YIPEE Yorkshire Independence Party England Exit ! #MadHouse 🤪 Pic #HolmeValley cloudage.

"Oh to be in England, now that spring is here" hailstorm right now 🙄

Lenticular clouds highlighted as the sun sets over the saddle of West Nab. #Spring2022 #HolmeValley

Political post. Born in 1945, WW2 I'm on my last lap of life. Don't want to leave this orb with the poison of creeping fascism. Fascism crept into Germany firstly by legitimate vote, what followed next is history. "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" F*** Farage *F**" Fascism

Today's non political post. Who's that loud mouthed male 'blow hard' hollering questions, from the rabid 'Press Pack' outside No 10 ?🙄 Pic, past sunset, from the top of the Woodhead Pass, following a big day in the 'Upper Derwent Valley'... @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Yesterday's adventures included buying a new steamer in Tesco, Brighouse. Got it home, still with security tags on🙄 We got out without any alarms sounding. Situation today, took it to Tesco, Penistone for removal, however it set the alarm off entering the store🙄 Exciting times 🤣 Rectified 👍

On football and coincidence... Aston Villa's manager, Emre, has taken 3 clubs to the Europa League final... SeVILLA... VILLAreal... AstonVILLA... Pic of colourful fabric I got in Nepal. Worn around the waist by Tibetan women in exile in Nepal 🇳🇵

Following last week's post that I'd seen walkers in The Howgills wearing brolly contraptions on their heads🤣and finding out they were real(loads on Amazon) I invested in one. @brendar.bsky.social asked for review👇 Ideal if you want to look even more gormless than usual Cheap way to self garrot👍

#SitClun right now, Eye Clinic, awaiting regular eye jabs.👀 #MacD

2 years ago, Hey Woods carpeted wth bluebells and a view over to Castle Hill. #HolmeValleyWoods 💚

More pics from my last visit to the NW Highlands. A walk on a trod on Rannoch Moor, from the A82, Loch Ba (1st pic panorama, please expand) over to meet the West Highland Way. #GoldenMemories 😊 #RannochMoor #LochBa 👌 #May2019

My last visit to the NW Highlands, a walk up the 'Devil's Staircase' on the West Highland Way, from top of Glencoe. In latter years I found that the best weather was invariably mid April to the end of May, with the added bonus that the 'wee beasties' weren't active.May 2019 FAO @brendar.bsky.social

2009, 12 months spent concentrating on the peaks of Snowdonia. Pics of a glorious late spring day, up via Cwm Bochlwyd and Y Cribin onto The Glyderau and return via Cwm Tryfan. It was a hot day, the combination of sweat, sun oil and insect repellent combined to form the 'essence of pleasure' 🥵👃😁

For lovers of pointy peaks, The Cuillin ridge as seen from the summit of Bla Bheinn, summer 2011. #IsleofSkye

Memories.2017. Highlighting Stickle Pike and Caw, 2 shapely fells that didn't make it into Wainwright's 7 guide books, but in his OL fells book. Beautiful archetypal @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social scenery, ideal for days when The Lakes are 'rammed' ample parking near the bridge at Ulpha #DuddonValley👌

There's another large moorland fire, somewhere near Scammonden and the M62, the smoke is engulfing Calderdale and Halifax and probably wafting over to S Bradford and Leeds.😐

Pic 1) Various 'equines' seen on my walks, mostly around home #HolmeValley Highlighting... Pic 2) 'Shergar' in profile 🤫🤐 Pic 3) Fell ponies near LB Airport, Yeadon Pic 4) 'Shergar' #InCognito near Old Glossop 🥸