...and so it begins 💥💥💥

Atmospheric on the tops as blankets of low cloud slowly roll over Black Hill. #Winter2019 #IssuesRoad #HolmeValley @peakdistrict.bsky.social

26th February 2019, when we enjoyed several days of freak temperatures, up to 20c.☀️🌞 Pics around Alderman's Hill, Dovestones. @peakdistrict.bsky.social #HappyDays #Memories

A rare visit to the summit of the satellite peak of Roman Fell, firmly footed in the Warcop military firing range💥 July, 2017, when the red flags were lowered. 1)N to Murton Pike and Cross Fell. 2)S to Wild Boar fell. 3)Roman Fell. 4)The warnings #NPenninesAONB #Cumbria 😬 🫣I lived to tell the tale 😃

Turned out I'd reset language to Russian🙄 however with the help of Microsoft Co-pilot, I've managed to reset it to English and reset clock to BST. My application to rejoin MENSA is in😇 and my knowledge of the Russian language is......still minimal.🥴

Had a flat 🚗 battery, recharged fine 👍 Digi clock etc needed resetting, so tried to reset to BST I've managed to change the language to Croation or summat, so now I haven't got a clue what's going on 🙄🤪 Old clocks with knob to move hands far better Pics,Langdale 11 years ago, when I wasn't cursing.

Right now above home, snow lying over 1000ft, Black Hill and Holme Moss in the distance(Pic 1) will have a good covering. #HolmeValley @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Against all odds. Cloven stone. Moor Divock. @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social

Snow settling on lawn right now but road clear. However over the tops on A6024 Holme Moss and A635 'Isley road' conditions will be trickier.

Blimey, those wind gusts were fierce😬 It huffed and puffed until the walls fell down 🐷🐷🐷 Local Community Garden. #HolmeValley

Semper not tempur, 🙄 Losing it🤪

'Sic tempur tyrannis' 'Je suis Minnesota' 👊 Rays of resistance above home. #Crepuscular #HolmeValley

January, 8 years ago. It was bitterly cold 🥶 on the edges above Heyden Clough. But the air was crystal clear and the light at day's end was perfect. My 'hooter' 👃 recovered from frostbite. #HeydenClough #BlackHillMassif @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Nearly chopped my finger off in the car door this morning whilst visiting Podiatry at Holme Valley Memorial Hospital. Podiatry fixed it and I've got some superglue for if it starts to drop off😬 I was safer on Sharp Edge🙄 Rest of the day has gone well 😃 #OldEejit 🤪⚠️

#SpineRace No 249 finishing at 5 am, just 102 and 178 to finish now. It's not about winning the race, the great achievement is completing the race 👏👏

#SpineRace2026 Well done, Vicky Morris, No 202, finally, successfully completing the race at her 3rd attempt, 5th Lady. Vicky is the wife of a twitter friend. Following last year's similar performance by friend @nuddypants.bsky.social I appear to have a positive affect on anyone I'm tracking 😁😃🤣

Up in the early hours watching YouTube videos on the 2026 Spine Race, brilliant, highly recommend..... .....and who should appear, Mel, my podiatrist 🙄😁she can't keep away, so now helping out with the Spine team YouTube productions👍 .

Winter Spine Race, update from Mel at Tan Hill. Vicky Morris, No 202, who I'm following(married to a twitter friend) is still doing well in her attempt to finally complete the race, 3rd time lucky🤞🤞🤞

Just had a twitter chat with Mel. She's Ok, simply made the common sense decision not to continue and risk further aggravating the injury. Following last year's epic achievement 'nowt to prove'......

Following yesterday's withdrawal from the Winter Spine Challenger South race by injured Mel. Renewed interest today, following Vicky's attempt to complete the Full Winter Spine, 268 miles, after 2 previous attempts. Vicky is the spouse of someone I interact with on twitter. #AllezVicky

Sadly Mel @nuddypants.bsky.social has had to withdraw from the Spine Challenger South due to knee injury after several slips on ice. So here's a video of her completing the Full Winter Spine, 268 miles, at her 1st attempt, last January, in brutal conditions. Church bells at my end, Friday practice.

Re Mel @nuddypants.bsky.social breaking news from #TwonkywoodNewsServices

Mel has had to retire, I can only assume because of injury, hope not 🤞🤞 Previously she finished as the first woman in the Summer Spine Challenger South at her 1st attempt, and last winter finished as the 4th woman in the full Spine, 268 miles in brutal conditions. I know she'll be very disappointed

The next 15 hours will be run in darkness, over the snow and ice fields😬

Spine Challenger Race South. Mel @nuddypants.bsky.social tweeted me this morning, that she was going to take it steady.🙄 as if. She's just arrived at the Torside checkpoint 👀 as the fifth placed lady, only 30 seconds behind the 2nd place. #AllexMel

My favourite podiatrist @nuddypants.bsky.social is off for a run again tomorrow, this time the Montane Spine Challenger South, a mere 108 miles along the Pennine Way, thru the snow and ice and darkness, from Edale to Hawes. Much dot watching will be done 👀 #SitClub #AllezMel

Re the Amber weather warning ⚠️ for Holmfirth. We've had heavier frosts🙄😂

Holmfirth on the edge of Amber weather warning ⚠️ for snow, Thursday evening thru to Friday. It will be observed from a sedentary position in my study. #SitClubLivesOn

It's my beautiful granddaughter's 13th birthday today. She lives in Japan, fluent in both Japanese and English. She says she likes me because I do silly stuff 🙄😃 She's inherited the silly gene, here she is going out to listen church bell practice at my home (not oft heard in Japan) January 2023😍🥶🤣

At last, a scary storm name 'Storm Goretti' Well it does sound a little like garroted 😱

Tidal bore charging up the Solway Firth Estuary

Things you find out at Eye clinic, there is a Wright's Brandy snap factory and shop in Brighouse.😋😋😋😋

Food of the Gods 😋..... ..... available at Tesco, Brighouse....

It's my youngest son's 46th birthday, the weather was just like today's. ☀️🥶 My eldest son, who lives in Japan will be 50 next year. Proud of the men they have become. Don't forget to put your woolly hats on, folks.

Day late but Happy New Year to all you lovely #BlueSky folk Thank you for all your kindness, mirth and encouragement during a difficult 2025 for me. New Year, new resolution, to stop living my life on US eastern time😴 getting up earlier. Pics, a brilliant winter's day, 10 years ago around Dovestones

youtube.com/watch?v=zK_0... FAO @nickmoyes.bsky.social This is the version I know, so appropriate, so moving, if you've been a hillwalker.

Contrasting weather forecasts for the next few days, for Holmfirth. Pic 1) YrNo, Norwegian. Pic 2)Met Office. Both 1 and 2 seem to agree. Pic 3) BBC (source Meteo France) not so optimistic. Be interesting to see which is the most accurate. I know, I need to get out more🙄

Dramatic skies, at and around home, 18 months ago. #HolmeValley

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