Richards Ramblings

Tonight 04/09/2020 I set out tonight with bright sunlight hitting the clouds bringing them to life with a huge range of colours from a purply haze to oranges and reds. Walking towards my patch of the river, I call it mine, but I don’t own it, wish I did. 10 minutes into the walk a dark ominous blanket of cloud rolled over the sky running west to east effectively cutting out the sunset. But only over the half where the sun was actually...

Escape As I write this I am on the North York Moors and today as you read this it is just a fading memory of cliff top walks and Moorland expanse to escape into. No doubt about this, it is an escape from modern life. This was made clearer by a couple from London who were horrified at the lack of a cellphone signal. Oh, Horror you can’t speak to the office for a day! There are 2 aspects here. The constant connectivity of technology the...

Spaunton Moor  (28/08/2020) Weather, not a good thing to start with but as I start walking on Spaunton Moor today this is exactly where I am going start. I sat in the room waiting for my wife to start her interview I could hear the wind whistling through the gaps in the window frames. Not a bad thing. The rain hammering on the glass watching streaks run down it. So, a walk then.  I wouldn’t be around to disturb her. Spaunton Moor...

Dawn Field. I am standing in the middle of a field at 4.15 in the morning. There is a light low-level mist softly creeping around my legs covering the field and flowing over the river. It Moistens the grass and makes my feet damp. The sun has not reached the horizon yet but is starting to light up the clouds, (if there are any), in a spectacular fashion. A centre of red, an explosion of colour, which bursts out from the sun and slowly...