Blue Lias

The cliffs at Lyme Regis from which Mary Anning excavated her fossil finds.

Part of the Blue Lias, a geological formation of alternating layers of shale and limestone, which formed a shallow seabed during the Jurassic era, they are continually eroded by storms and rainfall, exposing fossils until the next tide washes them away.

Christmas Carrots, Armley Moor

Poor old ponies! We were late with the Christmas carrots this year but at least Santa had left some bales of hay.

'Arctic' conditions & lack of central heating see us tunnelling with renewed fervour:

Tarko

In Sunderland we spent our teenage days playing 'Stalker' in the strange landscape left as the coal mines shut down, waiting until it was dark enough to climb over barbed wire to read Shelley in the shipyards or sit in the chained-up shuggy boats at the funfair near Roker Beach, planning our escapes... foghorns and perma-mist, Peel's voice on tiny radios.





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"There's an Escape Tunnel Under the Settee"

Work on the Tunnel progresses as attention is diverted by these splendid new tributes to illustrious Armley escapees.

Little London Lantern Parade and Feast

Last Friday to Little London with parents, children and staff from Blenheim Primary School, which my daughter attends, for the Lantern Parade starting from neighbouring Little London Primary.

It's one of the areas in Leeds in which I've taught English as a Foreign Language: extra tuition, home visits, lugging dictionaries up tower block staircases. Late night SMS grammar emergencies.

Little London, little everywhere - at Blenheim Primary alone there are children from 56 nations, all of them fluent in Yorkshire within their first year.

(With a small police escort) we went in the subway and lived!

Which way?