My favourite ice cream Parlour: Beacon Farm, Sneaton near Whitby
Easter treat of make your own sundaes. Wonderful ice cream and excellent value at £5.50 for a two scoop sundae (contains liquorice and blackcurrant, chocolate, salted caramel and cherry ice creabs)
Got to review a great restaurant. Vegan, gluten free and run by a fabulous family who came here as refugees.
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Pleased to review Sick, an exhibition by Sarah Roberts at Leeds University.
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My first review for Leeds Living at The Art House in Wakefield last week. What a great place, really supportive to artists, refugees abd the local community. Plus some great art.
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Beautiful sunny day at RHS Harlow Carr yesterday. Bought a lottery ticket for £2 in the morning and was rewarded by getting entrance for £1 each (offer available until 23rd).l Lottery Week offers free or discounted entrance to lots of sites including National Trust properties with a lottery ticket
This will be a great Women’s Day Event at Bushop Auckland Town Hall. I interviewed Chinwe Russell a few years ago and found her fascinating. bishopaucklandtownhall.org.uk/bishoppost/a...
My partner of 35 years and I have never bought each other Valentine cards or presents. However, the last few years we have been out to dinner as we have found some great deals.
Thank you, thought I had a good list of Manchester library history but had missed this.
Heard Brian speak at Leeds Literature Festival. Struck me that our country would have been very different if the centre of power had stayed in the North as it was once.
My Gambian high point: bird watching at Kotu Creek. Easily accessible for tourists and community (rice fields & vegetable patches). In recent weeks a wall has started to be built, any development would be disastrous for wildlife, ecotourism and local people. Tourism ministry email:
info@motc.gov.gm
Discovered a great gallery space and amazing exhibition. Lives Less Ordinary has gathered art by working class artists from small regional collections and displayed the diverse display in the beautiful surrounding of Two Temple Place. See it if you can. twotempleplace.org/exhibitions/...
Of course you can! Try doing a thousand words a day. I have found that quite manageable - should even leave some time for editing
We need more aqua aerobics classes. Wherever I go they are over subscribed. Men often miss out as the women seem to be better at booking as soon as they go online.
This new restaurant already has a special place in my heart. So pleased to be asked to review it. Bobby Geetha is friendly and a real professional, hope he stays in Leeds.
Drake the Bookshop in Stockton is good, they are part of the Crossing the Tees book / library festival in mid June. Truman Books in Farsley Leeds run a local literature festival in the autumn. There is also Holdfast, a bookshop on a barge in Leeds Dock.
Great album. Came out when I was 16. Debbie Harry was the first cool person called Debbie.
This was an unusual assignment for me but I am glad I agreed to review Opera North’s staging of Love Life.
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Great photographer. Loved seeing his photos of Skinningrove displayed earlier this year at Land of Iron Museum in Skinningrove tottmagazine.co.uk/articles/rev...
Looks like it will be a good year for jazz in Leeds. Pleased to review the first Jazz Leeds event of the year. leedsliving.co.uk/music-dance/...
Very occasionally the last government did something good. A real shame that plans to allow the release of beavers on private land have been blocked. Hope the government will reconsider this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What on earth do people take? I recently booked one 20kg case between two of us for a 10 day holiday. When I put it on the scales it was only 16kg despite having included 2kg of books for a local library.
Made me smile. Images of you following large fish down to the sea.
Scary for local people or walkers who might need an ambulance or mountain rescue.
UK Rail Sale Starts tomorrow. From 14 to 20 January some fares will go on sale at up to 50% off for travel between 17 January and 31 March. All companies included except except Hull Trains, Lumo, Merseyrail and Translink Northern Ireland but many don’t seem to be promoting the sale.
Great to see Bradford being recognised for its great culture. The opening event looked amazing despite the cold. But shocked by the negative, racist comments on other social media, including some fake child abuse posts.
Looking forward to the next date.
👏 Heroes with ladles: the chefs of Gaza risking death to save lives
Amid the rubble and chaos, Gaza’s volunteers, medics, and teachers are risking everything to feed, heal, and educate a besieged people
By David Goff
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Great article David
Has anyone found a useful pitch call out on here yet?
