A Dalesman’s Diary December 2024 It started with chats over the kitchen table as the harassed GP unburdened himself after a testing day of house calls and surgery appointments – his talk was often hilarious, sometimes curious, occasionally bleak, but always...
A Dalesman’s Diary November 2024 She was as doughty as Yorkshire limestone, as controversial as she was modest, as defiant as she was determined. An outsider, she shook up the arts establishment and once admitted: “I’m not as weak-kneed as I think people would...
A Dalesman’s Diary July 2024 They are quite different, Maureen Prest and Elaine Laycock, but much more unites than divides these daughters of Yorkshire. Both are possessed of that steely northern grit and determination to get things done and right what they see...
A Dalesman’s Diary March 2024 Standing sentinel over the surrounding countryside, it’s an iconic part of the Yorkshire landscape and has been for at least 12,000 years. Ever since the Wharfedale Glacier ground its way through this part of the world, the limestone...
A Dalesman’s Diary January 2024 Rod Dimbleby, chairman of the Yorkshire Dialect Society If you ocker* or allock** you’re in danger of missing it… by popular demand, a new course is being held which explores and helps to preserve that part of our heritage...
