When you think of visiting a city in Yorkshire, you first thoughts are probably York, Leeds or maybe Sheffield, but Yorkshire has several smaller cities less on the radar that are well worth a visit. Last week, on a beautiful sunny day, I visited the city...
Today is Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day, it is traditionally celebrated on the 4th Sunday in Lent. Yorkshire’s most famous Mother wasn’t actually a mother but instead a famous prophetess. Mother Shipton was born Ursula Sontheil in 1488 and legend has it she was born in a...
Today, 9th November, marks the 105th anniversary of the first meeting of the Women’s Institute or WI as it is better known. It was originally started to revitalise rural communities and encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War, it is now...
It’s Halloween on Saturday and it falls right in half term. Yorkshire has hundreds of (covid safe) ways to enjoy it. We went to the great Halloween trail at Burton Agnes Hall on Saturday and yesterday we got frightened in the Scare Room at Beetle Bank...