Category: Paul’s Blog

Taking the photos is often the easy bit, the time consuming part is going through them and deciding which to keep. Before finally deleting them I went through them and decided that these 3 were worth keeping. I think this is actually a better shot of the drummer, Joe Crabtree, than the one I posted…

For my birthday this year Lucy got 2 tickets for the Wishbone Ash tour appearance at the Picturedrome in Holmfirth. Argus and Pilgrimage are still 2 of my favourite albums. Lucy reminded me of the holiday we went on where she kept asking for Wishbone Ash to be played in the car so I guess…

Quite a while ago now I promised a re-vamped Baildon website. The problem has been finding the time to create or migrate the content from the old site. I didn’t want to migrate everything because by now a lot of it will be out-of-date. Therefore this Summer I walked round Baildon taking a photo of…

Even though the lunch-time walk posting was quite a long one I have decided there were several things missing so here is an attempt to add the missing photos. The posting is basically to show the things that can be seen on a lunchtime walk from my desk in Salts Mill. I usually walk along…

Though I see quite a few Sparrows in Baildon I have never seen one in my garden. The hedges along Cliffe Avenue and Thompson Lane often have Sparrows around them. However today we had a Sparrow on our feeders in the garden. What was great though was that it was a Tree Sparrow. I have…

At Salts Mill the area under the Tourist Information Office has been tidied and decorated. As of Oct 2013 it is now The Art Rooms. I have not been to see what that actually is but of course I had to go and get some photos of the area before it was tidied up too…

I had been thinking that I would post several times about my recent lunchtime walks but I have decided to do one, longer one, instead. It has been a while in the making. It has bits and pieces from this year along the canal and river. The main reason for doing the one posting is…

On a recent walk on Baildon Moor I sat quietly on the edge of the 11th fairway of the golf course and was rewarded by several Skylark coming and feeding on the fairway quite close to me. The Skylark is an RSPB Red Status bird. Its population has declined significantly. The Moors are a great…