Stan Graham's Leisure Guide for North and West Yorkshire
There’s an old saying that it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good and there was no better place to ratify that theorem than Harrogate Real Food Market. Covid has caused all kinds of devastation but it also seems to have provided the enterprising folk I met on Sunday with an opportunity, and…
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It was lovely not to have to catch a bus to get to an event, but to be able to walk there and back and still not rack up the total of my daily average step count. As well as that, the weather was just about perfect with lots of sun but a few passing…
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If it’s the third Sunday in the month then it has to be Harrogate Real Food Market. From 10.00am until 3.00pm Crescent Gardens becomes home to a selection of independent artisan food producers displaying their products which they have so lovingly created. And what a diverse bunch they are! My first port of call was…
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That wonderful actress and comedienne, Kerry Godliman, is coming to Yorkshire with her BOSH Tour. I’m not sure what BOSH stands for, I can imagine you all rolling your eyes in disbelief at that, but I am sure that it will be made clear on the nights. The press release for the tour contains a…
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No Horizon is a new musical by Andy Platt about Nicholas Saunderson. Who? I hear you ask. Well he was a scientist and mathematician born in 1682 in Thurlestone, Yorkshire, who worked as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge, a post also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking. Not at the…
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On Thursday, 9th January 2020 I spent the whole evening in a private room above the Adelphi with a Fat Cow and a Minger. Before you jump to any false assumptions these are the names of two of the cheeses on offer at the Scottish Cheese Night presented by Homage2Fromage. It would appear that the…
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I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that 2020 is very good to you. My year has started brilliantly with the rediscovery of the subject of one of my favourite reviews of the past. I was invited to a party just before Christmas, yes, just…
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I was going to wait until the beginning of December before I began to write about Christmas but my hand has been forced. The Festive Season comes early in Harrogate with the Annual Christmas Market being timed so as not to clash with the others in the vicinity and also to coincide with the turning…
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Tyke It To The Limit 