30th Oct 2019. It was like herding cats; trying to organise a car full of Shaymen is one thing but co-ordinating a second carload was almost impossible…
27th Oct 2019. It was one of those days that never really got light; the rain on the motorway was relentless, visibility so poor you could hardly see…
6th Oct 2019. Autumn has arrived, the motorway verges are a sea of vibrant colour as the trees begin to shed their leaves…
29th Sept 2019. An early start slates grey skies, persistent heavy rain, almost 300 miles ahead of us and the Cantankerous Shayman for company, no wonder most of the usual suspects had come up with excuses…
15th Sept 2019. Nottingham is an exciting sprawling cosmopolitan City; I know this because we spent most of Saturday lunchtime time driving around desperately trying to locate a decent take-away…
4th Sept 2019. “Look, there’s Pete Wild,†announced an excited Ripponden Shayman. “Where are you looking?†asked the Greetland Shayman all a dither…
27th Aug 2019. Baxenden, Wiswell, Billington and Osbaldeston; I honestly never knew these places existed until the Ripponden Shayman led us on a Lancastrian magical mystery tour…