All aboard the Caravan of Love

Most weekends my wife, children, parents-in-law and their dogs can be found atop a hill in Yorkshire.


I sometimes visit them.

Quite why people would pay to sit in a metal box might when they have a perfectly good house at home is a question I sometimes ask, but it is fun for a short time (that's just before we all go crazy and kill each other due to being cooped up).

The moors are close by & it's very pleasant and healthy to go for a walk.

These are my delightful children roaming ala Cathy or Emily across the moors...........well, actually bothering sheep.

There's some great pubs in nearby Haworth too which is the principal attraction to my boozy wife.

and the Dales are close by with plenty of opportunity to go for walks so we're all happy.........

Out on the wiley, windy moors

Had a 'literary ramble' last weekend to Top Withins which is the basis for Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'. Quite a nice jaunt for the family this one- there were people walking with umbrellas and the signposts have Chinese directions on them.....

I tried to imagine the Bronte's roaming across the moors with the wind and rain bearing down on them, sheltering in the ruins and dreaming great things.

"Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff's dwelling. `Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed; one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun."Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.

All I had to contemplate was whether to leave my chocolate bar to the trip back.

It's only a short hour-long 4-5 mile walk from Haworth village.

See: http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/walks/withens/withens.asp

and http://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/places/top_withens.asp