Geocaching Trip in Over Silton - 12 /10/20

 Geocaching Trip out to do the upper loop of Dog Walk Geocaches and Micky N Dave’s ‘Grandma we love you’ Geocache.  At Upper Silton, North Yorkshire, UK.

Well, here it is the mass long log that we sometimes put on geocaches.  We set off first to Micky N Dave’s which we found a handbag in which was rather touching and the contents.  Nice idea and a scenic area also. Good to see the geocaches in tact too!

We then arrived and parked up near #2 of the dog walk and walked up doing the geocaches backwards up the hill as we thought better up first then you go down later! Signed all the logs as either Harps and Sheep or using Rae’s trackable stamp.  

    

We just couldn’t find one of the geocaches which was a multi stumped stump! … Which we had to DNF think it was the third one up from the Greyhound one which we started at.  We met the Bowes family another group of cachers on the way around and had a few hints at one of the caches which was nice and also got tracked! 

The weather was dry but cold and by the end of the loop or rather if your starting the right way it would be the start it had been raining and it was soggy and very muddy.  We found that the loop below was even worse with mud and nearly up to our knees!

     

We met a few muggles on our way around but people seemed to disappear… interesting scenery, farm lands and moor lands.  Thanks for the geocache hides, very interesting containers to Mel and Freddie 17 (and Mia!).

A cute little kennel cache... you can

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This log is also going to be published on my random blog at:

https://www.teaandbooklady.blogspot.com 

We had a great day! Would recommend the area for a good walk, until next time and hopefully more up to date blogs too! 

Blessings,

Rae.

Fairy Doors, Remembering a local actress and being a book fairy.

Ok, so a random post here after doing a shift at our local tourist information centre in our town.  Ok, things definatly have changed *excuse spelling having random weird autocorrect issues!* There's been some lovely flowers spotted out and about on my bike rides recently... Along with the local United Response Boot Shop, a place where people with special needs and disabilities go to learn crafts and wow these doors are beautiful!! It's a shame like anywhere some have been vandalised so, I even put one up for a temp sighting to help them out...  wonder how long that one will last!!

And last but very much not least, today marked the funeral procession and cheers of a well known actress and community helper lady in our area Bronwyn Jennison, who recently died this month.  Lovely lady and talented and well known.  What a send off she had people out in force clapping as the hurst passed by doing a circuit of the market place... they did her proud!

Rest in Peace Bronwyn! You were our towns sweetheart! Brightest of blessings and to your family also.  Rae. x

Sheriff Hutton Geocaching

Sheriff Hutton and Geocaching

Ok, so here I am after not having posted for a while again.  Yes, I feel awful again to those readers that follow my posts... I need more lessons and training to do them! Still trying to figure out how to put more photos up.

 

Well, we did a medium ish walk with 4 geocaches around the little village of Sheriff Hutton here in North Yorkshire. Parking at St Helen and the Holy Cross Church. 

The parish has a connection with the 15th century and the War of the Roses.  Research and information found via google and wikipedia.

We met 2 more blog doggies on the way around as I now call them who posed for a photo for this blog! :D With their owners. 2 very kind locals (we think they were) helped us find one of the geocaches, well the four of us looked everywhere which turned out in the end to be a DNF!! It's good that people do know it's there from the village.  

Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in the Rydale district of North Yorkshire, England, UK. It lies about ten miles north by north east of the historic city of York. www.sheriffhutton.co.uk 

We then went to the Highway Man pub for a drink and some crisps after the walk.

The inn / pub from the outside as pictured above....website found at: https://www.thehighwayman.uk.com/ they seemed to do meals on a Sunday from 6pm during this phase of lockdown easing...not sure if that would change.

We had a good afternoon out caching and the weather seemed to stay great... until the next post...Rae.

Randomness and Rae...

Random blog in lockdown again! ...

Well, ok, so back at my flat, have got a new Akaso DK 7000 action camera to connect to my bike for people that are in lock down and for the life of me, I have tried everything... and cannot get it to connect up with my chromebook, so if anyone knows how please please let me know!! 

Well, its been a busy week and with my mums birthday coming this sunday we may just get out and a bout, maybe with the lockdown easing somethings open... anyone else so fed up with this and just want to go somewhere?  Sad news, ok, I know I am a mad nature fan.... eco friendly lover or what you wish to call me lol.  Someone's gone and drilled and poisoned some of the trees in the wood behind me.  A friend thinks its because they're wanting to do a housing developement over at the back down there next to the old railway line.  Which isn't good me and my friend have already said we didn't want it to happen on a consulation that was posted through our doors.  I continue to go on my facebook and help save our wood.

Untill next time in randomness, Rae 

Reviving a bumblebee

Lockdown Diary for Tuesday 16th June 2020

Here's a quickie of a blog post...

Today we've helped our local tourist office by planting plants in the gardens outside the office, which is to open in mid July for two days which is a good start.  At least something is open, yet still people are wary of how things will be done when picking up leaflets and what not when you go inside.  Unfortunately, I won't be doing any shifts and with the charity shop not opening to volunteers yet I am sort of wanting to do things haha! ... We've been pleased with ourselves today, we seemed to have revived a bumblebee, after it seemed distressed. 



Until the next post... <3 Stay safe and well.

Bruce the Hedgie

George and Bruce 

The names of two of the hedgehogs that visit the Harp's and Willis' households where we live on our street.  Bruce is the largest of the two hedgehogs that our neighbour Mrs Willis weighed...  he weighs a staggering 1113 grams in weight! We both raise money and also take any injured, poorly or hedgehogs that are out in the day... to The Little Silver Hedgehog.  Emma @ https://littlesilverhedgehog.com/ rescues and nurses injured ones back to health as well as Mrs Willis being one of the foster mums being there for the hedgies getting better. Emma's facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/littlesilverhedgehog/
(Bruce in the garden)

George is a smaller hedgehog that we have found to be one of the 'lower rank' when it comes to him meeting Bruce...I've never thought hedgehogs could fight like that or be like that.  But they're interesting creatures and when they're not together interesting eaters and roamers!

Until the next post, stay safe and well during these strange times.

A late reply of an apology and also hedgehog diaries...

A busy lockdown random diary entry...

Well, ok, so I know this isn't a good enough excuse for being busy doing geocaching, walking and gardening for not doing my blog... so my apologies for that.

We've recently been looking after, or rather putting food out for the resident hedgehogs in our garden.  Along with the bee and insect hotel and reviving a bumble bee earlier today.  That and other random things... These are the geocaches (Want to know about geocaching click here!) we did nearby the nearby Terrington area geocaches and found a few but not that many which is sad... have any of you done them and can maybe help?

 (the geocaches mapped out screen shot from my mobile phone) 

Photo of woods near Stittenham, north yorkshire, very boggy wood! ... Views and all photos on this blog/vlog Copyright @ Rae Rowan Photography 

next post is the hedgehog diaries!. ...

Moorlands wildlife Reserve & Brown’s Garden Centre.

Well, lockdown has got us all stuck inside. So we decided to go and try Browns garden centre to get some bird feed, flowers and also compost. Not to mention feeding pots for the resident hedgehog 🦔 which comes every night here. Lovely place and friendly staff all doing there best and most customers keeping to the social distancing rules that were mapped out for us. 

Then we went to the Moorlands Wildlife Reserve down the road. Another beautiful spot that we haven’t been to. Didn’t realise how big it was!! Photos to follow. ☺️ Stay Safe and well. 

Mindy's Karuna Doves

Karuna Doves 🕊

My dear Kindspring.org friend after taking to social media more these days and also tech things, has been making doves, the oragami kind, which she has done for years and some time now.  She recently posted on www.kindspring.org about what Karuna means and the doves along with a poem.  Beautiful! <3 Feel free to join us all, I have just got my kindspring smile cards today that people get to leave in places (although, would people still leave paper during these strange times, on street corners and lampposts?) .  Here's the photo of the cards and little things I was sent. :)

and now this is what Mindy hereself said on the post:

Karuna is the Sanskrit word for compassion.
As the need arises, I am encouraged to fold origami doves. I have made and shared over 40,000 origami Peace Doves, with special flocks for loss, breast cancer, LGBT, etc…so, now I am making Karuna Doves.
These doves are made of bright solid colors and folded with compassionate intention.
A simple 5 petal lotus is drawn on the breast of each dove — signifying peace, love, hope, faith and healing. The message below is tucked into a wing of each dove.
If you’d like a small blessing of Karuna Doves to share, please let me know via private message. As my gift to you, there is never a charge for the doves, or for the postage.
Thank you for being the positive change we are seeing in the world, my kind friends.

We are all in this together.
It’s apparent,now more than ever,how what we door don’t doaffect each other.
Be thoughtful.Be kind.Share what you can.Encourage and support.
Keep making a positive difference.
These are the timeswe were made for.
mj
May this dove always lead you in thedirection of Peace, my friend.

Visit KindSpring.org for more inspiration.

Haverwitz walk, Earth Day and Blackbirds...

Another Day in Lockdown, in the North of England...

Well, we've been gardening, attempting to get a Tesco supermarket food delivery selection of slots and feeding the resident blackbird.  All that amongst walking, bike riding and at my 'desk' or rather my mums dining room table.  Waiting now for a slimming world dinner and veg.  Hoping that one day there will be a takeaway Chicken Korma with rice, naan bread and bombay aloo! Here's hoping that they'll let me and them have it one evening! 

These are the photos of our latest walk around our town through Haverwitz Farm, viewing the village of Crayke from the top then following Haverwitz beck to the alotments and walk 1 of the local tourist office walk leaflets.

The current excitement consists of a Argos shop, Tescos grocery shopping, (excited as we get one coming tomorrow!) picking up the mail and waiting for the milk man to arrive before wiping everything with antibacterial wipes or cleaning stuff that we can find.  We've painted the summer house (me being at my mums that is), gardened, chopped the silver birch down (which I definately protested at poor thing!).  As well as odd meetings with friends, family etc on Zoom, facebook and sometimes jitzi. 

Lets hope they find a vaccine soon and this whole pandemic ends, also hoping that the death toll for the Coronavirus (hating that more word/name more and more now as the year goes on).  Far too many people died.

Until next time, 

Blessings and stay safe and well, From Rae. x

Old Telephone kindness hits Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

With all that is happening in the world right now and with others struggling out there in a place called Muthill near Crieff in Perthshire has a old red phone box that has been turned into a "village larder" to help out anyone who might need it or who is struggling  People donate what they can then. Then people hopefully will take what they’re really running out of. Let’s hope it’s not too Much. Way to go Scotland. 👏🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📸 photo by John Fitzgerald O'Donnell on Facebook post that was shared to me by a Facebook friend. 

Faith in the the posties

Just seen this that was posted on posties and naughts and crosses, where people mainly with kiddies. On Facebook Ms V Mac recently posted that she had recieved this note 📝 from their posts. Got to love how kindness works. ☺️🙏 Since then a few posties all over have done little random acts. 

In this time, stay safe and well people. Blessings Rae. 

Lockdown Teds

There’s a family that have been rather busy during each day of lock down here in the North of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. The Richardson’s from my town up here have been putting their teddy bears 🧸 out each day for passers by to cheer them up. They’ve even been on there local radio station. BBC York. Here are the past and the current one today is Elvis! Long live King Richardson Ted! They even had a Boris the pm Ted on a bike. I try and go everyday to get a photo for myself. 

Days 1 & 2 of Positives a Day

So I’ve been taking to Facebook, Instagram and What’s App with sending my contacts and friends positive blessings, messages and photos. Friends that I’ve got all around the world. And now hope to do it on here on my blog to until things be back to normal. People keep sending me things in to put on so here are the photos so far. For you to enjoy. 🥰 

Beaded heart by Matilda Beeson. 

Bixie and Piper photo by E.Chamberlain and sent in by Bixie’s (left) owner Kate. 

Angel sightings sent in by L.Holden. 

The need to go out... then there's the woods!

Stuck inside?! 

Hello Blog readers!  Nope, I've not got the current virus thats going under the names of Corona Virus or CORVID-19... despite chatting with a friend about why on earth it's called that, the last one being was it officially diagnosed and the first case last year hence the 19?? Why are all the loo rolls, kitchen roll etc running out and no one getting anymore in, why are people getting angry on social media about people panic buying, why are they even panic buying? Ok, so I'm borderline Autistic, have dyslexia and dyspraxia along with ADHD.  That's not going to stop my love of blogging and wont hopefully stop you reading my blog posts.  But it also hopefully won't make me more acceptable to the virus! I've known a few people including my own father having to isolate himself and stay inside in risk of getting the blasted thing!!  

It's all getting to confusing for words for my liking, i'm not sure what to do or think, I don't know about anyone else!! Apologies if theres some spelling errors in the message.  Just wanting to put a blog across and wondered what people thought...

Stay safe and well readers,  

Rae. x

Sutton Bank and the White Horse - Kilburn and Sutton-under-whitestone-cliff, North Yorkshire

Sutton Bank & The White Horse 

Walking Trip and Short Review

Wednesday 4th March 2020

We parked in the Yorkshire Gliding Club customer car park and walked up to the Gliding clubs little cafe which is open from 9:30 and stops serving food about 2pm weekdays. A good view while watching the gliders taking off and landing, although there didn't seem to be many today, not sure if it was the weather conditions, which weren't too bad today then they have been.  I felt it was quite mild for the time of year coming up to Springtime.  The daffodils and some other spring time flowers out already while we drove up to the Gliding place.  Saw 3 or 4 gliders and that seemed to be it for today, although they were doing some maintanance work it seemed on some of them in the base. 

You can have flights and go up in a Glider or Microlite. A sheet that we read whilst there mentioned for £25.00 you could try out a simulator before booking on a real flight to see if you liked it or not which is good for the people that might be interested.   

The website for the YGC is: https://www.ygc.co.uk/  

If anyone is ever interested in having a look at what they offer.  

Myself, my mum and step dad go up for walks up there and there are also some Geocaches (www.geocaching.com) done by the geocachers, islaynut and melandfreddie17.  Who I've had the honour of meeting myself.  Lovely people.  

Whilst going back to the car we decided to go for the nearest geocache which was from the cacher islaynut and came across a family of 3 deer walking across the road up towards the gliding centre.  Mrs Harp had to get out and try and get a photo, which went rather well but might be a bit blurry here are some photos.  

Walking towards the visitors centre from the main white horse cliff top.

The view from the top of the white horse.

A local event that is coming up ...

Going in for lunch at the Gliding Centre.

 

The deer just crossed the road 

Gliders getting ready to set off... 

New £20 Bank Note.

Love half asleep Chris’s vlogs especially about the bank notes he collects 💴 Here is his latest video. ☺️ 

Bookfairy Business 🧚‍♂️

Today I’ve been dropping books off this time in Thirsk! Here’s a post I posted on my Instagram. Feel free to follow me!! A big book fairy drop and exciting news coming soon! 

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zFk7zAQkn/?igshid=1dk28ie78k21r it doesn’t seem to like me posting photos anymore.  Until next time. Rae 

Thought of the day 7/2

I find this so true. -Rae

Masham Trip 5/2/2020

Today me and my mum and step dad went on a Geocaching expedition around the many public footpaths of Masham. A quaint marker town here in North Yorkshire England. Minus losing my walking stick and having to contact the nature reserve we had a great time walking around the Marsfield Nature Reserve and Masham town. Although only seeing one stall a lady selling clothes on the small market square. With lots of tea rooms there we decided to go into Johnny Baghdad’s for fish cakes soup and a sandwich 🥪. Then walked round in a loop through the wetlands and nature reserve. Rae losing her stick 😔 on the way. 4 out of 9 geocaches found the others being DNFS we had a good time and the weather stays great until it went dark at 5 ish. Seemed to stay light earlier tonight for some reason. Here’s the photos of today. Enjoy reading and looking! 

What are Book fairies? 🧚‍♂️

A bit about Book Fairies and Book Fairy website

Book fairies are people who, when they’ve finished reading a good book, want a unique and fun way to pass it on to the next person. They pop an official book fairy sticker on it, which reads ‘take this book, read it & leave it for the next person to enjoy’, and they might even add a ribbon to dress it up as a gift. When they’ve prepared their gift, they will hide it in public to be found… more on their website.  Here’s some of my photos of my drops. 

Thirsk Garden Centre

Got to love going to Thirsk Garden Centre on the way to work on a Thursday afternoon. (some bizarre reason it’s not letting me upload anymore photos.) Had a pleasant lunch 🥗 out with the family and just love the quirkiness and the little library there. 

Well with a visit for a cuppa If your up this way. 

Here’s their details;

https://www.thirskgardencentre.co.uk/

Garden Centre Open today from 

09:00  until 17:00

Coffee Shop Open today from 

09:00

 until 

16:30

To Contact them 

• Blakey Lane, YO7 3AB Thirsk
• T. 01845 523032
• E. info@thirskgardencentre.co.uk

Book fairy 🧚‍♂️ Drops books!!

I did my recent book drop here in my home town. I see they’ve been taken which is good. #ibelieveinbookfairies on Instagram @bookfairiesworldwide -Rae

A Happy New Year?

Ok, so this is very bad indeed that I’ve not been seen on here since bonfire night last year but have been around and about doing my random acts and still plan to update and use my blog a bit more this year in 2020!! Here’s some recent pictures of my antics out taking photos for Instagram and out walking and geocaching. We did the Wixley wander this January and was a bit too muddy going out geocaching with my mum and step dad. By the way it’s my Step dads birthday today so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TEZ!!! ☺️🥳

Spring has finally started to come!! 

The geocaches 

The Harps and below the Whixley Minotaur. 

A car very at the Anchor Inn. 

Mud glorious mud! 

Until next time. Blessings Rae.