Hedgehog Heros🦔

A Durham Rescue Centre has been nominated and awarded Spike Hedgehog Foods Hero Award by Bev Stoker via FB. WELL DONE DAVE!! Not to mention his famous bald (now not!) Hedgehog 🦔 Keith. 

Dave's rescue post

Euan's guide & Reviews

 Hello all!

Today's post is about a website, a group of people, a charity called Euan's guide.  That help disabled people via disability access reviews.  People write reviews on their website of places that they have visited and encourage others to do so as well.  Although it's not just about the reviews, well it is but there are also the "Red Cord Cards" .... You know the Red Cords that hang down from the disabled loos well, every disabled loo should really have one! ... the cards attach to them letting people know that they should hang loose.  Trust me I've seen a few that haven't... shockingly, along with Raydar keys the keys for disabled public loos some of the locks and cords are broken and out of use. I wonder if there is anything called disabled access activists...ohhhh I could tell of you of a few places lol! Anyways! 

https://www.euansguide.com/ is the link to their website to have a look on and if you go right to the bottom to the little foot menu it will mention the red cord cards i was on about.  =Rae

Free Landing and Aldwalk Bridge, North Yorkshire

 Rae's curiosity lead her to...

Aldwalk Bridge...

There has been a river crossing here for hundreds of years - the area once called Rudford Wath, wath meaning a fordable stream - and a ferry once ran between the banks. However, it was dangerous and unreliable in the winter weather, and in 1772 an Act of Parliment was granted to John Thompson of nearby Kirby Hall to build a bridge.

Today, this is the perfect spot to enjoy a picnic, or just res and watch the river traffic flow by.  Nowadays, the commercial traffic has been replaced by pleasure craft such as powerful cruisers and jolly narrowboats.  Keep an eye open for the damselflies, such as the banded damoselle.  You might even be lucky enough to spot a brilliantly-coloured kingfisher and you will almost certainly see noisy groups of mallard.  The wild flowers have been a picture in spring and summer in this area.  

This has long been a popular site for fisherman who seak out roach, perch, barbel and pike.  Thompson agreed on condition that the bridge remained in private hands - and today the Aldwalk Bridge remains one of the only eight privately owned toll crossings in the country.  Costing 40p to get across well as of May 2021!  The stury iron crossing you see today was opened on 6th April 1877 two years after the first bridge, designed by Harewood House architect John Carr, fell into the water.

Serene as the scene is today this was the site of a tragedy where in 1810 you men stood on the bridge to watch ice floes speeding beneath on the flood water.  In their excitement, they raced from one side of the bridge to the other - tracgically the railing gave way and 13 fell into the water.  But only one of the bodies was ever found. 

Nun Monkton and Geocaching

 Nun Monkton & Geocaching

Situated over the river bank from Beningborough Hall and gardens, Nun Monkton is one of the rather up market  little area of North Yorkshire.  It's a village with a civil parish in the Harrogate district of our area.  It's situated about 8/9 miles outside the city of York about North Westish from the city.  The village is at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Nidd, with cottages and houses which are grouped around the village green and the 'pub / restaurant' The Alice Hawthorn. The Alice Hawthorn .  (see link in blue!)

 

The Geocaches there were on a nice route but hard to get to if you didn't know the right foot path which was annoying as we seemed to be searching everywhere, with no luck.  It's nice for a walk around near the river though when you get to where your wanting to end up... 

The church in Nun Monkton is St Mary's Church an Episcopal church in the village.  Postcode if your wishing to park nearby the area and telephone number if your of the Christian Religion and visiting the area are: YO26 8ES and 01423 331142

Lovely Church to visit and was nice and cool on such a hot day when we visited.  

Until next post, Rae.

Hesley Worker finds Random Act!

 Hesley Group worker finds Random Act of Kindness in North Yorkshire town!

   

The above pictured Random Act of Kindness, little laminated card that Rae did last week and she's been putting them all over her local Edwardian market town up here in North Yorkshire, England, UK.  Made one Hesley Group worker, over the moon to pick up the little random act in these rather strange and hard times.  K. Roberts who works locally in the town found this whilst on her walk one lunch time and decided to comment on it on the local facebook page.  Which Rae was tagged in by one of her friends that noticed it was her work! 

K. Roberts said "Found this on my lunchtime walk today, thank you it really meant something to me." Well we're glad we certainly helped someone Thank you!!! :D - Rae.

Too long and not logging!

 Hello Strangers,

Ok, so here I am again doing a strange blog post after not blogged for what seems like a decade and with my rather bad writing skills!  I'll never be a writer or write a book ha ha.  I'm too random and my grammar seems to be all over the place at this moment in time.  Not to mention im addicted to touch typing when I do these kinds of blogs.  Always wanting to do a blog about something or another that peaks my curiosity but never actually get round to figuring out what words to say on a blog.  Do you guys read this and have any tips? I'm thinking do people read blogs any more with whats been happening and lockdown and covid 19? 

So as we come out of lockdown slowly and hopefully for the best in the near future here in England, UK I hope this finds my readers well if I still have any left? I've been still out walking in the woods behind my little flat here in Yorkshire.  We finally heard the cuckoo for the first time about a week or so ago, seems to be coming later this year migrating from Africa. Do others think that I always wonder?

Still doing my geocaching and for those cachers out there we're going to the uk lincoln mega this August 2021 hopefully if we can also we are trackable on the website www.geocaching.com and our code is for discovery only at: WBX9FJ if you want to discover us? 

The weather recently here has been strange one day or rather time its pouring rain then sunny then over cast again, it's really weird.   I keep getting my book fairy boxes from a subscription i still have and still doing my book fairy drops.  See a post somewhere i said about book fairy drops! 

Until the next random post i do... keep safe.  NAMASTE x

Rae. 

Blog updating

 Hello!

Ok, so I'm having trouble uploading blog posts as I mainly use my rather weird unpredictable Iphone SE!  The worst thing being it just randomly stops letting me post photos or pictures onto blog posts.  Then other times it wont even let me post at all!! ... I didn't think I was this much of a techniphobe! haha...

Well things have been rather slow here recently, due to lockdown still being active here in the UK and not being able to go out as much.  At least we apparently now can see one other outside of our support bubble for a walk which is a good thing... I'm hoping this will let me take photos of my area sometime so i can post them for you all.  

Oh, another of my random updates, the hedgies or hedgehogs we've been rescuing.  Or rather me attempting ot help where i can my mums neighbour raising awareness for the European Hedgehogs.  I'll call her Mrs A as not so sure she'd want to be named on here. so Mrs A (mums neighbour) rescues hedgies as I call them and helps The little silver hedgehog rescue lady Emma in York. There are now I think 4 hedgehogs in captivity some still in hibernation and some awake.  Can't wait for our Bruce hedgie to come back out again, we know theres someone in the nesting box at the moment which is a good thing at least!! So watch this space!! Anyone have 'hedgies' where they are let me know!!

Hopefully here comes next time! - Rae.