Category: Wellbeing
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Entertain the kids in Yorkshire
The Yorkshire Dales is a wonderful outdoor playground for outdoor enthusiasts of all ages. Here are a few ideas for ways to enjoy the fresh air and outdoor landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales. Why not start with geocaching? Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. To take part you seek to navigate to…
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Yorkshire Wildlife: Photographs to inspire
We were really inspired recently to see this fabulous collection of widlife photography. It captures the wildlife of the Yorkshire Dales at its very best. Photographs are displayed courtesy of www.wilddales.co.uk, copyright Simon Philpotts. We hope you’ll enjoy. Golden Plover – copyright Simon Philpotts – www.wilddales.co.uk
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Yorkshire on a shoestring
If you’re looking for a UK holiday on a shoestring this year, then why choose Yorkshire?
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Lazy summers reading outdoors
Do you ever feel the need to sit and do nothing? Or almost nothing. Learning to switch off and slow down can be quite a skill to master in today’s world of 24-7 round-the-clock connectivity. I find that removing distractions helps and taking myself away from the household chores. In the summertime I dream of…
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Outdoor activities for under fives
I love being outside and feeling the sun on my face, listening to the birds, walking on the grass, breathing in. And it’s a joy to share the outdoors with little one’s too. We had a lovely time following the Malham Safari Trail through this pretty Dales village. For five days at the beginning of…
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You can’t beat a ginger biscuit!
My favourite ingredient to be used in baking at the moment is ginger. Stem ginger. It lives in a jar (full of syrup to preserve the ginger) and can be sliced and diced to provide the most delicious flavour to cakes and biscuits. Ginger is such a versatile ingredient – fresh root ginger can be an…
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A parliament of owls: A day out at Hesketh Farm Park
We had a fabulous day out to Hesketh Farm Park at Bolton Abbey earlier this month, and as a farmer’s daughter, I loved it! I sometimes find that my attention span for taking on board new facts and figures is limited these days, but there was so much to take note of at Hesketh, and…
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Impressions of Yorkshire – An artist from South Africa shares her story
I’m delighted to introduce you to Sonia Strumpfer, one of our holidaymakers from South Africa enjoying an extended vacation and working holiday here in North Yorkshire. Sonia’s drawings from Newton Grange really captured my eye. We hope you’ll enjoy them too.
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Bracken and Bramble
Val Preston shares her experience in aromatherapy. Walking in the countryside is a great way to explore this gentle dale, abundant in wildlife and flowers, rewarding for nature lovers of all ages. One of my favourite pastimes as a young child was many hours spent collecting and pressing wild meadow flowers. Later as a teenager…
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Finding creativity
And so it was on a Monday evening, a group of ladies gathered at Newton Grange for an evening of cupcake decorating fun. Sprinkled with a touch of magic dust from the Yorkshire Cake Fairy we were invited to put down our daily tasks and enjoy something different and wonderfully practical.