Same happened this year on Tees estuary, don’t think any of this years’ pups have survived

We’ve done a few trips to states through national parks and staying at and using independent hotels, restaurants and coffee shops, feel sorry for those owners but need to look at big picture

Looking forward to it so much, thanks for the detour tip 👍

Certainly changed our plans for a road trip instead of USA now doing Calgary to Vancouver, 🇨🇦

It was such a great place not just the museum but the arts venue as well, as school kids we had annual passes and spent so much time there learning about local heroes, such a loss to Durham when it closed, another case of knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing 😡

So true, used to be so impressed by the Durham Light Infantry museum in Durham City, as it brought world events to a local and relatable level

This is one family from UK that won’t be coming, were going Seattle to San Francisco including NPs on the way, probably swap to Canada this year

The very definition of knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing

RIP Alan Shoulder. Former NUFC striker signed from Blyth Spartans for whom he combined playing with his job as a miner at Horden Colliery.

His wages went from £14 a week to £300.

What a life. A working class hero is something to be. #NUFC

Let Commonwealth mean common wealth 🇨🇦

South Tees Development Corpn (chair: Ben Houchen) awards new £9m security across U.K.’s largest freeport to co whose management by man serving long sentence for drug crime @PrivateEyeNews had already exposed, and despite co lying about his role. Full story in the mag.

More memories of Jimmy Carter Remembering Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Tyneside visit: strikes, “Howay the lads,” and the enduring ties of Friendship Force

Remembering Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Tyneside visit: strikes, “Howay the lads,” and the enduring ties of Friendship Force

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Louis Pasteur, a man who saved millions upon millions of people, was born on December 27, 1822. If he lived in today's world he would probably have thousands of people on Twitter demanding he be imprisoned because he "ruined their milk freedom".

Good morning 🌧️

The calm after the storm with no name on The Clyde looking over to Gourock from Kilcreggan in Argyll Scotland 🙏

Out of the minus temps with a Summer high of 5° 🥵 🤣

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve Eve everyone 🎄

#StormHour

Sunrise at Roker, Sunderland in North East England as the Winter Solstice approaches.

Just three days away from official daylength being 7hrs 11mins 14secs. After that, the return to longer, lighter days commences! Meanwhile, an image of sunrise on my local coast at Roker, Sunderland in North East England.
#england #sunderland #sunrise #winter #solstice #coast #seaside #photography

New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)

The chequerboard building beneath the viaduct at Knaresborough is said to have origins in the C13th and is rumoured to have been built as a hunting lodge for King John. Also, it is thought, where Cromwell recieved the surrender of the town during the English Civil War.

A Czech billionaire has bought Royal Mail, Italy owns a UK rail franchise, China built our nuclear power stations, Canadian pensioners and Abu Dhabi bought our water companies, India our steel industry. And then the tabloids get upset when England hires a German football manager.

We MUST keep vaccines.
have you written your Senator to let them know?

Wensleydale Blue Cheese

For all those out there not from Yorkshire (or the north of England), by far the best way to eat Christmas cake is with Wensleydale cheese. The cheese originated with French Cistercian monks from the Roquefort region, who settled at Fors Abbey and later Jervaulx in Wensleydale.

Used to holiday as a kid in the 70s and 80s in Strachur and was amazed seeing subs around Holy Loch and the american influence in Dunoon

Iron & Steam - The Dawn of the Stockton & Darlington Railway The opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on the morning of the 27th of September 1825 marked the birth of modern railways. Built by George Stephenson, this twenty-six mile long line in the north east of England was a significant milestone, and the beginning of a railway network that would eventually span the world. ‘Iron & Steam – The Dawn of the Stockton & Darlington Railway’ investigates how this ground-breaking line came to be, as well as exploring the early mineral railways that led to this incredible achievement. Featuring the latest research and interviews with experts, the film tells the comprehensive story of the railway that delivered the modern world.

Christmas pressie idea for the train fan! Next year sees the 200th anniversary of the George Stephenson 'Stockton & Darlington Railway' - BIG things are planned. You can get our new film all about it here 😍https://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Steam-Stockton-Darlington-Railway/dp/B0D9YM19QK #Railways

A couple of Lake District shots from yesterday…

Recreation of coal wagons travelling across the Gaunless Bridge in County Durham

A view up the Etherley Incline. One a railway, now a walking route flanked by trees and bushes

Railway accomodation bridge near the Brusselton Incline

A pond containing wather that was once used by the Brusselton stationary steam engine. The engine house is visible in the distance

Next year the Stockton & Darlington Railway will celebrate its 200th birthday! It is important to remember that, although the railway is famous for steam locomotives, the first few miles were powered by stationary steam engines, gravity and horse power! All equally ingenious

Liverpool v Accrington Stanley in the FA Cup is absolutely huge news for anyone who drank milk in the late 1980s. #whoarethey

No worries, think we all got a bit jumpy in the other place over bots etc.

Don’t worry about me, just moved over from the dark place and used starter packs hence the large number of following. Love the Lakes, in Cumbria at present, and looking to follow Lake District folk

It's the Christmas countdown for nature lovers! ✨🎄

Every day, we’ll bring a little magic from the wild to your feed.

Who’s hiding behind door 1?.... Let’s take a peek…

#RSPBAdvent