Recent content by Marianna

They Call the Wind Mariah, from the Lerner & Lowe musical Paint Your Wagon. Back in the day when I collected LPs from stage shows that I had never seen, just because I enjoyed the music.

The price of delayed maintenance? And it's too narrow to be safe for today's vehicles.

Daisy Lane Books is one of the few shops in Holmfirth that I've never visited. I try to avoid loading up my luggage with books, and for the last several years I've mostly limited purchases to ebooks.

Last time I was in Holmfirth, about six years ago, during one of my many meals at the Wrinkled Stocking, Dennis and I were chatting, and he said that he'd really rather be working as a tattoo artist. He must have come around to Jackie's point of view for them to be expanding the cafe. Is...

One of my favorite episodes!

Graham - you beat me to it. I need to get to Facebook earlier!

Same sense of entitlement here in my region of the US. When shown photos of his dog fowling the neighbor's lawn, an owner shrugged and said "Not my problem."

Before Summer Wine, there was Bamforth's, but the collection of postcards that they printed was housed at the Tolson Museum in Huddersfield the last time I heard anything about it! To me, Holmfirth is wool weaving, because my primary interest is in the history of any locality where I happen to...

Even when he was so ill that most other people would have been in hospice care, he was in there determined that the millenium special would be completed!

Leaves on the track seems to be an autumn epidemic!

This turned up on my Facebook page about an hour ago. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CyrDGLxjF/

Huh?

Today's temp is even worse than last week's. -2F at ~8 AM. I'm working in the sunniest room in the house, wearing the heated gilet, and slipping my hands into a heated hand warmer whenever possible. This too shall pass!

Mine, to, even in the brutally cold temps we've had lately. That man has a built-in furnace.

At 15C/59F I'm bundled up in several layers of wool, a heated gilet, and a fleece jacket, and I'm still shivering!