Best to visit Doncaster by train as it gives the opportunity to enjoy the business of a main East Coast Line station. To sit on platform 8 and see that King’s Cross to Edinburgh trains gliding in (see above), and leaving with almost silent acceleration is captivating. But the real buzz comes when one of […]
Doncaster is an historic place and the county town of South Yorkshire, it is not a place I know every inch of but I know the bits I like. It is easy to get there by train or coach or car (45 miles), but the first site to mention is a bus-ride from the bus
This photo shows a group of tall teasels in late winter with a plantation of young native trees behind (for the context see Atheism 1). Teasel is the name of the plant as well as the flower head/seed head, these in the past harvested for use in the woollen cloth making industry, these days more
This photo, following the theme set out in Atheism 1, shows a cluster of daisies, ground cover perennials, with one root in flower. Take in March it is not so surprising to see one in flower, but it is quite early; the day was frosty but the sun was shining as evidenced by the open
The photo shows a relatively young alder (not elder) tree in the location and date explained in Atheism 1. Alder is a tree that flourishes in damp, even waterlogged, ground. It is deciduous so in winter its seedpods and catkins are more visible than later in the year. It is a native species (see explanation
The blog of 28th September explains the changes seen here and the context of the photo. This photo. shows a section of a public footpath somewhat behind the cement works at South Ferriby (see 28th Sept.). This section of the path that leads to either a circular route back to the River Ancholme or continues