great time doing pottery (and ice creams!) together with mormor and grandpa at hope

registration evening at chesterfield ready for the new season

meanwhile yesterday at oliver’s mount joseph and his somewhat depleted chesterfield team took on a handsworth side strengthened by former chesterfield players max t and alfie r, losing 5-1

så kjekt å ble med for gudstjeneste på imi menigheten igjen for i dag

finally time to say godbye to this faithful friend

another first for us today - corona-wedding, brilliant to celebrate joel and esther’s big day from home and norway via zoom

late lunch celebration at gardermoen

great run out for joseph and the sheffield rangers against sheffield wednesday academy players tonight, lots of great football on display from both teams and no shame at all in being on the wrong side of the 4-2 final scoreline

new group, new pitch.. training tonight in the rain with qualitas at dronfield henry fanshawe school

beautiful warm sunshine, nice evening to be back at the track for sprint training

the ladies conducted a thorough quality control audit on the pimms, mocktails, tea, sandwiches, scones and cakes - losehill house were thankful to learn everything was found to be quite in order!

the summer league continued yesterday with a solid 5-1 win against carcroft, lovely for joseph to play together with kaden for the first time in four years

a bevy of beauties, out for high tea in the peak at losehill house hotel

great to see kaden, jenson and perry at the jubilee as rangers take on qualitas in a pre-season friendly

megan smashing her new porter fc football kit

back to gosforth this morning for training game between chesterfield u13 and u14 groups

another highlight of the week was the delicious stonebeck raw nidderdale cheese

megan is straight back into training with her porter fc team at ash house lane, also now with newly-signed jack, team-mate from last season’s group

first game of the summer league, rangers take on evosoccer at ecclesfield school under the warm sun

megan’s mission for wild swimming was accomplished with some style in the nidd today, not once but twice!

tash and sparky kindly took megan and i for a little walk out today

nice walk along the the nidderdale way today, here we are on the descent to scar house reservoir

skye made scones!

nice warm-up ride round gouthwaite reservoir this morning, looking south west from high holme

reversing the usual order of things, we waved farfar and farmor off on their hols from pateley today!

joseph playing wth evosoccer at norton 3g

training with sheffield rangers at the akademy in dronfield

joseph’s proud of his first proper post-lockdown haircut

a highlight of our weekend was seeing skye in nature - contemplating the expansive nidderdale skyscape from guisecliffe

allotment darts

pretty cottage at glasshouses

balancing in guisecliffe woods

nice walk out to guisecliffe and lovely views over nidderdale yesterday

lunch at the two stoops

stille kveld på gardermoen

today’s home schooling with miriam and richard took a different form... in depth exploration of the river derwent and accurate measurement of froggatt bridge!

megan and joseph loved exploring the river and playing in the weir at rivelin, good way to stay cool!

offshore transport, sikorsky s-92 landing at rowan viking

mags had another go at making sourdough bread today, same starter-ish, but totally different recipe though... got the skye seal of approval!

skye’s birthday zoom with family from far and wide, great that evelyn could join us!

an emotional day as we said goodbaye to ncs leaders peter and anne

happy birthday to skye! oh how the tiny have grown mighty in 15 short years!

and finally when the street lights come on...

and the really solid dry dressed stone walls

love the edging stones

fabulous pale light at sunset

another cracking day in stavanger, enjoyed the walk out to the ‘broken links’ alexander kielland memorial at the weekend

ultramarine blue sky in the morning

lovely weather at the ‘sverd i fjell’ (swords in the stone) monument at hafrsfjord in stavanger

stavanger quarantine view