A Step On The Path

Cool shield bug seen near Asenby.

Oak galls.

Running Exploits

August 2019 - Marathon du Malton
July 2019 - Inclined to Madness
July 2019 HDSRL Wetherby
July 2019 Vikings Chase
June 2019 - Swaledale Marathon
June 2019 - HDSRL Ripon
May 2019 - HDSRL Harrogate
May 2019 - Gribdale Growler
April 2019 - Gisborough Moors
April 2019 - Blubberhouses 25, LDWA event
January 2019 - Commondale Clart
May 2018 - Hardmoors 41/110 (DNF)
April 2018 - Fellsman 27/60 (DNF)
March 2018 - Hardmoors 42/55 Forcibly retired due to weather!
January 2018 - Hardmoors 30
September 2017 - parkrun - Fountains Abbey
September 2017 - Levisham Limping
August 2017 - Sessay Swift
August 2017 - Gribdale Gallop (2017 route)
July 2017 - Blackfell Race

The Names of The Hare

Translated from middle English by Seamus Heaney

The hare, call him scotart,
big-fellow, bouchart,
the O'Hare, the jumper,
the rascal, the racer.

The wimount, the messer,
the skidaddler, the nibbler,
the ill-met, the slabber.

The quick-scut, the dew-flirt,
the grass-biter, the goibert,
the home-late, the do-the-dirt.

The starer, the wood-cat,
the purblind, the furze cat,
the skulker, the bleary-eyed,
the wall-eyed, the glance-aside
and also the hedge-springer.

The stubble-stag, the long lugs,
the stook-deer, the frisky legs,
the wild one, the skipper,
the hug-the-ground, the lurker,
the race-the-wind, the skiver,
the shadow-shifter, the hedge-squatter,
the dew-hammer, the dew-hoppper,
the sit-tight, the grass-bounder,
the jig-foot, the earth-sitter,
the light-foot, the fern-sitter,
the kail-stag, the herb-cropper.

The creep-along, the sitter-still,
the pintail, the ring-the-hill,
the sudden start, the shake-the-heart,
the belly-white, the lambs-in-flight.

The snuff-the-ground, the baldy skull,
(his chief name is scoundrel!

A Step On The Path

Sunday 19 June 2011

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