St Michael le Belfrey during Illuminating York
Welcome to our Christmas family news blog. Please feel free to browse the stories that made up our year. Much more has happened of course but space and time constrain our storytelling. Enjoy.
Sapphire Year
Bleak Walk
One Year On
Chase The Sun
Weekends Together
Still Crazy
A Pilot
Not Madeira
Enjoying Ourselves
St Williams College, York
Welcome to our news from York. Join us as we look back, through these stories and pictures, at the year just coming to an end. It’s been a time of knowing the love and support of our families, friends and neighbours. If you count yourself among them, thank you.
At Peace
Days Off and On
Matthew and Laura’s House
Families Get Together
A Tale of Two Street Parties
That Island Again
Jubilee Year
Politics on the Left
Picture Gallery
Trusting you have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year
Love from
Barrie and Joan
Three Days On Two Wheels
Years like this one test our faith and challenge our resilience. The hope and joy of Christmas reminds us not to trust in our own strength but in the strength of the God who came to the manger as Jesus Christ and endured the humility of the cross. So we pray for the very best for you as we celebrate and look ahead to a new year.
The Tour de France meets Christmas
In July the Grand Depart came to Yorkshire as the county hosted the start of the Tour de France. We decorated our street with yellow bunting and yellow bikes as the whole region rose to the occasion and celebrated the world’s greatest cycling event.
The Claremont Terrace street party was just one of the many parties and events staged in York. Cycling mania gripped the region. Hundreds of new bikes were sold and thousands dusted off their wheels and pedalled off into the sunset.
Joan and I loaded our cycles onto the train and set out for Cumbria, and the the start of the Hadrian’s Wall Cycleway. Crossing the Pennines we headed for Tynemouth following the northern limits of the ancient Roman Empire. A challenging but enjoyable three day ride to raise funds for Restore.
Ten days in Madeira in May were refreshing except for the daily anxiety of checking up on Warwick. All the same we did lots of walking, eating good food and chilling in the sun.
We spent many happy days in Chelmsford with Alex and Emily. This year they moved into Junior and Infant School respectively.
Alex and Emily at Fountains Abbey
They both came to stay with us again in the summer and we did a round of adventure playgrounds at Fountains Abbey, Lotherton Hall Bird Sanctuary and the National Railway Museum. There may have been ornamental gardens, ornithological rarities and ancient locomotives too, but they all took second place to zip wires, swings and forts!
Picnic in the Valley Gardens on a typical August Bank Holiday
It was a typically English Summer when the rain rained and the sun hid itself away. So out came the winter coats when we visited the Valley Gardens in Harrogate.
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