Back in the UK recently and before I'd picked up a hire car, I had two choices to get around. Shanks' pony or peasant waggon and seeing as the bus service that goes past my Mum's house has been withdrawn,

In April 2020, a buzz went around Pontefract as street murals started appearing around the town, dedicated to the NHS. Was it Banksy? The mystery was soon solved as Rachel List was identified as the mystery

Up North, the people are made of stern stuff......... Northerners who smoke are made of even sterner stuff. Being exiled outdoors and at the mercy of the elements, the stoicism and sheer bloody-mindedness

This is the article I wish I could have written when I also wrote a brief post about Pontefract cakes a long time ago now! This came up on my BBC travel feed and it gave me a sense of pride in my hometown

My home town is Pontefract.,That's right, where Pontefract Cakes come from. The word 'cake' I'm told comes from their shape as they of course, not cake-like at all in the traditional sense. Pontefract

Sand sculptors have long been associated with long summer days on beautiful beaches. ie NOT Pontefract in winter, however this young man brought his own sand and decided to sculpt a Golden Retriever. He

Got back to Heathrow on Tuesday morning for a five-week Christmas break in the UK, just a week before Christmas and it was so heart-warming to see the effort that Heathrow had gone to in putting up decorations