Scottish lass in North Yorkshire

@herdyshepherd1 One for me, one for my son's birthday (this isn't my son 😂)

An existential crisis for our rural community Salaried GPs are wanted to join the team at the Central Dales Practice. Two GPs (to cover 10 flexible sessions a week) across branch sites (Aysgarth and Reeth) @yorkshire_dales

@exitthelemming Early, this morning #Arkengarthdale #Swaledale @yorkshire_dales

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…

The Woman Who Broke the Barrier Nobody Noticed. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes. The world lost its mind. Twenty-three days later, a 21-year-old chemistry student named Diane Leather ran a mile in 4:59.6 at the Midland Championships in Birmingham, he first woman ever to break five minutes. The world barely looked up from its newspaper. Leather had only started running two years earlier, inspired by watching the 1952 Olympics on television. She joined the Birchfield Harriers in Birmingham, trained under coach Doris Nelson Neal, and within months became the national cross-country champion. By 1954, she was rewriting what was considered physically possible for women over distance, a feat medical experts of the era openly doubted could be done safely. She didn't stop at one barrier. Leather broke her own record five times, lowering it to 4:45 by the end of 1955, a mark that stood for seven years. But here's the thing: the IAAF refused to officially recognize the women's mile as an event until 1967. Her times were classified as "world bests," not world records. The Olympics didn't even include a women's 1500m until 1972. Leather retired from running at 27, married, moved to Cornwall, and spent decades working in social care. It took until 2013, nearly sixty years, for her to be inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame. She died in 2018 at age 85. Bannister got a knighthood. Leather got a footnote. History has a way of losing things in plain sight.

Lekking #Swaledale #Arkengarthdale @yorkshire_dales @exitthelemming

@PennineThe It's changed and bit since Peter last went there!

On a bank holiday Monday with better weather than of late the Dales will have been very popular today. Visitors will no doubt have sought refreshment at ‘Tan Hill - A Pub with Attitude - The Highest in England’ at 1,732 feet asl and one of Peter Brook’s favourite watering holes.

‘Sun & Wind’ sums up today’s weather perfectly. One of Peter Brook’s minimalist paintings, the sheep with its fleece blowing in the breeze is the only sign of life on an empty moorland road as it disappears over the horizon into a cold and stormy sky. (Sold by Tennants in 2023)

Wind and rain. Black Grouse #swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Star trails with the equinox aurora #swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

The Coast to Coast Path is now officially a National Trail 🥳 53 years after Alfred Wainwright devised a 190 mile, Coast to Coast Walk, between St Bees on the Irish Sea and Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea in 1973. Funded by @NaturalEngland #YorkshireDales #CoasttoCoastPath

Male Black Grouse showing some moves #yorkshiredales #agcas @yorkshire_dales

Resplendent in the Dales. A male Black Grouse #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Buttertubs Pass, very early hours 21st March #swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Time lapse of the spectacular aurora last night from Buttertubs Pass #swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Mating season is warming up #yorkshiredales #Arkengarthdale #acgas @yorkshire_dales

Lekking on...#yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Warm walls, frosty fields - amazing light in #Swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Frosted grass and a Lady in Waiting. The Black Grouse lecking season is starting :) @yorkshire_dales

Two barns (Cow'us), one day in #Swaledale #yorkshiredales @yorkshire_dales

Mellow misty Swaledale @yorkshire_dales