Author: nealpp

  • Chatsworth

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    A wintry trip to Chatsworth today. The house and gardens are closed until the middle of March but the stables and restaurant are open and so is the car park next to them. After driving through a blizzard from Owler Bar down to Baslow, we had a trudge to Edensor (pronounced Ensor) which is a…

  • Winter returns

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    Had to drop something down at church this morning, so had a walk down on the road and the scenic route back. Very wet!! Pity visibility wasn’t better. Posted from WordPress for Windows Phone

  • Spring is round the corner

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    Well the snowdrops think it is – I hope they’re right and don’t get another cold snowy snap!

  • The Portrait, Leeds Grand, 2nd February 2011

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    Last night we had the privilege of being at the British premiere of The Portrait by Weinberg. It was written in 1980, but Weinberg has been forgotten very quickly with the political turmoil of the Soviet Union in the Eighties going into the Nineties. The Portrait is the tale of a penniless artist who has…

  • Tingleywatch!!

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    I put up the wireless camera box this afternoon in time for the birdies to find it while house-hunting for the spring. The camera is connected wirelessly (the wire on the piccie is to the plug in the garage to power the camera) and I’ve set up a stream of the inside of the box…

  • Carmen, Opera North, 22nd January 2011

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    Not quite sure where to start with this review!! We knew in advance that this very popular and well known opera had been given a bit of a twist by director Daniel Kramer, and turning Seville, Spain in the 19th century to Seville, USA in 1950/60s was on the cards. He had also decided to…

  • New domain for my blog

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    Just changed my domain settings so this blog is available using crabkey.co.uk, and in fact only works properly using it! So, please change your favourites from packardnet.homedns.org to crabkey.co.uk It won’t change again now . . . hopefully! Cheers!!

  • The King’s Speech

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    On Wednesday evening we went to Cineworld in Castleford to watch the well reviewed The King’s Speech. Sometimes when a film is in the media a lot it turns out to be quite a disappointment. This though is not! The cinema was sold out and afterwards there were many comments around about how brilliant the…

  • A bit of a geeky post!!

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    Wanted to have a play on the video of my new phone, the HTC Mozart using the Windows Phone 7 operating system. The camera is 8 megapixels and video is recorded at 720p High Definition. So while at the racing today, I took a couple of short videos. The light was particularly poor due to…

  • Around Woodkirk/Tingley

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    After living here for 5 years we eventually got round to taking a pretty popular walk across the fields opposite, past down towards where Woodkirk Station used to be (pre Beeching), across to the church, up to West Ardsley and back home. Very pleasant if the noise of the M62 is ignored!! Woodkirk Walk VIEW…