Pip’s Patch

I am enjoying being able to work at the computer and to go on walks around Aysgarth again following that car crash last July. I have gone back to all the research I did several years ago about those amazing women in the early to mid nineteenth century who started the first schools for girls in Africa, China, India and the Far East. Jemima’s Story was a product of that research and now I want to tell the stories of those women who were just as brave and intrepid as many of whom have been forgotten. To find out more see Pioneering Girls’ Education.

After the heavy rain earlier in January I did take photographs of  the River Ure in full spate at  Aysgarth Falls. As I hunted through old photographs to show the Falls during drought I found this one of two trees near The Warren at Aysgarth.  It wouldn’t be possible to take another photograph like that of the two trees as a house has now been built in the field.

For me the  views from The Warren, Aysgarth,  are as inspiring as ever. See also Aysgarth Reflections.

Sami, my Yorkshire Terrier, also enjoyed the view!. Sadly Sami died in March 2010 – see A Yorkshire Terrier Memorial. I’m still mising her! But she would have found it very hard to accept that I couldn’t do much walking at present. Instead I am looking after David’s old, blind cocker spaniel , Raq. who is far less demanding about going for walks these days. But even Sami made it clear that some things were beyond a joke (see You’re Joking).