Pannal and my little cat

 I know a lot of people do not like cars but I do and my two cats are lovely gentle creatures and quite loving. Well my little one Marble looked very poorly on Sunday. I could not get an appointment with the vet until 2pm. I put her in her basket and I left at 1pm and I was stuck on Parliament Street for thirty minutes with temporary traffic lights and poor little Marble died whilst I was stuck there. I carried on to my vet at Crab Lane and they confirmed she had gone. I was all shaky on my journey back and I felt so sad. She had been blind for two years but knew her way around the garden. I suppose seventeen is a very good age for a cat but I miss her. Tigs I do not think does but when I came back home she followed me around all the time. Everywhere I went she was behind me. Tigs will be my last animal as we have had dogs and then cats and it is so very sad when they go as they were a big part of our lives.

From sad news to I hope good news as the Country Park in the Crimple Valley I proposed is still on the cards and will be discussed within the Local Plan which is being looked at now. We do need this as every political party wants to build millions more houses.We definitely do need to keep our green space in PANNAL AS WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN HERE IN THE FUTURE.

Hopefully in this week's Harrogate Advertiser there will be an article about the awful "multi storey car park thing" that is flats built on the footprint of the now demolished Dunlopillo Headquarters. I was also asked by the owner of a house that can see "these flats" if I could have a Tree Preservation Order put on the two sycamore trees that partially cover the flats which she can see from her lounge window. Hopefully North Yorkshire Council will do this. I have also asked the Harrogate Advertiser to print a photo of what these flats will look like as I could not find anything on the internet.   

Welcome to my new neighbours Sheila and David. Well welcome here but not to Pannal as they have lived for many years on Rossett Green Lane.  

I am still getting queries from people re their ancestors who have lived here in the past or buried in St Robert's Churchyard and people just wanting to know about Pannal its history and its buildings. I am happy to answer all their queries . One query I had was from two ladies looking up at the Church one of them said to me"Is this the Village Institute?" I said no its a church. "Well where is the Institute     then?" I  told them politely.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

            

Pannal and Award

 My lovely neighbour Shirley Holberry died a few weeks ago. She lived next door to me and was a good neighbour, in her nineties always very smart and well dressed. I now have new neighbours who come from Rossett Green Lane where they lived for a good number of years. So welcome David and Sheila.and I am sure you will be very happy here as they are surrounded by lovely people. I will include myself in this just in case no one else does.

Have not been able to walk one of my favourite walks - Crimple Valley - as it is soggy with all the rain we have had and as I am still in summer clothes its a no go area. Hopefully we shall have a dry spell and I can get back there again. I especially love it in the spring/summer when all the buttercups are out and I found two orchids this year. These fields used to be a wildflower paradise. Who remembers the cows and then the sheep on there when Mr Harper owned the farm (now gone). Also the Taylors.

I had some very exciting news as I had a phone call to tell me I had been put forward for a Local Hero Award at Rudding Park. I knew nothing about this and I do not know who proposed me. I am afraid I had never heard of Local Hero Awards. Probably very remiss of me. Now what the Award is for I do not know. I have done so many things since living here. First TPO (ever in Harrogate) Pannal No 1. Saving the Sun Pavilion and Colonnades,Chairman and Founder of Friends of the Valley Gardens, Chairman of the Harrogate Society, Having Spacey Houses Farm listed and various other building in Pannal being saved, writing the first ever book on Pannal followed by three more on Pannal. Or could it be for looking after the patio garden alongside St Roberts Church for many years or having new stocks built. Who knows so it will be interesting to see what happens. Has anyone ever been to one of these events? If so give me the heads up please. I did notice that the event    was being sponsored by Vida Healthcare. Now they have dementia homes so I hope I am not having free passage there. . 

Tigs and Marble still think it is summer and they spend their time in the garden.They do have shelter where they can go when it rains. I am not at all popular if I forget to put the door on the latch. Cats can give one filthy looks. Tigs is a very affectionate cat Marble not so but sometimes!