Not only Pannal

 Up until these last couple of days the weather has been lovely and it is November. Not all that many years ago we had heavy snow in November and Halloween was always cold. I hate the early dark nights and always look forward to Spring as we all do. 

 I went up into our loft and on the way back down I twisted my knee. Hard to walk and it is very painful. I have two lovely lads doing the double glazing  and when I carried the tray in with their tea I looked just like Julie Walters as the waitress in the Victoria Wood sketch Two Soups.

Saw what happened re Pannal Mill Dam and all the mud and chemicals from the Dunlopillo factory being left.I thought the Dam was "owned" by the Pannal Mill Dam Association.Mr Bentley of Pannal Hall owned the Mill Cottage so did he own the Dam? He sold it in the late 1950s to Mr and Mrs Wardle who sold Mill Cottage and they now live in Ripon. The house deeds perhaps says who owned the dam.

I was reading Harrogate Borough Council's News Letter and they state THAT EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT NEW HOUSES ARE NEEDED ACROSS THE HARROGATE DISTRICT. Be interesting to see that evidence. 4000 houses across and around The Squinting Cat what happens to Pannal when they all decide that they work in York, Bradford, Leeds etc and the best and quickest way to reach the A61 is via Pannal village. Most of the long standing members who live in Pannal still call it a village and it certainly was when we came to live here in the very early 1960s. We had so many shops (detailed in my book Pannal and Burn Bridge Their Stories). Now does it ever strike you that we had for a time two hospitals The General and The District. The General was demolished.HOW FAR SIGHTED WAS THAT? Now we have one hospital and Harrogate and  Pannal are so much bigger and will be even more so and there is only the one hospital. All these houses planned and where is the infrastructure? Harrogate District cannot cope. The schools will not be able to cope nor will the roads. In our area 4000 houses means ? well I think we can work out how many cars that will bring we cannot all be riding a bike and that cycle route being muted is farcical

Many years ago I was asked by both the Conservatives and the Liberals ( on the same day funny enough)to be a Councillor but I thought then and now that to be a Councillor one has to tow the party line and that would not suit me at all. 

David Wilby KC and I are still working on the Queen Elizabeth Country Park in the Crimple Valley and we have the backing of our MP Robert Banks and Pannal Councillor John Mann as well as some Councillors at HBC.

I do not have many books of Pannal and Burn Bridge Their Stories left, so if you want any they are being sold for £5 (I have made my initial cost so I have reduced them) at Pannal Post Office. These are the last - about 30 - so when they are gone they are gone. Their will be no more. All my other books are sold out but occasionally they come up on Amazon at a much higher price than they originally were so I am told.

My little cat Marble is now blind. We Sarah Gordon and I think she is about 17 years old. Sarah was Marble's original Mum and she named her. Marvle managews to get around and the vet says she knows where she lives so she will be fine. Tigs is about 16 had a Dad who could not keep her and he named her too. I am their adopted Mum but I have had them since they were kittens.They said I must tell you it is going to get colder so they have now decided to come into the house.  

 

My little cat Marble is now blind. She is we think (we being Sarah Gordon and me as Sarah was Marbvle's original Mum.