Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Saltburn to Skinningrove

Took a traditional (if two years can constitute a tradition) Fathers’ Day walk, this year with the elder daughter, along the Cleveland Way from the Victorian resort of Saltburn via the high cliffs, littered with reminders of the nineteenth century industrial inroads to the landscape with minerals extracted without sympathy to the environment, to the more prosaic, almost defunct, little fishing village of Skinningrove, overshadowed by the ironstone spoil dumped thereabout; the twin heritage of fishing and mining being commemorated by an impressive artwork en route consisting a selection of cast ironwork images suspended within a winding wheel - the completion of our seven mile walk was commemorated with ice creams back at Saltburn.

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