And a happy new year! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBOYYlanm1k
Merry Christmas. May joy go with you
Merry Christmas, prendrelemick!
Thanks for the clarification prendrelemick. I love my home, but my reading and emotional life are tied up to some degree with some of those novels mentioned and I would love to visit there someday. But then again, I would love to be a world traveller; I think it's going to be awhile before that happens. Meanwhile, more reading, more books.
I must say the Bronte museum in Howarth is one of the most depressing visits you can make, death, death and more death. They are all in Yorkshire. Herriot's books were set in the Yorkshire dales, but he worked out of Thirsk in the Vale of Pickering, which is nearer to the North Yorkshire Moors, where I think The Secret Garden is set. The Brontes were based in Howarth in the South Pennines. All these areas have extensive moorland for the wind to wuther over. Like Dicken I was born here and I love it.
And sadder. While certainly more "literary", it's hard for me to think of Bronte country without . Didn't she write about the moors? Isn't that where "The Secret Garden" is also set? So where exactly is that, and where is James Herriot country"? I thought he was close to Yorkshire, anyway. Isn't that where he claimed to live in the books, but Thirsk was really just a little distance away? Do you like it? What do you do? Are you a sheep farmer? How did that come about?
Close, but not quite. James Herriot's stamping ground was north of here. We are in Bronte country- altogether more classy
I'm sure this isn't accurate, but looking at your pictures I think that where you live is quintessential James Herriot country, sheep and all.
