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March 2025

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  "Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant King, When blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo, jugge, jugge, pu we, to-witta-woo!" - Thomas Nashe - from Summer's Last Will and Testament Dreamy Early Spring Mornings Around Haworth Crocuses at Cliffe Castle, Keighley Spring morning at Brontë Parsonage, Haworth When you step outside after work and pause to behold a magical sunset Morning Steam Gala train View over West Lane from Penistone Hill, Haworth Windows of Ponden Hall Facebook Video 

February 2025

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  "I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate the weakening eye of day, The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires" Thomas Hardy, from "The Darkling Thrush" February morning on the way to work, Haworth Rose Castle Cottage, Tarn Hows, The Lake District, Sept '24 East Riddlesden Hall, West Yorkshire Window at Haworth Old Post Office bistro Facebook Video 

January 2025

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  "CHORUS: Up in the morning's no for me, Up in the morning early; When a' the hills are cover'd wi' snaw, I'm sure it's winter fairly." - Robert Burns -  Frosty sunrise at Haworth churchyard Haworth, snow day No 6 Winter tree salutation Old & young (new) Brontë Bridge On Winter Afternoon  Black Bull, Haworth at dusk Facebook Winter Wonderland video 

December 2024

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"Oh Winter, ruler of th'inverted year,... I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemst, And dreaded as thou art. Thou hold'st the sun A prisoner in the yet undawning east, Shortening his journey between morn and noon, .....I crown thee the king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all of the comforts that lowly roof Of undisturbed retirement and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." William Cowper, from "Winter Evening" Brontë Parsonage on dark, windy December afternoon  Brontë Parsonage Museum Candlelit For Christmas Festive window at Haworth Old Post Office bistro Boxing Day Low sun on Haworth Brow Moor