#Hebble End

[hepdenerose]

Evening Promenade (Canal West)

Fatigue exacerbated by insomnia almost wrote off an August Saturday. But when brightness chased away rain showers, I conceded a stroll might be of benefit. Taking me a while to get ready, Phil waited outside and pushed at the door to ‘see how I was’. “Not good,” I retorted, “but I’m coming!” He stood in the street, eyes shut, looking sunward. Advising I do likewise to reset a tired brain, vibrant…

[colgreen31]

Long Cut End Railway Viaduct on the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Thornhill, Dewsbury.

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[inabigdanceskin]

Vase and heather, Hebble End View B&B, Hebden Bridge, UK. Saturday, 30 September 2023.

Thank you for 35 years x

[theadventurerslog]

Chook & Sosig Walk the Plank | Part 1

The Adventurer's Log

Release Date: 2019

It's time for some point and click role-playing pirates. Chook & Sosig is an indie game I got in one of the giant itch.io bundles (it's also on Steam) ages ago and kept meaning to get around to and not actually doing so. Its time has come.

I did find out after my first session that the dev had made a few tiny free games previous to this one that would have probably given more context and more of an introduction to these characters, but that's okay. The characters get introduced at the start and I'm not feeling like I'm missing too much by not having played them. Just go with the flow!

So this is your standard point & click with the pointing and the clicking and inventory, but it's framed as a group of anthropomorphic characters, both dead and alive, who have come together in the pub to play a role-playing game and their game master has set it for a pirate theme. So the game itself is set in this pirate game, while it occasionally goes back to the gaming table for some banter and comments from the players.

To introduce our group of players we've got:

Sosig: The blue spaghetti cat, one of the two titular characters and the one we play.

Chook: A ghost chicken and Sosig's buddy. I'm not sure anyone else is actually aware of her? She also acts as the hint system because she peeked at the GM's notes.

Cow: An undead cow head, one of Sosig's best friends and proud to be one of the living dead.

Exley: The owner of the pub, the Cheeky Unicorn, and the Game master here. Also undead, an undead sheep.

From left to right: Sosig, Chook, Cow, Exley.

Hebble: An energetic and playful fox who theoretically helps Exley at the bar, and seems to be a bit of a mischief maker.

Min: A bat who is also the only psychic around and keeping Hebble in line here.

From left to right: Exley, Hebble, Min.

Going with the flow and hey, alive or dead, they're all kind of cute.

With introductions out of the way we got started landing us on the first island:

Cape Codnapper.

And Sosig looking the part with his bandana hat and eyepatch. The first goal was to find the other characters. I went to the building first which turned out to be a shop owned by Cow. Although Cow was really using it more as an excuse for a place to store his hoarded items. Customers ew.

Customers are unfortunate consequences that must be dealt with.

I examined all the things, including that gold fish who was apparently washed up in that bowl and rescued by Cow who would like to get him a proper tank (eventual puzzle goal?), and of course, I had a chat with Cow. I was also able to get the torch off the wall and Cow just let me have it.

Back outside I then met Min's character, a somewhat superstitious pirate.

She wants to set sail, but the fountain has stopped running and it's apparently bad luck to sail while the fountain is stopped. Our first goal is here!

She also talks about a treasure on a haunted island and a wish granting Sea Goddess. Goals?

At the other end of the island I found the dry fountain and Chook. Chook was playing a retired pirate because she didn't want to do anything except hang out and provide clues and hints.

Nearby, was Hebble playing a fortune-teller, or attempting to anyway.

He was having trouble getting the crystal ball to work. He also gave me info though: Cow was the one to stop the fountain by pulling out a side panel and doing something in there.

I pulled out the panel and found a series of switches for which I'd obviously need a code.

I went back to question Cow. He did turn it off so that people would have to stay, and as the only shop here, they'd have to buy from him. Since he doesn't like customers he'd just sky rocket the prices so simply selling one item a month would keep him afloat. I had a few different threatening choices such as the dreaded cruise ship and browsing oh no, and got him to break with the threat of greasy kids getting their greasy hands all over everything.

Exley wasn't entirely happy with Cow's character breaking so easily, but Sosig is apparently persuasive. Greasy kids, nooo!

He sent me on a trail through a small series of notes that ultimately led to a note with the right code and so I was able to activate the fountain and set sail!

Not many islands. Yet. There was more map to be found.

I first went to a sea shrine. There were doors with a couple statues with movable arms that would affect panels above the door raising them up and down. I assumed I'd need a bit more info before dealing with that so I left it. (Spoiler: I did not need more info).

Then I went to a place called the Adventurer's Guild.

I met another character Hebble was playing, this time a very enthusiastic hunter... who just loves animals... on the wall where they won't keep running around and acting up. Pleasant. And he just loves displaying things... But he also had a map kicking around. Once I was able to find it I discovered it was also missing islands but it turned out he'd put them down in ultraviolet ink to keep pirates away. He didn't believe Sosig was a pirate though. I would need ultraviolet light to read the map so there was the next goal!

I then found Goblin Isle with a handy-dandy information sign.

From the sign I learned, among other things, of a luminescent orchid that gives off ultraviolet light.

Further in I found the orchid but it wasn't doing well because it was shaded by foliage. Then I found the goblins themselves. The group complained about there being goblins in a pirate themed game, but Exley didn't have pirate figures and did have goblins, so he'd make them fit. I'll take goblins anywhere!

They also had a parrot! And some scissors. The goblins were making soup for themselves and as an offering to the sea goddess, but they needed fire to actually cook it. If I could bring them fire, they'd let me have the scissors. What they did let me take was their beloved bitey parrot 'child', so the parrot could go travelling and learn. After all:

"A well-educated goblin... is a DANGEROUS goblin. Wise words to live by. This whole bit was adorable.

I went back to the Adventurer's Guild and Cape Codnapper in search of fire. I had no luck but I was able to get the parrot to bite the cork or whatever off a keg of rum and what else do you with rum but soak your unlit torch in it? Still no fire.

I went back to the sea shrine as the still unsolved area and this time got the door. It really was just trial and error and paying attention to what moved what... mainly trial and error for me. It opened into a cave with a lit torch where I was able to get fire for my rum-soaked torch. Deeper down I found another character played by Cow.

Cow was claiming to be a part of a cult selling Goddess Water. 100% not a multi-level marketing scheme nosiree. He also writes poems, but no one likes them and all left, so now it's just him and a pile of bottles of the 'best water'. But Sosig asked to join and got a voucher to use at the shop.

I went back to Goblin Isle with my lit torch. Sosig comments on it staying lit in the rain at the sea shrine island, so I assume the fire would have gone out if I hadn't soaked the torch in rum first. Some unknown advance planning there!

The goblins let me take the scissors in return for the fire, but the scissors were too dull to cut with. Taking the voucher back to the shop I was able to use it to search Cow's junk bin where I found some sandpaper and could use that on the scissors. Then I was able to cut the foliage, get the orchid and bring it back to read the map, unlocking more islands to visit.

I'm still not sure what the plot will end up being, but by Min's comments, the goblin talk and the Goddess water I'm assuming I'll need to find the treasure and the Sea Goddess? Exley, what's the plan!

My plan was to check out the new islands.

I first went to Forsaken Atoll where I found Viking Min.

She told me about how she and her crew were looking for the Sea Goddess to grant them a wish for a bigger boat. But they got lost and she's an aggressive sailor. She crashed the boat and her crew left her. I was able to light her fire and warm her feet though...! I couldn't do anything else here. Maybe later?

I then found a tavern, The Beast Below.

There were a few important points here. Cow's character runs the place with Hebble's character helping as the waitstaff.

Outside are some gulls for a Gull Mail service. One of them was particularly grumpy and feral and tore up a bunch of letters and flyers for its own nesting, but really the gull success rate in general for their mail delivery was only about 50%.

There is a cocktail menu but I can't order any until proving myself a hero and none of my deeds so far were heroic enough.

There's also a customer feedback book in which everything written was done by Hebble.

Hebble is just on break because no customers means breaks though he may be feeding Cow some white lies about how exactly that works. He was also the one to suggest the cocktail menu instead of the more pirate-y goodness, which led to all their customers leaving previously. Pirates! They want grog, not cocktails!

To use the gull mail service a mail token was needed. Cow would give me only if I got a mail card. I could get one from a business he sent some too. He also set up the gull service as competition to the bottle mail service run by goblins because he doesn't like goblins and also wanted a use for the feral seagulls outside.

From there I went next to an island that turned out to be said Bottle Mail Central run by goblins and another of Min's characters, the Goblin Queen. She did not like the gull mail service. The gulls keep ripping up the haunted treasure flyers even removing the address! One of those flyers would be useful for us... Pirate and treasure after all.

The party once more commented on the goblins.

Hey, I'm not complaining. Use those goblins.

Hebble brought up having lots of dinosaurs too and even a dragon. Exley shut him down. But dinosaurs! I'm with Hebble here.

Anyhoo, Min was happy to give me her mail card as she wanted nothing to do with the seagull service, and had left it with one of the bottle goblins. Unfortunately, that goblin lost it to a polar bear. That polar bear likely ended up at the Adventurer's Guild as there aren't normally polar bears around, so if it's there it's likely the one.

It sure did end there! As a rug... I found the card in its mouth but had to open it. The tail was also a spot to interact with and pulling it did open the mouth but I needed a way to hold the tail in place to keep the mouth open. Parrot time again.

I got the card!

Before I went back to the tavern I made a stop by the last island I hadn't checked out yet. Secret Reef.

There was a sad gull. I was able to light a fire in the stove and get a tap dripping on the hot plate, but otherwise couldn't find anything to do here at the moment, so another place for later I suppose.

Then I went back to give the card to Cow and get my token. The token caused a bell to go up a pulley alerting two of the three gulls and getting them to leave their nests but not the third at the top, which was the one I really wanted, because the pulley got stuck on a knot I had to cut first. That got the top gull to move. It came down with a flyer piece in its beak but was too angry to let me near. I'd need a way to calm it.

Like...a calming poem? Goddess Water Cow was willing to write one but needed a pen; his were dried up. He previously bought his from the wonderful shop on Cap Codnapper. So, onward.

Nah, never that easy. Shopkeeper Cow no longer had any pens due to waitstaff Hebble buying them all. Back to the tavern, where Hebble was willing to give me one but only if I wrote a good review for him. Sosig promised to do so, but the pen is out of ink.

And so that's my next goal. Try to find some ink. I'm not actually sure where to go about doing. Hebble suggested the ink of octopus and other similar critters. I'll see what I can find next time...

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Time: 1:00

[spyskrapbook]

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK [2003 - 2011] _ Architect: David Chipperfield Architects _ Photos by Spyros Kaprinis [23.03.2022].

“The Hepworth Wakefield is named after the late English artist Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. It is a purpose-built art gallery, located within the Wakefield waterfront conservation area, which protects a number of significant industrial buildings that once housed the town’s cloth and grain industries. The new building sits on a sharp bend in the River Calder with the immediate surroundings dominated by a twentieth century road bridge and a series of locks known as the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

At the tip of the headland, the site of the new building is exposed on all sides without being defined by either river or road. These particular conditions led to a building form without a dominant façade. The almost geological composition is a conglomerate of diverse irregular forms tightly interlocked. Each single volume represents and coincides with a single space, unique in size and shape. To the north, where the river level drops at the weir, the building steps into the water like many of the old mills and warehouses. The monolithic appearance and composition is accentuated by the use of pigmented in-situ concrete.

The programme is split horizontally between the ground and first floors, the latter exclusively used as exhibition space. The ground floor contains the reception, shop, cafeteria, auditorium and learning studios, as well as offices, archives and storage. The cafeteria has a generous terrace near the main reception area and all public areas enjoy exterior views. At the core of the building is a naturally lit central staircase leading to the galleries on the upper floor.

Most of the rooms on the upper level house the gallery’s permanent collections, which range from large-scale sculptures and plasters by Barbara Hepworth and others, to highly light-sensitive works on paper from the city of Wakefield’s collection of British art. The remaining rooms host a programme of temporary exhibitions. All of the galleries use the same neutral language, allowing for future reinterpretations and representations of artworks. Open doorways link the gallery spaces into fluid and varied sequences, offering inviting glimpses of other works and the outside world.

From within the individual blocks, the outer morphology can be clearly seen in ceilings that slope parallel to the outer roofs, and rooms in which no two surfaces lie parallel to one another. Walls meet at diverse angles, and the variations in size and ceiling pitch give each room a unique character. The main source of light in each gallery is a slot running the full width of the ceiling at the highest end of the space. The varying angles of each block’s ceiling have been calculated to admit and diffuse light in the most effective way, complementing the artificial lighting system. Louvres allow the light to be regulated or even completely blocked out. In addition, several of the galleries feature a picture window framing an aspect of the surroundings, linking Hepworth’s sculptures to the landscape in which she grew up.”

https://davidchipperfield.com/project/the_hepworth_wakefield

https://hepworthwakefield.org/

[mybenia1]

Kate Lycett Hebble End

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Saturday 8 November 1834

8 40

11 10

No kiss fine but windy morning F59° at 9 ¾ am - breakfast at 9 50 - Mr Samuel Freeman and his son came about 10 ¼ and staid till about 11 ½ - then had Holt who had been waiting sometime till about 1 ½ - then sat with A- at her luncheon and with her till about 3 – then with Charles H- about rehanging my aunt’s bell etc till 3 20. - F- brought an account [dear and c.r] of the quarry in upper Place land which I did not look into saying I was satisfied he (F-) would do what was right, and we could settle about it when the stone was got down to fit for shewing, when I would  (as I had said) put it up by ticket not biding myself to take the highest bidder - he thought nobody could take it right before them by the yard there were so many holes in it - there had been old works before - and some old lead - bullets had been found 8 or 10ft. from the present surface - it would be best to measure off as they went on and pay for the stone according to what quantity there might be of it - answer - yes! certainly - I wanted no other - wanted only what was fair - when would the quarry be fit for putting up to let? was not the thickness of the bed of the stone now known? answer no! whatever people said they knew nothing about it - there had been some good flags got but we had only just got down to the great bed - and would shew down to the bottom of it - this would about 3 months even tho’ he would immediately set more hands at work - he thought there was stone worth 4/6 a yard - I merely replied I was in no hurry to press the stone into the market if not worthwhile - when we had once [beared] fairly down to the stone I should note care to let it alone and not work it at all for the present as F- had told me before stone would be more valuable by and by - yes! said he that it certainly would - they were ½ of them breaking in the stone trade - a great failure in London for £40,000 had just touched almost everyone in the stone trade in Southowram except himself - he himself sold stone for less than anyone else could get it for - by and by they should know who could stand and who not and the trade would get into a steader way - asked why he had given up trying in Joseph Hall’s land - did not the stone answer his expectations? answer it was not that but he had a letter from Mrs. Machin (which he shewed me) asking by whose leave he had put the rubbish on her land F- saw her on the subject - it was her Mr. Samuel Hall and brother in law Isaac Thwaite and Isaac Green and told her it was a great hardship that such people as F- and I should take advantage of her for nothing we ought to pay her something handsome - F- told her he wanted to do nothing but right - he thought the damage could not be assessed at more than 1/6 for all the stone got was not worth more than £7 - and so the matter ended - F- having given up farther trial for stone in that quarter - it was Wombsley the tenant who gave him leave and he was so offended at Mrs. Machin’s letter that he talks of leaving the farm in consequence - F- had not heard exactly what passed at the meeting about the road from Brookfeet - had told them he thought I should not consent to the road coming out at Pump - I explained what JP- said at Thorpe I knew if the road went in front of the house there would be pother about it hereafter and .:. I would oppose it was the last of my power but would further it if it came out just above Mytham - F- to get to know what passed and let me know - said it was he who could loose (at Cromwell bottom) all JP-‘s coal - then a good deal of conversation about the Calder and Hebble navigation - F- as executor receives the dividends on about £1000 stock - does not like the present system of management - throwing money away - a railroad (here and there will be one sooner or later if the proprietors do not lower the dues) will not pay; and the country would not support if the navigation people were more accommodating - but if there be one whether it pays or not, it will ruin the canal - deepening it, as they are doing at present, will not answer - Despatch is the soul of business - a light load can get on quicker than a heavy one - and at last they will be obliged to buy light vessels to get the goods forward - this is the case now with the Ayr and Calder canal - the proprietors have laid out ½ a million on the port of Goole and ½ a million in deepening their canal and they are now having small light vessels for expedition and the worst of it is, they cannot get past the big vessels which lie in the locks and all along and hinder all passage - F- hates to see these large vessels - they stop everything - talking good forwards in 1 bottom is all a farce would no canal more than 10ft.? of water and no vessel draw more than 9ft. 10in. - if there is more depth of water, the vessels are only made to draw so much more so that stoppages are frequent as ever - one proprietors have lately annoyed the trade instead of conveniencing it - he was applied to for information - took much trouble to get it and then nobody minded it but Mr. Waterhouse who could be bought over - stone is taken from Bradford to Hull at 8/6 per ton - costs 10/. from here - did not seem to think the proprietors taking up a railroad from here to Leeds would answer - it would be unnecessary if the canal carriage was lowed ½ and the proprietors would then gain more than now - what the use of enabling large vessels to come up to H-x? does not like the committee - Hodgson an old woman - Clay, of Rastrick, one of the best - has made his money and knows the good of liberality to trade but is a litigious man - about £120,000 stock - begged him (F-) to call again - get all the information he could - let us try to embody it, and see if we could not propose something (well backed) that must be attended to - would not advise selling out in a hurry - Lord Wharcliffe thought the proprietors wanted some powers too arbitrary and was against them in their getting the last act - said I had confidence in Lord W- if things were right managed, he would not be against us - Holt brought me a little bill from Whitley for handbills 10/. and taking ‘sinking for off top sod’ 10/. and allowance on the tickets that is on agreeing for the job 10/. and brought word the sinkers were out of heart there was (at 18 20 yards deep) and so much water - said I was glad of it - they must drive a drift and turn the water into the Conery - H- said it would come out at the level about ½ way between the pit and upper conery hedge that is somewhere about the present line of troughs - talk about Sammy Hall’s coal - now way of there being a tithe to it but by the daughter keeping unmarried (her cousin Sutcliffe an attorney visits her regularly) till 21 and joining her father to cut off the entail - to tell Mr. Hall of my saying this and that I would give a fair price of it - Holt wants 23 DW. (worth paid for as got £100 per DW both beds and could be got next spring) of Mr. Walker Priestley joining upon to Mr. Hall’s land near Lower hill

SH:7/ML/E/17/0105

did not know WP- or would have applied - thought I could help him - well! said I, if it can be shewn that I am in any way fairly interested, I will name the business - it seems, if H- had these 23DW. and I S. Hall’s coal Messrs. R- would be on all sides shut in and confined to the coal in C. Rawson’s own estate perhaps about 150DW - if he gets W.P-‘s coal, he (R-) can go forwards without SH-‘s coal, towards the town of Southowram but I am not directly interested so strongly advised H- to go himself openly and fairly to WP- on Monday - say who he was and bid a fair price at once, if the matter should go so far, and if not to get the 1st refusal of the coal, and that would be enough as I believed WP - a man of his word - it is WP-‘s interest to have competition, and even if he would not sell without letting R- know still H- might bid him up - then talk about Spigs colliery - shewed H- or rather read to him from Business letter book ii. p.11 et seq. the account of my interview with T. Clarke and James Crichley Holt on the subject - they have nothing to shew for a right of loose thro’ the Wellroyde goit - neither for loosing the coal in what was Swaine’s land, nor even Spiggs land itself - much more to loose any part of the land never belonging to Swaine’s land, but to Mr. Dean of Scoresby, valued by Illingworth at soft bed 80 guineas, and hard ditto 70 guineas per acre- H- valued this loose at £5 per acre or guineas which I ought to have - he would rather not interfere - Hinscliffe would do very well - (said I would send for him) - but if he objected, I  might try Illingworth - wrote in pencil and read to Holt the following which I told him I should send, probably on Monday, to ‘Messrs. Holt and co. coal merchants Booth Bank Halifax’ - Gentlemen as I hear you have applied for coal to Mr. Dean of Scoresby, under the idea that you have a right of loose thro’ the Wellroyde holms, I think it proper to inform you, that I do not consider you to have any such right and that it is y intention to take immediate measurers for stopping up the drain, if we do not come to an agreement about it, on, or before the 22nd of this month - I am gentlemen etc A. Lister’ - H- approved the above letter saying it would be easy to stop up the goit effectively and so as to drown all their coal - at 3 20 in about an hour read from p. 253 to        vol. 1 Gützlaff’s history of China - wrote out the 1st p. of today - then had Pickles he signed his agreement for Whiskum cottage rent £5 per annum payable quarterly entering 9 October last  - to quit at a month’s notice or pay 4/. a week rent for every week he stays after the expiration of the month’s notice – not to keep a beer shop – paid him the expense on the summons he took out against Hanson for shooting in A-‘s joint property and paid him expense for summons on my account sometime ago said I did not want a shrubbery at Whiskum cottage - if he did not want the ground for an useful garden I should take it and plant it with oaks - shewed that I was much displeased at his coming the last time in liquor - said that John or anyone who had been his friend would have prevented his seeing me at such a time - but he had better not do it again - dinner soon after 6 ¼ - ten minutes with my father and Marian – then coffee downstairs – and till 8 50 wrote out the last 2 pages and the above of this page of today – A- sitting by me reading volume 1 Sismondi on the literature of Southern Europe - H- had seen the burst out of Mr Rawson’s coal water into Captain and Mrs Sutherland’s land in occupation of Hanson - £10 would stop it entirely – the Loose worth perhaps £200 or £10 per DW but Edward Tattersall or man collier living in a cottage at Rookes who worked for Rawsons but now at variance with them could tell – played and lost 1 hit at backgammon – ½ hour with my aunt till 10 ¼ - Rainy day F40° at 10 ½ pm in 10 minutes while undressing read from p.40 to 63 ii Sismondi’s literature of South of Europe.

[johnlinneyphotography]

View From a Bridge. Taken from the bridge at Hebble End. Today has been enjoyable and frustrating in equal measures. I experienced blank images when shooting at wide apertures. I couldn’t understand why the shots were just black. It turned out my stupidity was greater than my ability to figure it out. Sometimes, there’s too much light for your camera to cope with! Thanks to @chris_orange_photography for his advice. I did however get some good images, especially with the fabulous #fujifilmxf14mmf28 lens. I’ve a few more images to share but two in one day is more than enough for you nice people to have to put up with! #fujixh1 #xh1 #xh1fujifilm #fujixh1photography #xh1photography #bnw #bnwmood #bnwphotography #hebdenbridge #visithebdenbridge #calderdale #yorkshire #yorkshirephotographer https://www.instagram.com/p/Cak6mzzseYG/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mscoyditch]

"Looking toward Hebble End, early morning, last week".

(c) Peter Oneill > Hebden Bridge group UK

[tookipalooki]

Almost done w Long Weekend and everything is now just game ending and spoilers for how much nothing makes sense. 8}

So I’ll show what I want to play with next, we are going to play the goblin RP pirate add-on. Unfortunately this add on has been banned in NZ so Exley is making it all up and everyone is pretty much making their own classes and rules up as they go along. Hebble has screamed loud enough to be allowed to roleplay a mermaid. Cow has stolen all the item cards and declared that he is now a merchant.

This is going to be such a mess. 8}

These three classes are what Sosig can decide to play as.

I’m going Rapscallion. >8}

[samuelmmarcus]

New Construction Home Inspiration

  Recently built by Spaces Renewed, this new construction home is here to show us that challenges might arrive during the process of building a home but things always end up well if you’re choosing the right group of professionals. Here, the builder and designer, shares some insights:

  “As a company, this was our first new construction build, and we chose a doozy! The lot had significant soil, slip plane, and engineering challenges. We moved 22,000 tons of dirt, dug out the whole mountain, and rebuilt it, this time with proper compaction. It had sat vacant for 15 years after the first home built on it slipped down the mountain, but we wanted to prove it could be done! So, as a business venture, this build was an invaluable experience. Personally, we built it for us! My husband and I own this business, and took on the challenge of new construction, with ourselves as the clients! There are countless stories of what it felt like to be both business owner, designer, builder and client (all while doing it with my business partner/husband!).” – Beth Booth.

  I hope you guys feel encouraged and inspired by this house tour!

  New Construction Home Inspiration

“Our goal for this house was to create a modern coastal vibe, but add to it a warm, inviting and elegant feel. Each element of the house was meant to be interesting and beautiful, without the busy, overdone feel that can easily crowd out the clean line aesthetic. We wanted each element to be unique and highly stylized, without being obnoxious! This house really does have something for everyone; touches of modern Spanish, traditional coastal, farmhouse.”

Front Door & Windows

What a curb-appeal! I am loving the vertical fence with the metal gates. Front Door is JeldWen IWP Contemporary Custom Design Shaker Moulding Entry Door.

Windows: Anderson 100 series black on black fiberglass.

Kitchen

This spacious kitchen features a great layout and a very practical island with Quartzite countertop.

Perimeter Cabinet: Paint Grade MDF, beaded inset Cascade style painted “Melted Brie” by San Diego Custom Cabinets.

Lighting: Park Harbor – Other Great Pendants: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Kitchen Island Dimensions: 123” x 72”

Counterstools: here & here – similar.

Kitchen Island

The kitchen island cabinetry is Alder, beaded inset Cascade style stained “Rockport Gray” with light wire brush by San Diego Custom Cabinets.

Countertop: Tahitian Cream Quartzite.

Kitchen Faucet: Brizo Litze Pull Out Spray Kitchen Faucet, Brilliance Polished Nickel.

Flooring

Kitchen flooring is Daltile Invoke, Sheer Glow ID01 18 x 36 tile.

Backsplash

Backsplash is Daltile Illuminary Accordion Mosaic Illustrious Blend. Other Beautiful Tiles: here, here, here, here, here & here.

Hardware: Top Knobs Transcend Collection, Ascendra Pull.

Dining Room

This home features an open layout and plenty of beautiful views!

Dining Room Chandelier: here – Other Beautiful Chandeliers: here, here, here, here, here, here, here & here.

The builder (and the designer’s husband) made the gorgeous table and bench – similar here.

Dining chairs are from Living Spaces – Other Beautiful Chairs: here, here, here, here & here.

Get Ready for the Holidays:

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Paint Color

I am loving this Great room. Notice the floating shelves flanking the fireplace. Wall paint color is Dunn Edwards “Foggy Day”.

Rug: Gray Faded Gothic Medallion Chroma Area Rug – Similar: here & here.

Couch: custom design/built by local company. Other Great Sofa Sectionals: here, here, here, here & here.

Living Room Cabinetry

Cabinetry is paint grade MDF, Cascade style painted “Melted Brie” by San Diego Custom Cabinets. Color behind floating shelves Dunn Edwards “Pebble Walk”.

Hardware: Top Knobs Marion Knob.

Patio

Rear sliders by La Cantina Multi Slide, open to a large patio.

Outdoor Kitchen

The outdoor kitchen features an integrated pub table. What a great idea!

Outdoor Kitchen Countertop

The countertop is White Macaubas quartzite.

Stucco

This home is beautiful inside and out. The exterior is white acrylic stucco.

Exterior Ceiling

The exterior ceiling is clear Cedar Tongue and Groove.

Outdoor Furniture

Outdoor Furniture: Jerome’s Maldives collection – similar here & here.

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The patio also features a cozy fireplit and fountain.

Similar Firepit: here.

Hardwood Flooring

A beautiful staircase with custom metal railings leads to the second floor.

Hardwood Flooring: Galleher, Rewards Flooring, Costa Collection, Euro Oak Anzio 5/8” x 7 ½” – Similar here & here.

Girl’s Bath

Wall Paint Color: “Dunn Edwards Air of Mint.”

Cabinetry is Alder, Cascade style stained to match beach wood mirror.

Countertop: Cabrini Grey Quartz Daltile.

Faucet: Delta Tesla 8” Widespread Bathroom Sink Faucet, Chrome.

Lighting: Minka Lighting Cashelmara 3 light.

Hardware: Top Knobs Cobblestone Round Knob.

Shower Wall Tile: Daltile Fabrique, Blanc Linen P685 12×24.

Accent Tile: Silhouette XI0270 tile – similar here.

Shower Floor Tile: Pebble Stone Tile – similar here.

Flooring: Daltile Chord Canon Gray CH22 12×24.

Kids’ Bathroom

Bathroom Cabinet: Paint Grade MDF, Cascade style painted “Toadstool” by Dunn Edwards. I am loving this color!

Wall Paint Color: “Dunn Edwards Foggy Day”.

Countertop: Carrera Veil Quartz from Daltile.

Splash: Cepac Gemstone ¾” Penny Round, Aquamarine – similar here.

Hardware: Top Knobs Oculus Oval Pull, Top Knobs Oculus Knob.

Faucets: Delta Trinsic 8” Widespread Bathroom Sink Faucet, Matte Black.

Lighting: Sea Gull Lighting Belton.

Shower Wall Tile:  Daltile Fabrique, Blanc Linen P685 12×24.

Accent Tile: Cepac Gemstone ¾” Pennyround Aquamarine – similar here.

Flooring is Daltile Emerson Wood, 3D cube, EP06 Ash White.

Master Bathroom

This master bedroom features incredible views and a timeless, neutral design.

Cabinetry: Alder, Cascade style stained “Rockport Gray” stain by San Diego Custom Cabinets.

Bathroom countertop is Tahitian Cream Quartzite.

Hardware: Top Knobs Channing Pull.

Faucet: Brizo Levoir 8” Widespread Bathroom Sink Faucet, Brilliance Polished Nickel.

Sconces: Kalco Lighting Loveland Sconce.

Floor Tile

Flooring: Daltile Marble Collection M190 First Snow (custom honed treatment) 18×18.

Tub Faucet: Brizo Levoir.

Shower Tile

Walls: Daltile Delegate Off White DL25 12×24.

Accent Tile: Trend Liberty Line, Opal – similar here, here & here.

Pan: Daltile Vintage Hex Wisdom White VH06.

Paint Color

The bathroom paint color is “Dunn Edwards Water Mist”. Keep this neutral color in mind!

Laundry room

This laundry room is a dream and it’s one of my favorite spaces in this home! Cabinets are Beach Glass by Dunn Edwards and cabinetry is by San Diego Custom Cabinets.

Walls: “Foggy Day by Dunn Edwards.”

Countertop: Carrara Veil Quartz.

Splash: Daltile Artigiano Italian Alps Tile.

Hardware: Top Knobs Oculus Oval Pull, Top Knobs Oculus Knob.

Faucet: Delta Trinsic Pull Out Spray Kitchen Faucet, Matte Black.

Flooring is Bedrosians 8×8 Remy, Damsel.

Roof

Roof is a charcoal composite roof with metal roof accent at entryway.

  Many thanks to the builder for sharing the details above!

Builder: Spaces Renewed (Instagram – Facebook)

Photography: David Hebble Photography.

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Crow Nest in the Rain

Crow Nest in the Rain

Much improved following a bout of debilitation early May, I itched to get out of the house.  We set off in fine weather Sunday afternoon for Crow Nest Wood.   At Hebble End, jade catkins drooped over the rushing Calder. Resembling Christmas trees, they were surprisingly soft to the touch.  Climbing up towards Weasel Hall, an earthy scent rose from the churned up track and blocks were dislodged…

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Walk in the footsteps of Charlotte Brontë

Beloved English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë was endlessly inspired by her hometown Yorkshire, where she was born on April 21, 1816. We explore some of the cosy places she would have known and where you can now stay.

The strong-willed female writer who created some of British literature’s best-loved characters grew up in the Yorkshire countryside, a wild region, crossed by the Pennine Way walking trail, which was to be a fertile seedbed for many British writers, including poet Ted Hughes and playwright JB Priestley, who were born here.

A windswept land of purple heather, high cliffs and brooding moors where curlews nest in summer, the Yorkshire countryside was to provide inspiration for many of the scenes in Charlotte’s novels, including Jane Eyre’s flight from Thornfield when she discovers Mr Rochester already has a wife and declares: “I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose.”

Charlotte Bronte Credit: GL Archive/Alamy

With a host of special events taking place to celebrate the life of the elder of the three famous literature-loving Brontë sisters, book into one of these cosy boltholes and follow in Charlotte’s footsteps.

Brontë Country extends across the Bradford and Leeds area of West Yorkshire and is linked by the 43-mile (69km) Brontë Way. Following this footpath, which starts at Oakwell Hall – immortalised as Fieldhead in Charlotte’s novel Shirley – and ends at Gawthorpe Hall, where some say Charlotte caught the cold that killed her (though this is disputed), is an ideal way to discover this region.

Charlotte discovered the picturesque Elizabethan manor house of Oakwell, in Birstall, while visiting Ellen Nussey, the friend who subsequently comforted her when three of her siblings, her brother Branwell and her two sisters, Emily and Anne, fell sick and died within eight months of each other.

“If Fieldhead had few other merits… it might at least be termed picturesque,” says Shirley, the eponymous hero of Charlotte’s second published novel, of her home, and visitors to Oakwell will easily recognise: “The old latticed windows, the stone porch, the walls, the roof, the chimney-stacks, (that) were rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades.”

Dewsbury Minster, the Gothic church where Charlotte’s stern, but loving father, Patrick, took up ministry in 1809, is a short drive from Birstall. Seek the plaque dedicated to the man whose love of storytelling surely inspired his daughters to write, and check into the Waterfront Lodge Hotel, a boutique hotel in a converted watermill overlooking the scenic Calder and Hebble waterway.

After a restful night, far from the cries of the protesting Luddites who haunt the pages of Shirley, head for Thornton, the countryside hamlet where Charlotte was born in 1816. 

The 19th-century cottage, where four of the six children of Maria and Patrick Brontë were born, is now an Italian deli combined with a museum, whose exhibits include the desk where Patrick wrote his first sermon.

“My happiest days were spent there. This is where the family was complete: father, mother and children, and where they had kind friends,” Patrick Brontë later said of his time here. 

Stroll further along Thornton’s Victorian high street to discover the remains of the Old Bell Chapel where Charlotte’s father once preached his dramatic sermons, then spend the night at Holdsworth House, a glorious Jacobean manor built in 1633, surrounded by glorious landscaped gardens where celebrities, including the Beatles, have stayed.

Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, West Yorkshire, England Credit: Ian Dagnall/Alamy

Charlotte was only four years old when the Brontë family moved to Haworth, a small village on the edge of the bleak Pennine moor where her father had been appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Within a year Maria Brontë, Charlotte’s mother, had died of cancer.

Raised by their Methodist aunt and melancholy father, the six Brontë children grew up in almost total isolation: “We were totally dependent on ourselves and each other, on books and study, for the enjoyment and occupations of life,” Charlotte said of that time.

This isolation also fuelled the siblings’ legendary creativity, however, and it was here at Haworth Parsonage that the three sisters wrote most of their famous works.

Charlotte is buried in the St Michael and All Angels Church, so pay your respects at the family vault (Anne Brontë is the only family member not buried here), then hike out to the Brontë Waterfall, described by Charlotte as “a perfect torrent racing over the rocks, white and beautiful”.

Holdsworth House in Halifax is a Jacobean manor house near to Haworth

Stop off to see the stone Brontë chair, where it’s said the sisters took turns to sit and write their stories, then check in to the delightful Ashmount Country House, a charming stone-built bed and breakfast with four-poster beds and working fireplaces that was once home to the Brontë sisters’ personal physician, Amos Ingham.

From here, it’s an easy drive to Wycoller, over the county border in Lancashire, where villagers accused of witchcraft were hanged in 1612. The Brontë sisters were frequent visitors to this historic hamlet.

Wander in the atmospheric ruins of Wycoller Hall, which is said to have been the inspiration for Ferndean Manor, the house buried in the woods where Jane Eyre discovers the newly blinded Mr Rochester and agrees to marry him. Then spend the night at The Devonshire Arms, a luxurious boutique hotel with period furnishings in a renovated 17th-century manor house at the heart of this stunning area, where the Brontës met the Nussey family in September 1833, on their way to visit the ruins of Bolton Abbey.

End your tour of Brontë Country at Gawthorpe Hall. A short hike from the village of Haworth, Charlotte stayed at this 17th-century manor house, which is now a museum housing an important collection of paintings and textiles, a couple of times.

Shy of crowds and fearful of being patronised, Charlotte disliked the owners but enjoyed the house, which she described as “grey, antique, castellated, and stately” in a letter to Ellen Nussey in 1850. It was following a visit here in 1855 that Charlotte died. Her death certificate listed the cause of death as tuberculosis but modern theories suggest she may have succumbed to the effects of extreme morning sickness.

With panoramic views, chandeliers and open fireplaces, Higher Trapp Country House Hotel is an ideal spot in which to spend your last night. Curl up by the fireplace and listen to the wind whistle across the moors outside as you think of Charlotte Brontë, a woman whose haunting novels still inspire us more than 200 years after her birth.

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So, nach zehn Stunden auf dem Fluss sind wir in Mirfield angekommen - der letzten Etappe bevor wir morgen unseren Heimathafen ansteuern. Zeit darüber nachzudenken, wie gut sich letztlich alles gefügt hat. Wir konnten vom richtigen Ende starten, damit uns die Sperrung in Leed nur stundenweise betrifft, die Arbeiten in Leeds sind zeitig fertig geworden und der Wasserstand auf den Flüssen war im grünen Bereich. Dabei war die Calder&Hebble Navigation fast eine Woche gesperrt und ist erst am Donnerstag wieder geöffnet worden. “Was ein Stück Glück!”, um mit den Engländern zu sprechen. Zehn Stunden hört sich viel an, aber wenn man mit so einem schwimmenden Wohnwagen unterwegs ist und genug zu essen an Bord hat, dann hält man das gerne aus. Und es ist ja nicht so wie beim Segeln auf dem Meer, nichts schaukelt. Man kann unter Deck Kaffee kochen, Pasteten in den Ofen schieben oder wie heute aus dem Rest Brot und dem Rest Käse überbackene Käsetoasts herstellen. Heute bin ich sogar gegen Abend kurz vor den letzten beiden Schleusen noch kurz unter die Dusche gesprungen. Und jetzt sitzen wir hier in Mirfield im Pub. Mirfield hat ungefähr so viel Ortskern und so viel Charme wie Petterweil. Aber dieser Pub ist ok. So, das Essen kommt, heute gönne ich mir Fish and Chips.

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The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK [2003 - 2011] _ Architect: David Chipperfield Architects _ Photos by Spyros Kaprinis [23.03.2022].

“The Hepworth Wakefield is named after the late English artist Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. It is a purpose-built art gallery, located within the Wakefield waterfront conservation area, which protects a number of significant industrial buildings that once housed the town’s cloth and grain industries. The new building sits on a sharp bend in the River Calder with the immediate surroundings dominated by a twentieth century road bridge and a series of locks known as the Calder and Hebble Navigation.

At the tip of the headland, the site of the new building is exposed on all sides without being defined by either river or road. These particular conditions led to a building form without a dominant façade. The almost geological composition is a conglomerate of diverse irregular forms tightly interlocked. Each single volume represents and coincides with a single space, unique in size and shape. To the north, where the river level drops at the weir, the building steps into the water like many of the old mills and warehouses. The monolithic appearance and composition is accentuated by the use of pigmented in-situ concrete.

The programme is split horizontally between the ground and first floors, the latter exclusively used as exhibition space. The ground floor contains the reception, shop, cafeteria, auditorium and learning studios, as well as offices, archives and storage. The cafeteria has a generous terrace near the main reception area and all public areas enjoy exterior views. At the core of the building is a naturally lit central staircase leading to the galleries on the upper floor.

Most of the rooms on the upper level house the gallery’s permanent collections, which range from large-scale sculptures and plasters by Barbara Hepworth and others, to highly light-sensitive works on paper from the city of Wakefield’s collection of British art. The remaining rooms host a programme of temporary exhibitions. All of the galleries use the same neutral language, allowing for future reinterpretations and representations of artworks. Open doorways link the gallery spaces into fluid and varied sequences, offering inviting glimpses of other works and the outside world.

From within the individual blocks, the outer morphology can be clearly seen in ceilings that slope parallel to the outer roofs, and rooms in which no two surfaces lie parallel to one another. Walls meet at diverse angles, and the variations in size and ceiling pitch give each room a unique character. The main source of light in each gallery is a slot running the full width of the ceiling at the highest end of the space. The varying angles of each block’s ceiling have been calculated to admit and diffuse light in the most effective way, complementing the artificial lighting system. Louvres allow the light to be regulated or even completely blocked out. In addition, several of the galleries feature a picture window framing an aspect of the surroundings, linking Hepworth’s sculptures to the landscape in which she grew up.”

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