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Just remembered I saw this sign in The Black Swan Hotel pub in Leyburn.

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25th August

Burning Bartle

Source: Centre for Contemporary Legends website

The so-called Burning Bartle ritual takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend at West Witton near Leyburn in North Yorkshire. It is something of a macabre ceremony in which a straw effigy in the shape of a man is secretly made in the weeks leading up to weekend, then dressed in jumper and trousers with Halloween mask for face and lightbulbs for eyes. The Bartle is processed by the townsfolk from 9pm through all the local pubs and brings good fortune for the coming year wherever he visits. The effigy is eventually taken to Grasgill End where it is thrown onto a bonfire to burn.

The tradition, which is said to go back at least 400 years, has a number of origin stories. Some say it commemorates the rough justice meted out to a local sheep rustler hundreds of years ago; others that it is an echo of an old dragon myth in the area; others that Bartle represents yesterday’s saint, St Bartholomew, whose effigy was rescued from Protestant reformers seeking to destroy it as part of their anti-Catholic idolatry campaign under Edward VI. The good luck procession and the burning of a human effigy indicates however that the ritual is just as likely to be a folk memory of scapegoat human sacrifice, an individual or its symbolic representative, burned to ensure the success of the harvest.

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The actress Caitríona Balfe, center, taking her seat at the table. Photo: Rich Gilligan

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In Belfast, a Celebration of Art, Community and Pizza

In October, on the second floor of a former spinning mill in east Belfast, the visual artist and author Oliver Jeffers, 46, hosted a candlelit dinner for a group of Irish and Northern Irish artists and friends. The Portview Trade Centre, as the building is called, stopped producing textiles in the 1970s and is now home to 54 artists’ studios and creative businesses, including Jeffers’s, and his neighbors made up a large portion of the guests and the organizers. The occasion was a personal one — the launch of his 20th book, “Begin Again” — but he also wanted to celebrate his wider creative community. Accordingly, the evening combined tributes to both Belfast, where the artist has a home in the Holywood area, and Brooklyn, where he lived until recently and still has a studio.

VIDEO 📹 The author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers invited friends to toast his new book at a dinner in a former textile mill.

Jeffers is perhaps best known for his philosophical, understated children’s books, including “The Book Eating Boy” (2006) and “The Heart and the Bottle” (2010). And true to his style, “Begin Again” is curious, warm and quietly profound. “Not for kids, but not not for kids,” Jeffers says, the book is a vibrantly illustrated exploration of the climate crisis that attempts to lay out a hopeful future for humanity. “It offers an idea of slowing down, of using what’s near us — of starting over,” says Jeffers, “with the realization that we cannot do anything until we start to act with a sense of unity, to tell ourselves new stories that are defined by what we want.”

Jeffers, center (in tan jacket), sat beside the film director Lisa Barros Da’Sa, at left. Photo: Rich Gilligan (and Caitríona Balfe, at right… BIF)

Pearson Morris, the head chef of the Belfast restaurant Noble, pan-fried wild halibut in a makeshift kitchen set up not far from the table. Photo: Rich Gilligan

While guests gathered for drinks, the sun could be seen setting over the city; on the north side of the building, hills rolled down toward the sea. The food too — a collaboration between the local bistro Noble, known for its unpretentious ingredient-led dishes, and Flout, an American-style pizzeria on the ground floor of Portview — was unmistakably rooted in Belfast. Despite a limited power supply and a lack of running water in the room, dishes were assembled and cooked in situ using three portable pizza ovens and a small stove. The table was lit with clusters of white candles and, after the sun finally went down, said Jeffers, it glowed with “the warmth of a hearth at home.”

The dinner table stood at the center of the 10,000-square-foot room. Photo: Rich Gilligan

The attendees: Jeffers celebrated with his wife and business manager, Suzanne Jeffers, and a group of Irish and Northern Irish artists, including the actress Caitríona Balfe, 44; the portrait artist Colin Davidson, 55; the electronic musician and composer David Holmes, 54; the husband-and-wife film director duo Glenn Leyburn, 54, and Lisa Barros Da’Sa, 49; and the writers Glenn Patterson, 61, and Jan Carson, 43. “Everybody at this dinner,” said Jeffers, “was interested in the power of narrative, the impact of what they do and how it makes other people feel.”

The table: Guests sat at two long tables — pushed together to create a more intimate arrangement — in the middle of the otherwise nearly empty 10,000-square-foot room. The events stylist Rachel Worthington McQueen, 30, sourced an Irish linen tablecloth in the same navy hue as the book cover’s background. Mismatched dishes in traditional Blue Willow patterns (originally bought from secondhand websites for Worthington McQueen’s wedding two years ago) held squat candles, and food was served on simple white plates brought over from Noble. Seasonal blooms — including deep burgundy dahlias and pale pink spray roses — echoed the rich palette of the book and were provided by the local, sustainable flower farm Sow Grateful. Each display was tied with bright pink twine, sourced by Suzanne Jeffers to match the exact Pantone color (number 812U) of the book’s title.

New Haven-style mussels pizza by Peter Thompson, the founder of the pizzeria Flout, was served alongside Noble’s halibut. Photo: Rich Gilligan

The food: To start, Noble’s co-founder and head chef, Pearson Morris, 34, served crab and lobster from nearby Bangor Bay dressed with homemade mayonnaise and his Bloody Mary tomatoes (heritage tomatoes steeped overnight in a mix of vodka, celery and Tabasco sauce) on Flout’s blackened focaccia. “I bake things so you think they’re burned — that’s flavor for me,” said the pizzeria’s founder, Peter Thompson, 45. Next was a take on the classic New Haven-style clam pie made with steamed Galway Bay mussels, alongside which Morris served pan-fried wild halibut with a fish head sauce. Then came Flout’s Detroit-style pepperoni pizza and a salad featuring locally grown baby gem lettuces. Dessert was Noble’s chocolate delice — jaconde sponge cake topped with salted caramel, dark chocolate parfait and a chocolate mirror glaze — accompanied by a salted caramel ice cream with Flout’s sourdough chocolate cookies tumbled through.

The drinks: Noble’s front-of-house manager and co-founder, Saul McConnell, 38, oversaw the drinks, which ranged from a vibrant Blanc de Meunier champagne for arriving guests to an amber passito-style Liastos wine from Lyrarakis, Crete, for the dessert course. The Boundary Brewing Company, Belfast’s first tap room and one of Jeffers’s neighbors in the building, provided an alternative aperitif: a full-bodied English bitter called A Certain Romance, a favorite of Jeffers’s studio team.

Jeffers illustrated the evening’s menus. Photo: Rich Gilligan

Noble’s chocolate delice, a jaconde sponge cake with salted caramel and a chocolate mirror glaze. Photo: Rich Gilligan

The conversation: Many artists talked shop, swapping notes on the production problems they encounter in their respective industries, and conversation also turned to global events. “There’s always been a comparison between the conflict in Northern Ireland and the conflict in Israel-Palestine,” said Jeffers. “We talked about the divisive rhetoric that’s going on right now.”

The music: Jeffers enlisted the Irish producer and D.J. Marion Hawkes, who runs the record store Sound Advice in Portview, to create a playlist, which ranged from classic folk to contemporary electronic tracks.

The recipe for Noble’s mayonnaise: It’s hard to beat fresh, homemade mayonnaise, says Morris, and it’s a quick, thoughtful addition to a dinner at home. But despite its few ingredients, it’s deceptively difficult to make. He recommends starting with equal parts white wine vinegar and egg yolk (approximately 2 teaspoons of vinegar to two yolks), which prevents the eggs from splitting as you very gradually beat in 250 ml of oil, then season with 5 grams of sugar and 5 grams of salt. Morris likes to use extra-virgin rapeseed oil for its neutral flavor, and an electric mixer for ease.

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Remember… there’s always been a comparison between the conflict in Northern Ireland and the conflict in Israel-Palestine. We talked about the divisive rhetoric that’s going on right now. — Oliver Jeffers

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Indira Varma interview with the The Guardian about Netflix's upcoming Obsession (28/02/22)

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Varma’s other forthcoming project could not be more different: an adaptation of Josephine Hart’s novel Damage for a three-part Netflix series due later this year. Famously adapted into a steamy film starring Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche and Miranda Richardson at the height of the 90s erotic thriller boom, the series is now titled Obsession and follows a married politician embarking on a lusty affair with his son’s girlfriend. Varma was keen that her character Ingrid, ostensibly the scorned wife, was not a tired trope. “I hope that you see somebody who is ��� was – a catch in her own right,” she says. “It’s not that cliche of the nubile 20-year-old … They’re equals in this marriage and they’ve got a great relationship. So why does this happen?”

Meanwhile, some of the source material’s sexual politics have been refreshed. “When I read the novel, I thought: ‘Has this really been written by a woman?’ Because it’s so from the male perspective,” says Varma. “The erotic thriller in the 90s was all about the man and objectifying women.” Now, she says, it is more balanced in questioning who is in control of the affair: “In the old days, it used to be that the woman was either this victim or else she was this harlot. This is much subtler than that.”

Obsession has retained the thriller element, though, as well as the “deep, dark pleasure you get from watching these two people embark on an illicit affair … once it starts to unravel, you can’t take your eyes away from the fallout. It’s like a ball that has started down a hill and the momentum, that one little glance that started so innocently, has caused an avalanche.” Even more intriguing, for Varma at least, was the prospect of a husband-and-wife directing duo, Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, venturing into such thorny territory: “The fact that they are looking at that erotic affair was like: ‘Wow, you’re going there? That’s really bold!’”

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Rosalie Parker. Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories. Leyburn: North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2023. Hardback with dust jacket. 239 pages. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. 

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'Destination' dog treats shop set to open in Leyburn

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'Destination' dog treats shop set to open in Leyburn

The owner of a new shop selling dog treats hopes the store will become a tourist attraction. The Dales Dog Deli is due to open in Leyburn market place on Saturday.  Owner Steve Benson said the shop was a “unique pick n mix store for dogs stocking a range of healthy and natural treats that […]

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I used to read how suicide was a major killer of men. That's something you don't really take notice of until it happens to your friends. Since hitting 45 I have lost a number of friends. Some to illness, an accident or two and one acquaintance with a drugs overdose. Recently an old friend from my childhood took his own life. Now, usually the death of a friend brings a feeling of profound sadness. In this case it was a mixture of sad, and anger. Some days the anger drowning out the sadness. Growing up on the fairground, there was a real tight gang of us. Hitting our mid twenties, most of us found love and some of us moved away from the North East, losing touch in the process. JJ and I had been friends up until we both moved. We didn't see each other for probably 20 years, then we met up at a mutual friends funeral. We ended up sat talking that long, that both of our spouses rang to see if we were ok, as they had expected us back hours before. Catching up on things we made a commitment to get together again. He was particularly impressed that I had acquired my pilots licence and we agreed to take a flight together. In the run up to Christmas we had been texting each other to try and arrange a night out, but our respective diary's stopped this. On our last text we agreed to pick it back up after Christmas That was the last contact I had with him. A few days into the new year, my dad rang to tell me that JJ had killed himself. There aren't many funerals I cry at, its just not in my nature, but I did at that one. All the old gang were there, except Cliff, who is in prison. I was struck by how everyone had turned into a hugger. That wasn't the macho gang I remember from my youth. But is that part of the problem. Men are expected to be macho, not to cry, to be inscrutable with their feelings. It Can Be Frightening Deciding to talk about this with my circle of friends, what I discovered was frightening. Probably 90% of them were on antidepressants. A couple admitted that they had seriously taken steps towards ending their lives. One described how he had sat there with a gun to his head trying to pluck the courage up to pull the trigger. Something snapped him out of it thankfully, and he threw the gun down, only to have it go off and narrowly miss shooting himself in the head! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry with him. If you read the government statistics then it shows that the so called Generation X, basically my age group are most at risk of dying from either suicide or drugs overdose. Killer Bulls So whats this got to do with the headline. Well, one of the funfairs we used to operate at when I was a kid, was in a little market town on the Yorkshire Dales called Leyburn. One day me, JJ and Cliff, the one in prison now, had gone fishing. Three of us sat there with one rod, when JJ suddenly jumped up and ran away. As I sat staring at his back, Cliff suddenly jumped up and ran the other way. Still puzzled I set off after him, catching him quite quickly due to my longer legs I asked between gasps what was up. "They are coming to kill us he screamed". ???? Looking over my shoulder I suddenly notices a herd of young bullocks stampeding towards us. Now I don't know if they intended harm, or they had just set off at a gallop because we were running. And to be honest I didn't care at that point. We reached a tree, which thankfully was climbable and both shimmied up as far as we could get. The herd of bloody cows, formed a circle around the tree, then all promptly laid down looking up at us. WTF. Eventually they slowly dispersed, probably bored waiting for their meals to come down. In the event we were up their almost 8 sodding hours. And what of JJ, the one who got away. He went home watched some morning TV, had his lunch, played with some of the other kids, then near teatime decided to tell what had happened. We ran into the rescue party as we finally managed to come down out of the tree and were making our way home. Suicide is so bloody final! And truly frightening when you look at how it seems to be increasing. Read the full article

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St Matthew's Church, Leyburn

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🌿 Discover the Extended Leyburn Shawl Walk Featuring Castle Bolton

🥾 A few days ago, I shared the 7-mile Leyburn Shawl walk in Wensleydale, starting from Leyburn and passing through the charming villages of Preston-under-Scar and Wensley.

⛰️ If you're feeling more adventurous, I've just published an extended 11-mile version of the Leyburn Shawl walk. This route also begins in Leyburn but takes you further, through Castle Bolton and Redmire, before returning via Wensley.

🌳 This new route offers more opportunities to explore the Yorkshire Dales’ stunning scenery, with beautiful countryside and quaint villages along the way.

✨ Ready for your next adventure? Check out the details here and start planning your walk today!

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Leyburn the real deal — just ask Dick You can visit Leyburn anytime, 365 days a year. But if motor sport is your bent, then make it the weekend in mid/late August. That’s when this tiny town 2.5 hours’ drive south-west of Brisbane opens its brawny arms and big heart to some 15,000 townies and bushies alike.  The occasion is, of course, the annual Historic Leyburn Sprints.  It was 1996 when the Historic Racing Car Club of Queensland got together with the local community to organise what was […] https://cars4starters.com.au/leyburn-the-real-deal-just-ask-dick/?feed_id=29746&_unique_id=65a5f2ed3c4c6

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Obsession Netflix cast TV Series 2023 Release Date, Review

The romantic thriller “Obsession” which Netflix is about to release, promises to be amazingly emotional and interesting viewing. Morgan Lloyd-Malcolm is the series’ author, and Charlie Murphy and Richard Armitage star as the couple who fall in love. obsession netflix cast Obsession Netflix cast, trailer, Release Date Director Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Writer Josephine Hart, Morgan Lloyd…

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Robert Aickman & Elizabeth Jane Howard. We Are for the Dark. Introduction by R.B. Russell. Leyburn. Tartarus Press, 2016. Hardback edition. 258+xii pages. Second Tartarus Press printing.

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