38 days ago by Will Ellwood

Yesterday I travelled with Jenny up North to visit the Grandparents. If I had had my own way the first day of 2012 would have been spent in bed or on a sofa reading, starting as I mean to go on, but duty impelled me towards Rochdale. The sky never decided what it wanted to be. Blue and grey skies we ...

39 days ago by Miguel Lomelino

Islamic Guide on Sexual Relations

42 days ago by Miguel Lomelino

2011 was a reading year as usual but this year I read my favorite book ever, “ The hand of Fatima”, a story of the Moors during the Spaanse Reconquista. It’s a book that I will sure read and re-read in the future. I bought it during the Summer holidays and I read around 100 – 150 pages every day. On ...

49 days ago by Emma Preuss

First of all, I will say that there are some mild spoilers here but I haven’t ruined any plot points that aren’t fairly common knowledge. Being a bit of a literature geek, it may surprise some people to know that I’ve only recently read Wuthering Heights. This is mainly because until the last few ye ...

49 days ago by Lotus UK

This year has seen the Yorkshire countryside as the setting of two big screen releases; Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, both adaptations of classic novels from Yorkshire’s most famous literary family, the Brontë sisters. The Barceló Harrogate Majestic Hotel is perfectly located to discover the area ...

50 days ago by Ashleigh

56 days ago by Virginia

A paisagem do Yorkshire varia muito conforme as estações, os castanhos transformam-se em verdes claros ou amarelos dourados, as florinhas campestres cobrem os vales em tons de lilaz, rosa, branco ou amarelo, até as pedras se vestem de novo, adquirindo tonalidades diferentes conforme a luz do céu. Nã ...

57 days ago by nantuckettiechic

Some families at Summer Street Church make Nativity scenes to help the kids focus on Jesus at Christmas. Joseph's beard and robes courtesy of our chickens. Baby Jesus' halo is a jingle shell. A curious acorn headed donkey with bayberry eyes and ears looks on. Shepherd's heads are cutaway hazelnuts. ...

60 days ago by Duncan

To Wuthering Heights this week, the movie that is, and inspired again to look at moorland as a subject. The emptiness, space and sense of sky seem really suited to my work and looking back there's been plenty of occasions I've painted moorland, usually in Scotland, on Skye or the outer Isles. I love ...

63 days ago by Harper Ganesvoort

Reblogged from Living in the Modem World: Grid: Second Life Location: Al Andalus Alhambra It is one of the most stunning palaces in the whole of Europe, one that brings together light, life, culture and geometry in a stunning tour de force of medieval Islamic architecture – albeit one forced to inco ...