Friday, 24th April 2020 If you’ve never heard of County Durham sculptor Ray Lonsdale and you live in the North East of England, you might be familiar with Tommy, a sombre, oversized sculpture of a war-weary soldier which dominates Terrace Green on the promenade at Seaham Harbour. Since it was installed in 2014, Ray’s work […]
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Saturday, 22nd June 2019 On the longest day this year, Diane and I entered our first event on the tandem that we bought in October last year (2018) from JD Tandems in Gargrave near Skipton, North Yorkshire. The event was Chase the Sun’s inaugural Northern UK cycle tour (it’s not a race, nor is it
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Tuesday, 17th October 1346 Here’s an event at which The Durham Cow was absent and a good job too! It’s an event that sets our home town well apart from the competition and which – as medieval battles go – is more significant than most. As a self-declared ‘non-expert’ I rely for information on various
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Sunday, 21st July 2019 As part of the conditioning process for an upcoming cycling holiday to France we felt it might be worthwhile taking the tandem around the Otterburn military training area in the heart of the Northumberland National Park. We’d tried the same route the weekend before but had only got as far as
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