Comments on: Black Gold, Tan Hill Tea

By: McEff

McEff — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:56:22 +0000

Hi Wessyman. Thank you very much for that.
Cheers, Alen

By: McEff

McEff — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:15:09 +0000

Hi Mark. The pub is notorious for its late-night drinking, which is great if you join in but not so good if you want to be up early. Thankfully, I’ve never needed to be up early after a night there.
Having said that, the previous time Anne and I had a night there and slept in our vehicle was during the Falkland’s War, so I don’t think that classes us as regulars.
Cheers, Alen

By: wessyman137

wessyman137 — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:44:48 +0000

Another great post – just my sort of thing – loved it

By: markswalkingblog

markswalkingblog — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:08:49 +0000

HI Alen, interesting post. Can’t say that I have noticed the workings around Tan Hill Inn. I once camped behind the Inn one Saturday night before leaving my car there for three days to do a circular walk. They had a lock in there I think because, I hear shouts and laughter going on until 2 in the morning. I didn’t get much sleep that night. Should have made my way back to the pub and joined in!

By: mountaincoward

mountaincoward — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:09:16 +0000

The trouble is, we can vote for who we like but it doesn’t really change anything. Whatever they say they’ll do BEFORE an election, they just morph into all the other parties after the election and nothing gets through for Joe Public. You’re right that big business can lobby strongly and get anything they like through though????

By: McEff

McEff — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:21:48 +0000

You get one vote every five years. Meanwhile, measures such as the bedroom tax, health service sell-offs and the fracking law ??? none of which appeared in any manifesto ??? are steamrollered in. And we are supposed to be a shining example of democracy throughout the world?
Bloody hell, Carol. It isn’t even dinner time and you’ve got me going already.

By: mountaincoward

mountaincoward — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 10:06:45 +0000

I personally don’t think what we have here can be called democracy. If you don’t like something, you can’t really do anything about it!

By: McEff

McEff — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:33:57 +0000

Don’t get me going about fracking. The government has just changed the law so that energy companies can drill under your land, even if you refuse permission. So much for the democracy our country has been spreading around the world for the past few decades. But democracy goes out of the window when money and trade are involved. I think we knew that.
We used to have a neighbour in Cumbria who bought bags of sea coal from a chap in Northumberland then sold them on for ??2 a time. It was good stuff for banking up the fire last thing at night because it was very fine ??? like gravel ??? and kept the fire smouldering away well into the next morning. I might look into that. I rather fancy a coastal walk.
Cheers, Alen

By: mountaincoward

mountaincoward — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:21:54 +0000

Superb interesting post. I love the first photo by the way – you’d never think it was connected with industry. Good on you for gathering the coal – I remember once we gathered some sea coal from a beach and took it home to burn it – I think it burned okay (I was very young at the time).

I think a lot more old mineshafts will be collapsing if we start with fracking!
Carol.

By: McEff

McEff — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:48:26 +0000

Hej Hanna. Coffee made over a smoky fire on the side of a river in Norway sounds an ideal way to spend some time. It certainly has of an appeal than a barren moor on the top of the Pennines.
Yes, I used firewood to get the coal burning. Not wet twigs gathered from the forest, but some old planks I happened to have lying about in the garden.
Cheers, Alen

By: Hanna

Hanna — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 18:21:09 +0000

You live your live dangerously with all those hidden traps in the moor, Alen????
Glad you survived otherwise, the moor would be haunted by bags from Sainsbury with rattling lumps of coal. As if it wasn’t enough with declining feathers in the inn.
Your found of coal made ??????me think of a bitterly cold October morning by a fishing river in Norway. It was my turn to coffee making. The branches and twigs I could gather was wet. I could have used your bag of weathered coal.
A good plan is a plan including built in detours. That is a brilliant way to make an enjoyable hike.
By the way, did you use firewood to get the coal to burn?
All the best,
Hanna

By: McEff

McEff — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:07:50 +0000

Hi Scott. Glad to be of assistance. It’s rewarding to know I’ve spread a little sunshine on this day of unparalleled importance.
All the best, and haste ye back (and other appropriate terms)
Alen