SEMER WATER LOOP – 4 MILES This great little walk starts and finishes at Semer Water. It takes you through the hamlets of Marsett (where Brian Cowper’s son Tommy runs away from home in the middle of snowstorm in The Dark Hours) and Stalling Busk, through the ruins of the 18th Century Stalling Busk Old […]
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FAT RASCAL RECIPE Fat Rascals are as Yorkshire as fruit cake and Wensleydale cheese. Which is why a southerner like Harry would be slightly baffled as to what they actually are. In truth, they’re similar to rock cakes – a staple of my childhood and probably lots of other childhoods of Brits who grew up
INTERVIEW WITH DAVE COCKETT How secret is the Cockett’s Fruit Cake recipe? And is it still made using your great, great (I’m not sure how many greats here!) grandma (is she?), Connie Cockett’s original recipe? Very secret! 😂 If you were to make a special Harry Grimm cake, what would it be? There’s only one
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AUBREY PARSONS: THE INTERVIEW (I ended up getting quite a few questions for Aubrey and a couple for me too. So I’ll start with the questions for me first and then move onto Mr Parson’s interview!) Questions for Dave How do you choose your narrator? Back in the day, I put a sample from Grimm
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ANNA’S EYE-WATERING FLAPJACK Now, flapjack recipes are a dime a dozen on the Internet, so I took this one from the good old BBC and adapted it a bit to include the honey, raisins, chocolate and cashews (I’ve put measurements for these but you can just add them in whatever quantities you like). I initially
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Apple pie and cheddar Now, apple pie is a classic pud and I’m sure everyone has their own version. So I’m not going to claim that the recipe I used is a traditional family secret passed down through the generations. In fact, due to a lack of time and general lack of organisation on the
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WHEN YOUR FRIENDS GO TO THE DALES AFTER READING GRIMM As a reader of the Grimm Up North series, you’ve probably realised that Harry’s Dales are not quite as peaceful as the real-life region. To demonstrate the perils of this part of the world, some very dear but slightly bonkers friends of mine*, decided to
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