Tour de Yorkshire

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Riders approaching Scarborough near the end of yesterday's "first leg".

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The second from the left was the winner of the first leg.

[Jonathan]

Yes, York and surrounding villages are more a less sealed off today. Our road closed 6 minutes ago...

[Serial_Apologist]

They haven't quite perfected cloning, yet...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

They haven't quite perfected cloning, yet...

[Richard Tarleton]

Returning from 2 weeks of walking and birdwatching in Mallorca, which has reinvented iteslf as a road cycling destination in the last 30 years, I went online to find the answer to a question that puzzled me

[MrGongGong]

"de" Yorkshire?

Surely it should be t'Yorkshire ?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"de" Yorkshire?

Surely it should be t'Yorkshire ?

That suggests a rather poor understanding of dialect, MrGG.
T' is normally short for "the" - never "of".

[MrGongGong]

That suggests a rather poor understanding of dialect, MrGG.
T' is normally short for "the" - never "of".

You disappoint me sir
I thought you, of all people, would find the whole Franglais nonsense objectionable?

Because Emley moor is the highest transmitter we get Yorkshire TV here, otherwise known as "stabbings nightly" (which seems to be what the BBC want us to believe about Leeds?) and the chorus is always "WE DON'T LIVE IN YORKSHIRE" (I did once though )

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

You disappoint me sir
I thought you, of all people, would find the whole Franglais nonsense objectionable?

Because Emley moor is the highest transmitter we get Yorkshire TV here, otherwise known as "stabbings nightly" (which seems to be what the BBC want us to believe about Leeds?) and the chorus is always "WE DON'T LIVE IN YORKSHIRE" (I did once though )

BBC Look North (Yorkshire) is cringeworthy. We are on the edge of Yorkshire and the NE region. The latter treats listeners as though they intelligent. The Yorkshire one is rather crass and reminds me of Radio 3 Breakfast, but worse.

But the cycle race has been good for the region.

[BBMmk2]

Some brass band friends are either taking part or playing.

[MrGongGong]

Some brass band friends are either taking part or playing.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I've just driven to Leeds and back, not realizing that my route followed about a half of the Tour route. Excellent scenes, and in spite of the early drizzle, plenty of people coming out to watch and cheer them on (I felt a bit of a fraud, driving past these cheering crowds - managed to resist waving back, though.) Mostly excellent cycling, too, although there were three or four whose safety on the road owed everything to the attention of motorists (and fellow cyclists) than to their own awareness of what was going on around them.

Glad that the drizzle has stopped and the sun come out to reward their efforts.

[Serial_Apologist]

Cyclic forms are seen here to be on the Liszt.