Beck Hole

Beck Hole is a very tiny little village 600 feet down from the top of the North York Moors. Our friend Ron Lightfoot owns a beautiful little cottage here called Honeysuckle Cottage. I know the Lightfoots from serving an interim at Port Madison Lutheran Church on Bainbridge Island. When I went there, the congregation president was Arthur Lightfoot from Yorkshire. In my 8 months or so there, Arthur and Julie came to be great friends. Sadly, in 1992, Arthur died from a sudden heart attack while jogging on his beloved island. Although he lingered for a few days at Swedish Hospital, he never recovered consciousness. His brothers Ron and Cliff came to Seattle for his services, which were at Port Madison. Arthur and Julie had just spent a lovely time at Honeysuckle Cottage in the Spring of 1992.

In December, 1993, I went with Julie to Honeysuckle Cottage to help her prepare a festival to celebrate Arthur's life. The whole family gathered here to remember a truly great man. We have kept up the relationship with the Lightfoots ever since. Larry and I were here with our friends the Faddens in 1998, and we had a great gathering with all the Lightfoots on July 4. Sandy Fadden and I had fun making an American flag jello - wasn't totally appreciated!

So Larry and I are very happy to be back at this really lovely place. Ron no longer lets it out for holiday folk, but was gracious enough to let us stay.

On Monday, Cliff came for coffee around 10, and then we drove to Whitby and had lunch with Ron at the Marine Cafe. If was great to catch up with both of them. We did a couple errands in Whitby, and then came back to the cottage and settled in to see the next episode of the latest series of Doc Martin.