Walking Yorkshire : Washburn Valley The river Washburn runs in the next Dale north of Wharfedale, much of the upper valley is dammed to provide drinking water for Yorkshire, the valley is an attractive mix of steep moors, woods and water. There are four major reservoirs on the river Washburn, Thruscross, Fewston, Swinsty and Lindley Wood, all owned by Yorkshire Water. There is a walking site on Yorkshire Water dot com which even has an mp3 download section for the Swinsty walk. It's an overcast day today, but warm enough and still, the clouds give Swinsty a gunmetal look. I parked in the West car park and walked through Swinsty Moor Plantation to the water's edge, across Swinsty Embankment (the 'dam') and around the reservoir, then into the woods at the eastern edge. I kept my sandwiches for myself, unlike this generous chap seen trying to feed a sizeable flock of Barnacle Geese. These ruins are on the south side of John o' Gaunt's reservoir and are known as John o' Gaunt's castle, they are the remains of a medievil hunting lodge built for the 1st Duke of Lancaster. Gorse flowering on the banks of Beaver Dyke Reservoir. At the end of Beaver Dyke I left the Dales Way and headed south for Scargill Reservoir where I stopped and ate my lunch. I have to admire our recent ancestors, when they built this reservoir there was no need to make any part of it as ornate as this bridge, it probably cost a lot more for all the stone cutting and carving and to put the matching top pieces all around the reservoir, but everything they built was made to be attractive and fitting as well as fucntional. I doubt that similar structures built today would have these pleasing lines or look so complimentary to the natural landscape. Further on from the reservoir there is a collection of ramshackle huts and a radio pylon. What strange experiaments were carried out here ? There was a distant rumbling, the sky darkened, I blinked and looked again...... ......and then hurried on, away from that dark place. On to the road for a short way to the Stainburn Plantation car park and to Little Alms Cliff. It says on the map that there is supposed to be a cup and ring marked rock here but I had a good look around and couldn't find it, there is, sadly, plenty of more recent vandalism though. Hint for vandals, if you have some artistic talent and are about to add something to the environment, go ahead, if on the other other hand you are a mindless fuckwit, please do not scratch "Tez woz ere 06" all over the bloody rocks. Part of the plantation around the Norwood Edge Transmitter has been recently cleared giving the ground a sort of post artillery bombardment look and feel, lots of big ruts covered by branches that you can easily sink thigh deep into. There is a good view from the cleared area across to the Yankee spook base at Menwith Hill. This tree in the fields below Scow Hall Farm must be the most popular local feeding spot for woodpeckers. Scow Hall farm is also home to Organic Dales Yorkshire Dairy. This bloke is an annoying prat, he's been buzzing around various farms all afternoon, flying very low, flying backwards and sideways and generally just being a dick. You don't make friends by hovering in a noisy helicopter over barns full of nervous dairy cows, idiot. Then it's back along the shores of Swinsty, this is a Great Crested Grebe on the reservoir, I watched it for a while whilst it dived for food, it could stay under the water for quite some time and would often re-appear over a hundred yards away. This walk was about 19k / 11 miles, it is mostly on good paths with hardly any steep climbs, this area is on OS Explorer 297 Lower Wharfedale & Washburn Valley.

I Think I'm Turning Japanese Emo Now don't panic, but the little music chart above reveals that I spent some time last week listening to the highly emo My Chemical Romance. I'm alright though, I don't feel at all like self harming, or sitting in my bedroom for hours writing bad poetry and crying that nobody understands me. I have seen this stripy pullover though, and do you think fingerless gloves would suit me ? What about a really long scarf ? It's not OK, I promise. (<-- MCR pun there.)

Safe And Secure ? How awake are you first thing in the morning ? I'm often a little bleary and muddled until I've been up for half an hour or so and got a mug of coffee inside me. However, my first job here at the club every morning is to open up, so when my alarm goes I get dressed, stumble round the building in the dark and open the doors and then remove the security post so that people can use the upper car park. Yesterday I thought the padlock on the post seemed a bit stiff, it had been sticking a little the previous night when I locked it, so I gave the key a bit of a twist, and the bloody thing sheared off in the lock. It was only when I went back into the lit kitchen that I noticed I had brought the wrong set of keys with me, therefore the key that I had just broken off wasn't the right one. Mrs YS had an early appointment at the nail salon, so I had to wake her up and tell her she might not be going unless she was going to walk to Burley. Mrs YS phoned Duncan, head of greens staff, who laughed like a drain at my idiocy, and who then came to our rescue with a pair of bolt-cutters. Just seeing how quickley those cutters got through the padlock makes you think though, if someone is determined to get in, it really is diffcult to stop them.

Yorkshire Soul's Quiz : Series 6 Yes, it's back already. I'll try the first quiz here on the main site, please play nicely and DO NOT PUT ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS!! The rules are..... Don't provide lists of possible answers. e-mail your answers to yorkshiresoul@gmail.com on/by Thurs 8th Feb All entrants go into the league table and the new % score table, two ways to win this time! The first round then, identify these 10 classic, or not so classic, sci-fi movies from the picture provided, to make it just a tad harder they're all in black and white, have fun. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) Good luck. Please don't put answers in the comments, the quizzes take a bit of time to put together and it just spoils the fun for all the other players, e-mails only please.

Tonight We Will Be Serving Flambeed Bees Problem Bees ? All you need is..... - 30 feet of rope - 1 large barbeque - 1 science project board - miscellaneous rags and a bedsheet - large quantities of dangerously flammable liquids.

Ted Nugent Is Gay ? Say it isn't so. I found this rather oddball Christian site trying to steer 'the kids' away from gay music, I don't agree with some of their choices so I've sent them a helpful e-mail to clear up a few points....... "Hey Donnie ! When I went to see Marilyn Manson he got hold of one of those light sticks and shoved it up his arse, is this gay ? Also on your gay list, Ted Nugent ? You must be kidding, The Nuge is surely the least gay bloke on the planet, Cat Scratch Fever ? Motorhead ? As Lemmy says in 'Shake Your Blood' - "I like to see the women naked, I'm not in denial." Hope this helps, God Bless, Mike J"

Book Review : Exultant - Stephen Baxter*** Destiny's Children Book Two Much like Coalescent, the first part of this trilogy, Exultant works just fine as a stand alone novel. It is set in the same time line as the first book, but twenty five thousand years into the future. Mankind is locked into a seemingly endless war with the alien Xeelee race, the war has been fought across the galaxy for thousands and thousands of years. Humanity in this far future exists only to wage war, and at the grinding, billion killing face of the war are the fast maturing child soldiers, bred to die. Baxter has a good look at the issues of war, its pointlessness and endless waste of life, but, this is rather a weak book. My physics isn't quite up to scratch for this, and for pages at a time you get bombarded with fairly complex astrophysics as Baxter explores possibilities for the birth of the universe and relationships of space and time. Hard going in parts and it did detract from the story. The story is, Star Wars with time travel, oh yes, there's a giant joke, supermassive black hole = death star, even down to puny human spaceships firing their weapons in one desperate attempt to destroy Darth Vadar the Xeelee. Woven in with the main story is a possible birth of the universe scenario, which does make sense in the end but does also rather come across as an afterthought, like something the author thought "Hey this is a good idea" and started to put it in half way through the book. As always, this contains a super abundance of clever ideas but in Exultant they don't come across as well on the page as they have in some of Baxter's previous novels.

Land's End to John O'Groats 3 Poundstock, Cornwall All this exercise, why am I not as thin as a lat ? It must be all the wine and food I consume. 26k travelled by hiking, rowing and x-training over the last two days gets me to the village of Poundstock. The name of the village comes from the Saxon for cattle enclosure, and a cattle fair has been held in the village on Rogation Monday for as long as records exist. The village church is dedicatd to St. Winwaloc, a church has stood on this site for around 14 centuries. In 1357 the assisstant curate, William Penfound, was murdered by pirates, his body was found in front of the altar and local folklore claims that his ghost is sometimes seen around the church. Tragedy seems to go hand in hand with the Penfound family here, Kate Penfound tried to elope with John Trebarfoot, but her father caught up with the fleeing couple and in the ensuing swordfight all three suffered fatal wounds. This charming little image is a painted warning to Sabbath breakers from inside the church. Before dinner there should be time to look around The Gildhouse and see how the restoration of Cornwall's oldest church house is coming along. There is even a small cinema, The Rebel, if I find the time. For dinner (and accomodation) tonight, I might pop in to Bangors Organic Restaurant, slow cooked rabbit marinated in olive oil, thyme, juniper berries and orange, with dressed green salad leaves, then char grilled 7oz local (Trekennard Farm) sirloin steak with pan fried field mushrooms, sautéed potatoes and stir fried mixed spring greens followed by treacle tart with clotted cream, mmmmmmm goood. Total Distance Travelled = 120 kilometers Rowing 54k Walking 19k Running 9k X-training 10k Cycling 28k This is where I have got to on a map of Cornwall. Poundstock on a map of the British Isles. This series.... Part 2 Cornwall St Teath Part 1 From Land's End

Dipper This wildlife photography lark (see, bird pun there!) is harder than I thought, I managed a semi-decent shot of this Dipper having a bath in the Wharfe, but oh dear, the list of things that flew away before I could get close...... Heron Kingfisher Collared Doves Mallards Pheasant Perhaps I should consider getting a coat that isn't fire engine red when I'm trying to stalk wildlife.

Storm Damage Trees ripped up and snapped in half along the 11th fairway at Ilkley Golf Club, well at least none came down across the course, that would have been hard to shift with the ground as wet as it is.

Betcha Tony Bliar Won't Like This Site Wikileaks.org, that's right, someone is setting up a Wiki especially for leaked government documents, not much on it yet though.

Grass I suffer for my art I do. I'm lying there on my belly, on the muddy grass at the side of the path, breathing out to make the shot look all misty and neat when this voice says... "Are you all right ?" Little old ladies can really creep up on you.

Walking Yorkshire : Ilkley Moor, Addingham Moor The first walk of the year, the weather is fantastic today, cold and crisp, still without a breath of a wind until you get onto the very top of the moor, perfect winter hiking weather. Home turf for this walk, around the well trod Ilkley Moor. Standing stones in the Darwin Millenium Gardens on the edge of Ilkley Moor. The wireless station at Whetstone Gate on the top of the moor. This is the edge of last summer's burn, but lots more damage has been caused to the moor by vehicles. If you can see in the photograph, there are numerous tracks and channels made by vehicles which have churned up a sizeable patch of the moor above Cowper's Cross. I have no idea why this should be, surely the ground can't have been dug up by vehicles fighting the fire, the ground was too hard for that. Only 4WD's and tractors could drive around up here, can anyone shed any light on this damage ? On other parts of the moor there is more ongoing damage caused by bikers, it's quite obvious that some people are out on the moor in wet conditions and they come downhill with their brakes on, skidding all the way. A group of five or six mountain bikers can easily tear all the grass off a path in this manner. There is quite a bit of this damage on the paths leading up the moor from the old reservoir building opposite the old college building. Burnt heather. Fire damage on Ilkley Moor. After last summer's moorland blaze there was some knee-jerk fundraising which gathered a pile of cash to go towards regenerating the moor. In my experience, nature tends to heal itself fairly well, granted, if theis were a forest then it would be handy to plant new trees, but on a moor, won't nature just find its own way ? Even in the worst parts of the burn there are signs of life. This is right in the worst part of the burn, and even in the middle of winter (or such winter as we've had anyway) nature is repairing itself, there is moss growing all over, small shoots of grass are showing here and there and tiny plants like this are begining to reclaim the black scar at the top of the moor. Perhaps te money raised last year would be put to better use building some decent quality paths like those on well walked hills in the Dales, to stop walkers and cyclists causing further erosion damage to parts of the moor. This is wreckage from a Halifax bomber that crashed on Ilkley Moor on Jan 31st 1944 after its crew became lost whilst trying to find Yeadon Airfield. The crash killed all the 4 Canadian crewmen onboard, the sole RAF member of the crew died from his injuries the next day in High Royds hospital. There is a memorial stone further on that says this....""When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow we gave life today". Sheep in a barn on Addingham Moorside, its compulsory to take photos of sheep you know. This walk was about 11 miles at a very steady pace, more of a stroll really, although I did get a sweat on plodding up Ilkley Moor. The weather made it perfect, if not for the hard frost then large parts of Ilkley Moor would resemble a marsh after all the rain that has fallen here in the past few weeks.

Interview With CJ Wildheart Go here. "Our last album, a lot of people said that it was too commercial, too poppy and they really wanted to hear the riffs, if they wanted riffs, once they hear this they’ll be sick of it, absolutely sick of it." Not me, I love big riffs.

Beefy Beefy This is what Ginger and Random Jon were on about at the gig the other night, he's taken a lot of E hasn't he ?!

Land's End to John O'Groats Charting my exercise journey across the UK. A big session yesterday, 28k cycling, pushed me on to the village of St. Teath, where I'll stop for a pint at the White Hart and have a stroll around and a prayer in the church of St. Tetha. St. Teath's sporting claim to fame is that the first recorded game of cricket played in Cornwall was played in a field behind the pub here in the village. Tinted lithograph print of the church of St. Tetha by J Ferguson c.1880 Total Distance Travelled = 94 kilometers Rowing 52k Walking 2k Running 9k Skiing/X-training 3k Cycling 28k

My House The clubhouse at Ilkley Golf Club, my house is sort of nailed on to the back, out of sight.

The Waters Receded Do you remember the two bridges I posted pics of last week ? Well here is one of them yesterday.... If I had been standing here to take last week's photo, I would have drowned, what a difference a few days makes to the Wharfe.

Ice In The Sun This is about all the winter we have had so far, to see some rather good ice patterns pop over here (Tame The Shrew) and scroll back to a post called 'The Artistry Of Jack Frost'.

Gig Review : Ginger, Robochrist, The God Damn Whores - Bradford Rio 23/01/07 **** So here we are, the hardcore, the die hards. We've seen The Wildhearts, we've often been there when the Wildhearts havn't, we've bought albums by the various side projects and filled our cd shelves with the various contract fillers that have marked much of Ginger's output, and tonight we're at Rio in the snow. Doors 7pm, the lad on the door says that Ginger hasn't arrived and so the doors won't open until 7.30, they open promptly at 8pm. We sit in the pub for a while laughing and wondering whether the gig will go ahead, to our general enjoyment, it does. The God Damn Whores are Random Jon Poole, an ex-Wildheart on vocals and guitar, Jase Edwards (ex-Wolfsbane) on lead guitar, er, Ginger on bass and Denzel on drums. Their sound is sort of oddball/experimental Wildhearts. I don't think Jon is the best singer around, but he certainly seems to be enjoying himself. They thunder and clunk their way through the set, some of the numbers are a bit stop start, but one or two were sort of heavy (Caprice) style and quite decent. Edwards is a great guitarist and young Denzel really thumps buggery out of his drumkit. Robochrist, well, what on earth is going on here ? In one way, I salute people who set off on their own musical odyssey, people who make music that is so willfully odd that they could never ever become big or popular, Robochrist is that man. What does he sound like, well, if you crossed Strapping Young Lad with the BBC Light Entertainment back catalogue you might be getting close to his strange orbit. At one point he is joined by two hoodied backing singers, oh look, it's Ginger and Random Jon again, who appear to be shouting "Beefy, beefy." I laughed, we all laughed, some people actually applauded. Finally Ginger and his band take to the stage, hang on, I recognise those blokes, it's Random Jon on bass, Jase Edwards on guitar and Denzel on drums, how odd. Things become clearer when Ginger explains that this is yet another "contractual obligations tour", that explains the poor timing then, why else would you schedule your tour to miss the launch date of your new album ? Then again, you're in Wildhearts country now, and anything can happen. Ginger plays a good set scattered with songs from Valor Del Corazon, Yoni, the Silverginger5 project and a couple of obscure Wildhearts tracks. The audience enjoys everything, but it's hardly going crazy, we stand down at the front for a while, but there's nothing doing, this isn't the seething pit that greets Ginger's main band. Despite the rather ramshackle nature of the evening, I've had a good night. Tim assures me that The Wildhearts are putting out a new album in a couple of months time, and a proper tour will follow, so until then we'll just put this down as yet another chapter in the increasingly odd story of Ginger's musical career, don't worry 'bout me, don't worry 'bout me........ God Damn Whores MySpace Robochrist MySpace Ginger's MySpace P.S. If anyone hs any decent gig pics and they would like to see them posted here, do get in touch....yorkshiresoul@gmail.com

Land's End to John O'Groats By any means at my disposal. No, I'm not actually planning this as my next mad walk, but I thought I'd use it to chart my exercise for the year. Now, the distance as the crow flies is about 874 miles, or 1406 kilometers, but, if you're walking / cycling the route and flying with crows it will be much further, thus avoiding large problems like having to swim from Liverpool to Dumfries. I'm only counting the miles / k's done either at the gym or on proper runs and walks, not just the endless pottering around the golf club and kitchen. So far then I've travelled a grand total of 66 kilometers, or 41 miles in real money. Rowing 52k (Aha! I can do the sea crossing bits after all) Walking 2k Running 9k (though I accept my running style may be more fairly described as 'sweaty plodding') Skiing/X-training 3k Cycling 0k This gets me (approximately, I'm not being in any way exact or scientific here) to the small village of Fraddon in Cornwall, which is apparently famous for its food hall and is also a hotbed of political aspiration, Mebyon Kernow ('Sons of Corwall') are based in Fraddon, they are a political party campaigning for self governance for Cornwall. I need to do at least 117k / 73m a month in order to reach the top of Scotland before the year is out, I'd better get on my bike / rowing machine / x-trainer then.

Repairing The Damage The grounds staff are out on the golf course working hard to repair the damage caused by the violent storms that battered much of the UK last week. This is a bit of kit we don't normally see on the course at this time a year, a leaf blower. Last week's high winds have caused lots of damage to the trees, only one tree on the course id down, but half a dozen have snapped in half partway up their trunks, and all over the golf course there is a deep litter of small twigs and branches. The tractor with its leaf blower is shaping these into mounds for easier collection. Then it's donkey work, hump all the stuff on to the the trailer and take it away for disposal. The obligatory arty shot, ooh look at the pretty shadows.

A Tale Of Two Bridges These pictures were taken by Mrs. YS last Wednesday as the Wharfe came surging up and over the banks all along the golf course. This is the new bridge over the dyke on the way to the 1st tee at Ilkley Golf Club with the 1st fairway not at all visible in the swollen Wharfe behind it. The white building on the opposite bank is Ilkley Lawn Tennis Club. Whilst this is the bridge leading off the island from the 4th tee to the 4th fairway. Luckily this bridge is over a side channel of the Wharfe and does not bridge the main flow, otherwise it would be in serious danger of being damaged or destroyed by trees being carried down the river. In 2001 a huge section of tree trunk wedged itself at an against propped against the river bed and the side of the bridge, the grounds staff had to wait for weeks until the river dropped enough and the banks were dry and firm enough to allow a tractor on, hitch up a chain and drag the trunk out from the bridge. When we lived in Saltaire and worked down by the river, we once saw the entire roof of a barn being carried down the Aire, now that was a serious flood.

Ben Rhydding Stepping Stones Public footpath, oh right, you first then.... It looks like waves at sea, but it's just the Wharfe rushing over the stepping stones. A tree dangles into the river.

Fungi These were growing under the trees on the 4th fairway at Ilkley Golf Club in the middle of December last year, not being sure what they were, I didn't purloin them for culinary purposes.

Shilpa Shetty vs. Jade Goody Shilpa Jade Shilpa Jade Shilpa Jade Shilpa Jade VOTE NOW!!!!!! Or lose the will to live, whatever.

Peculiar Aristocracy My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Reverend Lord Michael the Implacable of Kirkby Overblow Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title (Seen at Sad Old Goth)

I Hope She's Got Broad Shoulders Ebony-Jewel Cora-Lee Camellia Rosamond Rainford-Brent that is, because otherwise the latest addition to the England Women's cricket team might find that her name is just too large for her shirt.

The Violence Of The Lambs This Spring's must see horror film .......Black Sheep. Watch the trailer here, keep the mint sauce handy.

How Not To Drive In Snow I saw this on Prime/Grom, taken during a snow storm in Portland, it captures crash after crash as hapless drivers try to drive down a steep and icy street. Boom, crash, biff, tinkle

Writing Elsewhere..... ....Bookcrossing have chosen a short article I wrote to be featured in one of their upcoming newsletters. Regular readers of Yorkshire Soul may recognise the article as I published it here some time ago. Easy Travel To Other Planets

Then Came The Rain And some more rain, and a bit more rain on top. We have been closed again since Wednesday when the rainfall in the upper Wharfe catchment area swelled the river and sent it pouring over the banks and all over the golf course. There had been so much rain here in Ilkley that I think we would have been closed anyway due to standing water all over the course. We have now been closed for 2 weeks out of the last five, and when there's no golf, there are no golfers to feed. On three days last week we didn't manage a single penny in the tills, oh the joys of small business ownership. The rain, and sleet, and hail, was beating down again last night. It is just before 8am now, the grounds staff are out assessing the course, but there's water all over it again so it looks like another quiet day. There is a dusting of snow on Ilkley Moor this morning, in this global warming winter I think that's the first snow we have seen, there is more forecast for Monday and Tuesday, great. Snow for us is just flooding waiting to happen. Oh well, at least I've got plenty of books to read.

Book Review : American Hardcore A Tribal History - Steven Blush*** It's not porn, for those that don't know, Hardcore is the simple but fast musical style that evolved after the first explosion of punk. In America it was stripped down punk played fast, as fast as possible. The scene was small but important, although many of the HC bands did not make any sort of wider ranging musical impact, a few bands (Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Suicidal Tendencies, The Misfits) did go on to bigger things, and the HC scene influenced a lot of punk-metal crossover acts and gave birth to the thrash metal scene which produced such giants as Anthrax, Slayer and of course Metallica. I really wanted to enjoy this book, it's the sort of music I like, the HC scene has often been political punk and I love music with a message, but, Blush's writing is rather difficult to get along with. I have no doubt that the author has catalogued every well known hardcore band, and a swathe of minor bands that even scene aficionados might not remember, but the book simply isn't all that well written. Blush seems to have interviewed pretty much all of the important musicians, promoters and record company people involved in HC, but he presents their views as clunky quotes on every page, you often get various band members saying much the same thing over and over and it must be said, some of these people are not the sharpest knives in the drawer and their thoughts don't always make for interesting reading. Blush also puts over his own views and opinions constantly, it's quite obvious that he hates heavy metal, he also has a strange/varying attitude towards homosexuals, seems mostly anti-women and is vastly enamoured of the violence that seemed to go along with the early HC scene in the US. I didn't realise that the American HC scene was so violent, punk over here wasn't half as bad as Blush portrays the brutality that went hand in hand with the music in the States. It seems to me that a lot of the early HC scenesters would have been football hooligans if they were over here, the music was just an excuse for violence and the tribalism mentioned in the book's title. Blush also puts forward his own view that the hardcore scene existed just from '80-'86, thus many bands who made it big, or continued their careers into '87 and beyond have their discography and history stopped at the end of '86. This is a shame, the discography would make far more sense if it had been compiled to show the more current output of the bands that survived longer. Blush is also wrong to state that the scene just died in '86, there are still HC bands playing today, new HC bands appear all the same, sure the scene isn't the same, eventually the record companies got onboard and realised there was money to be made and this destroyed the early DIY work ethic of HC, but the scene goes on. American Hardcore ought to be fascinating for the punk junkie, but it is poorly put together, what it really needs is a writer to collate all of Blush's obvious passion and inside knowledge of the scene to re-write it with a better narrative feel.

A Sorry Tale Federal Court Ruling from the Melbourne Age, Australia (AP) - A seven year old Aboriginal boy was at the centre of a courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with the child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible. The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his Aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him. After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the England Cricket Team, whom the boy firmly believes are "not capable of beating anyone."

Yorkshire Soul's Rambling Quiz Series 5 Final It was a picture round, who are these folk......? 1) Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss 2) Menggistu Haile Mariam, former Ethiopian leader recently jailed for genocide. 3) Munsters actress Yvonne de Carlo. 4) Singer Nelly Furtado. 5) French microbiologist / chemist Louis Pasteur 6) Former Australian Prime Minister Robert 'Bob' Hawke 7) Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi. 8) South African golfer Retief Goosen. 9) British Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. 10) You all know this bloke of course, it's Johann Hegg of obscure Viking Metal band Amon Amarth! Series 5 Final Scores Didier 5 Dominic 5 MR 5 Eleanor 3 Mr. Moosehead 2 Series 5 Final League Table 1) MR 104 2) Eleanor 93 3) Mr Moosehead 75 4) Dider Depireux 71 5) Saeri 46 5) Dr P 46 7) Penny Farthing 40 8) Dominic Lane 31 9) Chez 24 10) Squirt 21 11) Electric Landlord 19 12) Dan Manche 14 13) Tony G 13 14) Ben Spellman 12 15) Matt M 10 16) Ross Dulmaine 5 Series 1) Dr. P (The Old Enemy) Series 2) MR (God's Own County) Series 3) MR (God's Own County) Series 4) Eleanor (Oh Canada) Series 5) MR (God's Own County) Well there we go, if there a cup MR would win it, but there isn't, it's all for the intellectual glory I tell you. Well done to MR, and well done to everyone else who took part, keep looking out for Yorkshire Soul's Rambling Quiz Series 6, coming soon.......ish.