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Happy New Year!
To everyone! I've had the best part of a bottle of wine, and am feeling very mellow. Or something. -
Jervaulx Abbey
Yesterday the sun did shine, so I jumped in the car and headed for Jervaulx Abbey, being on something of an abbey kick at the moment. This one's onwed privately, and is much more the picturesque ruin in the garden that I imagine Rievaulx was before English Heritage got their hands on it and sterilised it - there are plants growing on bits of it, ( Read more... ) -
Rievaulx Abbey
It didn't take me long to decide that I was indeed going to play truant from my desk this morning, especially once I remembered that my English Heritage card would get me into any number of heaps of stones in the area for nothing. So I drove up fifteen miles of windy country lanes to Helmsley, and then about two miles north to Rievaulx Abbey. This ( Read more... ) -
Bath Day 1
The AA routeplanner I printed out to guide me to Bath said that the journey would take just over four hours, I thought that this seemed a little over optimistic, but a combination of clear roads and good weather meant that it was indeed the case, although I did add on half an hour for a lunch break. I found the house we'd rented at the first ( Read more... ) -
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Packed. Ready. Off.
Back in a week. -
Another holiday
I'm off to Bath in the morning, having spent the week since getting home from Cumbria rushing round like an idiot sorting out the stuff I took with me last week, cleaning and tidying the house ready for my parents to come and house/cat sit, and packing to go away again, enlivened by the fact that since we're going to be self-catering, I have had to ( Read more... ) -
Spendling lots of money before breakfast
Oh the perils of the interweb. An email landed in my inbox from abebooks, offering various overpriced Chalet School books, and a hardback copy of Dorita Fairlie Bruce's The School in the Woods, for the low (!) price of £80 (the only other two hardback copies on there are nudging £400), I dithered for about two minutes, then my credit card came out ( Read more... ) -
Annoyances and amusements
I'm not good at routine when it comes to housework, but one of the few things I can usually manage is a couple of hours of tidying on a Sunday morning whilst listening to Michael Parkinson on Radio 2. So imagine my outrage this morning when I switch on five minutes late to hear the late and unlamented tones of Kenny Everett. Kenny Everett! In ( Read more... ) -
Holiday photos #3 - Buttermere
On Wednesday we drove to Buttermere and walked round the lake. It's about five miles round, mostly flat although there are a few ups and downs on the road side of the lake, it would have been very pleasant if a cold wind hadn't suddenly arrived, which blew in our faces all the way back.
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