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Re: What are you all up to
A bright warm start to the day with a thin cloud cover. However by the time we arrived at Fellbrigg the cloud had built up and it was somewhat cooler, but still warm enough for me to go without a coat. We did the circular Lake Walk and again saw lots of frogs and toads. Again decided to give the house a miss and after lunch did V for Victory walk. Bumped into the couple who were staying at the club's West Runton site that we were talking to yesterday! We had the odd spot of rain as we made it back to the car and have had a couple of showers since getting back to our site.
Lots of beautiful daffodils out around the Hall.
Re: Rosedale Abbey site closed
The club hasn't opened a non facility site in such a long time that I doubt the thought of opening a new one would even cross their minds . Yet in the right area and with the right pricing structure there really shouldn't be any reason why it shouldn't make a profit. Metered electricity, H/S with some serviced pitches, ANPR etc. The fact that we still have a fair percentage of the membership using non facility sites such as CLs, CSs, Rallies and THS sites shows that there will be a need for it if, and it's a big if, they placed it in the right spot. I know, I know, I really should take more water with it but one lives in hope.
Whenever we've stayed at Borrowdale, Englethwaite Hall or Thetford the occupancy rate has been high with Borrowdale always being full. This could be that Borrowdale has immediate access to walking opportunities, access to public transport on both buses and ferry and in a popular holiday area and is well used by Motorhomers as well as traditional caravaners.
Even when we had a caravan there would be times where we would choose a site, be it full facility site or a basic CL, where we could leave the car for 3 or 4 days and just use bikes or walk. Wirral CP site and the aforementioned Borrowdale spring to mind as does numerous CLs in Derbyshire so we would happily do the same with our new PVC. We don't even mind having to use it to go out of site if necessary and return later. It's not the end of the world to put a few things away. Some posts make it sound like its one or the other.
Re: How do I attach a photo to a post?
Members of the Club. We have a select few who are trusted as they are past members who have for example had to retire their caravan or motorhome for whatever reason but we would want to know and trust the person due to potential issues with spammers, for example. Anyone who is unsure is more than welcome to email me rowena.becker@camc.com as I am always happy to help. 🙂
Rowena
Re: Pitching the Value
Why are you so obsessed with whether caravanning/motorhoming is increasing or decreasing and why do you seem to enjoy pointing out that it may be decreasing? What does it matter what sort of holidays people take, whether they take their holidays in the UK or abroad, or whether airports and holiday airlines may be making large profits? To most of us it is simply a slightly interesting statisitic, not something that is frequently worth posting about.
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Re: What are you all up to
Good day out yesterday for us, to Peterborough. We arrived around12.30pm after a good drive down, found the car park easily (thank you @milliehull) Decided to have a meal first, found a nice eatery by the Cathedral precinct, then went back for the hound. Got to Cathedral around 2.00pm, and already queues in place, so we joined it, and after an hour and a half of shuffling forwards, finally got to the first case of The Longest Yarn. It wasn’t a boring wait, as we took it in turns to queue and have a good look around, and the Cathedral staff/ volunteers were up and down, as well as chatting with other folks. Sadly didn’t meet up with Millie though, as you could only go one way round. Well worth going to see, it’s a Bayeaux Tapestry for our era, sad, horrible in some ways, wonderfully cheerful in others, and a huge credit to all those involved. One of the knitters was in the Cathedral telling folks a bit about the project as well. The details are astonishing really. Lots of the cases have sponsors as well which is good. We came away with the book telling the story of the project, and of course donated to both the Cathedral and the project. The knitters are going to do “The UK at War” and the first cases for this second project is going to Southall Minster in September. I took some photos to have a really good look at some of the details at home.
We were very late leaving Cathedral and Peterborough, and came home a different way to avoid rush hour on A1, very interesting, saw a beautiful Barn Owl out hunting. Can highly recommend to anyone close enough to pay a visit.
French Madamoiselle distracting German soldiers from looking in hay wagon. Two soldiers hidden in the hay!
British and US top brass discussing Landings.
This was my favourite case. The Home front, showing life going on in the backyards (note the lovely pig in its sty bottom right) while the vehicles rumble past ready to board ships.
Re: What are you all up to
You certainly managed to fit a lot in during your time at York @DSB and pleased that you got back home ok.
@heddlo I hope that the doctor is right and your pain will decrease as the flare up dies down.
Yet another fine day today, that is 8 in a row, I wonder how long they will last. It was sunny most of the time but did cloud up for a while in the afternoon. We headed down to Bag Enderby this morning to do the second half of the In the Footsteps of Tennyson walk we did last time we were in the area. We have never seen so many wild Snowdrops before, along the road verges and in the copses. Visited both of the St Margaret's Churches at Bag Enderby and Somersby, where Alfred Lord Tennyson's father, George, was the rector. We were unable to get a decent view of the house where the family lived and Alfred was born in Somersby.
Somersby Church, Constructed sometime before 1612
Bag Enderby Church, built around 1407
Effigy in Bag Enderby's church to Andrew & Dorothy Gedney. Note the spellings of her name!
A profusion of Snowdrops
Re: What are you all up to
OH went into MiLs bedroom this morning after MiL had had her shower.
"Mum, why is there a Mange-Tout sitting on your trolley"
"Well I peeled them for my dinner last night"
"And?"
" During the night I found one under the duvet. I was going to eat it as I knew you would only ask but I didn't have my teeth in and I'd forgotten about it"🤣🤣
The Midnight Mange-Tout muncher strikes again, if she can remember to put her teeth in.
Re: What are you all up to
Some photos of The Longest Yarn exhibition at Peterborough Cathedral. The detail is absolutely amazing.
Re: What are you all up to
Another lovely day here and warming up. Whilst having a late breakfast we had our Squirrel on the window feeder OH took this picture with his phone and it was not bothered by a human being close to the window.
Great photos Nelliehooker unable to put the other way as on a different computer.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend folks.
RedKite
Re: Fitted sheets for island bed
Rather defeats the idea of having a fixed bed with easy to wash bedding though!
KjellNN