I’m back in Bentham now. Last weekend was yet another Bank Holiday weekend - will they never ever stop?!
Over the weekend Elinor and Phil helped me move my study down from the first floor and into the sitting room which is now half study - half sitting room and works very well. It saves me having to fly downstairs whenever any one comes to the door. It’s a lot cooler as well away from the Velux skylights; it also gives me a view.
On the Bank Holiday Monday, Elinor, Phil, Adam and I went to Kirkby Stephen to see a railway engine restoration project. We hadn’t banked on two things; firstly Appleby Horse Fair is due to start this weekend and all the gypsies with their innumerable ponies, nags and broken down horses and their horse drawn caravans and their large 4x4’s (paid for, no doubt, by the tax payer) and their caravans pulled by their 4x4’s (also probably state funded) would block the road between Kirkby Lonsdale and Kirkby Stephen; secondly when we did get to Kirkby Stephen we found that the railway place was not open even on a Bank Holiday Monday.
So we had lunch in a good café and walked along the disused railway line which goes under the Garsdale Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle (built by Pikey’s forbear) and on to the Garsdale Gill Viaduct. The disused line we walked down was built, believe it or not, to transport coal from the Durham coalfields right across the Pennines to the Barrow-in-Furness Steel Works.
The remainder of this week has been spent trying to sort out the drawers full of postcards, letters wrapping paper which Pikey accumulated – and that included all Nannie’s old stuff. I’ve sorted it all out nearly and sent all lot of it to the right places where people will appreciate it.
I’m off to Bonnie Scotland to see Kate & Co on Wednesday.
Loads of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ from Robert.
This blog will continue to be posted every Friday around tea time.
Over the weekend Elinor and Phil helped me move my study down from the first floor and into the sitting room which is now half study - half sitting room and works very well. It saves me having to fly downstairs whenever any one comes to the door. It’s a lot cooler as well away from the Velux skylights; it also gives me a view.
On the Bank Holiday Monday, Elinor, Phil, Adam and I went to Kirkby Stephen to see a railway engine restoration project. We hadn’t banked on two things; firstly Appleby Horse Fair is due to start this weekend and all the gypsies with their innumerable ponies, nags and broken down horses and their horse drawn caravans and their large 4x4’s (paid for, no doubt, by the tax payer) and their caravans pulled by their 4x4’s (also probably state funded) would block the road between Kirkby Lonsdale and Kirkby Stephen; secondly when we did get to Kirkby Stephen we found that the railway place was not open even on a Bank Holiday Monday.
So we had lunch in a good café and walked along the disused railway line which goes under the Garsdale Viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle (built by Pikey’s forbear) and on to the Garsdale Gill Viaduct. The disused line we walked down was built, believe it or not, to transport coal from the Durham coalfields right across the Pennines to the Barrow-in-Furness Steel Works.
The remainder of this week has been spent trying to sort out the drawers full of postcards, letters wrapping paper which Pikey accumulated – and that included all Nannie’s old stuff. I’ve sorted it all out nearly and sent all lot of it to the right places where people will appreciate it.
I’m off to Bonnie Scotland to see Kate & Co on Wednesday.
Loads of ♥♥♥♥♥♥ from Robert.
This blog will continue to be posted every Friday around tea time.
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