Just had a busy couple of days in Knaresborough, a very pretty little town in North Yorks, where I had a singing weekend - concert in a remarkably cold and draughty church but good fun.
I have a dilemma. Tomorrow I'm going to Scotland by train, to spend a few weeks in our cottage doing some painting and maintenance; rail tickets, bought as soon as they became available, cost around £18 in each direction; ferry is under £6 return. Dilemma is as follows: cottage is 5 miles from the ferry, and I was planning to walk it (in the dark, ferry arrives at 6pm). But the forecast is dire - heavy rain, temp 4C feeling like -1. Do I wimp out and ring for the taxi, adding £15 to my costs, or just grin and bear it?? I have good waterproofs and a head torch, so there's really no excuse...
Better go & finish packing. Hope your travelling goes ok tomorrow, BL!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Get a taxi! There's no way I'd risk walking 5 miles on unlit rural roads in the rain (and I'm a country girl) visibility will be poor and drivers don't expect to see walkers after dark and at that time they'll be in a hurry to get home.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Walking is good Pdoc. Maybe do more of it? I have taken to accompanying OH out with the dogs most days and feel better for it and you get to see nature at its own pace instead of just driving by in a blur.
We're just back from the SM which has a wet fish counter selling plaice for 7.95€ and grey mullet for 4.95€. Plaice won. For some reason, can't find any Gruyère cheese. Loads of Emmenthal which I find hopelessly bland and tasteless. Lots of tomme and Reblohon and stuff but no Gruyère of any description. Did find Marmite which I get a yen for about 3 or 4 times a year.
Clear skies tonight again so maybe a frost early on but a clear moon already and lots of stars later. No street lights so we get a good view.
Liri - definitely a taxi or a lift. No sense catching a chill or risking getting flattened.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Sounds like you've already decided Liri, but I'll add my voice anyway - taxi, for safety's sake! If you get drenched and catch a chill or worse, fall in a ditch, you're not going to achieve as much in your time there, plus you'll have saved yourself an hour of your life time and you can't buy that at any price.
I had a very frustrating morning - went to hospital for a blood test only to find doc hadn't sent the necessary electronic notes. Came out to find I still had to pay £1.80 for parking! Then stopped in town on the way back to buy angelica for a special pud I had planned tonight, but they sold out yesterday. Had to pay £1.10 for the privilege of finding that out. On the plus side, we have a new neighbour to replace the family-from-hell that we've had living next to us for two years and she is LOVELY, plus got allocated a new bod to write for (I ghostwrite peoples' autobiographies for them) so all in all not a bad day.
Hope you've all had some of the wonderful sunshine we enjoyed here in North Devon, or at least if you didn't, your fingers and toes aren't too froze
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Sweet dreams Pat
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good afternoon folks.
Just had a busy couple of days in Knaresborough, a very pretty little town in North Yorks, where I had a singing weekend - concert in a remarkably cold and draughty church but good fun.
I have a dilemma. Tomorrow I'm going to Scotland by train, to spend a few weeks in our cottage doing some painting and maintenance; rail tickets, bought as soon as they became available, cost around £18 in each direction; ferry is under £6 return. Dilemma is as follows: cottage is 5 miles from the ferry, and I was planning to walk it (in the dark, ferry arrives at 6pm). But the forecast is dire - heavy rain, temp 4C feeling like -1. Do I wimp out and ring for the taxi, adding £15 to my costs, or just grin and bear it?? I have good waterproofs and a head torch, so there's really no excuse...
Better go & finish packing. Hope your travelling goes ok tomorrow, BL!
taxi
Given the heavy rain and the fact you need to stay fit for the painting I think you have every excuse to take a taxi!
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Get a taxi! There's no way I'd risk walking 5 miles on unlit rural roads in the rain (and I'm a country girl) visibility will be poor and drivers don't expect to see walkers after dark and at that time they'll be in a hurry to get home.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Liri Taxi. You may be lucky that someone is being met off the ferry and that you get a lift even if it's on a trailer at the back of a tractor.
Mmm. Think you're all right... but I might wait to ring the taxi until I see who's on the ferry, to see if I can cadge a lift...
Hi all.
lovely sunny day here, although bitterly cold.
Decided a walk might help me stop worrying about the mess the world is in, so went for a yomp on the moors, lifted the spirits enormously.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Walking is good Pdoc. Maybe do more of it? I have taken to accompanying OH out with the dogs most days and feel better for it and you get to see nature at its own pace instead of just driving by in a blur.
We're just back from the SM which has a wet fish counter selling plaice for 7.95€ and grey mullet for 4.95€. Plaice won. For some reason, can't find any Gruyère cheese. Loads of Emmenthal which I find hopelessly bland and tasteless. Lots of tomme and Reblohon and stuff but no Gruyère of any description. Did find Marmite which I get a yen for about 3 or 4 times a year.
Clear skies tonight again so maybe a frost early on but a clear moon already and lots of stars later. No street lights so we get a good view.
Liri - definitely a taxi or a lift. No sense catching a chill or risking getting flattened.
Sounds like you've already decided Liri, but I'll add my voice anyway - taxi, for safety's sake! If you get drenched and catch a chill or worse, fall in a ditch, you're not going to achieve as much in your time there, plus you'll have saved yourself an hour of your life time and you can't buy that at any price.
I had a very frustrating morning - went to hospital for a blood test only to find doc hadn't sent the necessary electronic notes. Came out to find I still had to pay £1.80 for parking! Then stopped in town on the way back to buy angelica for a special pud I had planned tonight, but they sold out yesterday. Had to pay £1.10 for the privilege of finding that out. On the plus side, we have a new neighbour to replace the family-from-hell that we've had living next to us for two years and she is LOVELY, plus got allocated a new bod to write for (I ghostwrite peoples' autobiographies for them) so all in all not a bad day.
Hope you've all had some of the wonderful sunshine we enjoyed here in North Devon, or at least if you didn't, your fingers and toes aren't too froze