Bewtwixtmas

Posers

On top of the world

We had time between Christmas and Baby bro an Sinlaw going to visit his best friend down south. Neither had ever been to ours, since the move, so we took them on a world tour of Yorkshire & Beyond.


Emmerdale and the Salts Mill

Emmerdale was on BB list of things to do ever since I found the place last autumn. We got chatting to the post mistress/tourist information who told us where everyone lived and sold us a guide (I didn't have any money so I couldn't pay) which we followed.

Emmerdale

Salts Mill was a joy for me, it always is, I'm not sure it was really their cup of tea. Although they spent ages in the antiques shop.  On our journey back we stopped off in Harworth which was lovely, cold and slippy, but lovely.  We even had the chance to play heroes when an old lady "lost" her husband and we helped her track him down, he was in the pub, only joking he was at the bottom of the hill, couldn't be bothered to climb it probably.

York

Good Time had by all

We had a long day in York, after much deliberation we decided to take the train, which made for another early start.  We planned a route around the city making sure to include all the shops on everyone's list (there was a long list).  We took in the sites, made a stop in Diagon Alley/The Shambles,  babybro is obsessed with a cream tea he once had in Oxford that was in his words amazing (it was from a Beefeater in the city centre).  I found a quaint antiques shop cum tea room which had space (a great find in York). It was almost perfect for him then he realised that the scone had raisins in and was instantly disgusted, I can't blame him.  We took in a Chocolate tour, which included making our own chocolate lollipops, mine was the best obviously.   We wanted to go into the Minster but we had run out of money... okay we're all too tight to fork out for admission,  I knew that in Canterbury there is an evensong service which is opened to limited amounts of the public. We decided to hang out in the pub, such a hardship, and wait for the service to start.  I was hailed a genius as we all squeezed into the pew and had a relaxing half hour of song and worship.

Blackpool

All great stories begin with; I was watching TV and I saw something exciting.  We were watching the hunted program where people try to stay off grid and undetected by CCTV cameras and what not.  Last year one episode had the contestants hiding out in Canterbury with some Christ Church students and this series two contestants were in BLackpool.  they were in a huge World buffet restaurant and were nearly caught by the plods.  My first thought was, I haven't been there, I want to try a world buffet, so we went and it wasn't bad.  Not haute cuisine and some things were quite soggy, but all in all quite tasty.  Obvs when I heard that Sinlaw had never been to Blackpool I immediately decided that we should go, and we did.  it was pretty dead, but the good old fashioned amusements were open.  We spent £10 and had so much fun.  I even won a Mario.  It was the claw game, Bb had been trying for ages to win something, GO said "they are such a con no one ever wins".  I agreed, but thought, what the  hay, let's have a go.  First coin in and less than a minute later I had won"  I was chuffed to bits, I even had a group of young Japanese students come up to me and congratulate me as they had tried to win it.  In hindsight I should have given it to them but I was too high on my win.

Football - them not me though