Weekends

Just spent a wonderful weekend in North Yorkshire - a part of the world I'm not really familiar with.

On the way to a Bed and Breakfast in Snape we stopped in Pickering and took the North York Moors Railway to Goathland. This is where Heartbeat was filmed and if ir wasn't I doubt anybody would go there which would probably please the locals no end. Excellent sausage and bacon cob (or whatever they are called in Yorkshire) on Pickering station.

On to Snape and a three course meal that ranks as high as any I have had in a while and fairly cheap too. The pub, which has rooms and does breakfast, is well worth a visit. Castle Arms Inn. Stopped off in Helmsley on the way back where there seen ed to be some sort of bike rally going on. The castle has seen better days as you will observe.

Wakefield for a very late lunch and then back to Leicester for comedy at the Firebug. Paul Sinha with what felt like a new show and Marcus Birdman with what felt like a hit and miss show,

Then on Monday the instructions arrive about next weekend. Well they did eventually - I've still got old school technology on the laptop. How to camp, where to camp who is camping. How the film is going to work - this being the famous Stag film for the wedding. Almost forgotten about the wedding. It's all starting to seem a bit more real and I'll spend tomorrow sorting out camping and filming gear.

Got a few days leave you see on account of getting older.

Anyway - Happy Birthday to me....

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