Just had a steak bake from Greggs at Tottenham Hale.

[Sir C]

As I say, it is scenic but if you get stuck behind a tractor you could be there awhile

Hmm, good point.

Up and on the road by 5, perhaps. Half an hour for an A1 Little Chef breakfast. Bedale at 7:30. Windermere by 10, shopping in Booths until 12, fish and chips in Ambleside for lunch, arrive at cottage at 2.

Fúck me I know how to enjoy myself.

[SWv2]

Hmm, good point.

Up and on the road by 5, perhaps. Half an hour for an A1 Little Chef breakfast. Bedale at 7:30. Windermere by 10, shopping in Booths until 12, fish and chips in Ambleside for lunch, arrive at cottage at 2.

Fúck me I know how to enjoy myself.

Was it not your custom practice to take a few weeks tropical at this point of the year? Yet here you are discussing, with some apparent glee, a few days in the North of England.

[Sir C]

Was it not your custom practice to take a few weeks tropical at this point of the year? Yet here you are discussing, with some apparent glee, a few days in the North of England.

It has been my custom to go to the tropics on 26th or 27th December, returning at the end of January; however, pressures of work have mitigated against this plan this year. I was able to take but 10 days in January, not long enough for a tropical break, but the Lakes were quite beautiful in the cold and frost. April will be a feast of new life, the countryside fair bursting with the first growth of a new year. Very spiritual.

Tropics in October tbh.