Just had a steak bake from Greggs at Tottenham Hale.

[Sir C]

Because it isn't down South... it knows you soft southern types couldn't handle it so it is taking on us tough northern chaps..... blowing quite a gale up here

I've worked out a new route to oop norf. I'm going to turn off the A1 at Bedale and cut right across the Yorkshire Dales, Moors, whatever they are.

Is it best to stick 't rurds?

[Pokster]

I've worked out a new route to oop norf. I'm going to turn off the A1 at Bedale and cut right across the Yorkshire Dales, Moors, whatever they are.

Is it best to stick 't rurds?

Which way do you normally go?

[Pokster]

I've worked out a new route to oop norf. I'm going to turn off the A1 at Bedale and cut right across the Yorkshire Dales, Moors, whatever they are.

Is it best to stick 't rurds?

I assume you normally do A1 -A66 which is the obvious way... the roads from Bedale through Leyburn are scenic but slow

[Sir C]

I assume you normally do A1 -A66 which is the obvious way... the roads from Bedale through Leyburn are scenic but slow

Well, I used to go M1/M6 but soon fell out of love with that, so M11/A1/A66, yes.

Will overnight in Stamford and arise at the crack of. I reckon 2 hours to Bedale and 2 hours acorss 't moor/fell/dale whatever.

[Pokster]

Well, I used to go M1/M6 but soon fell out of love with that, so M11/A1/A66, yes.

Will overnight in Stamford and arise at the crack of. I reckon 2 hours to Bedale and 2 hours acorss 't moor/fell/dale whatever.

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

[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.

[Ash]

I've worked out a new route to oop norf. I'm going to turn off the A1 at Bedale and cut right across the Yorkshire Dales, Moors, whatever they are.

Is it best to stick 't rurds?

We usually do that. Through Wednesleydale. And other routes through Yorkshire. Much better than M1/M6 imo. Sometimes stop over somewhere too to break up the journey.

[Pokster]

We usually do that. Through Wednesleydale. And other routes through Yorkshire. Much better than M1/M6 imo. Sometimes stop over somewhere too to break up the journey.

Some lovely roads round here/there..... I take them for granted now