Such a lazy day. Sun was out and the temperature rising nicely, but a 'lazy day' had not been on the cards for today. 'Best laid plans' and all that went completely out of the window when we found out no visitors were allowed on this site!
You see we had arranged for friends to meet us at Thirsk but hadn't factored in the Covid rule on this camp site. Unfortunately, reading through their rules, one sentence stood out. No visitors allowed on site. Okay, we thought, all was not lost. Fountains abbey was nearby so how about meeting with them there. A sound idea except that Covid situation arose again in the form of booking a time slot instead of just turning up. Try as we might nothing was available, blooming half-term scuppered that plan! What a disappointment. So we cancelled the meeting and was now wondering what to do with ourselves.
First thing first, wash MB. All that rain during the first part of the trip and road dirt made the bodywork look grey and as for those dead bugs splattered over the bonnet and roof overhang, most unsightly. Whilst Ian got down to that task, I lifted the carpet to give the floor a good clean. Good grief, it looked as if the rubber backing had started to deteriorate because the dust and debris lying on the floor was shocking.
By lunchtime, we had finished so a walk into Thirsk to find a wetherspoons, I thought we would struggle to find a table but judging by the amount of caravans and motorhomes leaving this morning, I expect a lot of people have left to try and beat the traffic. The market was on and for once Ian treated
himself to a pair of shorts. It was very necessary because of the two
pair in the motorhome, one had the beginnings of a hole, I won't say
where but if it got any bigger he may well have been up for indecent
exposure! Of course there are loads of shops with the reference to James
Heriot. This is his part of the world after all. Passing an Information Centre, we called in to see what else was around these parts and
overheard a couple asking why the Ritz cinema had been dressed up to
look like the 1930s. Apparently the new series of All Creatures Great
and Small will be out on channel 5 later this year and part of the
filming is due to start tomorrow by the cinema.
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| Check out this advert. A car for £141 pound, if only! |
Back at MB and with the sun streaming down, we chilled out with a beer and a chat with our fellow campers. Ian managed to get tickets for the Herriot Museum tomorrow, so at least we now have something to go and see. We may also go back to Sutton Bank summit. The views from there are spectacular, we have been told. Just have to hope MB makes it up that 1 in 3 hill!
And wildlife from yesterday.
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£141 for a car might seem ridiculously cheap, but it was a fair bit of money in the 1930's. My Grandad had an Austin Big 7 just like the one in the picture and I remember it having a single windscreen wiper on the drivers side, trafficators which popped out of the door pillars, and rod operated drum brakes. These always seemed to pull to one side or the other (you never knew which), and I doubt that anyone who managed to hit 60 mph did it more than once! There was no heater, but it had a fold-out windscreen which gave excellent ventilation in summer. And, like all cars of that age, a starting handle helped on cold mornings when the primitive 6 volt electrics weren't up to the job. Life was much simpler back then...
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