Otranto / Gallipoli, Puglia, Italy. Thursday 25-April-2024 The TranSalentina del Sole is a walk across the Salento peninsula from Otranto on the Adriatic coast to Gallipoli on the Ionian coast....
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Penrith, Cumbria. February-2024. Money Pit II, Season 2, Episode 2 - Living Room. It has been a month of frenetic DIY that had to be crammed in between Money Pit II, Season 2, Episode 1 - Yard...
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WASP (Wine Appreciation Society, Penrith), Roundthorn Country House Hotel, Penrith. Thursday 28-March-2023. This tasting was unusual on two counts: Firstly: we couldn't buy the wines we were ...
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Glisky, Kendal. Saturday 16-March-2024. After the success of last year's Fell Brewery Beer Festival it was a shoo-in to go to this year's. Even better Fran at Fell Bar had suggest hiring a ...
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Penrith, Cumbria. February-2024. Money Pit II, Season 2, Episode 1. We had always intended to redo our backyard as the concrete was cracked and anything but level. When we had a picnic out th...
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Bassenthwaite Lake Station, Cumbria. Thursday 07-March-2024. Another interesting tasting focussed on Cabernet Sauvignon including a number of Cabernet Sauvignon based blends. The first tasting ...
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Keswick, Cumbria. Friday 23-February-2024. We enjoyed Ruby Turner when we saw her at Ronnie Scotts back in 2016 but have not been available for any of her concerts since. When we learned that t...
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Penrith, Cumbria. Thursday 15-February-2024. It has been a year since we went along to support our local am-dram society. Then it was a three-hander featuring an all woman cast, Di and Viv and...
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Winter Gardens, Blackpool. Friday/Monday 02/05-February-2024. After five visits to the Great British Rock and blues festival at Butlin's, Skegness (Skeggy) the management decided to disconti...
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Penrith and elsewhere. Historic England have a project to crowd source photographs of listed buildings called Missing Pieces. They are the organisation responsible for maintaining the register...
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Bassenthwaite Lake Station, Cumbria. Thursday 01-February-2024. Like buses, nothing for ages and then two South African wine tastings come along at once. It was only at the end of November that...
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Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow. Sunday 29-January-2024. This was a birthday present to Mary from her sister and brother-in-law. We drove up to Glasgow on Sunday afternoon for a cup of tea, and then ...
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Ullswater, Cumbria. When we were allowed out to exercise during the first Covid lockdown in 2020 we started walking the Ullswater Way in sections. See “The Ullswater Way - In the Footsteps of...
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Mary reckons I cannot categorically state that I suffer from Raynaud’s syndrome as it has not been formally diagnosed by a doctor but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck I say it is...
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I do like an egg box with maximum symmetry. A full box had three: two axes of reflection symmetry and one centre of rotational symmetry . If I see an asymmetric egg box I have to rearrange the c...
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All over the place. May-December 2023. Dramatis personae: Mark McLellan (me) Mary Galashan (wife) Sandra Carpenter (sister-in-law) This year I did 48 parkruns including 20 new locations and ...
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London, UK. Tuesday 12-December-2023. We were in London for four days to do landlord duties redecorating in one of our buy-to-let flats in Wandsworth. That gave us an opportunity to meet up wit...
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Kendal, Cumbria, UK. Saturday 09-December-2023. The sister-in-law and husband are fans of Tide Lines and have seen them several times. They were performing at nearby Kendal and as Mary’s au...
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Frenchfields, Penrith, Cumbria, UK. Saturday 09-December-2023. A group of us take it in turns to volunteer as report writer at Penrith parkrun. This week it was my turn and below is my report. ...
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Penrith, Cumbria, UK. Friday 08-December-2023. Local band Bare Wires were due to appear in the upstairs room at Fell Bar. The plan was to drink beer and listen to live music. Sounds good to me...
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Bassenthwaite Lake Station, Cumbria, Thursday 07-December-2023. Another wine tasting at Bassenthwaite Lake Station. As usual we booked ourselves into the Pheasant Inn for a dinner, bed and brea...
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Penrith, Cumbria. Sunday, 03-December- 2023. On advice from our fellow WASP wine tasters we decided at fairly short notice to go to Plug and Play 's event which was an open mic session with a r...
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WASP (Wine Appreciation Society, Penrith), Roundthorn Country House Hotel, Penrith. Thursday 30-November-2023. It was fascinating to discover a new region of South African wines that we were pr...
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Pocklington, East Yorkshire. Saturday 25-November-2023. We bought tickets to hear Martin Harley at Pocklington so decided to make a weekend of it and, guess what, plenty of parkrun choices near...
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Dublin, Ireland. Friday/Sunday 10/12-November-2023. A return visit to one of our favourite cities for the first time in a while. A weekend break ostensibly to buy a couple of wine glasses fro...
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