Yeah, so one single swimming session with the new regime is the sum total so far. I've kept out of the pool because I am realy ill. Well... not quite. Rach has been coughing all week and I had the dreaded sore throat Tuesday, which usually is the sign of the onset of something for me. So far so good though, but being careful.
The weekend was spent with friends in a rather lovely converted mill in the village of West Burton, Swaledale. A more picture postcard Yorkshire Dales village you could not find I reckon, and in a beautiful location. Great company too (John, Caron, Catherine and Bill) and some of us did a fun walk over to Castle Bolton on Saturday - Catherine and Bill opted for shopping in Richmond. I'd promised the intrepid walkers a tea shop at the castle but there was no sign, and we had to wander across to the adjacent village to find one. Shockingly, at the lone tea shop. toasted tea cakes were £2.20 each. That is absolutely out of order. Annoyingly the adjacent village pub stopped doing food at 2pm, and when we got there it was ten past, and enquiries revealed that no way could we expect to be served with any food at such a late hour - oh no. So, as these were the only two options open to us the tea shop it was. To be honest I was all prepared to neck another breakfast bar and walk back to Aysgarth rather than frequent an establishment charging such extortionate rates for it's toasted snacks. However, I was talked into it by John who was obviously desperate as he offered to get a round of tea cakes in. We did all snub the tea cakes in the end and went for sandwiches which, whilst still a tad pricey, seemed a more sensible bet. And after half an hour or so they arrived. I mean, how bloody long does it take to cook a bit of chicken, warm some beef and dollop out a bit of coleslaw? The couple on an adjacent table had the same wait for tea cakes, only to be told on delivery of their food that there was only one tea cake left and 'here's a scone instead'. Blimey. How we laughed. We did indeed laugh a great deal all weekend all in all.
The meal on Saturday night was a multi chef special - Rach did starters, Catherine the main and John the pudding. Bit of an aubergine nightmare for me as the main ingredient of both the starter and main courses was, coincidentally, said vegetable on which I am not that keen. Then the afters was bread and butter pudding which I don't really like at all. Now, I must stress that I am not that fussy an eater so to find fault all three courses was a bit of a disappointment to be honest. Still, the custard was nice!
The weekend was ended a tad abruptly by a phone call late Sunday evening from John's daughter who it seemed had suffered some kind of assault at home after having been out drinking all day. Not great news. John and Caron quickly packed up and left, and to be honest all did not turn out well for said daughter, but that particular story would be left for someone else to tell.
Meanwhile, plenty of tickets on sale this week: Michael Jackson doing 50 nights at the 02 arena in London. That's 50 lots of 20,000 people at between £50 and £75 a ticket. He must be broke or something? Going to give these shows a miss, but they are selling like crazy and eBay prices are through the roof already.
Cornbury on sale also, and I think we'll do this 2 day festival in July. Gonna have to bin the Ripon triathlon top go but hey, who really wantd to swin in a river eh? Pretenders and Dodgy are amongst the acts on the bill. And finally The Hold Steady have announced some small dates in England in may around the support slots they are doing for Counting Crows in the arenas. And they are to play Leeds Cockpit. Life's not complete unless I have a Hold Steady ticket! We also have Brakes coming up in the Cockpit which should be fun.
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