Clarke Chronicler's Resurrection

 This was  our  big  day, going to watch Dale's play-off Final  to escape the  National League  at  Wembley. We  had  to set off early to get parked up and  be  at  Spotland for the coaches. We  also made sure we got  on  the  same  one  as Philip because he had the tickets.  We  had a  stop at  a  services near Leicester and had something  to  eat there. We  arrived at Wembley with a couple of hours to spare. We went for  a  drink in a fan zone. Once  we  had our  tickets from Philip, we went for a stroll round the otside of the stadium.  I took a photo of Simon under the Bobby Moore statue. A  nice  guy  then offered to take one of both of us. Dale  fans were milling on the concourse below us. The  match  itself was a difficult watch . Borehamwood were the better team on the day and  dese...

 This  was \a  routine  trip chosen by  Simon to fit in with picking up his sunglasses from Clough's in Bolton. We  would have some errands in Manchester before lunch but I can't recall  why we would have ended up at Deansgate Castlefield station We  went for lunch at Vapiano (the main point of the trip). The video we filmed can be viewed here. We then wernt back to Manchester Victora where Simon had a go on the piano before the train 

 We  went  to  the World Dock Pudding Championship  in Mytholmroyd to meet up with YouTubers Dark Side of the Moor and film a video. This can be seen here: After the Festival we popped into the local Co-Op where we met my old history teacher Mr  Coneys.

 We  chose to visit some Trig points in thevicinity of Blackburn. We went to The  Fernhurst for lunch first. The footage we filmed can be seen here.

 I took the Friday off work for this one. On the Friday, we drove over to Dragon  Garden Centre for  lunch before moving on to Middlewood where we parked for continuing our station to station walk.  We  had  a  pleasant walk through fields and valleys to the Poynton road but  shortly after that we were flummoxed by the new Airportroad which wasn't on my pretty recent map. Eventually, we  worked ot where we  were and had a very pleasant walk through the Ladybrook valley before  a  rather drab finish   through Bramhall to its station. We caught the train to Stockport then one back to Middlewood. Sorry for the lack of photographs We  then drove on to Chester YHA. We had our evening meal at the hostel. Next morning we drove to Chester and parked at the station. We caught the train to Rhyl then a bus to Rhuddlan for the castle. The video we filmed can be seen here. We  then caught the bus back to Rhyl where we...

 We  were  a  bit  short of  ideas for  a  rainy  day and  opted for  a re-visit to the Harris Museum Preston, knowing it  had a re-fit  since our  last  visit. We  took the trin to Preston station.  Before  we  went  to  the  museum we visited Trespass where I bought a new pair of walking trousers. At the museum, we  had ourelves photographed and put in a picture frame. Simon took up the opportunity to do some artwork. Here's my effort at self-portrait. Here's Simon's It's impressive looking down from the top floor. The  Foucault  Pendulum  at the centre of the museum is the longest of its kind in the UK and demonstrates the rotation of the Earth. After we'd looked round all the exhibits we had lunch in the Museum's cafe. We  then went for a  short  walk along the beginning of the Lancaster Canal towpath. We had the umbrella but it was still t...