Clarke Chronicler's Resurrection

 We used  this  Saturday  to visit our friends in Selside using the Dales train.  We  alighted  at  Ribblehead Station and  waited  to be  picked  up. The  views were fantastic in every  direction. We  were  picked up from the station. At  their  house, we  had  a  chat  and then a barbecue lunch in the morning then went for a walk in the afternoon. We told them about a nearby trig point and the walk was designed to  visit  it. The  weather could have been a bit nicer. We  spotted some wild orchids. The  video we filmed  at the trig will appear here in due course.  Simon got  a  bit  upset that the other kids were  throwing  dried dung at him. Julie got a bit upset at the rough terrain . We finished in time to get something to eat in Horton-in-Ribblesdale before  the  train. The  Crown Hotel was too ...

 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...