Yerr!! Got me jabs, stab vest and the wife as bodyguard.
Seriously, I'm impressed with New Kastle as they pronounce it. Hospital (RVI) is efficient and welcoming; the peripheral shopping is every bit as good as Eldon Square/Monument area. Found Boundary Mills yet? Smashing outdoor store for hillwalkers and scramblers next door.
We've done the trip several ways now, recommend LNER for speed, bus for economy, car for coronary - with twunts coming down slip roads in all sorts of natural-selection-fulfilling ways...specially near Ikea.
In other news, wondered why our new place was so feckin cold...went back to the loft, took a closer look at insulation...two asteriskival inches of tatty, blew-my-nose-on-it boggone fibrowispyratsnestglass?????????????
And the previous owner had a workshop
and claimed he was a handyman? No wonder the gas boiler wore out after six years, he had it burning diesel, peat and conservative party manifestos day and night to stay warm!!
We thought the condensation inside the wardrobes (up against the outer walls) was a leaking roof.
Sam
A pragmatist inside a perpetual optimist, heavily influenced by an experienced cynic, wrapped around by an aging relic.