There is something to be said for get up at stupid times of the day (or night in this case). So, at 0430hrs I was loading the camera gear in the car and hoping the cloud would vanish from in front of the Moon. As I approached Ullswater the cloud had completely covered the Moon, and I was about to turn around when I decided to stop the car and stand by the lake for a while. I’m glad I did, all I could hear was the water lapping against…
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You have to wonder
I’ve been a member of Amazon Prime for a few years now, and it has to be said, the service is getting really poor. Or should I say it’s poor when they use a particular courier service. On Monday this week I placed an order on Amazon using their Prime service, it wasn’t a particularly exciting order but that’s beside the point 😉 Anyway, I received the usual emails from Amazon confirming the order and giving me details of how to track it on the couriers website. The following morning…
Read MoreYuck
The title says it all really, yuck; yucky yuck yuck yuck. We have two new supermarkets in town (Penrith, Cumbria) and we visit them both, as you do since they both have items that we require. Anyway, one of the stores, not Booths it must be said, may need to address how they handle their fruit & veg 😉 The other day at work I’d taken along a punnet of Nectarines, being on a 12 hr shift and liking to nibble on fruit through the day I was quite looking…
Read MoreTaking the shine off
It’s not often that I feel the urge to write about shopping, or more accurately the customer service I’ve not received. But this time I think it’s worth it.
Read MoreBeverley
We decided to leave the car behind this time and wandered into Beverley, along the way we stormed the dark tower…. Okay, we didn’t storm it, and it may not have been a dark tower, but the mind works in strange ways at times 😉 Anyway, after the dark tower and a wander around Beverley we visited the Minster.
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