I'm rather disappointed with myself for not visiting my cousins sooner - I saw them in early Dec, and for New Years Eve, but not since then - It took 9 months to see them! That's a ridiculous amount of time - thankfully FB made it seem like I saw them yesterday ( Read more... )

I went to Burnsall for New Years Eve. Since I discovered that my second cousins live there, I've been amazed - I consider Burnsall to be a famous Yorkshire village because of Dalesman magazine. And it was even amazing to discover that Lynn and Mandy lived there the time that we visited Burnsall around Easter 1996, that day we (Brian, Mitzi, Matt, ( Read more... )

In Manchester, met up with my cousin Jenny in the city and her boyfriend Matt picked us up and we drove to where Jenny lives in Chorlton. We went to the bar and waited for her brother, my cousin Matt to turn up, (he was named Rat because of they were both called Matt). It was a great catch up, I gave them their gifts - two posters from Jac of the ( Read more... )

I am in Manchester now at the city Library, but I want to tell you about the weekend. My Aunt Julie and Uncle Gareth took me to Malham cove, which, in the days of the glaciers, was a waterfall - and would have been the tallest one in England (we think). The village of Malham was lovely at this time of year - the autumn colours are coming through, ( Read more... )