The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

FairyPrincessk

Afternoon all,


ooh Mar, I like this plot! I really enjoyed York--it can be pricey and a bit touristy but there are also nice things to see. IME there is less in Newcastle but it sounds like Burtha has plenty of ideas. Yorkminster is really lovely and has a lot of info about the stained glass etc. but very pricey to get into so factor it into your budget if you think you'd like to see it.

As others have said you can book tickets online and then collect them at the station using either the card you used to pay or your reference number. You can also elect to have them posted to you if there are at least 3 (I think 3) days between when you buy and travel. You usually have to pay £1-2 for this, but I think it is worth it to avoid having to mess with the machine for collecting them since we usually end up collecting from a busy station! You can usually find a site that won't charge a booking fee, so if the site you're using wants one, try to book with a different site. I usually search on the nationalrail.co.uk website to find the best fare and then switch over to one of the suggested sites to buy.

Well we've just had a wonderful day out walking with a friend. Excellent lunch and then home to sit in the Garden for an hour. Just getting cleaned up now and going to chill on the sofa...no tea needed after our enormous lunch although I think OH may pick at a few bits. We may do another walk tomorrow or just stay home and enjoy the bank holiday, depends on how sore we are from today's walk!

Burtha, glad you've reclaimed your space--even if it hasn't yet transported you to the land of nod it is another step.

Hugs to all who need themx

pollyanna_26

Mar I do love a bit of reverse psychology . Handy to have in the tool box of life . I never leave home without it .
It's very muggy here too but no rain in the forecast . I can but hope they've got it wrong before I melt .

For those who know their music and think I had a miserable time at 16 .I didn't mean the buzzc*ocks but Victoria Wood's I wanna be 14 again .I added 2 years because 16 was when I was set free from the church youth club . My mum and my friends mums assumed we were wandering around C&A Modes and other shops in the big city . We were actually sitting in the first Kardomah Cafe feeling sophisticated in our knee length baggy jumpers . Popping into Brian Epsteins music shop , reading in the many little bookshops and talking , laughing and arguing with Brian Patten , Roger McGough and the still missed Adrian Henri ,
I haven't eaten a burger I haven't made myself for decades but the wonder of the Wimpy Bar with minced onion on the burgers and Banana Milkshakes . I'd never heard of milkshakes until then . Istill mince onions to this day .
None of us were Beatles fans , we were Dylan , Stones and mainly American bands .
We laughed and we learned . My interest in Social History began then and is still ongoing .
I was at a political rally last week and as if by magic in a crowd of thousands many of us found each other again . We are pretty scattered now but from various eras we were together again . We laughed until the tears rolled down our cheeks and for a few hours we were back in the sixties .
I'm wittering so will shut up but if any here could choose a defining time in their life when would it be ? A time that laid the foundations of the person you became ?
Night all
polly x

Nargleblast

camelot1001 wrote: »

Ooh I like a good surprise mardatha. York is lovely but may need more than a day. Newcastle will only be a couple of hours from Edinburgh and the scenery is stunning especially along the northumberland coastline.

If you can, see if you can get a 1st class ticket - you get drinks and snacks to enjoy on your journey.

ETA - How about Durham?

Now you're talking - lovely city. But wherever you go, try and book as far in advance as possible to get reduced price tickets, buying tickets right near the day or on the day can cost an arm and a leg. And consider a railcard, if you qualify for one, it gets you about a third off the cost.

Softstuff

Mardatha, I love York. When hubby visited England for 6 months, it was one of the few places he liked too :rotfl: I second Livingproof, I book my train tickets on the trainline.com. I buy tickets online for when I come to England and just collect them at the machine at the station, very easy.

Monna, so glad you're content. I would have made it here sooner to post that, but someone didn't give me a summary of the news so I had to read as much of it as I could as fast as I could.

Burtha hugs to you. I'm another with an ex who, even after 12 years with the most wonderful man in the world, I could still chop off the exes body parts with rusty implements. You will find peace, you don't have to find forgiveness, just make use of your anger to get momentum to move on.

Oops, sorry, have to go to work. Spent most of the weekend cleaning out the garage, love to you all!

Knit_Witch

For those with numerous runner beans!

http://www.knyttwytch.co.uk/tempewytchrecipesdone/2017/08/runner-beany-herb-linguine.html

A neighbour gifts us with her excess (yay!) and this was really tasty

monnagran

I turn my back for 5 minutes and this forum turns into a travel agency.

Mar, I do love a cunning plan. I can't offer any help as being up north it's a foreign country and I don't speak the language. However there are enough people on here to deal with the RV. If he proves obdurate we can descend en masse and bear him off bodily if necessary. We could come fully armed if you think it might help, but the elephant had better stay in whoever's garage is her present place of residence. Train guards look askance at an elephant being loaded onto their van and there is always some spirited discussion about how many tickets it needs. Not worth it.
He WILL enjoy himself or we will know the reason why.

Nothing much to report from chez moi. The viewer on Saturday having failed to come up to scratch it's back to square one.
Yesterday I went back to my little village church as my very old friend was preaching what could be his last sermon and I couldn't miss it. Bless him, he is 91 and still the wisest, cleverest, funniest man that I know. He never has a note, just props himself up against a table and talks. You could hear a pin drop. In fact yesterday, at one point he turned to the organist and said, "They're very quiet today, have you been dosing them with something?" To which she replied, "No. They're just terrified of you."
Much giggling.
It's the only church I know with a jar of sweets in the porch with a note on inviting you to help yourself. Most of the congregation endeavour to sing the first hymn with suspiciously bulging cheeks. Yesterday there was also huge crate of beautiful Bramleys, also inviting you to help yourself. I've come home with 2 bags full. Wonderful.

No plans for today. As it's a bank holiday and supposed to be very hot I think I will celebrate by sorting out the freezer.

Whatever you are doing, have a good one.

mardatha

Livingproof I think York's out then, I don't do busy at all.
Camelot yer psychic - I would be going 1st class and have already switched to look at Durham.
TY everybody for travel agent help

Great post Polly - I loved the 60s too. At 15 I was into Flower Power until one Sat morning my best pal and I were walking around Edinburgh in bare feet and came face to face with our Headmaster.... suddenly we stopped feeling cool and hip and Californian lol. Then after I got married at 16, we were young and daft with no ties, just a tiny rented flat in an Edinburgh tenement and a bike. And we sat in bikers cafes all night at weekends, talked politics and revolution lol. From 16 to 19 was my best years, until I ran out of the pill one week and fell pregnant.. Never intended to have any kids!

Hard_Up_Hester

I've spent the last couple of days researching fridges, oh boy do I know how to live!
I cannot cope any longer with the current fridge freezer as it's doesn't work at all well, in fact I keep my bacon in the freezer as it is slightly cooler than the fridge, but not much!
Mar, I hope you have a lovely time wherever you visit. At 15 I was a mod, until I met my first motorbike, from then on I was a rocker.
Burtha, hugs.

mardatha

Me too Hester, minute I met bikes I was hooked. Never been off them since and took my bike test because I wanted to drive them instead of just sit on them lol

ivyleaf

Good luck with your devious plan mar! Durham is lovely but be aware that if you want to look at the cathedral or the castle they are up a very steep hill

Has the RV always been reluctant to go far afield/do something different, or has it happened as he's grown older?