Friday 27th January 2012 The sky was getting blacker and blacker as we head north to Brock Hole, to meet Ian, Denise, Stuart and Liz for lunch. At Manchester the M6 slowed to a crawl as we went through hail, sleet, snow and high winds, looks like we were in...

A hot famous weekend Shropshire Weekend   Friday The weather was set for hot and sunny all weekend and considering how late in the year the event was, the thick winter jackets were put back in cupboard and the lightweight air flows would be the order of the day, fingers...

Weds A few lucky ones, Ian and Denise, Dennis and Christine, Rob and Coleen, Joe and Izzy (Limping badly because she had fallen down stairs carrying some cushions: – funny no one believed her), Roy and I, who had managed not to have to work today, met up at MaccyDees...

FRIDAY We met Ian and Denise at the Shell Service Station at Sutton Maddock, they together with Dennis and Christine, Terry and Josie, Glen and Kris, and Rob and Colleen, had spent the morning travelling through several “shires” to reach us. We jumped onto the back of the procession and...

It is the first long weekend of the year and it seems to have been even longer arriving as Easter was so late this year. The weather was set good for the weekend so quite a few of us met up at McDonalds Tankersley; it was a first chance to...

Friday Shall we ring Mick and Netty and suggest going down the motorway? Shall we keep to the chosen cross country route? Shall we delay the start? All these questions were going through our mind. As we watched the rain beating down against the window. Unbeknown to Roy and I,...

Barnsley weekend a faint glimpse of Yorkshire and beyond   Friday The BBC weather girl Carole Kirkwood said the weekend would be a light showers and you would be very unlucky to catch one. So we took her at her word. On Friday Roy picked me up from work (a...

Everything was crossed, hoping that the beautiful weather would return for the weekend, the last few days had been quite wet and we didn’t want a wet weekend in Telford. Friday dawned dry but cloudy so Roy and his golfing partner Clare met Jim and Ally for 18 holes of...

Good Friday Roy woke me up at 7.30 with the two choices, one was to leave early and maybe miss the rain or leave late and travel up in the rain. Hardly any choice as at all so we were out of the house by 9.00, complete with thermal undies...