Holiday in Morpeth - recommendations?

Started by Elliesdad, 18 July 2021, 05:59:04 PM

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Leman

More like the Circus of Life in my experience.
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Elliesdad

I suppose, sometime soon, I will become one of the "old people" that we always used to gripe about when we were younger.

;)

Ithoriel

Quote from: Leman on 05 October 2021, 05:18:35 PM
More like the Circus of Life in my experience.

That would explain why there are so many clowns, right enough! :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Orcs

Quote from: Raider4 on 19 July 2021, 08:32:37 AM
Barnard Castle isn't far away. Good place for a day trip, I hear.

Don't you need to require an eye test to visit here?
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Elliesdad

Quote from: Orcs on 05 October 2021, 08:39:27 PM
Don't you need to require an eye test to visit here?

No. You just need to SAY you need to test your eyes (whilst maintaining a straight face).

Raider4

Quote from: Elliesdad on 05 October 2021, 09:38:49 PM
No. You just need to SAY you need to test your eyes (whilst maintaining a straight face).

No, no no. Driving there is the eye test. Bonus points for doing it on your wife's birthday.

Westmarcher

Quote from: Orcs on 05 October 2021, 08:39:27 PM
Don't you need to require an eye test to visit here?

Mrs Westie cracked a similar joke when we were passing the sign to Barnard Castle on the A6 to Penrith yesterday!  ;D
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Elliesdad

Who are we to question the words of our leaders and their acolytes? We are but the plebs/drones at the "bottom of the food pile".
I don't know whether I'm reassured (or not) that they merrily assume we will merely accept whatever nonsense they say.

Heedless Horseman

Curious, Elliesdad...how did it go?  :)
(40 Yrs ago. I should have been an Angry Young Man... but wasn't.
Now... I am an Old B******! )  ;)

Elliesdad

Although the holiday cottage (an old hunting/fishing lodge I believe) has a Morpeth postal address it is sufficiently so far away from a decent internet connection to qualify as "the middle of nowhere". We did visit some decent ruined castles so a big 👍👍👍 from me. But organising people to be "up and ready to go" at an agreed time was very difficult. Barter Books was, as ever, excellent and for once I spent less than I thought I would.
On the way home the roads were diverted which - s*ds law, wouldn't you know - sent us past a nice ruined castle barely 10 miles from where we were staying. Un signposted, of course ☹️.
That'll be one for next time...
Cheers,
Geoff


Heedless Horseman

Glad you enjoyed.

As to getting people up and ready to go...
As a teen, a bunch of 'us' went 'camping' in The Lake District... at 'The Quiet Campsite'!  :)
We found a 'good' 'wake up motivator' was MOTORHEAD played VERY. LOUD.! LOL!  :o  ;)  ;D
(40 Yrs ago. I should have been an Angry Young Man... but wasn't.
Now... I am an Old B******! )  ;)

Elliesdad

Quote... a 'good' 'wake up motivator' was MOTORHEAD played VERY. LOUD.! LOL!  :o  ;)  ;D
I'd have been quite happy with a cattle-prod to be honest, but in these days of "political correctness" I understand that is frowned upon. 😤🤣

Techno 3

I HAVE used a cattle prod on sheep...Makes the ****ers go up the ramp.
Not a nice thing to do. Really glad we don't have sheep anymore. Far more trouble than they're worth.
Used to really hate 'shearing day'....The 'fluffys' got horribly stressed..as did me and Von.
I'll do this later

Ithoriel

Ugh! I hate people who have itineraries on holiday.

Go to bed when you are tired, get up when you wake up, go out when everyone is ready and if you aren't  half way down the drive before you decide where to go you are trying too hard. Holidays are for relaxation not for ticking off sites like an old style "I spy" book.

"Go away. I'm asleep!" :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Leon

Quote from: Ithoriel on 28 July 2022, 01:19:16 PMUgh! I hate people who have itineraries on holiday.

Best not come on holiday with me then!  I have the whole trip planned out with numbered locations on corresponding maps, transport booked in advance, everything scheduled.  We only tend to get a city break every now and then (3 in the past 10 years!) so I want to see as much as we can while we're there. 

We've done a couple of 'sun' holidays with Adele's folks and those tend to be more sitting around the pool all day, or sit on the beach all day.  Not for me I'm afraid, I can do that at home.
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