British Red Sportscar

Yes, we had a Craft Fair at the Drone Valley Brewery yesterday (11th September) and the Pad Store was there big style! Lots of interest, quite a few sold…and the offer of a Trade Deal with a local outlet!!!

Still got some pads up for grabs….call in…

These wonderful creations were my daughter Emily’s ideas…

Last time, but 3 years ago, my Mog won the ‘Most Interesting’ award…and I had high hopes for victory again this year….but my hopes were sadly dashed when the Mayor annnounced that his Number One was my pal Paul Doherty’s highly polished +8!

Still, he had a nice sit in mine!

This superb event has beem missed over the last two years, and this year was full of classic cars…including lots of Mogs….

A nice drive there and back, but I took care when driving back over the Cat and Fiddle, as I didn’t quite get round one of the bends some years ago, blaming a patch of diesel on the road!

Not necessarily they have been away, but not used nature cam for a while!

We had hired a house near Filey for Easter weekend: a superb holiday hone, right next door to a pretty good pub too! Great weekend with the kids and grandkids…and lots of sunny beach time…SatNag and I walked along the beach to the end of Filey Brigg…a reight nice walk…and there was a food festival going on in the town. Found an abandoned lobster trap, I fancied rescuing it and bringing it home, but it was too heavy!! I made do with rescuing a load of zip ties instead!!

Was meant to be meeting friends at The Oil Can Cafe, Holmfirth, but due to Covid, they couldn’t go. So, to keep that place as somewhere yet to go, SatNag and I went to the Great British Car Experience, near Belper….and had a great look around there…though I had been before… Stopped off for chips in Bakewell….

Well, ‘new’ isn’t quite the right word, but you know what I mean!!! This is a 3 foot gauge 0-4-0 loco that used to work in Northamptonshire, and is now a museum showpiece. We have been given the task of cleaning it up and painting it….not to get it back into steam! It is in the workshop next to an 0-10-0 loco that the team is also fettling..this one arrived two weeks ago…The pics though, are of the 0-4-0 when it arrived..

From the ice cream van that calls in at Curborough…..and is the best ever!

I was first in the queue  when he drove in….but those who know me would not stand in my way….

Waffle cone, generously filled…and given a nut dip, choc sauce poured on, and a flake ….all this for less than the price of a pint!

A film made in 1952, starring my Dad!