Stormy Weather

[Serial_Apologist]

Ooh, the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway? And then those Passes also by steam?

Hardknott and Wrynose are definitely by road - two of the steepest and hairiest climbs in the country, hairpin bends in both directions, squiggling their way across the gaps betwixt the peaks, few passing places and dramatic drops, linking east and west avoiding adding about 40 miles to any road trip across the midriff of the Lake District! And how well I remember them from an early 60s holiday, during which we boiled ascending and burst a tyre descending along that route!

[mangerton]

I've picked more runners and dwarfs today - if you weren't going on holiday I'd send you up a pallet of them! Luckily they are my fave vegs but I think, like the chap in Shakespeare, I might die of a surfeit of beans (except his were lamphreys and maybe it wasn't Shakespeare?)

Ooh, the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway? And then those Passes also by steam? I shall be with you in spirit but, please do not lean out of the carriage window and lose another mobile ...... !! Photos welcome of course in due course! The Steam Train thread needs reviving.

A pallet of beans? Gosh, that would keep me going for a bit. According to 1066 and All That it was palfreys, and they got it straight from the, errm, horse's mouth. Yes, it is the R & E railway, where I have never been, and also, weather permitting, the Lakeside - Haverthwaite which I have not visited for a good number of years. The Passes (up to 1 in 3, apparently, ) will be negotiated by the infernal combustion engine. I shall try not to lose my phone (I have already been severely spoken to by miss m), and photos will be forthcoming idc.

[Serial_Apologist]

Anyone recall a programme called 'The Lakes' set in a hotel, it was rather dark.

Hotel du Lac?

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_du_Lac

[mangerton]

Hardknott and Wrynose are definitely by road - two of the steepest and hairiest climbs in the country, hairpin bends in both directions, squiggling their way across the gaps betwixt the peaks, few passing places and dramatic drops, linking east and west avoiding adding about 40 miles to any road trip across the midriff of the Lake District! And how well I remember them from an early 60s holiday, during which we boiled ascending and burst a tyre descending along that route!

Yes, I haven't done these, but I remember negotiating the Honister and Kirkstone passes in the early 60s, in a 1952 Riley RME - father driving. Great fun!

[BBMmk2]

Supposed to be getting another heatwave! (September)

[mercia]

or even The Lakes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lakes_(TV_series)

[Anna]

Hotel du Lac?
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_du_Lac

No. The Lakes brought writer Jimmy McGovern and actor John Simm a great deal of critical praise in 1997 according to Wiki. Gosh, so long ago? It was brilliant, as dark and brooding as Lake Windemere shall be when mangerton arrives ...... <shiver emoticon>

I really do envy him, I'd love to do that journey, such wild and open countryside.

[BBMmk2]

Anna, did you see my post on the Richard III?

[Anna]

Anna, did you see my post on the Richard III?

Yes, I dd, My Liege. <bends knees in homage>
Blimey, do I now have to choose between Lancaster and York? Me, being a Tudor?
OT: Started to tip down here at long last!

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, I dd, My Liege. <bends knees in homage>
Blimey, do I now have to choose between Lancaster and York? Me, being a Tudor?
OT: Started to tip down here at long last!

GREAT post!

Made I larff so it did.

[BBMmk2]

I am also Tudor Royal Stuart and York, Catherine of Aragon, Dukes of Burgundy and of Lorraine, Eleanor of Castille,, King Rollo of Norway, Dukes of Normandy.

[Nick Armstrong]

I am also Tudor Royal Stuart and York, Catherine of Aragon, Dukes of Burgundy and of Lorraine, Eleanor of Castille, King Rollo of Norway, ....

NURSE!!! The restraining straps!! Quick! Mr Maestro's medication has worn off.....!!!

[BBMmk2]

Hmmm, a few pints of Spitfire?

[marthe]

Glorious weather for the past few days here in New England, though hazy, hot, humid weather is supposed to be the thing this coming week. I hope the good weather finds its way across the Atlantic. September will be here soon and Newport will be in post-summer mode with a bit less of the traffic that's been clogging the streets lately.

[BBMmk2]

Well, not too bad a day so far! MrsBBM made American style pancakes, with maple syrup and bacon for breakfast today. Not very calorific either, the way she cooked them! 358 calories, I think, so not bad at all!