2nd June 2023. Sheffield.
According to James our city centre is as busy as he’s seen it since he moved up in 2017.
When the in-laws had first visited Sheffield 2 years ago for fourteen (14) days they hadn’t seen the city at its very best, with Covid restrictions still in place or tentatively lifted.
So on this trip I wanted to give them a taste of central Sheffield, from the arty,
to the cultural. Never mind “Teddy boy“, If they’d come a week later they could have heard the Arctic Monkeys playing “Teddy Picker” down the hill in Hillborough Park, but on this trip they just got to hear the priest singing “Te Deum” with my FIL in the crypt of Sheffield Cathedral (true).
Proving that the best discoveries are often under your nose in plain view, the cathedral I walk past three times a week turns out to be as interesting (if not ancient) as Durham or York.
One of the more interesting mixtures of medieval and modern, particularly in the crypt where Joseph gets to hold the baby for a change.
An hour in the cathedral, an hour in the ever excellent Graves Art Gallery, half an hour at the Ruskin Collection next to the Winter Gardens,
and a Marks & Spencer picnic (“THIS is not just a picnic” etc) outside the Town Hall watching a wedding.
But no pubs, oddly. What on earth went wrong.
retiredmartin 
Yes, there would be a bit of a chat, about how best to free a baby stuck in an exhaust pipe, I’d expect.
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Is this an obscure Arctic Monkeys reference.
I thought my getting “Teddy Boy”, “Teddy Picker” and “Ted-eum” in the same line was worthy of note but hey-ho.
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