The motto of Sir James Paget, Yarmouth’s most famous son, was “Work itself is a pleasure“, and there is, of course, no more pleasurable work than ticking the GBG and writing about it. Arriving home on Wednesday afternoon after a 4:30 drive from the coast (blame it on Sutton Bridge) I barely had time to… Continue reading WAITING FOR KIRKBY LONSDALE TO OPEN
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THE POLITENESS OF KIRKBY LONSDALE
I woke bright and early on my birthday, ready to face the world. Starting with the gentlefolk outside Booths in Kirkby Lonsdale. It’s a very Booths & Barbour sort of place. But very polite they were, and smiled at the Father Christmas murdering “Fairytale of New York”. This is a town that scored highly in… Continue reading THE POLITENESS OF KIRKBY LONSDALE