Now I know we probably aren't in imminent danger of running out of dates, but these are "Best Before" June 2016, so I'm sure we'll use them. Can't ignore a bargain, I'm afraid. One of my many faults.
In fact having bought them I do fancy knocking up a Date and Walnut loaf this afternoon. Have to fit that in between the gallons of Leek and Potato soup I need to make for the weekend.
One weekend in October for the last three years, a group of people, bonded by the fact that many of them were at Sheffield Uni in the late 70's/early 80's, rent a very large house in the lakes. We eat, drink, talk and walk and take photos (in my case). I think there will be 16 people present at the peak over this weekend.
The first two years the house we had was located a couple of hundred yards from a MOD Artillery range, and a few miles up the coast from Sellafield. This, and last, year we are near Ennerdale Water which, for the nerds among you, is the most westerly lake in the lake district. It's a lovely remote spot.
This is the point at which real nerds point out there is only one lake in the Lake District, with all the rest being Meres, Waters and the like.
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Another 18 miles on the bike this morning, which was still and dry, although clouds have started to appear so perhaps this spell of great weather is on the way out. Boooo! The winds are still from the east, northeast as the planes arriving at Manchester Airport are coming in over Mobberly, rather than Stockport.
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I do like to give you a picture on each blog, so here's one that shows where I'm writing today's. I had to drop off a couple of prints to be mounted/framed (one special one which I'll tell you about in a few weeks), and to sign a couple of mounts I'd dropped off last week, at Frames in West Didsbury. So I've wandered across the road into The Metropolitan for a coffee and a cake.
It's a splendid spot, and a far cry from the dark and dingy dump I walked into when it was called The Midland in the mid-1980's.
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