My quiz team friend Danny from Buxton sometimes drops into this blog. Probably on days when the weather is inclement and he is bereft of things to do. He says to himself, "I am bored as hell. I have emptied the dishwasher, made the bed, checked the progress of my shares, read the newspaper twice, taken the lapdog round the block and now I have got nothing to do. Zero. Oh I know - I will visit Yorkshire Pudding!"
I saw him again on Wednesday night this week. He suggested that this blog was getting too serious and that I should perhaps lighten up. Maybe he is right. We were out at "The Rising Sun" at Nether Green for a pre-Christmas meal using quiz winnings from previous months to pay the bill. It all made a nice change and we were joined by our main rivals - Quiz Team Aguillera. You may be pleased to learn that there was no fighting.
Meantime Little Phoebe has been spending a fair amount of time with her Australian cousins. They are the progeny of Stewart's brother and his Australian wife. The children are aged five and two. Last weekend the two young families rented a house together in the village of Mickleton in County Durham.
It was, apparently, a lovely house but I am afraid the weather up there was most unkind - with rain lashing down most of the time. Still they got to visit nearby Raby Castle - seat of noble families for a thousand years. They were mostly there for the Christmas attractions and a visit to Father Christmas.
I have been told that I should not name the children or show pictures of them on this blog as it attracts a lot of seedy, untrustworthy visitors. Maybe you are one of them? It's so sad that we have to be very guarded about such things these days - suspecting vultures round every corner.
However, I have been a little naughty. The face-in-hole board at the top shows Phoebe as Father Christmas with her anonymous male Australian cousin crouching down as a foot servant or something. I did not know where the "blur face" button was. In the picture below I have cropped out both of Phoebe's Australian cousins - when they visited Santa's grotto at Raby Castle.
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/yZewrHI