Wednesday 16 January 2013

A TEN YEAR PLAN


Tomorrow will see the culmination of a plan a decade in the making.  Some years ago a plan was made to walk the entire Yorkshire coast from the tip of Spurn Point to the South Gare in Redcar. We set off (Roy Machin and I) and walked over three days up to Brid. The next stage I did from Brid to Flamborough, then over the years: Flamborough to Filey; Filey to Scarborough; Scarborough to Ravenscar; Ravenscar to Whitby.

Tomorrow I will be doing the South Gare to Saltburn bit, leaving only the Saltburn - Whitby left to do.  Good eh?

Some good memories from the way: Finding filter coffee in a shed in Withernsea; 1500 breeding pairs of Sand Martin between Spurn and Brid; having to walk round the bombing range at Cowden; finding out I was old when I realised it was easier walking uphill than down in the cloughs near Scarborough; dropping on and playing at a music night in Hornsea, etc.

What to plan next though?  Spurn to home along Humber etc (on bike maybe)?

Tuesday 15 January 2013

BLOODY PARTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Took four hours to take out monumental pile of bottles and two binliners of fag ends, THE TIDY UP. All booze gone and all settings on PC changed to somebody else's - TOP NEET.

Good turn out from mates, birders well in attendance. Much drunkeness was displayed by all concerned.  Went to bed at 3.30 and left em too it!!!

Saturday 12 January 2013

Well here I am. Bloody sixty years old!!!!!  Where did it all go? Well: Birding; playing music; boozing; travelling; having as good a time as possible. Work came as well, but mostly not too bad. I have good friends and a lovely family. What more could I want except to be 25 again, but not now, not now. In 1974 perhaps...
I am just waiting for my family and close friends to get here for a drink prior to a piss-up of MONUMENTAL stature.  Wish me well...