V nice night out with THG to see Rocky Horror Picture Show starring Jason Donovan at the Liverpool Empire. Didn’t recognise Jase but there again I didn’t really know what he looks like. Good theaytre the Empire. V big but v well organised. No queues at the bar. They even had at seat service. Fair play. Back to watch the last frame of the snooker and catch some/lots of zeds. Hotel was quite close to the Empire.
We had intended to eat Lebanese food at Fattoush before the show but in the end decided to eat Lebanese food in the hotel bar.
Fox had the run of the garden yesterday while we were away with four separate visits during daylight hours and already two this morning before seven ey em. I imagine there will also be plenty of overnight trail cam footage for me to pick up when we get home later today.
Ten years ago today, day 5, was a tough one on the Coast to Coast trail with a twenty miler between Shap and Kirby Stephen on a hot day. It very much lives in the memory not so much because we ran out of water and my feet ended up in a terrible state but because of the pub quiz at the Black Bull Hotel. I’m sure I must have told you this story before. I tell it a lot. However because it’s the tenth anniversary you are getting it again.
We sat outside rehydrating and then went in the Black Bull. All we wanted was steak and chips and then go to bed. Wasn’t that simple. If we were in the pub the rule was that we had to enter the quiz. We ordered food and did the first half of the quiz at which point we would depart for the sanctuary of the Fletcher House B&B and, having treated my feet, hit the hay. The last question in the first half of the quiz was the bonus question with a £30 prize. I was the only one in the pub who knew the answer which was British Philosopher Bertrand Russell. No idea what the question was. I’d just read Russel’s History of Western Philosophy.
We finished our steaks and I went to the bar to claim the prize before hitting the hay. The swines told me I’d have to come back at the end of the quiz to pick up the dosh. We walked out leaving that £30 behind the bar, never to return. I daresay it is still there to this day waiting for me to go and claim it. Obvs won’t buy as much beer nowadays as it would have then.
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Sat outside in the car whilst THG visits her sister in Barnston Court Care Home. Lots of avian commotion started by a magpie chasing a robin or similar. Don’t think it got it but all the small birds around were sounding the alarm.
Woman just parked opposite and crossed the road to the care home carrying a punnet of grapes! Nothing new under the sun innit.
Whilst I am sat here I’m surfing. It is noted that one million three hundred thousand people have entered the ballot to run next year’s London Marathon. That is phenomenal. Must be around ten percent of the population of the place. Fit lot those Londoners. Obviously.
I note also, and I may be a little behind the game here, that the Celebrity Traitors line up for the next series has been announced. My response to this is “oh”.