Everyone has a favourite place, often it’s a place that has good memories for you. For me it is a North Yorkshire seaside village called Robin Hoods Bay. It is in between Whitby and Scarborough and is a very old fishing village that is famous for its fossils, its smuggling history and that its the [...]
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Natwest Steal Money from a 9 Year Old
Ok so the headline is a bit like a tabloid newspaper, but it’s pretty close to the truth. It all started around mid March when we went to the Natwest branch to order $750 from the company account for the trip to New York for the SES conference. The transaction went as normal, popped my [...]
Private Tutors in Yorkshire
Back in December last year I did a post about my decision to get a private tutor in Ripon for my eldest son, and I thought it was about time for an update. Miles has now had a private tutor once a week for an hour since just before Christmas. It has worked out really [...]
The Regent Hotel, Waterhead Bay, Ambleside
We have recently come back from a long weekend in the Lakes District and have had a really great time. Whenever I am booking trips away I tend to do a trawl for a hotel that ticks all the boxes for myself and Dave as well as the kids. We like staying in quality, good [...]
Easter in the Lake District
We have just returned from an excellent long weekend in the Lake District in Cumbria. The trip away, which we did in Bob the Camper Van, coincided with the Easter Weekend and our 12th wedding anniversary. We actually spent our honeymoon in the Lakes back in 1998 and it was great to revisit places that [...]
