stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

An alternative view of my favourite place.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@stickmandiaries hah - just round the corner from here

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@JohnPhilpin yes it is 😃 but I’ve not noticed before.. maybe you I’ll stop off next time.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@stickmandiaries are you a resident?

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@JohnPhilpin No, but I use to be, and my brother is not far from there so visit often.

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@PeacheyMcKeitch It’s York

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@PeacheyMcKeitch No I am on a CRT boat passing though my iPhone does have a bit of a wide angle 😃

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@stickmandiaries and a worthwhile place to visit this time of year ... ie sans ‘grockles’ ... if I’m not mixing the counties too much

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@JohnPhilpin thanks for the HU John. Yes it’s gets hard to find somewhere that’s not.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@stickmandiaries True - but Eboracum / Jorvik I think suffers more than most.

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@JohnPhilpin Yes it can be a bit like swimming against the tide in the centre. But I think most old towns are now on the visitor tick list

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@stickmandiaries probably ... harrogate, just up the road - heading same way - and they don’t even have the tourist attractions of York.

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@JohnPhilpin true, but the queues are as long at Betty’s 😁

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vanessa
vanessa

@stickmandiaries @johnphilpin Little Betty's all the way for me. Not as busy as the main one. Not that I get there very often any more. 😒 I liked living in York.

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@vanessa @johnphilpin is that on Stonegate? The times I went it was packed 😀 I would move back in a blink

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vanessa
vanessa

@stickmandiaries @johnphilpin Yes, it is. Ironic, I tended to get in there more often than the other one. When I was in London I would have moved back to York. Now I'm in Dorset, I don't know, as it's so lovely here. But if I did move back north it would be between York & Scarborough (where I grew up).

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@vanessa Dorset is a beautiful part of the world and similar to the Wolds? I’m not sure which has the greener grass of the two 🙂

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vanessa
vanessa

@stickmandiaries True, although the Wolds has all those lovely Norman churches, which are sadly lacking down here. I suspect we get more rain & west Dorset is surprisingly hilly. Not so much the east, where I am. Forest and heath; it's just lovely.

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@vanessa the few times I’ve been down there I loved it. I love the place names too.. I had a very interesting, rather “hazy” ride back to holiday cottage in a cab discussing the origin of a place called Ryme Intrinsica (think that’s the spelling)

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vanessa
vanessa

@stickmandiaries That's a new one on me! The "Piddles" are always good for a giggle. My area has the Gussages and the Tarrants. Not to mention the Steam Fair just down the road. It's a good mix of old, new, town & country.

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stickmandiaries

@vanessa Bill Bryson’s take on place names always made me laugh.. farleigh wallop and carry rivel, in Devon I think..

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@stickmandiaries @vanessa I remember little one when it wasn’t even a betties - but walked past them other day ... 3 or 4 in line outside little one and over 40 outside big one ... and I mean OUTSIDE!

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stickmandiaries

@JohnPhilpin Yep, people’s want dat experience! “I remember when it was all fields round here” is a bit of a family joke due to all the new housing developments here but that’s a whole other thing 🙂 I can remember lil B’s opening and thinking why do they need two?!

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