which had been scheduled to come back to Leeds Town Hall after some 7 years. Last time the AR was in Leeds they discovered, among other treasures, an Arthur Streeton painting of a ghost gum valued at about AUD$70,000. Apparently the family had inherited "loads of them" from an uncle who had toured Australia years ago. We will have to watch the show we went to to see if anything equally astounding came in. We didn't see anything of that grandeur but we didn't stay for the 13 hours it was in production either.
To get into the show Gail had an old gold watch (metal value only as it turned out) which we used as our excuse to gain entry and have a good look round. It was very well organised, well, you'd expect that, it is the 32nd series they have run. It was interesting to see that the presenters and experts still get a huge kick out of discovering treasures and histories suitable for broadcast. 
It was a real treat to watch the show being put together as well as having a good old sticky at everybodys trash and treasure. There is a bit of queuing involved but we escaped most of it by choosing to arrive early avoiding the external queue and when we got in the line for clocks and watches was relatively short. 
Lastly for this blog entry, the Wednesday morning when we took Noeline to Leeds airport was a cool but spectacular late summer Yorkshire day. The sort of stuff we had presumed as legend. Anyway, after farewelling Noeline and after Gail had done some catch up work on the computer back at home, we could not resist the call of the outdoors on a sunny day and headed off to Knaresborough, 
this time it was my intent to take out a row boat, like what I had seen others doing on the day Noeline and I went to Mother Shiptons cave .... By the way, if you want to buy it, England's oldest tourist attraction as described in last month's blog, it came on the market at 1.6 million pounds last week.
this time it was my intent to take out a row boat, like what I had seen others doing on the day Noeline and I went to Mother Shiptons cave .... By the way, if you want to buy it, England's oldest tourist attraction as described in last month's blog, it came on the market at 1.6 million pounds last week. I am tempted to say that the rowing was long, taxing and tiring in a rewarding sort of way but,,, it wasn't.
In fact the length of the river navigable by rowboat is only about one short kilometer of almost still water. Never the less, we did take with us a bottle of fine Cornwall wine (Camel Valley) nicely chilled, a couple of glasses of which added more to the enjoyment than a long row could ever have.
In fact the length of the river navigable by rowboat is only about one short kilometer of almost still water. Never the less, we did take with us a bottle of fine Cornwall wine (Camel Valley) nicely chilled, a couple of glasses of which added more to the enjoyment than a long row could ever have. 
We grounded our vessel on the upstream reach, supped our wine, played with the ducks, sat back and enjoyed the view. 
Following a humorous start Gail expertly rowed us back to the downstream weir where we tied up near a kiosk and finished off our bottle. I only mention these two days out as they were such an "English" thing to do and we thoroughly enjoyed every minute.
