A diary of minor adventures

This is a jog through things we have done while in the UK. It is for friends and family who may give a damn about what we get up to.

Monday, 4 April 2011

spring March 2011 and Oulton Park

For all the fans of the obligatory furry animal pictures, I am starting this blog entry with some delicious little samples . 
 So that would be springtime again then.  Lambs are nice.  These ones were snapped on the way back from Wensleydale.
 We had been to Hawes in Wensleydale to show Kylie and Jon the cheese making , strangely we didn't take photos of that. I thought we'd put shots of this fascinating process on the blog before so didn't bother.  Turns out we don't have pictures of the cheese factory anywhere.  Looks like we are going back to take some photos, want to come?
Future lamb chops stuffed with black faced sheep cheese. Nice.
 Flowers in spring are nice. These were bought as bulbs when visiting Ann and Peter in the Cotswold's last month, pictures of which visit are in the last log entry.  We now have Cotswold's Iris (that's what I've called tem) all over the back garden
 These are our resident annual daffs which sprout up in the back lawn every spring, a legacy of the previous house owners. Nice.
Here is Oulton Hall, a nice old house just out of Leeds, with a championship golf course, spa, gym, jacuzzi, restaurants, pool and posh.  We stayed a night here after Gail found a discount offer and decided we were in need of a bit of posh to finish off March.
 Nice posh entry foyer
 Nice golf course
 Posh champagne bar
 Nice fish and chips wrapped in a wood veneer.
 Nice coffee lounge
nice coffee and cherry scones

 nice room
 strange light fittings, very Yorkshire gaming house.
half a corridor. ( it's a bit of a posh corporate conference venue this, but widely used as a retreat by the ladies who lunch, and spa, and golf, and,,,whatever such ladies do.)
So all in all a quite a posh blog month but as you have seen, quite nice.