May June YORK and WETHERBY Jubilee

Missed doing the end of month update for May, been doing lots of stuff without a camera too so Just to say,  The Bramham Horse trials were on, We went looking at houses in Headingly, Yeadon, Harrogate and Wetherby .  Because that's what we are doing now, presuming Liz will let us stay.  We also went to a wine sale in a disused pub in Clifford a little village near here.  A good night out and far too much tasting with good friends Rob Angela Paul and Clare.

We also went to see an ELTON JOHN concert in Harrogate which was excellent but again we didn't take the camera.... the whole thing is on utoob if you want to look at another old queen putting on a grand show... seemed to be the thing this month.

 We also did a ghost tour of York and a dinner, all on a Groupon deal which went very wrong ... mustn't grumble tho.  Here are the pics we took of York Ghosts.

The tour guide was rather interesting as were the tourists, no I don't like to think what the green man is doing Liz was watching from a window and another gargoyle (grotesque) was also spotted doing the same thing as the green man...  must be a York tradition.....

And this was a house we looked at in Harrogate, for auction, guide £270k.... hmmmm.  We got all excited about a riverfront stone built money pit in Wetherby asking £550k we made an offer of 320 for a laff.

I have said that I joined the Wetherby Lions last year at the beer festival.  This year we were on the other side of the bar.  It was a great day,Gail enjoyed the sport of pouring a half pint, a couple of hundred times.  The event was during the Jubilee celebration weekend so I was a busy little Lion doing Marshaling and crowd control etc. as well as using my well honed skill behind the bar.

The beer festival raised near£4000 and a lot of good times, the money we gave to the Yorkshire Helicopter Ambulance, a critical service provision which has fallen out of the government funding pool due to cutbacks.  Anyway the Wetherby Lions raises about £30,000 a year which all goes to local people and causes.  So it was that I spent the Night of the Jubilee Proms herding 3000 odd Wetherby people into the Ings field.  Gail and eight of our friends were some of the herd.  These are shots of the crowd, the night and the joys of an english summer.

And because we took no furry animal shots at all , here are some of the flowers in our back yard now the calendar says it's summer.