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NB 'TA' stands for Trip Advisor. You will see my review here when it arrives. We arrived today, Valentine's Day, at the Old Station Inn, Hallatrow, at lunchtime, 1pm to be precise,  to find an empty restaurant. There was a lady behind the bar - she sounded Irish - and when I said I made a booking she looked at me as if I was like something from outer space. Eventually she roused her mind to give...

I wrote briefly about the people we saw who wanted us to do their garden.  Today, in spite of sunny periods and showers, we did it.  I think it was worth it just because the husband had had an operation three weeks ago. Our tidying stopped him driving his wife mad with fussing about what should be done in the garden. We cleared everything up, trimmed the hedge in front to immaculate levels of...

And here was I, peacefully minding my own business.  No, holding my head in my hands hearing that HS2 is going to get the go-ahead ..... then along comes a solution to my problems, financial ones anyway. I am Mr Abdulla Bin Khalaf Al Otaiba, I am Bank Branch Manger of National Bank of Abu-Dhabi And I want to inform you that an amount of US$16.5 million will be moved To your Name as the Foreign...

We are getting the tail end of the amazing storm that has covered the whole of the United Kingdom with equal degrees of ferocity.  No, that's not quite true - it is Ireland, the North of Scotland and the south coast of England that has taken the brunt of things but many towns in the Yorkshire Dales have taken a battering. We had some hail this morning and the rain absolutely lashed it down but...

One of the wettest places in Europe is Bergen in Norway with an annual rainfall of 2250 mm. By contrast our nearest big city Bristol has about 819 mm of precipitation per year.  It comes in fits and starts.  Today we have both fits and starts. The wind itself is only about 35 miles an hour but when you combine that with driving rain, it's not a pleasant environment to be out in.  I went to the...