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BB2504
: The Pensioners' Lunch
Thursday
30th January 2025
Let’s face it, we’re getting
older. We can’t do what we used to do in
relentlessly chasing Wainwrights.
Sometimes a cultural outing is to be welcomed. We are all old age pensioners, you know. And sometimes that works in our favour.
So when Mike and Tony announced
that they were heading to Lady Anne Clifford country for a photographic
session, Stan, Stuart, Stephen and I decided to tag along.
The meeting place was to be the
“secret” car park. I can’t tell you
where it is but the sheep know . In
fact, they were massing in order to cross the very busy A66 where wagons hurtle
along. Fortunately they had trained
their assistants to take their lives into their hands and wave flags to stop
the traffic so that the sheep could safely reach the other side.
As
Johann Sebastian Bach might have put it:
Schafe
können sicher überqueren
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It is just under a mile’s
stroll to the remarkable St Ninian's Church, a Lady Anne project and still standing much as she left it in
1660.
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We have been here before- see BB1423- so I
won’t go into detail. However, for
a good read about it, click on Ninekirk.
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Next stop was supposed to be,
or at least Stan, Tony and I thought it was supposed to be, the Countess
Pillar, walking there from Brougham Castle.
However when we reached the castle there was no sign of the others. They had sped by and headed directly to the
Beehive at Eamont Bridge where we had intended to have lunch.
We jumped back into the car to go and join them. Remarkably, we found them stood at the bar
without having ordered anything. “Tony,”
asked Mike. “Should we look at the
henges before lunch or afterwards?” We
expected the obvious reply, it now being some 80 or so minutes after his normally
mandatory noon lunch time but to our amazement he sought the views of his
colleagues. Had he not realised what
time it was? Perhaps he thought that his
duties as a tour guide over-rode any personal considerations? Or was he just a gambler, confident what our
answer would be- "Let’s eat".
The very pleasant lass behind
the bar pulled pints for us then handed us the menu. We couldn’t believe our eyes. Pensioner’s Lunch £6! And a full menu at that. Not yesterday’s left overs but steak pie,
sausage or scampi etc all with chips and peas for only £6!!! Well, what a feast. And with all that money being saved, of
course we’d have a pudding! And another
pint.
A surprisingly long time later
we emerged to look at the two henges.
Firstly King
Arthur’s Round Table.....
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followed by the Mayburgh henge.
More
can be found about these (plus the Countess
Pillar and various other local features)
at BB1211.
What next? Two gentle
strolls, sun
shining in the sky, beer in your belly, pie in your tum. What would you do?
Well
we are old age pensioners you know!
Don, Thursday 30th
January 2025
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