The Shed

I stayed for a weekend in Portmerion many moons ago.It really is a magical place.

Jim Garten wrote: There are places you can stay in Portmerion, but if the price to get in and the cafe prices were anything to go by, I think we'll stick to a local B&B in Portmadog instead... Poor Rach - jet-lag, then you put your back out - happy new year

Bed and Breakfast? Bed and Breakfast?  That's for jessies!    We stay here http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=5875   when we head up that way............... TRULY TRULY magical!!!!  (top tip though, gather your firewood on the way there, there is NONE to be had when you arrive ............ unless you want to BUY some!  )  


Oh the Jet-Lag was ok, at least there is an upside to that (ie a week in the caribbean whilst you guys get the coldest week since a gazillion years BEFORE records begun!)
 but there is nothing good about a bad back. I staggered to the post office, in front of me was a VERY old lady, she dropped her glove, I couldn't reach it, I just physically could NOT get to it, she looked at me like I was a mugger and bent down (with ease) to get it herself............... boy,  did I feel rubbish!

W x

Wilcey wrote: Bed and Breakfast? Bed and Breakfast?  That's for jessies!    We stay here http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/details.asp?revid=5875

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7829807.stm   Another one bites the dust........ Fantasy Island actor Ricardo Montalban died today aged 88.

^^ I am most impressed at how your PC skills are coming along...

for me, I've just learnt (in David's absence, out of necessity) how to upload an album cover for a discography entry...

^^ I remember it well, Andy... about a mile away from Llanbedr, where we used to have a Youth Hostel (sadly closed down about 3 years ago...)

Wilcey wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7829807.stm   Another one bites the dust........ Fantasy Island actor Ricardo Montalban died today aged 88.

fandango wrote: ^^ I remember it well, Andy... about a mile away from Llanbedr, where we used to have a Youth Hostel (sadly closed down about 3 years ago...)

Has it closed down???    


I once stayed there................... a long, long time ago!  It needed torching then, or maybe it was just my reluctant teenage mind rebelling against the eggy bread breakfasts and tinned mince shepherds pie dinners we were fed.


I hate to see these things lost though, I was talking to my boys about youth hostelling, they thought I was ever so slightly mad, had no idea what I was talking about!  It's certainly changed though hasn't it. no more huge  shared dorms for £2 a night ......... that were great!

Wilcey wrote: I was talking to my boys about youth hostelling, they thought I was ever so slightly mad, had no idea what I was talking about!  It's certainly changed though hasn't it. no more huge  shared dorms for £2 a night ......... that were great!

Never done hostelling in the Uk but spent a happy 9 months hostelling around Australia 20 years ago; quality was variable but for every scratty hole I stayed in there seemed to be 2 others which were excellent. The one in Canberra was like a hotel (which was a shame, as I couldn't wait to get out of the city - think Milton Keynes with monuments), but my favorite was one in a town called Charters Towers in Queensland; all wooden, surrounded by covered verandas with hammocks... spent a week there chilling out, walking, reading & drinking cold beer in (not from!) a hammock.

Just inhale the helium, Alan, then go for the intro...

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On another note, another great British institution makes his way to the writers' club in the sky:

John Mortimer RIP