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    Quote Originally Posted by granger View Post
    Art has won the day - once he gets enough of Belgium, a rural tour company career beckons
    He did fail to mention Alnwick Castle though if you have a fixation with Blackadder I or Harry Potter. I've got a feeling that the genuine 'Mrs Miggins pie shop' is in the area actually? as the crew eat there when they were filming or Rowan comes from the area (one of the two)
    Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly. _ Harry Limes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey View Post

    Take the ferry to Holyhead and make your way to somewhere near Chester on 6th May.
    Arrive in Holyhead circa 4th May and spend a day or two ambling/rambling around Holy Island. The coastal cliffs and Trearddur Bay are fabulous.

    The train journey to Chester via the Menai Straits bridge and North Wales coast is picturesque too

    Do keep quiet about Northumberland: it's a gem of a county that for some - welcome - reason does not draw the visitors it deserves

    If tempted by the Lake District - and who couldn't be - try and time it to coincide with Cartmel Races. Furness, to the south of the national park has several lovely villages within it, such as Grange-over-Sands, Ulverston (where Stan Laurel was born) and Cartmel itself. And nearer Lancaster is Carnforth Railway Station with its rather wonderful 'Brief Encounter' tea room

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warbler View Post
    He did fail to mention Alnwick Castle though if you have a fixation with Blackadder I or Harry Potter. I've got a feeling that the genuine 'Mrs Miggins pie shop' is in the area actually? as the crew eat there when they were filming or Rowan comes from the area (one of the two)
    I merely drove past Alnwick but made a note to myself to return some day. Bamburgh Castle has a very impressive setting too.

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    Devon looked quite beautiful on the ITV piece today about Tiger Roll
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    Were they at Nigel’s? He’s about 11 miles away from me ( probably equidistant between me and Kirsty actually!!) it is gorgeous here


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    Quote Originally Posted by trudij View Post
    Were they at Nigel’s? He’s about 11 miles away from me ( probably equidistant between me and Kirsty actually!!) it is gorgeous here


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    Yep at Nigel Hawkes. It was a lovely segment.

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    Well if you're going to be visiting Trudi I better pitch up too!
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    I don't mind getting my hands dirty
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    Quote Originally Posted by granger View Post
    I don't mind getting my hands dirty
    Oh well if that's the case, I've got three stables that will need summer mucking out so I'll leave them ready for your visit then!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jinnyj View Post
    Oh well if that's the case, I've got three stables that will need summer mucking out so I'll leave them ready for your visit then!!
    I'll see to them
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    Quote Originally Posted by jinnyj View Post
    Oh well if that's the case, I've got three stables that will need summer mucking out so I'll leave them ready for your visit then!!
    Oi - get your hands off my visitor

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    Quote Originally Posted by trudij View Post
    Oi - get your hands off my visitor

    Any cleaning Granger wants to do can include my car....


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    I've seen your car! Trust me, Granger! The stables are the easier option!
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    My stables are cleaner than my car, it has to be said....


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    Oh you girls are really spoiling me

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    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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    If someone can find a way for me to drive a jeep or a 4x4 of some sort you'll never get rid of me
    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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    That can be arranged...


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