Another one bites the dust

Last weekend saw number 2 son finally tie the knot with his long term, and patient, partner Hannah. There was a lovely service in the Prenton Methodist church near the house followed by a Routemaster bus journey to Oh Me Oh My Oh in the heart of the Liverpool ex-World Heritage Site. 

You may have read that Unesco have removed the status from the Liverpool waterfront as there appears to be too much development going on. It will not hurt Liverpool at all and just makes Unesco look a bit like a qunago really.

Routemasters are now no more although London has introduced a modern version of them. They ran through central London on heritage routes until April 2021. The grandchildren now understand the expression ' don't jump off a moving bus' as prior to the wedding they had no idea you could!!

Anyway, the' three graces' are still like they always were, and they provided the backdrop for some of the wedding photo's as the venue have a very impressive roof terrace. Drink was taken, too much by some of the guests, but everybody had a great time.

It was good to see relatives and friends who had not been able to mingle for some time and as usual, and goodness knows how, we ended up with a house full for a few nights! We were planning a quiet few days, but that never seems to happen. So here is a picture of the happy couple. I wonder what will happen next!!

 

Groupon, Groupon, Groupon

We spent the weekend in the North pennines, near Alston. Alston is reputed to be the highest market down in the Country and in keeping with such towns it had 8 or nine pubs and a fair splattering of idiots.
It used to be a mining town when the locals were involved in excavating lead. Today the lead mines are all closed. The lead is still there but now too deep to extract for any commercial gain.

These mining areas do seem to have the knack of rejuvenating though, and currently a Canadian outfit is boring for other mineral deposits.

The locals also had the opportunity to place a wind farm in the area, but rejected it. The benefit of free electricity for the community was outweighed by the weekend residents wanting to preserve their scenic views, and why not?

We were staying as part of a Groupon offer....buy a room for £60 instead of £200, then spend shed loads of money in our bar and restaurant. It was a good weekend so I declined to complain about the poor quality shower, low temperature hot water and lack of taxi's, that's my townie mentality coming out.

We took the opportunity of visiting Hadrians wall while we were so close to it. It qualifies as our Unesco World heritage site of 2011. We had a bit of a roll in 2010, visiting the Maritime Mercantile City in Liverpool (handy that), the historic centre of Rome and Saltaire in Yorkshire. 2009 saw us in, the old town in Edinburgh, Machu Picchu and Cusco. where to in 2012?