An evening with the Peatbog Faeries and a day out in York.

[English Bloke]

Dave, Me an' Doublewood. Posing on Whip-ma wop-ma Gate. The shortest street in York.


Zara steps in beside her Dad.




Next we wandered up "The Shambles" probably the most photographed street in the city.


Some of the buildings date back to the fourteenth century and it was traditionally a street of butchers shops, once known as "The Great Flesh Shambles" from the Anglo-Saxon "Fleshammels" (meaning "shelves full of flesh"). It now houses pricey gift shops flogging "A souvenir of York", and some very expensive cafes. It's still a lovely example of old english architecture though.... Busy on a Saturday afternoon mind, I had to wait a bit to get these pictures.

Next we broke away from sight-seeing to visit a few music shops. We're all a bit muso as I said and the draw of walls filled with instruments is difficult to resist. I'll not bore you with that hour or two so moving on...


We went up onto the walls for a walk. York is one of the few remaining cities with an intact defensive wall and does have the most milage of walls than any other British City. We did also find that we were the centre of attention with numerous people preferring to take snaps of us...


Than views like this...

We also paused for mutual snaps...


Zara and Dave


Me an' Doublewood. He's a good egg is my mate! We go back a very long way.