On 18 October, Sue and I drove north to the market town of Skipton, situated on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, just south of the Yorkshire Dales. Its name means ‘sheep town’, but our main interest lay in its castle, which was built in 1090 as a wooden motte-and-bailey fortress by… Continue Reading

On 6th October, Sue joined the U3A New Experience group and travelled to Belton House in Rutland. She spent the day on a five-mile guided walk through the estate, followed by a lecture in the house about its history and that of the surrounding landscape. Meanwhile, I travelled to Kibworth, picking up Jim and Sean… Continue Reading

Sue returned from our Devon adventure with a nasty bug that kept her resting in bed the following day. She showed no signs of improvement overnight and, by lunchtime, she was running a temperature and had developed a hacking chest cough, which resulted in a lunchtime trip to the Walk-in Clinic in Corby. We had… Continue Reading