CHESTER. A Day With a Toastie And Some Beer.

It’s never a good thing to let a day go to waste, even if you don’t at the end do a great lot with it.

It’s never a good thing to let a day go to waste, even if you don’t at the end do a great lot with it.

I think I might need to explain the title.Chester is a fairly frequent destination for me, not too frequent to make myself bored with it but enough just to keep in touch with what’s going on. Drifting across the social media I noticed that a favourite eating place of mine, The Little Yellow Pig in Hoole Village has now opened an outlet in the city centre on Godstall Lane, I […]

It’s a Saturday and I’m out and about. My destination is Shrewsbury for starters. It’s Chester Races today and the station is starting to pick up that buzz you get when horses, meet alcohol, meet jolly good day out. No doubt I’ll meet some very happy people on my way back. Hope they have a good time, I hope they remember most of it. So that’s the day kicked off. […]

Yes I know it’s January and a wet one at that but the days are beginning to drag a little. The fun and frolics of Christmas and New Year are back in their cardboard box in the attic and it’s now the long, slow trudge through the soggy beginning of the year towards the changing of the clocks and the days moving from short into long trousers. I decided on […]

It’s been a trip to Chester day today. A bit on the cool side still but as always it’s good to get out and about. There were some Chinese New Year celebrations in progress, I caught up with them as they paraded along Northgate Street. Food was also checked out, it was a cold day after all and calories warm you up. So that was the day, short but sweet. […]

The snow falls gently on to Newton le Willows railway station. A train to Chester is due. Right, Christmas is now jingling away into the distance leaving behind a trail of gifts, wrapping paper, empty glasses and slightly mangled decorations blowing in the breeze. While in it’s wake 2023 is beginning to take its first faltering steps, unsteady for now, direction uncertain but at least on it’s way. So it’s […]