KNUTSFORD. Making It To The Market.

The weather has been on the un summery side lately, I know that for a fact after a very wet visit to the Llangollen Railway on a recent Saturday. The railway was fantastic, the weather wasn’t.

The weather has been on the un summery side lately, I know that for a fact after a very wet visit to the Llangollen Railway on a recent Saturday. The railway was fantastic, the weather wasn’t.

So the morning finds me enjoying the pleasures of Manchester’s Piccadilly station. The posh one that handles the trains from somewhere called That London and other south facing places. I’m awaiting the arrival of my Welsh correspondent, Gareth the G-Man. It’s not the busiest of mornings on the station but there’s enough going on to entertain the idle observer. Well you join me now at the end of what has […]

Being the solitary Hobbit that I can be I’ve got into the habit (alliteration?) of going out for Sunday lunch. Yes there’s some people who will say that I’ve been out to lunch for years now but 😝 to them. Today I am in the Cheshire village of Knutsford, trying not to lower the tone of the place while having a very excellent Ploughman’s in the wonderful Cheese Yard. If […]

The weather’s been frightful, as the song goes. I needed to get out of the house for a couple of hours and give my car a warm through as it had been standing for a couple of days in the snow and the rain. I live near the northern part of Cheshire which puts a clutch of market towns within easy reach. For this trip I set my sights on […]