Saturday 25 October - I've just had a very enjoyable, long weekend. I was visited by an extremely old friend (i.e. I've known him a very long time, not that he's incredibly ancient!) and his wife and three young daughters. They travelled all the way from Portsmouth to York to spend some time with me and my daughters, arriving around tea-time on Friday.
On Saturday we went to my grandson's sixth birthday party in Tadcaster where I had great fun joining in with the children's party games. In the evening my friend and I went out to the Roman Tin Tub to watch Storm, the Huddersfield 4-piece rock covers band. I've reviewed them before and they're very good. From memory we were treated to: Van Halen (Jump), The Jam (Town Called Malice), The Darkness (I Believe In A Thing Called Love), Prince (Purple Rain), The Who (Won't Get Fooled Again), Bryan Adams (Summer of '69), Thin Lizzy (The Boys Are Back In Town), The Undertones (Teenage Kicks), U2 (Where The Streets Have No Name), Wilson Pickett/The Commitments (Mustang Sally), Bon Jovi (Bed of Roses), Buzzcocks (Ever Fallen in Love), Alvin and the Chipmunks? (Let's Do The Time Warp Again), Madness (Baggy Trousers), as well as tracks by Coldplay, The Clash and The Beatles, and a bunch of medley's. There was some audience participation when three ladies were dragged into the band's area and asked to play tamborines and supply backing vocals for Mustang Sally. Sadly, the band suffered a 'Black Lace' moment in performing Let's Do The Time Warp Again, when trying to encourage the audience to come up with rude words. Everyone was curiously shy about swearing into a microphone. Still, the band recovered their credibility enough to receive shouts of 'encore' at the end, and we all went home happy.
On Sunday we trod the tourist trail in York taking in the city walls and the Jorvik Viking Centre. We also indulged in an activity known as geocaching which basically involved using a GPS tracker combined with small clues to locate caches of small items that other geocachers (or whatever the collective noun is) had hidden, usually in places of interest. These items then get moved to other caches in different locations. It's a bit like a treasure hunt. If you want to know more take a look at www.geocaching.com. It's not as nerdy as it sounds and a couple of us have now been sucked in. We did some more geocaching on Monday combined with a little bit of shopping in the city, rounding off the day with a roast dinner plus trimmings. A fantasic time was had by all and it was a bit sad when they departed for home on Tuesday.
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