As usual it was a very happy and emotional meeting of 'The gang'[original gang added to photo's] We met on friday, late afternoon.....to allow me some sleep from my night shifts.... and departed monday before lunch. Friday evening is always full of catch up stories both happy and sad...this time all happy...which was good. We book taxis to our booked destination and eat, drink and laugh throughout the evening. Saturday we usually visit something connected to WW11 or a museum that fits in with our time scale. Having visited places like Elvington, and last year Caphouse colliery we chose The Thackery museum at St James hospital Leeds. Our friends from the south find the north more than interesting!!!!!. Saturday evening they had their [and mine] first experience at the dogs!!!!. We took them to Kinsley Greyhound stadium, which turned out to be a lot of fun and all but two of us won a race. I was the first to win...£3.96 and thought my luck was in. We had filled in a tipster sheet for the following eleven races. The top tipster won £100.00 the bottom a tin of chocolates....i walked away with the chocolates. The resteraunt and food plus service was very good and i would recommend it for an enjoyable night out.
The boys stayed at ours, so on return to our house more fun was had with the nintendo wii and as you can imagine the weekend passed really quickly but was great fun. Above are a few photo's taken at the museum, the smells that made the visit more authentic made you relise how unpleasant and difficult life was before health became important/essential. If you are interested in the way we lived and how cures for disease and developments in surgery were devloped its well worth a visit. Children would learn a lot about how and why the body functions as it does.
Today's thought:-
"Mighty proud i am that i am able to have a spare bed for my fiends"
Samual Pepys Diarist.
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