Places

Places of interested visited by John

Lyme Park

22 August 2010
By John A Smith
Lyme Park

The weather was so nice this weekend that Dad and I decided to go out for the day on Sunday to Lyme Park. Before lunch we went for a walk outside of the Lyme Park boundary. We found a nice walk over the hill and then down a valley in the woods, eventually we had...
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The Deep

6 March 2010
By John A Smith
The Deep

On February 25th Jayne Amelia re-tweeted an article from The New York Times about a crack appearing in a tunnel type aquarium, much like The Deep in Hull. (See video at the foot of this post). I had booked a places for Leeds Plus Group with the Lincs Quest Group to visit The Deep...
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Comedy Night

1 March 2010
By John A Smith
Comedy Night

This evening Dave and I had decided to have a change from out usual pool night, I had seen the Adelphi Comedy Night on meetup.com but been unable to attend because of my pool night, then I was too late to get a ticket for us to attend the February Comedy Night so I...
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Watchmen

22 April 2009
By John A Smith
Watchmen

I decided to go and see the film Watchmen and the only cinema I could get to was at Hyde Park, Leeds. I caught the train to Leeds and then out to the local railway station wheree I used my iphone to locate the cinema. I enjoyed the film, as usual the fight scenes were...
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Hat & surgical stockings

10 March 2008
By John A Smith
Hat & surgical stockings

Today we went into Vienna on a shopping trip, me to buy a new hat and Cousin John to get some surgical stockings. We went on the Vienna Underground to Vienna’s main shopping street. It was a very long street. I bought my new kangaroo skin hat from the Fleur De Lis hat and accessory shop...
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Vienna here we come

5 March 2008
By John A Smith

Today Dad and I set off on our trip to Vienna. We caught the last train to Sheffield then had a wait of six hours for our train to Luton, we were cold, I nearly got locked out, we both nearly got thrown out, then at the last minute we found a warm waiting...
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All happening in Leeds

8 September 2007
By John A Smith
All happening in Leeds

This Saturday I went to Leeds for a night out with Plus, I went on the train as usual, the journey was uneventful as usual. However, on my way through town to O’Neill’s I was accosted by a Group from Rothwell Plus, they were on their way to The Light to see “Atonement” at the...
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Birthday meal

3 March 2007
By John A Smith
Birthday meal

Went to Leeds today, had a look at Sattelite television equipment in Maplins, took a leaflet, slightly more informed. Also went into PC World to have a look at Wireless N equipment – none in stock yet. After a cuppa at Cafe Nero I went to Cardigan Fields where I first dropped into the restaurant to...
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Sandcastles 1997

30 August 1997
By John A Smith
Sandcastles 1997

On Saturday August 30th 1997 18 Plus members from all over the Yorkshire region, and also from Reading, and Worcester 18 Plus Groups converged on the seaside town of Cleethorpes for the annual Grimsby & Cleethorpes 18 Plus Group “Sandcastles” competition. The event is really a sand “sculpture” competition, and teams had two hours to...
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Sailing on Hollingworth Lake

4 July 1977
By John A Smith

The weather was quite good today so Dad, David and I took the boat (The Grey Witch) for a sail on Hollingworth Lake. When we arrived we had to pay a fee to sail of £2.20. We launched the boat from the trailer quite easily and climbed aboard, we then paddled out and put the...
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