F.A.O Garmard

[Greedyfly]

Have not seen you for a day or two... But hello, hope you are well and here is some York based news for you =)


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[Greedyfly]

Hello, I see you are around today. Hope your day is interesting.

[Garmard]

Hello my Yorkness 99% friend.....how are you?

[Greedyfly]

I am good thanks... Hope you are well. I am not enjoying the miserable weather we are having here - drizzle drizzle drizzle....

[Garmard]

Not very nice here either, not like the lovely weekend (before the storm) when i had the chance to walk around Carsington Waters near where i live and got eaten by midges.

[Greedyfly]

Thats what i miss about the south. We maybe get one storm a year here and its always feeble. When I lived sown south it was a fairly regular thing every summer and they were house shakers. Its good to clear the air.

[Garmard]

Couple of years ago a bolt of lightening hit close by and took out my Sky dish which i had then(Virgin now). The sound of the thunder was deafening like a bomb had just gone off!

[Greedyfly]

Similar thing happened when I was really young. We lived in a tiny flat opp a railway line (classy lol) and it was storming really bad all night. The electricity went out and we were all sat in the living room watching, next thing we know the most deafening sound and a bolt had hit the rail line - crazy stuff.

[Garmard]

Back in 1982(showing my age now) i went with some friends to Little Langdale in Cumbria.We climbed up The Old Man of Coniston, halfway up a storm descended quickly upon us, it was a bit terrifying to say the least. Lightning shot out the sky and streaked past us, it was that close we could feel the heat........I thought we were gonna's that day.

[Greedyfly]

I love crazy weather. I am one of those slightly unhinged types who would like to chase tornadoes around the states lol

1982? lol, I am an 80's baby

[Garmard]

60's babe me.....You could ask your 'ubby to take you storm chasing in the states for your birthday?

[Garmard]

With reference to the daily mail link Greedfly, i read that yesterday.....It is soooo fascinating that all this went on in York.

[Greedyfly]

I wish I was a 60's baby. Music was so much better in the 60's and 70's I woud have loved it I am sure.

Maybe the holiday is the way forward I may ask for money and just stick into an account I don't use for when I can travel.

[Garmard]

My first single i ever bought was The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour ep.....classic.

When we go on our hols Greedfly my wife and i take one of those Visa charge cards you can put money on from your bank via Pay Pal etc. Paying for your flights this way means you don't get charged that bit extra....especially with Ryanair.
By the way, i'm coming to York at the end of this month.

[Greedyfly]

Lol the weather should be good. My birthday is July 1st and last last year it was stupidly hot that week. Generally as a a rule it rains every year on my birthday and the days after but last year was a complete opposite.

What do you have planned?

I have a huge Beatles print in my living room which I aquired whilst working for a record shop - it covers a whole chiney breast.

[Garmard]

Usual, following my wife blindly around the shops, probably Clffords tower as the last time i went up there was 24 years ago, we always park our car under the tower near Coppergate. Take in some more churches and probably visit Dick Turpins grave.

[Greedyfly]

I have never been up the tower, the whole time I have been here. Have you done the walls walk? - maybe a nice trek around, although it gets a little hairy in places when there are alot of tourists up there, very thin paving in places.

[Garmard]

Done part of the walls walk, in fact i do that every visit but a different bit each time so i must have done the entire thing.
Can you recommend something that i probably don't know about York, just for somewhere to go?

[Greedyfly]

http://www.visityork....den-gems/default.aspx

http://www.visityork....e=1500184&campaign=11 - I got here once a year at least, its a good museum.

http://www.yorkcastle....aspx?CollectionId=24

http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/trails

Love this one http://www.catsinyork.org.uk/ - they are everywhere

[Garmard]

I remember seeing Barley hall being restored.....I will drag my wife around Barley hall and look out for the cats in the city as well.
Have you noticed the little red devil leering at everyone from above the doorway of a shop......Cannot remember the shop?

[Greedyfly]

There are loads of cats everywhere, I still spot new ones even now after ten or so years of being here. Someone also graffitis them around (like a local banksy), they are tasteful and on the odd building here or there. Good to watch out for. I was trying to find the trail for you. They installed a trail last year or so which consists of these glass coloured balls cemented into the pavements of York, but cannot find the site for it. Unless its on one of the sites I listed?!