West Yorkshire

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Imagination, life is your creation...

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Those monogrammed locks are brilliant. I hadn't seen that before, but it's so obvious in hindsight. What a business idea! The hardware store isn't going to get rich, but once the kids see that, they are going to also have to get the monogramming or they will look cheap. And the store makes a little extra coin.

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Nice to see that shitty art cars are a worldwide thing.

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Originally Posted by glatt

Those monogrammed locks are brilliant. I hadn't seen that before, but it's so obvious in hindsight. What a business idea! The hardware store isn't going to get rich, but once the kids see that, they are going to also have to get the monogramming or they will look cheap. And the store makes a little extra coin.

I bought from one place and had it engraved in another. Even when making a loving gesture I still have to get the best deal...

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Nice to see that shitty art cars are a worldwide thing.

(is this where I admit I find some parts of it well planned and whimsical? No? Okay then )

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Harrogate.
And you can't see my eyes.

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Verry pretty like your Mother.

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You make it look effortless, lifting that bike.

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Originally Posted by Sundae

I got a padlock and had it inscribed.

I stopped on the bridge and drew her attention to those already there, explaining what they were and why they were there. She thought it was really sweet. Then taa-daa! From my Mary Poppins bag I brought out ours. I did it so every time I go across the bridge I will look at it and think of home. It was like I hit her with a big love pillow.

It has our initials on it and the day she came to Otley (TC Hardware is the manufacturer, not some sort of code!)

That's awesome!

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Harrogate was great.
No problems with the bus in either direction, yay!
And the sun came out even before we left Otley. It would have been double-plus-good if we'd had the same weather the whole time Mum was up, but even just having it on one day showed her how God's Own County can look.

Harrogate is very very, darling.
But in a Yorkshire way. It's a bit like the Stockbroker Belt in terms of shops and money. These are places where the main money comes in from elsewhere - the husbands go off to work insane hours for insane amounts of money and the wives stay at home and be as effortlessly attractive as I am. Except that I don't think anyone in Harrogate is commuting to London. It's a bit precious, but precious in a Northern way, which is more down to earth. Genteel.

No-one annoyed me. That's something, what with me being a bitter old crone and all.
But of course I was with my Mum, who I've missed terribly. And we were there to have tea. And the sun was shining. I'd have had to be a dried up old cherry indeed to be grumpy.

We had tea and toast in Wethspoons before we left, even though Mum had already had breakfast the greedy fat pig
Well she deserves it [ETA I meant she deserves a treat]. And you can't eat toast in front of someone without making them hungry! Also, it meant she got some little packets of marmalade; her only complaint about the B&B is that they don't have marmalade, only jam.

Mum in the sunshine.
Harrogate street scene.

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In arcadia ego.
And a lady dressing a window pour le tour.

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Another Wetherspoons, although we didn't go into this one.

Harrogate reminds me a little of Oxford.

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Just places that caught my eye, really.

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Does David Jason come to Harrogate?
Two TV tie-ins. It's been a funny old day...

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