West Yorkshire

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, your personal travelogue is the most excellent adventure since Bill and Ted's.

[DanaC]

Expect more photos soon! Had a lovely surprise today when Sundae arrived unexpectedly in my village

[Sundae]

Thanks for not being offended, hon.
I should have "Bruce is always right" tattooed on my butt - or somewhere!

So, back to the Corn Exchange.
Beautiful as it was I did manage to get lost in it!
Blame the drugs.
No, really, Dani can attest that the cocktail of legal prescription drugs I am on do make me a little dazed and confused and more than a little unstable on the old pins at times.

Found my way out eventually.

[Sundae]

I had a wonderful wander.
There was a certain type of sandal I have really been coveting, and I saw a pair on sale for £10. Could NOT justify the purchase of course, but hey - may as well try them on, right?
So glad I did. They hid the thinnest part of my ankles and made my legs - which I don't really have any hang-ups about - looks as wide as the fattest part of my calves all the way down.

Phew, no longer lust after them!
They'd only have given me blisters anyway.

After a while I'd walked off my hotdog and was ready for round two.
Yo! Sushi. In the Leeds branch of Harvey Nichols dahling. There is even a doorman.
And sadly I look very yellow in the photo, but I hope you will accept and understand that it's almost completely a trick of the light. See other photos. Also see the yellow patch on the doorman.

Oh, being a working man I had to take the first shot and not keep taking pics until I was happy, hence the guerilla nature of the photo.

[Sundae]

Again, voucher a-go-go.
Although given an unlimited budget, I could have stacked up the plates big time.
Yo! Sushi is a Japanese restaurant where food goes past on a conveyor belt and the cost of the dish is determined by the colour of the plate. The bill is calculated by the pile of dishes you leave.

You do pay for water - still or fizzy - but once you have paid you refill as much as you'd like. With a few smothered burps if you're into the fizzy stuff, just to make room (tip: smile and let them out gently)

Everyone was lovely to me.
The chef was sneakily checking my reaction to the dishes (I was one of only three people at the counter, everyone else had opted to sit in booths and order from the menu - WHY?!) The waitress, who only really had to bring me an empty glass, talked to me about The Game of Thrones. The Manager took my photo when she saw me struggling to get a selfie and also complimented my jewellery when I paid.

It made a simple cheap treat into a wonderful occasion. I only wish I could have had company - I've written before about taking Mum for the first time and then the two of us taking Dad.

[Sundae]

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[Sundae]

Yesterday I decided to surprise Dani.
I figured the worst that could happen would be that she wasn't in/ had left the country etc and then I would walk around Northowram taking all the photos she has denied you.

Because the place if definitely photogenic.

Anyway I called her from the pub garden just across the road from her house.
Because it's bad enough turning up unexpected anyway, let alone actually on the doorstep.
It took a few seconds for her to realise I really was just across the road, and then she was kind enough to sound delighted.
So out she came, with Carrot.
I'd bought him a bone from a petshop (working on the assumption that it must be safe) but Dana very sensibly monitored his consumption anyway and took it away before it was completely devoured so he didn't make himself ill. Boy is so good-natured he had no problem with this.

Lovely pub.
We stayed in the garden with our Cokes, and when school kicked out it was colonised by children, who I realise I still miss in my life. Although my TA side came out when a young lad broke a branch off a tree he was climbing. It was almost definitely by accident, but he wasn't showing any remorse. So I had a quiet word. Well if you don't step in and ask, "Do you think that was a good thing to do?" then you're failing the child, because his mother was nowhere near and completely unaware. I felt horrible about it afterwards if that helps...

Sign in Ladies toilet on Halifax station.
Even I don't need to pull that badly.

Dani, with Carrot both looking cute.

[Sundae]

As I'm not back at work until Monday I am glorying in having nail varnish on.
Dani admired it, so I had her take a photo. Blown vein bruise almost all gone now - you'd have to know it was there to see it.
That's Brianna's ring btw.

A better photo of Carrot.

[Sundae]

Dani walked me to a point which is so close to her house; it's like my walk to work.
Gorgeous.
So hard to take photos of landscapes and do them justice though.
Suffice to say it was a deep, steep drop into a beautiful agrarian landscape.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Dani walked me to a point which is so close to her house; it's like my walk to work.
Gorgeous.
So hard to take photos of landscapes and do them justice though.
Suffice to say it was a deep, steep drop into a beautiful agrarian landscape.

Gorgeous.

[Sundae]

Note how Carrot is always well under control.
Much respect. Dani is a very responsible dog owner and obviously balances the specific needs of her chosen dog breed with social responsibility.

And Carrot is a lovely dog.
Very licky - although not in a Timmy way

Beautiful sky on the way home.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Sundae

And Carrot is a lovely dog.
Very licky - although not in a Timmy way

He was very licky - that's because he'd clearly fallen in love with you. He likes most people, but he was very taken with you. And I don't think it was just that you brought him a delicious crunchy bone either :p

There's something about your general air that he took to. He's a very good judge of character.

[DanaC]

I didn't just sound delighted, I was delighted

What a lovely surprise! I'd had a horrible couple of days with some kind of stomach bug (following on from mum having a horrendous four days with presumably the same bug) and was feeling a little at a loose end - better, but not really sure what to do with myself and not much in the mood to work. Hanging out with Sundae for an afternoon was a tonic - there are very few people in this world that I relax completely with and she's one of them.

Also - she brought ready made cold meals which meant I had my first proper food in two days and it was delish!

[Clodfobble]

Sundae, I love that white dress you have on. I've always been a sucker for eyelet embroidery.

Dana, I keep forgetting that Carrot is fully-grown now. He's adorable.

[DanaC]

He is adorable

Sundae was surprised when she met him though - she'd imagined him being bigger from his photos - I think that's just because he looks much bigger in my teeny tiny house, where I take most pics of him.

Carrotchops is currently crunching up the second half of the bone Sundae brought for him