Premier Inn Corby
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Walking Wardrobe
... will have to carry?
2 hours I've been working on it now and I've come to a pause because I can't decide whether to take 2 or 3 pairs of walking socks!!! Is this a sign of the tough decisions I have ahead of me? If so bring it on!!!
I did it, slightly heavier than anticipated, weighing in at 19kg but ho hum I'll have huge muscles by the ...
Waxwings and Grebes
... would seem that there was some sort of dead thing discarded somewhere close by – possibly quite a big dead thing, like a dog or a fox, maybe.
The birds flew off before Julie could get any decent pics and we also moved away to put some distance between ourselves and the stench! Further down the lane there was a small car park with access to a couple of nature reserves. We walked down the bank of Northampton’s River Nene for a few hundred yards and ...
Enigmatic stuff
... German radio messages, carefully writing them down, then they were delivered to "Station X" by bicycle, where they were duly de-coded and the information used in intelligence.
Literally thousands of messages were intercepted and de-coded. So important was the information they discovered that it is accepted that it shortened the war by at least two years.
As the volume of messages increased, more machines were invented at Bletchey to make the ...
Damp and dippy
... I went to look for in conditions thatwere, quite frankly, grim and then met Julie off the train, after which we went for dinner in Sorrentino’s in Northampton, a rather good Italian restaurant that we have visited several times, before heading off for an early ...
Northampton, Northamptonshire
... of the earliest Roman settlements. 43 Romans built Watling Street. Towcester was a border town between the Saxon and the Vikings (c.900AD), and again during the Civil War between the Royalists and Parliamentarians (c.1643AD). The Normans (c.1185) built a motte and bailey castle, nowadays called "Bury Mount". Stoke Bruerne:- We then headed to Stoke Bruerne village on the Grand Union Canal, which when the canal was built in 1796, cut the ...