Hello there Mike!

Hope you have a lovely time in North Yorkshire. And I'm jealous of all those fish and chips you'll be eating! Enjoy!

There's a chippie in Lenwade (village quite near to ours) which only opens on certain days of the week. The queues are long, but the food is well worth waiting for. Our lovely neighbour goes over there in her car and gets us ours along with hers. (She's a real gem!)

How weird Jos to drink through an actual straw!
I don't much like straws. I like to get my mouth right into a drink (bit like a pig in a trough I suppose!)
But as a child, we used to make that awful gurgling sound with our school milk at the end of the bottle. The teacher used to get very cross, which only made us do it all the more (little blighters).