Weekend in the Yorkshire Dales

I had a wonderful and long planned weekend away dressed in my pj's in the Yorkshire Dales last weekend with Kirsty Wiseman

Janet Bower

and Roz Carter.

We hired a beautiful converted barn with the most amazing light coming through 3 sets of Velux windows in to the upstairs living quarters.

Which gave us the most incredible views from the windows:

We all took turns cooking meals and ate some wonderful dishes including Roz's Tarte Tatin inspired by Saturday morning TV cooking programmes.

After which we had to go for a little walk still in our pj's to here

to burn of some indulged calories.

Where we climbed to the top

and enjoyed the most incredible views across the Yorkshire Moors

Janet wants that big farmhouse over there to live in...

Were there 3 or 4 Charlie's Angels?  Well in our re-take there were 4 of us on the top of our rock.

I don't remember the steps being that steep on the way up

We posed for the camera...

Before walking back to the barn, taking piccies on the way

Look I'm a bird!

This is one of the bedrooms - I want that room at home!

Smile for the camera Kirsty, put your tongue away!

Then Kirsty & Janet had a competition to see who could fit the most pieces of popcorn into their mouths.  Dirty mares! LOL.

Lanzarote - Pool dudes!

A few pics of the peeps in the pool...

Spooky!

How's this for spooky / coincidence then...?

We fly 1800 miles from home to holiday in Lanzarote and 3 days before we fly home, Will comes in from sitting outside by the pool having a beer after dinner and says...

"Do you know, I'm sure that's a Corby accent from the people that moved into the villa next door today!"

We never really thought too much more about it until Saturday afternoon, the day before we flew home. We got speaking to them and passed on some bottles of water, beers and food etc. that we had left, when we asked (as you do) where they came from. The answer.....

Corby, Northants!!!!! Only the same bloody town that we live in LOL.

I have to add, that this isn't the first time that this has happened to us. We were in Tenerife and bumped into an old school friend of Wills.

We were in Barbados (4000 miles from home) and were talking to a couple on their honeymoon. Turned out that he gave our neighbour across the road a lift to work every day!

It really is a small world, isn't it?

Holiday snaps - the villa inside!

This is like home from home (except I don't have marble floors and walls, a swimming pool, a pool guy and a set of 3 cleaners a day, or even a jacuzzi bath) but you get my drift, I'm sure....????!!!!

Our room...

and our bathroom...

Jacob & Freya's bathroom...

Freya's bedroom (both beds!)...

Jacob's room...

The dining/living area...

The kitchen...

Utility room (complete with washing machine and tumble dryer which got very well used - no dirty washing brought home for a change!)

Will just chillin'!


Looking through these photos makes me realise that I look like some manic housewife!!! LOL! I took the piccies after the maids had made the beds though! I can't take the credit for the tidy beds I'm afraid.

Holiday photos

I've uploaded some holiday photos over on my other blog A Whole Lot of Rosie.


Feel free to pop over and have a peek. It would be lovely if you could leave me a comment too, as it's always nice to know that people take time out of their busy lives to catch up with what I'm doing.

Holiday snaps - the villa!

As promised over on Freycob, prepare to be bored with some holiday photos! LOL!!!!

The original 750+ were whittled down to the measly total of 431 after I'd binned the duplicates, variations and generally the crap photos.

Don't worry, you're not getting the whole 431 piccies.

These are general ones of our villa....