21 July 2009: Meeting with Celia

It was a grey and wet day today. It was an ideal day for finding a nice cosy pub and catching up with old friends, which is exactly what I did. My friend Celia Garnett lives in a small village near here called Upperthong. I know Celia from my time at Carshalton College she used to visit and work with our Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy teams. I didn’t she lived around here until I was looking at the local map just before I came away and saw the unforgettable name of Upperthong starring back at me! When I picked Celia up for lunch I realised that I had passed her house on Sunday when I was on my Holmfirth circular walk. The views from her lovely little cottage are stunning, across the fields, down over the valley and across to the hills beyond. We went to a gastropub called The Butchers Arms in Helmsley for lunch and spent a few hours catching up on news and putting the world of FE to rights. A perfect way to spend a wet afternoon