Today, dear readers of Wear and Dao, was a day spent in County Durham in the Northeast of England on the last weekend of July before August arrives on Monday, when your old blogger and his partner set off for Bournemouth on holiday. Now however it's Saturday and a day in Durham City in search of a light bulb and gravel for the Belfast Sink in the front garden of number 6 Rose Terrace to be used as a planter. After the shopping trip including a coffee stop the couple returned to Stanhope to make lunch ... a delicious and nutritious concoction of fried haloumi, onions, sweet potatoes , tomatoes, with garam masala and spinach ...
After lunch it was time for a trip to see Mick the Hat, a good friend in Frosterley and retired criminal whos tragic tale deserves it's own blog or book. Basically he was beaten as a boy by the couple who adopted him, which set him off on a life of crime in London, where he knew the Kray twins, Reggie and Ronnie and steered clear of them! His escape from the clutches of the adopting parents entailed learning boxing until he was strong enough to confront his father with an uppercut to the jaw which meant a sentence to an approved school in Blyth, Northumberland, then borstal until proper prison beckoned! Let's just say a life of crime ensued by an angry young man who couldn't understand how this world was so full of injustice.
Before that visit the pair called in to see Jules and Peter are in the process of purchasing the Retreat House at Railway Terrace. .. finally the solicitors appear to be happy and the transfer should be completed next week.
Then it was home for supper, basically lunch whizzed up into soup and an early night to write the blog you're reading now, before tomorrow's trip to see the daughters in Alnwick Gardens.
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