Strange feeling....

Now, when we went to Rainworth the other weekend, I had a walk around what was Bilthorp Colliery (as part of my #getfitordie campaign ), where Suzie's Uncle Albert worked...

When we were there last Christmas, lots of twitter rumours about Maggie Thatcher dying, and it felt right that this would be the place to celebrate that event...it was just a rumour! But now the witch has gone, and so has the colliery, completely. To get to it, you walk along the rail line that took the coal away...

Now it looks a tad different...

 This led to what is now called Boundary Wood...you would not know that people lived, survived, died here...

Wasn't until i started walking over the old slag heap that you had any sense of the industrial landscape that was at the heart of the place.  A slab of concrete here and there...

 And underneath my feet, grey sludge...

Well, it's nearly Christmas..again!!

It's been a couple of weeks off a year since I made any meaningful post on here...and here I am again, same place, same post :)

It's Rainworth time again, here to see this wonderful lady....

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So, what has happened in the year since our last visit? We're a year older, Suzie hit 50 in August and we had a wonderful holiday in Wales...ALL of Wales :)

Family are growing up...Alisha appears to be a teenager before her time...I got fat, and now am thinner, due mainly to changing diet and lots of walking, of which more later...

Suzie's sister Ann is not a well bunny, and that will shape our life for the coming months...:((

Walking...I've done loads since September! Round us at Bengeo, along the coast at Aberdeen, Sleights ( being towed by a dog), round an old pit in Rainworth...surprising how how often it ends at a pub :))

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Christmas is coming....

Here we are, life is moving on:). A weekend away, Rainworth. It has become our annual pre Christmas trip, to see Suzie's Auntie Joyce, a very spiritedly near 90 young person !!

I had two options, go shopping, or, go to Mansfield and watch footie - oh hum....hard decision :)) So here I am sat in a trendy coffee bar ( The Green Bottle) with a rather nice Americano listening to a background musac of a rebellious flavour watching the world go by in the afternoon sunshine. It's a hard life, but some one has to do it !

This place is run/staffed by some very energetic young ( and youngish) ladies...feel knackered watching them!

Off to see 'The Stags', as Mansfield is known as, next...might just be a pub on the way though:)

 

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