North East thread 5: The one where we move to Chat!

[Someaddedsugar]

Here's thread 5 everyone! I'll post a link over on thread 4 too.

Found you!!

Sorry pressed post by mistake and now I look creepy! I’m in Spain and they keep bringing me free cocktails round the pool. So it’s be rude to refuse!

Thanks for starting the new thread @Someaddedsugar

it would definitely be rude to refuse @Florelei. Hope you're enjoying your holiday! Did you fly from Newcastle? How did you find the flight/airport bit?

We were meant to fly out of NCL but ended up going from Leeds! The airport was fine - very quiet! @Someaddedsugar

Just checking in. Thank you @Someaddedsugar.
Very envious of your holiday @Florelei. Weather quite grey here. Have a couple of cocktails for me 🍹

Hi!

Just parking my cushion.

Hello everyone!

Has anyone been to Shildon Carnival before? DS quite likes monster trucks and I've just seen some on an advert but I've never been before so not sure if it's worth going?

Just looked Shildon carnival up, the monster trucks look great. I think it will be brilliant and you could have the railway museum as a back up if rubbish.

We were at the railway museum a couple of weeks ago (bus even - what else?) and yiu have to pre-book to get in so can't turn up spontaneously.

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Ah, do you, definitely worth booking I have heard. I would love to visit but I’m too old to visit. Shildon railway I mean.
I am sick of pre booking things, I like to get up on a weekend and just go! So we haven’t been any where other than cinema. I’m just so lazy.

I would love to visit but I’m too old to visit.

If it helps, there is a free bus that takes you from the entrance, and along to the exhibition shed, passing the remains of the depot that Timothy Hackworth set up. He developed and improved locomotives for the Stockton and Darlington.

I'm also sick of pre-booking things. Definitely ruins the chance to just do something on a whim!

DS loves the railway museum. DParents take him there often and it would be lovely to experience it with him so I might book it anyway! At least if we do go to the carnival they're both in the same place!

I will have to visit them. Shame I have no young children. Maybe near Christmas.
Before covid if anyone asked I would have said I liked to plan. But I have realised my planning I mean a day or two in advance then looking at rain and deciding not to go. Beamish is a perfect example we would just get up and go. Especially if nice day.

I agree @MrsEWeatherwax - I always thought I was a planner, but have recently realised that I'm not quite as much of a planner as I thought. You can't even go to soft play without pre-booking at the moment which is a bit of a pain if DS wakes early and I'm looking for something to do at 9am!

I hope the weather cheers up a bit soon.

There's a family fun day on at the field behind the community centre in Witton Gilbert tomorrow - apparently there'll be rides and games and some food stalls.

Anyone who fancies trying the peach melba that Vera ate on the tv show, you can actually buy one at Citrone cafe at Chester le Street.
The weather hasn’t been great,today for Witton’s fun day. I use to go to the toddler play group back in the day.
Just seen the trams at Beamish museum are coming back, just weekends though.

peach melba

Is this the north east little cake thing? I haven't seen one for decades, it was a popular one in the 1980s when colleagues brought in cream cakes for birthdays.

I last had a peach melba in Fenwick's, about 5 years ago, before they went all fartisan.

Not really a fan, tbh.

Peach Melba is a pastry case with slice of peach then covered with whipped cream then the cream covered with icing. I don’t mind then, but I don’t really like the pastry.
Witton’s fun day looked like a good day.
We just went to the cinema again, new marvel movie. Was fun. A certain person was so funny.

Hope the bus station is built soon, because North road was heaving on Saturday afternoon. Must be affecting the shops. There is hardly any path other than bus stop!
Hopefully whatever they found under the old bus station is sorted soon.

North Road is chaos, at the moment. I nipped in to collect some glasses, a couple of weeks ago and missed several buses in a row because the 3 stops I need are the full length of the street and people with many and slow moving. The final bus I missed then got no further than 50 yards from its stop thanks to the fact that one of arriva's rust buckets had conked out.

Yes chaos is the word. We were dodging people waiting for bus, getting on bus, getting off bus and the drivers.
I feel so sorry for the shops, they should be receiving some compensation from Durham county council. And if I was shop owner I wouldn’t be paying for DurhamBid. What a waste of money that is.
And most of the shops were shut, so I dread to think how bad is was earlier in the day.
PickAChew you don’t seem to like Arriva. Is it better for you that the 21 bus goes not far from you. Where I live we only have GoNorth East.

There’s a north east thread. Pls can I join?
Born and raised north east and still living in railway town beginning with D