Dirty Mags!

A couple of weeks ago we joined up in Ambleside with our fellows from St Margaret's in Burnage. There was 100 or so of us staying in High Point Youth Hostel. It was a good opportunity to catch up with everyone over a weekend at a leisurly pace rather than the rush we normally do on visits to Burnage. The building as you will see was huge and so we didn't really see the kids all weekend as they were running around discovering every nook and cranny. I am not sure if we carry some sort of curse, but just as at Grange we had trouble with the plumbing with the minor problem of the water going off. I don't think it was my mum again blocking up the drains, but with a 100+ people in a building with no water it soon began to smell....in fact so did everyone else as there was no showers or flushing water. It brought back fond memories of Criccieth Camps in the early years when we didn't have flushing facilities either, where a visit to the chemical loo included a game of 'who turd is it anyway?' the idea was to guess whose jobbie was sat smiling at you. For a similar game check out this

But despite the odours and pebbledashed loos, we all had a good weekend. Ambleside has gone up in my ratings since I last visited 13 years ago, where most of the shops sold crappy ornaments and stufff like that. Today its a busy little haven for running and walking shops. I managed to pick up a pair of high cut green fell running shorts that are the same colour as Dunbar RC's. I gave them a whirl the next day up a fell. Lots of the people there commented on how skinny I had become. That may be true from my running, but not as worrying as how fat many of them had become. It was moob city in there, and at the end of the weekend the number of empty beer, wine, whisky, gin, vodka, buckfast, whitelightining, Lambrini (the list goes on) bottles gave a clue as to why. I'm no body facist but I know that if you want to enjoy excessive amounts of food and drink you are going to put on the pounds unless you do a bit of exercise. Still everyone seemed happy so that's ok. Anyway above are a few snaps of the weekend. Cheers to our hosts Col & Jane who did a fine job...and jobbie (10 out of 10!)