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Connected to the outside world..

Finally we are connected to the internet and interestingly I have nothing very interesting to post ha ha!  We used a company called Quickline and they proved to be very efficient and seem in the first instance to have delivered exactly what they said they would but I'm not so sure....- Dr Freds very happy as he has got Spotify back in his life - next I need to sort out the tv and landline but hopefully its all coming together quite nicely.

We had family visit for the weekend include a young person who was all knowledgeable about internety things and helped me sort out the tv - and showed me how to test internet speeds as I'm not convinced we are getting what we were promised!!! It may necessitate a phone call tomorrow - why is technology so complicated!
beautiful lichen on fallen tree
Fortunately nature continues to deliver - we had a great walk around the Stanwick Iron age fort - very muddy and quite perilous in places but it made it an adventure - we had afternoon tea at the Ulnaby Medieval tea room not the best tea we have had I'm afraid -hopefully an off day we will give it another try... dirty tables and foreign bodies in the tea!!!! More adventure but not what I would have chosen.
adventurers (before the mud!)

Today we had a more in depth explore of Barnard Castle and some of the old houses are very lovely - down by the castle there are some really interesting buildings and yet more interesting statues...


lovely little stone statues on the side of the house - stunning house!!

We walked down by the very fast running river and contemplated the castle walls.  it felt very spring like (but we still don't have lambs over the garden wall yet)





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