Remembrance, retail and rain in Rickerby Park (Nov 11th 2006)
Two years ago (nearly), this bit of Carlisle, where we walked was under a huge pond as the River Eden flooded and swamped lots the city. They had to play water polo at Brunton Park.
This damp Novenmber Saturday the S nagged Hairy into driving her to Carlisle so she could do the retail therapy bit. H just usually puts her on the train in Aspatria and picks her uplater but this time muggins agreed, saying we could go and do the Rickerby Park walk. It's dead flat and goes along the Eden for quite a way, we've done it before. Lots of great smells and interesting stuff to carry. Plus, Io likes a paddle in the river.
Ha. We didn't do hardly half of it. It rained on us. It rained on us a hell of a lot. Just like when we went up them bumps with Uncle Tony last month it didn't do it straight away. Oh no! It didn't rain until we were about a mile from the car and Hairy hadn't got any real waterproof gear on! To try and avoid the spots he kept tree hopping in the park hoping it would stop. It didn't. This picture shows you the first bridge over the Eden past the Warwick one. In the flood we'd've been swimming over this!!
Mind you, the trees you can see across the bridge did give us great shelter. We coulda stayed there all day and not got soaked at all. There are lots of enormous oaks, we could easily have stayed put. We didn't. The hairy was gettting huffier and huffier as it got wetter and wetter. In the end the tree hopping stopped and he just trudged it out back to the car in Bitts Park. He was really, really soaked by the time we got back. So were we. He didn't even dry us off when we got back either, just put us in the car and whapped the heater on full blast. He sat on our dog towels so his wet trousers didn't wet the seats through. He even used his mobile to call the S and cancel lunch at Moreish, because he was so wet! He musta been really peed off to do that. He loves the snap at Moreish. Especially their cherry and almond scones.
The S turned up about half an hour later, weighed down with bags and not all that sympathetic really. But we did look so bedraggled and forlorn that she cooed and fussed at us. Hairy had got a bit drier by then, so he suggested we went to the Horse and Jockey for lunch instead, that way we could go in and sprawl by the fire and dry off. That tipped it. Twenty five minutes later the H&J had a rather pleasing drying dog odour in the bar area, and two chuffed hewmings were getting themselves round sangers and chips.
Why remembrance? Well, the Carlisle war memorial is in Rickerby Park and although it was only Saturday there were loads of hewmings braving the rain to honour the soldiers. We didn't. Hairy said we could do our remembrance up Gable next year, instead. He says that every year!
This picture was taken in the floods of January 2005. The building on the left is the Sands Centre. Hairy goes to concerts there. The yellow and red line behind the road sign is the Shell garage. In front of that is the flood water, filling the underpass called Hardwick Circus!! For a while it became Carlisle's new swimming pool.
This damp Novenmber Saturday the S nagged Hairy into driving her to Carlisle so she could do the retail therapy bit. H just usually puts her on the train in Aspatria and picks her uplater but this time muggins agreed, saying we could go and do the Rickerby Park walk. It's dead flat and goes along the Eden for quite a way, we've done it before. Lots of great smells and interesting stuff to carry. Plus, Io likes a paddle in the river.
Ha. We didn't do hardly half of it. It rained on us. It rained on us a hell of a lot. Just like when we went up them bumps with Uncle Tony last month it didn't do it straight away. Oh no! It didn't rain until we were about a mile from the car and Hairy hadn't got any real waterproof gear on! To try and avoid the spots he kept tree hopping in the park hoping it would stop. It didn't. This picture shows you the first bridge over the Eden past the Warwick one. In the flood we'd've been swimming over this!!
Mind you, the trees you can see across the bridge did give us great shelter. We coulda stayed there all day and not got soaked at all. There are lots of enormous oaks, we could easily have stayed put. We didn't. The hairy was gettting huffier and huffier as it got wetter and wetter. In the end the tree hopping stopped and he just trudged it out back to the car in Bitts Park. He was really, really soaked by the time we got back. So were we. He didn't even dry us off when we got back either, just put us in the car and whapped the heater on full blast. He sat on our dog towels so his wet trousers didn't wet the seats through. He even used his mobile to call the S and cancel lunch at Moreish, because he was so wet! He musta been really peed off to do that. He loves the snap at Moreish. Especially their cherry and almond scones.The S turned up about half an hour later, weighed down with bags and not all that sympathetic really. But we did look so bedraggled and forlorn that she cooed and fussed at us. Hairy had got a bit drier by then, so he suggested we went to the Horse and Jockey for lunch instead, that way we could go in and sprawl by the fire and dry off. That tipped it. Twenty five minutes later the H&J had a rather pleasing drying dog odour in the bar area, and two chuffed hewmings were getting themselves round sangers and chips.
Why remembrance? Well, the Carlisle war memorial is in Rickerby Park and although it was only Saturday there were loads of hewmings braving the rain to honour the soldiers. We didn't. Hairy said we could do our remembrance up Gable next year, instead. He says that every year!
This picture was taken in the floods of January 2005. The building on the left is the Sands Centre. Hairy goes to concerts there. The yellow and red line behind the road sign is the Shell garage. In front of that is the flood water, filling the underpass called Hardwick Circus!! For a while it became Carlisle's new swimming pool.
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