On Wednesday we went to Gawsworth Hall to see, sorry - listen to, the Opera Babes. They are the two in the lower photograph. The singing was magnificent, -- it was! Above them is another babe trying hard to break into modelling.
On Friday we headed off on "Best Tea Walks in Cheshire" No 25 ,to Knutsford, famous among other things for King Canute and the setting for Mrs Gaskells novel "Cranford". The walk in theory around Tatton Mere was very simple, but once again, the description was vague and did not mention a sodding big steel fence which appeared in the middle of the wood. Well, nothing fitting that description could be deciphered from the text. Drawing upon all our navigation skills we turned North, and after a few hundred miles blundered into a scene from Mrs Brown or was it The Queen? The fine beast in the above photo and his concubines pursuaded us that continuing in the current direction was not advisable and impressed upon us that tea shop walks are not all jam and scones. We hastily beat a retreat back into England and to the gentility of Knutsford. Bella muttered, or mutted something about bleeding amateurs.
"Rock and Roll I gave you all the best years of my life" - so sang Kerry as we headed off again to Gawsworth Hall for a night of "60's music". That is, music of the sixties, not for the sixties, but curiously they are both the same now. We joined this mob in the photo on the lawn and jived the night away. Fortunately for us, and for many of the other retro pensioners, there was no one to photograph our participation.
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