Kirkbyside Moor

We are on holiday for a week in Yorkshire, near Whitby. I finished up teaching on Friday. No more 6am starts for me No long motorway drive to work. For a while. We will enjoy this week. Next Thursday I will be crossing the Atlantic to America.

Today we started off with Mass at St Chad's. The parish is served by the monks from Ampleforth. After Mass we went to the parish house for coffee and a chat. There was a couple from France there and we had a chat.

Then we drove to Castle Howard, home of the Howard Family. The house featured in both the TV drama and the film of Brideshead Revisited by Waugh.

The house is very impressive. The weather was sunny, but definitely cold. I have a most irritating cough I cannot get rid of. I will see the doctor before flying to America.

We are staying in a roomy flat above the Post Office in Kirkbyside Moor. Nice place. Children are at home taking care of things.

There was a World War II weekend at Pickering. It would have been nice to see that. We did try, but there was just no parking. I did get some photos of "Dad's Army" leaving from outside the Post Office though!

http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/