Skipton is a lovely market town in the Yorkshire Dales & not far from where Nick did his 2nd pub job at Kettlewell. To get to Skipton from Harrogate is a straight run over "Blubberhouses Moor"
I am pleased to report after a 10min internet search that this means, "house by the bubbling spring" our earlier thoughts of whale trading or people crying on the moors seems far more romantic but there we are.
We arrived in Skipton & predictably as almost every day in this town it was market day. Fortunately there is plenty of parking & rather less than the 5 pounds sterling which seems to be the very least almost everywhere. There are plenty of farms around the area, so lots of things going on in terms of rural activities. One such which we had not quite planned for was back in October when we took ourselves off to the theatre. The production was "A servant with 2 Gaffers" based on the Opera "a Servant of 2 Masters" This was a Yorkshire production & very funny. What we didn't realise when we booked was that it was in the Automart & exactly what that was. the way in is long & winding & no flash, glass fronted, glowing edifice met us, but rather a rather forbidding set of brick buildings. We finally found our way into some sort of entrance hall & after nearly falling over with the smell found that the the theatre was in fact a cattle yard by day & a theatre by night., "eh well mite as well mak a bob or 2 if we can". Actually after we got used to the smell & I had apologised to my new winter coat for it's less than elegant 1 st outing it all turned out to be a very jolly evening.
