Late night shopping

Mutterings continued.

And I didn't buy anything more interesting than ice cream.

Today's This Time Last Year:

Drove back from Cumbria to Middlesbrough. On the way we visited Vindolanda Roman Fort and Museum and The Roman Army Museum. Both museums are fascinating and have a great collection of items both exotic and mundane, including sandals, beautiful glasswear and written materials.

Vindolanda has a reconstructed temple, shop and house and is an active archeological site. Vindolanda web site.

Driving back to Middlesbrough I could see why residents are called, unkindly, "Smoggies" (sorry Ash!). What I thought was mist turned out to be smog that lingered into the afternoon.

The Middlesbrough transporter bridge featured in the last series of "Auf Weidersehen, Pet" where it was sold to native Americans, dismantled and shipped to Arizona. It wasn't really, however some of the locals seemed to think that it really had gone.