Eeeeh!

Mutterings continued.

I'm in Yorkshire, hence the accent.

Monday - Trained to Stratford from London, picked up the car, got lost, sigh, found my way to Middlesbrough. Very, very windy! Small cars and high sided lorries were being turned back from the Forth Bridge in Scotland due to fears that they may blow off. As it were.

Tuesday - motored to York where we spent a couple of days. Did a ghost walk (www.ghosthunt.co.uk) on Tuesday night, very funny stuff which included freaking out a restaurant full of people. Wednesday night we took a floodlight cruise of the River Ouse, which runs through York, and were thrilled to discover that Johnny Depp had filmed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the very place (the Roundtree factory) we sailed past.

The two main choccie factories in York, Terry's and Roundtrees, have been around for a couple of hundred years and have employed thousands of people - as has, and keeps happening, in Australia, they are being bought out by overseas businesses and closed down. The Terry's factory is moving to Poland, of all places.

Tomorrow we are off to Scotland and the very beautiful Dunkeld. The weather looks like being sunny but cold overnight - typical Perth winter in fact.