A bus ride to Stafford today

Moored Gt Haywood, Trent and Mersey Canal

A quiet day for us today, in fact I was twiddling my thumbs so much this morning that I decided to go into Stafford to have a look round.  The bus fare was a bit steep at £4 odd for a return.. blimey I remember paying just £4.50 for a single ticket from Trowbridge to Portsmouth on the train!

A nice town it is too.. I have been before when we were here last, but I don’t remember it that well.. hey so many towns and villages have come and gone since.. and one does tend to forget!

It’s like going into a supermarket… all you landlubbers know exactly which isle everything is on at your local Asda or Tesco and probably moan and groan when they move stuff.. hey they only do that so you look at yet more stuff!

But for me entering all these different stores in different towns and villages there is an art in getting round them and finding what I want in a hurry.  If it’s only a few bits and I am in a hurry (not that often by the way) then I grab a keen looking lad to show me where everything is.. If I am in no hurry then I look above me at the signs.. I wonder how many people who live in bricks and mortar look at the signs on the ceiling in their local supermarket!

Anyway, I saw there was a sign in Stafford “To the Castle”.. I have already missed out on one of the best castles in the area, according to Barry who’s wife Carole painted the roses on the side of No Problem.  “Tamworth’s Castle is out of this world” says he “Better than Warwick Castle it is”.. well I thought I better have a look at what Stafford Castle is like, and beings we are in the area for a while thought I would leave that for another day. 

Anyway the grandchildren are arriving on Saturday, that might be a good day out!

I gotta go to the dentist tomorrow morning in Stafford.. I am not sure, given the choice, whether I would prefer to go through Braunston Tunnel at the height of the holiday season with no headlamp or lights or go to the dentist… I think I would choose the tunnel option! .. but nobody has given me that choice..

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