Crispycat Recordings: South to North (Yorkshire)...

Monday, June 21, 2021

South to North (Yorkshire)...

Playlist

Ktaftwerk - 3-D The Catalogue

Various - Road Trip Playlist

Various Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

Up early, final prep undertaken...

Into the car, along with all our stuff, at 9:15...

Petrol acquired and off we set, choosing the picturesque non-motorway, very lengthy, time-wise, route down the A68...

It had been our intention to lunch at Durham...

We arrived at the park and ride and just missed a bus into town - the half an hour wait for the next one, decided us to just press on...

A couple of further attempted lunch stops were aborted - this dismal truckstop was closed...

...while the half a mile further on services was so rammed with people, we parked then decided to just keep going...

Eventually, we arrived at the little town of Bedale as we finally left the M1...

...and popped into the Green Dragon for a tasty lunch

...followed by a walk around the main street...

...and church...

A welcome break after four hours of driving...

But we still had some moors to cross...

It was, in the main, much more picturesque than this...

We passed through Masham, Lofthouse and the previously visited Pately Bridge, finally arriving at Threshfield, just over the river from Grassington, at 15:41...

We had a nice room in the annex of the Old Hall Inn...

I had brought some stuff with me (along with the unpictured laptop)...

The house...

The Inn...

The countryside...

We walked over to Grassington...

...crossing the River Wharfe...

It wasn't quite as we'd remembered...

...as many of the buildings and shops had been amended...

..but more of that later, first, to The Black Horse for drinks...

...and then, on to the Devonshire (aka The Drovers Arms) for more drinks...

..and dinner...

Outside, the reason for the redressing of the shops and buildings...

An Xmas special of "All Creatures Great and Small" was being filmed...

We took a wander around the town before heading back over the bridge, spotting a wee thrush on the way...

...and a wee cat...

...which resembled neighbour Gayle's Rory Custard...

Home...

Some football, some surfing...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Holiday started...

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Crispycat Latest Release

Between 1980 and 1995, Sombre Reptiles released 35 LPs. At present, all of these albums are deleted. "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles 1980-1995" is an 81 Track Virtual 6CD/10LP Box Set covering this pre-Cloudland Blue Quartet period. The versions of the songs included in the Box Set are taken from eight sources, recorded between 1993 and 1996: The three long deleted volumes of "Songs of the Sombre Reptiles", originally released on cassette in 1993 and 1994 via Edinburgh Record Shop, Reptile Records - all but 3 of the 57 tracks from these three records are included; Further album tracks from the final four Sombre Reptiles records, "Galleryshard (1993), "Kernelcrux" (1994), "Bitter Sweet Covers" (1995) and "Starcrossfix" (1995); Previously unreleased re-recordings from 1996, just before Sombre Reptiles became Cloudland Blue Quartet.

Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection

In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!