Hello, Dennford ... and thank you, once again for your email.
Good to know that you were in the nearby City of Leeds, last year. I'm amazed that you don't think it has changed that much, though - I used to work there, firstly at Geo. Bray at Blackman Lane, Leicester Place, a good walk from the University, subsequently down on Meadow Lane, near Leeds Bridge at a Glass Merchants, Thomas Bennett & Sons, then at Thorn Security (Burglar Alarms etc.)
not far from the Dark Arches, and then at Department of Employment opposite Quarry Hill Flats, having transferred from that same department in Wakefield. I also worked in the City at a Solicitors, Reed, Hind, Stewart and, also, as a temp at the Leeds Stock Exchange. All these might, or would, have been interspersed with other jobs some of which, now I'm in my dotage, I can't recall.
Michael was at H M Customs & Excise for many years, in the city first, and then they relocated to Peter Bennett House, LS16, the Lawnswood area of Leeds. The building was so named because Peter Bennett was killed whilst doing some investigative work to do with drugs, I believe.
Neither of us has been back for many years, I suppose primarily because of my lack of mobility and we find that, now we are amongst the old, unwashed, unfettered by employment and supposedly, idle rich, we can get most things closer to home.
We have snow today, and thank the Lord it was good and dry and sunshine yesterday for our trip to see my ailing cousin, Christine, in the midlands. We have just been to collect our two Labradors from kennels, and thank God for our Yeti 1.2 TSI.
I'm not saying it was an arduous trip, but the kennels are, of necessity, quite a way off the beaten track, along a windy and narrow dirt road bordered by fields. When they built the A1M they also built a bridge to facilitate access, but made the approach to that damn thing, twisty and turny and on an incline. You should have seen Hettie the Yeti purposefully inching her way along it and she's only 1.2 TSI but what a great heart she has. Coming down was like being on the Cresta Run ... I think our Magnus thought he was going to slide into the front, but thankfully, we are good owners and have a cage for the dogs in which they travel.
I'm now going to go on to the Yeti forum and rub the noses of those who go to great expense with 4 x 4 Yetis and tell them how amazing ours performed. No doubt some well meaning bloke, and
there are a few who are apt to get up one's nose on that forum, will be berating me for having
dared to enter into their world - do I care, not a bit. I don't often post because apart from myself,
and Suzz, a lady living in Australia and a Yeti owner, the others are men, knowledgeable about the
internal combustion engine - I just drive it!
Still snowing, so now apart from Michael walking the dogs, we are cosy and warm in our small, but nicely decorated and furnished, detached home. You probably appreciate the cooler spells that you might get out there in Australia, much as we, here, appreciate some warmer days - you can't have it all, can you?
Kind regards
Pauline
