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After our busy day up in County Durham, we were looking for a quieter day on Tuesday. The weather forecast was also unfavourable, so the rough plan was a visit to Ripon Cathedral and a trip to the Lightwater Village factory shopping centre.
In the end, we decided to skip Ripon Cathedral for the day and just go straight to Lightwater Village. I finally found the clocktower which the AA Routefinder directions all mentioned! It's a nice clocktower with Queen Victoria presiding over the intersection. We didn't stop to take photos, but maybe we will later in the week.
The shops at Lightwater Valley didn't impress us as much as the factory shopping we enjoyed a couple of years ago in Wales at the Tweedmills Factory Outlet near St Asaph, but we did find a thing or two there, although not the things that I thought we might find like keenly priced bedlinen and towels.
I was pleased to find a shop selling a huge range of preserves and hand made biscuits, and they had fig jam! I had a couple of jars of that, and got several packs of hand made biscuits as well.
There was a Birds of Prey centre on site, and we debated whether to go in it, but my feet knew that they'd been walked on while we browsed the factory shops, so we decided to wait until we got back down south and visit Eagle Heights instead.
By the time we finished at Lightwater Valley, there was light water falling out of the sky. We followed the A61 down to the bottom end of Ripon, had a late lunch in McDonald's, and then went into Morrisons to get some perishables to feed us for the rest of our week in Yorkshire. When we came out of Morrisons, the water falling out of the sky had become heavier and we decided to call it a day and head back to the cottage, where we sat in the comfortable chairs in the living room, ostensibly to read a magazine (Stephen) and do a Killer Sudoku puzzle (me) but I think we did more nodding off in front of the TV than anything else.
We had some sliced peppered roast beef left over which needed to be used up, so we had toasted beef sandwiches, and might even finish the day with an early night. Or maybe I'll finally have a blow on my bassoon, which I've toted all the way to Yorkshire, but not had out of its case so far.
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