Manky Monkey Motors

The Vikings are coming!
If you've wondered where Taz & I have been for the last 2 days -did anyone notice we weren't here? -we've been Ooop North for a bit of a break. We've both been on holiday from work this week but had lots of other stuff to do, so grabbed a couple of days away before we go back to work on Monday.
We ended up in the City of York, & very nice it was too.
Beautiful buildings, lots of history n stuff -& loads of hairy blokes in woolly cloaks & pointy helmets. Turned out we'd arrived in the middle of their annual Viking festival. There were marauding hordes of axe wielding invaders everywhere you looked -doing their shopping, waiting for the bus, having a quick pint in the pub before they had to get back to plundering & pillaging. Everywhere.

There was a long boat moored on the river -well, a short boat actually. A third size replica. Those Vikings that couldn't fit on it arrived by coach & private car.

Much merriment ensued.

This chap had knitted his beard into a rather fetching hat.

There was a Viking battle re-enactment beside the castle at 3pm -which we missed because we were wandering around the museum at the time. Apparently not all the invaders died though cos they did it again at 6.

We did the tourist-posing-next-to-old-buildings thing.

And the tourists-walking-along-the-city-wall thing.

And even the tourists-looking-at-big-church thing.

I didn't know York has an "Eye", the same as London's.
That's the railway station in the foreground.

Lots of street entertainers.

Lots of streets.

This bloke was doodling on the streets.
-Has he just painted someone flashing their bottom?!

And on our way home tonight we passed this trike on the A1M.
That's it, I've used up all me piccies now. ;D

   those streets are a shambles

didnt you drop in on Mick?

 ;D Mr Brock's an ex Yorkie -he worked at the Rowntrees factory.
We would've called on Mick, but, A), we didn't know his address, & B), he works shifts so would probably be at work. Also it was a bit of a spur of the moment trip. Mick, ("FLC" on the forum), is building a set of girders for Taz's trike. They're not ready yet so we'll be heading back that way in a week or so.

The Shambles (official name Shambles) is an old street in York, England, with overhanging timber-built shops, now occupied by souvenir shops as opposed to the original butchers. The word shambles comes from shammels, probably from the Anglo-Saxon Fleshammels (literally 'flesh-shelves'), the word for the shelves that butchers used to display their meat.

Saint Margaret Clitherow once lived on this street (she was married to a butcher who owned a shop on it). Five Snickelways lead off the Shambles.

Pay attention at the back , I'm trying to learn you stuff here, I also worked at British Rail carriage works, the Ford garage and The Post Office Club, they all got waspy in the end, seeming to see constant attendance as a condition of employment, slight difference of opinion there. Lovely place though

Very informative  ;D

Only been to York once, lovely place will go back one day.

I've only been there once too - for a singinmg competition when I belonged to a Ladies Barbershop Chorus!  Went on a bus tour of the city in nthe only free time we had, and it poured with rain all the time so we didn't see a lot!  Oh and the Minster was closed to us plebs cos there was some kind of City Council service going on.

Spent a week in Yorkshire last year and we were going to York to see the Transport Museum but got sidetracked by the Air Museum at Elvington so we never got there.

that is my mate col on the latest trike he,s built the same one as sold you the v max wheel i hope you thanked him and why didnt you call in ours only down road

How spooky is that!
Small world huh! We'll be heading back your way to collect our forks from FLC in a week or two, so I promise we'll call in on you all then!

kettles always on and ya got my address

Is the cake tin always open too?

the kettle is always on at ours and we have jaffa cakes

Now there's an offer that's hard to refuse!  ;D

only because you will eat my share as I don't like em.  :P

im sure we can find something that you would like ?always lots in the cupboards

 ;D