All nearly normal

Sorry never came back as promised as a friend in the village had a massive stroke line dancing of all things. She has been very bad and I have been visiting and trying to help. She is improving speach is coming back but still no movement on right side. It will be a long haul for Jenny but she will get there. Another reasons was the birth of our lovely grandaughter Bethany Alice and the Olympics. Bethany is coming on fine and Richard and Charlotte are very proud parents. We were in Cheltenham when she was born so that was nice and we shall be going down for her christening. Skype helps too. Very quiet and peaceful our end of Pannal Main Street as Station Road is closed fixing a water main. Has been so since the schools closed and will not reopen until schools re-open. It is a nuisance having to go all the way through Burn Bridge to get to the golf club which is at the top of the road but it is worth it for the peace and quiet. School traffic is terrible and motorists use Pannal as a short cut to get to the A6. The Harwood pub is due to reopen and I hope they get their act together and charge a bit less for their beer. People who used the pub and have a bus pass were using their pass to catch the bus to the Harewood at Harewood as it is a Sam Smith pub and the beer is good and cheap. Also the staff at the Harwood, Pannal were young and could not care less whether they served you or not. When the pub came to Pannal it was in the Station Masters office at the Station and was called Platform One. When it was sold the new owners asked me to write out the history of the pub for them and I did so and also told them the name they had chosen would be confused with the pub of many years standing The Harewood at Harewood near Harewood House and they had never heard of it ( honestly they had not heard of the Earl of Harewood) and said the pub was being named after the maiden name of the owners mother. So there it is hope you are not too confused.  Bank Holiday weekend and the Pannal Gala will be there on Bank Holiday Monday and I hope the weather forecasters are wrong. Also noticed yesterday there is a large circus tent on the field by the Bradford turnoff at Buttersyke bar. Never seen that before. That field was agriculture then a few years ago car boot sales were held there in the summer. Now this. Should be fun though providing the field is not too wet as our lovely summer goes on in the same vein it started - wet. Also Local Plan is for 40-60 houses at Pannal Bank, the field in the Crimple Valley near the antique centre. We only have one garden centre now, Brookside, as the other one has turned into an antique showroom. Goodness me how Pannal has changed from a little village to this! 

Pannal, me and the Olympics

No blog due to obsessive  watching of the Olympics and the fact that we were away in Bristol and Cheltenham for the birth of our grandaughter Bethany Alice. So normal transmission will resume next week.