Kindness in Pannal

Ok my brilliant idea we need some more gravel for the back garden lets go and get it. They will help us into the car with it. 6 large bags. Bas panicking, me driving slowly on a route home with no bumps. Would our car be ok. Yes it was. Now the hard part how do we unload it. We cannot carry it even between us. I know lets get the trolley thing and unload it one at a time onto it. Boot up, trolley positioned, A voice said "let me help you with that" A young man picked bags up one at a time (Oh please you did not think all 6 at once did you?) and carried them through to where we wanted them. He was on his way to pick up his child from school and decided to help. That was really kind. Did give him a beer. Really chuffed by that. We hear about all the bad people in the media. So let's cheer for the good ones. Also Karl our lovely plumber who came and fixed our toilet which had flooded. Saturday was lovely so laid gravel and gardened and gardened Sunday and today. Apart from Saturday do want the weather to get warmer. Poor old us and poor plants one minute quite warm then freezing nights with that rubbishy cold wind. Talking of the wind two large fence posts have come undone from our fence. Rang to see if anyone could come and fix them but they are inundated with calls and do their visits on the basis of when people ring in they see how many people need help in one area and go there. I rang a week ago then rang again yesterday and asked if anyone, apart from me, had telephoned from Pannal. Answer no. So guess we will have a long wait. Awaiting the planning application from the Ward Bros. re Dunlop Latex foam site. Have heard that the businesses up there are having trouble finding somewhere else to go as Harrogate has a shortage of places for them to go. One wonders why the whole of this site could not be used as a business park along the lines of Hornbeam Park if there is such a shortage. Poor old Pannal a village long before Harrogate was thought of and has suffered more housing than any other village. Feel quite sad when I think of what it used to be. Up to the middle 1960s everyone knew everyone.

Pannal after Easter

Thank you Richard for giving me the link to what I said in the Harrogate Advertiser. All very true and the village is divided. A planning application will be submitted roundabout May so we shall all have a chance to see what will happen to the old Dunlop Latex site. Been down to see half of our family. James who lives in Bristol and Richard in Cheltenham. Poor Richard, Charlotte and baby Bethany were involved in an accident on the motorway. The catch broke on the car bonnet and it flew up and smashed the windscreen. With great presence of mind (one never knows how one will react until it happens) Richard who was overtaking at the time managed to slow down. The cars behind obviously saw what had happened and there was no collision. The police moved them to safety. Not a nice thing to happen on Easter Sunday. Came home and was asked to look after our grandson, Alex, the day we arrived home as his mother (daughter Susan) had to go into hospital to have a molar removed. Also on arrival found the toilet flooded, thingy at the back of the toilet had come off. All will be back to normal this weekend, we hope. Hope your Easter break was not as traumatic as ours.