A very busy Pannal

A very busy Pannal to some and a very quiet Pannal to others. The quietness was the relaying of pipes at the top of Station Road not a lot of cars coming into Pannal but by using Leadhall Lane and Church Lane Main Street was busy. I was trying to cross the road to speak to a friend on the other side and I could not and had to wait until fifteen cars passed. Later on it will allart up again when there will be more road works and pot hole filling. Oh joy!

Remember I lost all my photographs by accidently deleting them well Bass and Bligh managed to retrieve them and they are now on a USB stick. Well done to them. Amazing what can be done. I was pleased as all the neighbours who knew Mary Barr were invited to the Old Swan by David her husband for a lovely lunch in her memory and I had taken photographs and they were saved. That will teach me to watch what I am doing and not just delete with gay abandon but it is brilliant to know that they can be retrieved by clever people. 

I had a cataract op last week and contrary to what everyone said about how marvellous it is with clear vision the first day. I am contrary to that as I am still struggling with red eye and blurred vision. I have been back to the hospital and the op was successsful so I am told and in time I should be ok. It is very disappointing not to be. 

As well as being Pannal's historian I am also historian at Pannal Golf Club and Pannal and Burn Bridge Parish Council. With reference to Pannal Golf Club who have always been saddened by the fact that it was thought that the the great golf club architect Dr Alister Mackenzie had never been involved with the design and laying out of holes at Pannal GC. This is where I come in as I found out by reading the past minutes when I wrote my book Minute by Minute a Centenary History o Pannal Golf Club oh yes he was involved. I contacted The Alister Mackenzie Society and Pannal has been accepted as one of the great Alister Mackenzie courses. A great honour indeed. We have now formed a group of members to take this further Captain David Everington, Jon Clayton. Bruce Allison and myself to further the Mackenzie Legend and hopefully have a Mackenzie Room with all his maps and papers that have been found. 

A great honour was to be asked to light the Beacon in rememberance of D Day eighty years ago. I lit the beacon with Arthur a pupil from Pannal Primary School. We held hands and nearly had to be lifted up to light it. On tip toes and with help we manage it. I good evening with a number of people there. This was followed on the Sunday by D Day Celebrations on Pannal Green. Both occasions organised by Pannal and Burn Bridge Parish Council. 

I have not asked Tigs what she thinks of the summer weather so far as it might be too rude to print.