WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY (PICS)

[Giles]

Paula and I are taking a few days off to see some of Yorkshire and Northumberland. We are staying here for a few days. The food capital bit is an accident, whilst we both like good food, I would not describe us as foodies, so I am hoping for good simple fare....Edit, actually I just thought about that, I'll enjoy average food if the ambience and service is good but hate "good" food, if the service is bad/snotty/indifferent. Or dare I say it, if I am expected to leave a 20% tip to help pay the waiting staff what the owners should actually be paying them....

Must be twinned with Gosport....

Definitely twinned with Gosport.....

[Denman John]

@Giles Love the bench. The world needs more of these! Enjoy your time there.

[goosehd]

Day 1:

[ROman]

@Giles Area looks great. Did you have any of the Yorkshire pudding?

[wjw]

Hiking around for work in a beautiful area.

[Giles]

@ROman Not yet

[IH-GARY]

@Giles Not far from Whitby and the local East coast bays - some nice Fish & Chip options over that way!

Just remember, if you go for a walk on the moors - stick to the paths!!

[Giles]

Thank you @IH-GARY - off to Whitby and surrounds today .....

[Giles]

Went to McMillans of Malton for a drink last night. It is actually a booze shop that has the shop bit locked up at night, you walk through that and up the stairs and boom, there is a little bar....

Forgot to take a pic of the actual serving bar, but the last couple of phots are in it......

[ConBu]

What a German driver has to do before the weekend

[goosehd]

Start of day 2:

Another piece of heavy equipment (Articulated loader) and the heavy trucks to start bringing 2-3 ton stones in short order.

To answer why we’re doing this: In 2017 and 2019, Lake Ontario reached record high water levels with a lot of damage to shoreline properties. These pictures are from our neighbors yards:

June 2019

May 2017

[Matt]

Took you long enough.

[goosehd]

@Matt I could kiss you...

[Tobi]

@goosehd do you not have issues with frozen ground doing the excavation etc. now? I recall a little snow on your last pictures...

[goosehd]

@Tobi just a bit...

Thankfully it's all sand and they were able to get through the permafrost(technically I should use frost layer as we don't have a permafrost level in our area) fairly easily. A clay and this couldn't happen.

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14 degrees today

[Giles]

The Scarborough branch of Armani.....(yeah, not Giorgio)....

Robin Hood's Bay. Some serious anti-erosion measures. Take note @goosehd , yours are elementary level........

Whitby Abbey. Henry VIII did for it during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Then poor thing, the German Navy took pot-shots at it in WW I.

[goosehd]

@Giles That’s quite nice and am running to our local conservation authority to get a new permit…

[Giles]

I should have worked out how high it is, but I'm guessing 25 feet. Should be a breeze with the planning guys....And you could use this 1973 pic as proof of minimal impact to the environment.....

[Giles]

And definitely looks like quite a lot of the village would not be there, but for the wall...