Fyotos...

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So i did find my camera... and i took these photos...

Skinners!
Ghin at SKinners having some lasagne...

All for me, none for ye
Ghin is getting this He is so cute thing from lots of people now... its amazing to think he was such a muppet when he was born. As in not very nice looking, as in actually quite awful. But he's alright luking now. So thank god.

York!!!
I could live in York. There was something so strangely familiar about it. I can't tell what. It was as if i had been there before, as if i had walked there.. the river, the buildings, the history. I instantly felt at home. The last time i had such a immediate reaction to a place was Kinnegoe Bay. It was as if i was meant to have been there...

Duttons
I got knitting things from Duttons. They have this amazing room at the top called the medieval room. It's hard to believe that building has been there now since the 1300s...

Saggy buildings, my favourite...

How can you not love it?

The Shambles aka Daigon Alley

It was like being on the set for Harry Potter

Banoffee hot chocolate, oh yes!


80s stained glass decor


There was just something about these back stairs....

That could have been anytime in the last 500 years...

Then i caught a William Etty exhibition

This was the opposite bank from the city centre...

A local cemetary

Bridge over the Ouse

Look at those houses, they are only half a house!

Uploading has mixed up the photos, the cemetary again

I think it was the colour that caught my eye here.


Ice cream by the river... how could we go wrong
That is the scandalous Etty pic...

Here is what the critics said. I thought they were pretty harsh. She was probably the Rhianna of her time. Except for the fatness.

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