We were picked up at 07:30 today so that we could leave the car in Richmond and return to Kirby Stephen to begin Part 2 of the Coast to Coast. Not only have we now been to Kirby Stephen twice before, but let’s be honest, there’s nothing there. So, what does one do for 10 hours waiting to be let into your B&B? We don’t know. We struggled ourselves! But this was our attempt…

Walk the high street up and down twice.

Find the sheep auction yards

Drink tea at a cafe and then work out ways you can stay longer by alternating your ordering of round two (Mum’s cup then mine 10mins later) so it doesn’t look like you’re hogging the table when they get busy)

Pick up boots that were being repaired by the old cobbler and spend 10mins talking to his dog, Shep.

Visit the outdoor shop and get some ideas from Mark the shop assistant

Go and visit the local church as suggested by Mark the shop assistant

Get to know a bit about the word Kirby (Scandinavian…..places where they built a church!) from signs in the church. Admire 8th century bits of stone also in the church

Sit in a pew and sing old school hymns that you remember (where’s Yoli when you need her to do some harmonising??!)

Get a hymn book and sing some more hymns as Mum continues doing her crossword. I’d forgotten how much fun school hymns could be!

Text Mr Marchant to get crossword answers.

Run out of hymns to sing and start on show tunes and goddess chants, ending with a bit of Pie Jesu and Phantom of the Opera.

Vist the OTHER food co-op.

Sit on a street bench and contemplate Nine Standards

Have a massage that turns into a feldenkrais session. Actually very interesting!

Have dinner at 16:00pm.

I know..…we were yawning by this stage too!

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