Leicester lockdown

[Mick]

(2 February 2021, 12:10)bigpaul Wrote: what made you come south Mick? and to a city?
the same city I left the same time you left Leicester!

My sister and her two daughters moved to Plymouth many years ago but I hung around in Leicester with my elderly mam, then when she died in 1999 my sister said "come down to Plymouth now there's nothing to keep you in Leicester", so I packed a rucksack in May '02 and hopped on me bike to cycle the 240 miles to Plymouth over the next few days.
But i took ill about halfway (underactive thyroid made me feel like a sluggish cold-blooded reptile) so i donated my bike to a charity shop in Cheltenham and hopped on a National Express coach the rest of the way.
BTW, I've discovered it's always warmer in Plymouth than in the rest of Britain because the city is lapped by the warm waters of the gulf stream coming up from the caribbean, it soon helped cure my thyroid because i could bask on warm rocks along the seafront..

PS- here's a couple of webcam pics I took 5 minutes apart last month, Plymouth Hoe (half a mile from my home) is warm and sunny but Dartmoor 17 miles away in the other pic is snowed in, as were some other areas of Britain-