We Don't Know How Lucky We Are Mate!

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WE DONT KNOW HOW LUCKY WE ARE MATE ! Paul Critchley Alli in a kid's day The Labour Club's (booze club) annual kids outing, the Southport trip is coming up. Ghost Dreams of adventure, as one sits on a truck train, big dipper, dodge'ms, toffee apples, fun inner tube floating on the Liverpool to Leeds house, candy floss and mum going shopping. canal. Who am Itoday?, Drake, Nelson, Cook Not much more needed and our trip schedule or Yellow Beard. A 10 year old kid looks up at will be filled. the side of this great big gorge of red brick and glass windows 5 to 10 storey's high. Tall red We had a great weekend on a scout camp. We trees 2 to 3 times thel height of the gorge - no set off one Saturday morning with this large branches, just puffing smoke. After passing hand cart, six of us, each had our own packs, 2 through the gorge, we hit the gates, rapids 12x 12 canvas tents, canvas tarpulin, plus gear. which are all locked up. Most of the water is The cart was piled sky high. We got there just flat, no current, can't even see 21 feet below the in time to set up camp in the dark and surface, a few game fish are spotted floating discovered one pack trying to be a brake pad. belly up to bluff us. But this was unsuccessful, as it wore down very quickly - ever see a two piece sleeping Tommorrow another day, another bag? Needless to say we set off home after adventure and who knows. We ride our trusty breakfast. What an entertaining weekend. steeds, on two sizes of wheels, cow horns for handle bars. We cross the main divide, a range An epic trip that year was cycling to all the called the Slag Heaps, up and down, all day disused factories and mills, 31 in all, (10 still long, well you have to keep going with no being used) and running to the top of each one. brakes. During the week we make plans for Another epic trip was going to visit where they our next adventure. Yeh! Lets go to Rivington made slag heaps, 27 of them, non left now. Pike, old roman ruins and an old bar/hall with oak beams so large it looks like a very big galleon turned upside down, and great pork pies.