The post rally shower – one of life's truly simple pleasures.

We have been off on one of our motorbike rallies again this weekend. This one was entitled “The Kamikaze Cave Run” and was organised by Mobile Chaos MCC.  The rally took place at a beautiful scenic site on the edge of a lovely village near Morcambe Bay.

Now we had a great weekend, the weather stayed fine, the company was good and the scenery wonderful.

We went for a ride out on Saturday to the Lakeland Motor Museum, where I drooled over some of the most gorgeous vintage vehicles.

I could just see myself off for a weekend jaunt in this beauty!

But…

No matter how good the rally, the facilities are always very basic, and after a weekend spent camping in a field with only chemical toilets and wet wipes to use for ablutions one of the first things that I always do when I get home is head straight for the shower.

That shower after a weekend rally is the best, it just feels sooo good. Other showers never come close to that lovely feeling as the hot water flows over you and the soap begins to wash away the grimy feeling that has accumulated over the weekend.

Truly a simple pleasure.

Back in Time with the War on the Line

This weekend The Weardale  Railway held their annual 1940's event "War on the Line"

Most of the event takes place on a show field behind the railway station in Stanhope, though they also have some re-enactments taking place at the stations in Stanhope and my home village Frosterley.

Hence why our little village rang with the sound of rifle and machine gun fire as I walked to the shop this morning!

Yesterday though we went along to the main event at Stanhope Railway Station. It really did feel like we had stepped back into a bygone era, with 1940's music playing over the tannoy system and many visitors in 1940's costumes.

(Excuse the following photo's they are a bit fuzzy as our camera has decided to play up and I had to use the camera on Dave's phone)

There were lots of displays put on by various ww2 re-enactment societies:

The home front - complete with Union Jack bunting.

One of the military camps.

Another military camp.

The best bit for me though was the fashion parade by the ladies in 1940's outfits.

It's a shame the photo hasn't come out better - some of these outfits were stunning, especially one which  unfortunately I didn't get a picture of, where the wearer had made a pair of stunning red wide leg trousers herself using an original 1940's pattern and had also knitted a lovely white top with blue stripes also from an original 1940's pattern.

There were one or two stalls as well ...

...like this one selling original 1940's hats.

There was also a stall selling vintage clothes and household items, I bought this ...

A Bakelite sugar canister - all I need to do now is find tea and coffee canisters that complement it better than the cream coloured tin ones I have at the moment :-D