I took the day off from Crown Court shenanigans yesterday in order to blast through some work and ended up making pretty good progress on The Woolworths Related Documentary (working title) by shutting myself in my office and getting on with it. The Sunday Alternative will have to wait until Sunday morning as we went out for the day today to Matlock Bath.

We’ve only ever been to Matlock Bath out of season before, so going during a summer Bank Holiday weekend was a bit of a culture shock to us both. Everything being open and crowds of people aren’t things we associate with the place and I’m not sure if I really enjoyed it as much as usual. Whitby is the same for me; I can only go there in the middle of winter as I love the place when it is cold and dark with the smell of coal fires in the air. Matlock today had too many people, and they were the worst kind of people too, the slow people. Years ago there used to be a Facebook group called ‘I want to punch slow moving people in the back of the head’, and I know exactly what the group’s founder meant.

At one point we discussed taking Jack with us, but as soon as we got there we realised we had done the right thing in leaving him behind (looked after, we don’t just leave him there to fend for himself). Not only was the town being visited by bikers but also there were a lot of very well behaved dogs being taken out. Jack would have been a nightmare barking at dogs and motorbikes and this would make Mandi and me look like bad dog owners. We are not bad dog owners but it takes too long to explain that Jack is a rescue dog and as such we have no idea what sort of life he has been subjected to in the past. He barks as a defence mechanism, although in the case of pigeons I assume he just doesn’t like them, and who can blame him?

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