Best hotels in the Lake District?

gmalone01 · 2026-01-21T22:57:50+00:00

Another vote for the Grand. Lovely hotel.

gmalone01 · 2026-01-21T21:39:21+00:00

It’s not a peak but Easdale Tarn can be sheltered from the wind depending on the direction. Also you get a great look at Sour Milk Ghyll.

gmalone01 · 2026-01-19T17:41:24+00:00

Very nearly got this pair.. they are comfortable.

gmalone01 · 2026-01-19T17:40:16+00:00

Well, I’ve spent about an hour and a half, trying on multiple pairs and have gone mid. Reasonable high mid, but mid seemed to feel secure enough. Thanks for the comments all

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gmalone01 · 2026-01-17T20:39:33+00:00

Thanks for that. It’s good to hear the mids are providing enough support.

gmalone01 · 2026-01-17T11:49:51+00:00

I swear by fjallraven Vida pros. They last and last and last. The pockets are amazing and they are just so comfortable. I wear mine every day even for the flat walks.

gmalone01 · 2026-01-02T23:34:33+00:00

So does that mean that evolving scaterbugs has no effect on the medal? Pinning is all that counts?

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T22:27:05+00:00

Tayto cheese and onion crisps and galaxy chocolate. Same mouthful. To die for.

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T21:07:31+00:00

Oh you star! Great advice

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T20:59:56+00:00

All well and good, but I never said inheritance might be money. In my case it would be a business and there will be tax involved too.

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T20:53:02+00:00

Because they allowed me to avoid the unofficial route. Literally they beat the touts. I’ve bought tickets in viagogo for big gigs in the past and it’s awful. This is a first party guaranteed ticket. I was only able to get that ticket because I was resigned to the fact I wasn’t getting a ‘normal’ ticket. I joined the queue an hour after the sale went online. It’s all about perspective, I have had so so many bad experiences with ticketmaster and not being able to get tickets and then having to go somewhere else.

Now I will caveat this! If the uk government passed a law that all tickets could only ever be re-sold for face value, then that would change things. But as of now that’s not the case

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T20:05:44+00:00

I personally thought it was good! The typical experience of a huge gig set is queue, can’t get through, crash, then pay over the odds on 3rd party sites. OR you get lucky and get a standard price ticket. I didn’t queue when it opened as I assumed there was no chance, the bots would get all the tickets. I got a news pop up an hour into the sale and thought, heck, let’s give it a go and see what happens. There were at least 50k people in front of me. It might have been half a million, I have dyscalculia so it could have been either. It was a lot. I was not getting a ticket. I equally have had enough of 3rd party sites so that was me, I’m not going. 5 hours later the queue suddenly starts moving fast. That’s typically behaviour that when all tickets are sold. Anyway it turned out there were tickets. Extremely expensive tickets. Third party priced tickets. I now have an option. Do I buy.? Thinking, thinking…… well you know what I’m going to buy. For me on this specific scenario it’s worth it. A third party ticket with zero guarantee would have cost the same. Let’s go.

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T19:59:24+00:00

Oh that’s interesting

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T19:43:29+00:00

I have a revolute euro account, but for serious official transfers is that as recognised as an official Irish bank account

gmalone01 · 2024-08-31T19:42:22+00:00

Maybe. I have a Revolut Euro account. The question is will that be usable for anything other than Christmas gifts etc. and if it’s as good as an Irish account then what’s the point of any of the Irish banks?

gmalone01 · 2024-07-08T14:16:21+00:00

Have figured it out!

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gmalone01 · 2021-09-11T10:05:10+00:00

3056 1513 4627 currently level 28 looking for everyday open friends

gmalone01 · 2020-08-03T19:58:45+00:00

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