We will start our day with a visit to Holker Hall, Cark in Cartmel, which is a beautiful, comfortable family home, owned by the Cavendish Family. You can touch, sit and generally explore, even play the piano if you are so inclined. When you have finished admiring the House, there is the Food Hall which prides itself on selling local produce, the Cafe & Courtyard, Gift Shop etc. Then into 25 acres of splendid, landscaped gardens, a Deer Herd, sunken garden etc. and one of the top 50 British trees. A 17thC Great Holker Lime with a girth of 7′ 6″. This is a good month for their Rhododendron display. Plenty of time to explore and admire. THEN we are off to the family owned Bay View Garden Centre set on the shores of Morecambe Bay. Just the right time to be looking at buying your plants for the season. Plenty to see including their Cafe which overlooks the splendid views across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District.

WHEN? Wed.15th May 2024.  Dep.9am  Ret.6pm. Price:  £25 Inc.Holker Hall/Gardens. Seats will be on sale at our table on Tuesday 12th March 2024.

Hello can you please collect/return CHOICE OF MEAL SLIPS for your lunch on this trip. IF IT would help, ring me 526 4665 and complete your choice on the phone. Thank you to all who have already done so. Many thanks

PLEASE NOTE there will be no Day Trips Table on Tuesday 20th February 2024. Back on the 27th February as usual

IF YOU ARE on  the Heskin Hall Trip on the 18th April 2024, and you haven’t already done so, please pick up/return your choice of meal slip on the 27th February. Many thanks. Regards Marj

Welcome to our first new Day Trip of 2024.  We will start our day with a visit to BBC Radio Lancashire Blackburn.  Set in the Town Centre in close proximity to one of the Country’s newest Cathedrals, Shopping and plenty of Coffee Shops to spoil you for choice.  We will have an opportunity to go behind the scenes and see how a busy local radio performs and gathers their news, information etc. There is also a short talk by one of their well known presenters. Then we will be off to the comfortable Astley Bank Hotel, set in its’ own lovely grounds. We will have a soup/buffet lunch followed by tea/coffee.

WHEN?? Wednesday 20th March. Depart 8.45am  Ret.5ish. Price: £30 inc. buffet lunch. Seats will be on sale at our table on Tues.30th January 2024. Seats are restricted to 35 limited by size of venue

Please make a note of the following dates for your diary: Wed.20th March   Wed.17th April    Wed. 22nd May.  Full details will follow soon. If you have any specific places you would like to visit or special places you would like to eat.  Please come and discuss it with us.

Just a reminder that our Coach, for our Christmas Lunch, departs at 9.30am on Wed.13.12.23 from The Square. Enjoy everyone!

LAST CHANCE to let me know if you are Vegetarian or  if you are Diabetic and need to change the dessert from Christmas Pudding to fresh fruit or ice cream. I have to have final orders in to the Hotel on Monday next.  Ring me 526 4665. Many thanks. REQUESTS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED.

Can you please let me know if you are Vegetarian. Also the Dessert for the above event is Christmas Pudding served with sauce. If you are Diabetic, I have requested they serve either fresh fruit salad or ice cream.  Can you please let me know which would be your preference. Either see me at coffee morning or ring me 526 4665. Many thanks. Cheers. Marj

Well all 46 of us are back. What a week. We had everything. Nice comfortable hotel, good food, lovely staff, excellent company and the weather! What can we say about the weather? You could take your pick from sunshine, blue skies, warm and then we went downhill slightly. Fantastic sky formations of black and even blacker, squally showers and amazing seascapes of crashing rolling waves. We did a whole lot better than some parts of the country though. Did it deter us? No! Our excursions were good. Cardiff is a beautiful City with the Castle right in the City Centre, we partied at night and a good time was had by all.  We even braved Friday’s M6!