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‘Let’s head north shall we’ said both of us in unison. Not really. Just sounded good as the opening line of a book/play/Hollywood travel blockbuster if there is such a thing. A travel blockbuster doesn’t really sound right. Cast of thousands, mahoosive budget etc. Suites in posh hotels and fine dining for all the leading act torrs. Winnebagoes onsite at the lot. Maybe not. Cut!

Mind you it could have been a novel/play/movie about an expedition of exploration and discovery to the Artic. Or Aberdeen. You can imagine the sitch where they were trying to decide where to go. Get the atlas out and look in the index. The immediately obvious up front choices would have been the Artic and Aberdeen simply down to their position in the alphabetical listing.

Zanzibar would have stood no chance and would in anycase have been no good as, unless the starting point is somewhere like Australia, which I can confidently say it isn’t, Zanzibar is not “up north” which is what the novel/play/film is about.

At this stage we have no idea how far up north had been in the mind of the writer. Note the term writer applies across all three genres of travelogue/West End production/moving picture and made word selection a lot easier.

We may find out as I will still be a passenger in the Silver Bullet for the next 55 miles. THG is at the wheel. If we don’t find out by the time we swap over the driving in the event that the answer reveals itself to me later I will post it as a comment.

In fact, let’s not mess about here. The original concept was a trip to the North Pole itself and still remains the case. We are going to have our photo taken stood on either side of the pole. In the book/play/Hollywood travel blockbuster.

Thassenough.

I can tell you that everything is in hand for trefbash. Having a fitting for some new threads on Thursday morning. Exciting. The cloth is being printed locally in Lincoln. Yellavetowaittoseeit. I’ve not even seen the cloth yet. Just the design concept.

A number of partygoers have already shared pics of their outfits. Some really great on topic tropical dresses out there. Worth putting some effort into this folks. Exactly one month to go. Still time to get your gear sorted.