CISU At Low Briery, Keswick, Cumbria - 18th September 1996

Suffolk County Council chums Stuart and Sarah are getting married at Naworth Castle near Keswick in Cumbria, so Nosher and the gang head up from Ipswich in the trusty Mark 1 Astra to join in. On the way, whilst stuck in a queue of traffic on the M6 around Birmingham, Tim and Trevor decide to jump out of the car onto the motorway and have a quick race around the car. Nosher is super-skint, so whilst everyone else has rented rooms in Bobbin Mill at Low Briery, an outbound center and campsite outside Keswick, Nosher mostly dosses in his car, after ligging a spot on the floor for the first night. There's also an attempt at camping for a night with a borrowed tent at a site up the road, but it's so windy that the car ends up being the best place to sleep, again. However, the most important mission when we get there is to visit an off-licence in Keswick and stock up on Foster's Extra. This then sustains us through several evenings and even a few breakfasts. There are also a few impromptu drum workshops, walks up the nearby disused railway line and a hiring of bicycles to tour around the nearby hills of Cumbria. Nosher also had a mobile phone - a large analogue model on the Cellnet network - which at the time was still something of a novelty. There was no phone in the building, so people actually queued up to use it to call home, even though you had to stand in the garden to get a signal.

next album: Stuart and Sarah's CISU Wedding, Naworth Castle, Brampton, Cumbria - 21st September 1996
previous album: A Conkers Night and CISU in the Eagle, Brome and Ipswich, Suffolk - 14th September 1996

Nosher flakes out near Bobbin Mill

One of many games of volleyball

Volleyball at Low Briery

Autumn leaves

Dougie, Gail, Trev and Tim by a river

A waterfall

Gail, Tim and Trev pause for breath

Phil and Dougie arrive at the top of the hill

The gang at Castlerigg Stone Circle

Castlerigg Stone Circle

The centre of Keswick

Keswick

More Keswick street life

Tim and Trev eat chips in Keswick

A Keswick back alley

Hanging out on the playing field

Gail reaches over for her cider

Hanging around on a playing field

Gail's next in bat

Trev and his £100 Guess shades

Trev and Lisa

Trev does that circus stick thing

A big rock somewhere

Possibly Derwentwater

Another lake view

At the water's edge

Tim gets one from a wooden bear

Evening volleyball

The game finishes

A lakeland scene

A Lake District scene

Dry stone wall and a dramatic landscape

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