CISU Hang Around Keswick and The Briars, Cumbria - 16th September 1996

Suffolk County Council chums Stuart and Sarah get 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 even decide to have a quick race around the car. Nosher is super-skint, so whilst everyone else has rented rooms in an outbound center outside Keswick (The Briars), Nosher dosses in his car for a few nights (although manages to lig a spot on the floor for the first night). 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 several 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, Cumbria - 21st September 1996
previous album: A Conkers Night and CISU in the Eagle, Brome and Ipswich, Suffolk - 14th September 1996