<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cleethorpes-pierjan18.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4726 size-thumbnail" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cleethorpes-pierjan18-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>Another year and another birthday... It was such a perfect October day that I lowered the roof on the MX5 and drove across the Lincolnshire Wolds, kicking up leaves as I went, to Cleethorpes. I walked the foreshore for half and hour into the reed beds and then back again. I considered having a coffee break or even lunch out and then I realised I'd not had lunch at home this week so I fired up the MX5 and headed home.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/candlesoct18.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5325" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/candlesoct18-200x150.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>Friday evening the "family" went to a "Keith James sings Cat Stevens" evening at Market Rasen Festival Hall. He was an excellent guitarist however his voice didn't do justice to the songs and it was a little disappointing.

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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/birthday-firepitoct18.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5324" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/birthday-firepitoct18-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>On the Saturday evening Sue and Graham came up from Northampton and the "family" reprised the infamous Rothersthorpe campfire evenings. I was using the fire pit for the first time and it was lit in plenty of time to make sure there wouldn't be a problem. It isn't as large as the campfire that was in the drive at the previous Pig Yard but we managed to cook sausages, burgers, bacon and beans in sufficient quantities along with baked potatoes from the oven to keep everyone happy. The evening was moved along with copious amounts of beer, wine and music.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Camp-Fireoct11.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5327" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Camp-Fireoct11.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="150" /></a>The previous campfire was in <a href="http://www.pigyard.com/ArchivePages/october11.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 2011</a> and a great deal has happened since then. My life has been turned upside down and inside out however I keep moving forward.

It was a much larger fire in 2011 and we reminisced about the items that we burnt back then from step-ladders to garden furniture.