Cloughton Day 2 - Sunday 26/10/25 - Slow Sunday

For Sunday worship, went to St. Mary the Virgin, Cloughton.  Outside is a history panel, although we did not spend a great deal of time looking at it, as worshippers were arriving.  Inside, the welcome was friendly enough, but their focus was on their main congregation.  The service of Morning Worship was led by a reader, who did a good job of leading the service and preached a well constructed sermon.  Refreshments were served in the Hall, just a short walk down the road.  They made sure we found it.   I had a long chat with the reader and the vicar, about IT, he'd worked for ICL, back in the day.  In my first job, I used an ICL 1901A.

We also learned that there are two Wayside Cottages.  One on the other side of Cloughton, nearer Scarborough, and they regularly have to swap post. 

After that, we tried to find somewhere for lunch.  We started at the pub across the road, but it was fully booked.  Then I started ringing others.  Five or six calls later, we have a table at a Marston pub - The Tunny Catch, 24 Burniston Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO12 6PH.  We keep hearing how the Pub and restaurant industry is in difficulty, pubs closing all over the place, but if I can't find a table for Sunday Lunch, it means they are all full, so should be doing well.

 

Anyway, the pub wasn't great.  We had the Sunday roast, which was not available to order on their website.  I ordered turkey. I only had 3 small pieces of Turkey - equivalent to about half a chicken breast.  Still, it was cheap, but not really what we were after.  Service was a little slow, given that they limit you to 90 minutes, waiting 30 for the food might be an issue, but for the fact that we had had enough.

Back to the cottage, for some sleep, after the wind howling down the valley kept us awake for hours.  Both of us were dozing. Meanwhile, the cottage is cold.  We don't know when the heating will come on, it is controlled from the main house.  To get it changed, we must text the host - we didn't bother.

No other activity today, just some reading, some TV, and off to bed.