I went with Creative Residentials to North Yorkshire, in the Land Rover; I sat up front with John for the drive there. We drove up into the country to stay in a large country school house. I do volunteer work for the Creative Residentials supported holidays so we did some training first – I’m their ambassador as I go on most holidays and I like to meet new people. It was a quiet and a relaxing weekend and we went out every day to different places; we also did some music sessions for a few nights.

The rest of the week was really good in the house which slept eleven people. On the Saturday night we all went in the village pub around the corner from the house, and had tea. The rest of the week we cooked our own meals. We went to see the steam trains, drove to Staithes on the coast and saw Captain Cook’s house, bought kippers in Whitby, walked as best we could in the country, and visited Goathland where Heartbeat was filmed. It wasn’t a good week – it was a suburb week!" Peter Wadforth