I can probably get the 'cottage' for the weekend if I book it now. And have provisional outline agreement with CA that she could go on Friday to open up, taking a sufficiency of bedding and Essential Supplies, to meet us there on Saturday am. And take the cubs, if it is a cubs weekend which I don't yet know, so that I can ride
It's about £200 for the weekend, so eminently affordable if a few people want to stay 'til the Sunday and also if associated others who would like to join in the frivolities without riding (Mrs T? TLD? Arch? Alfred? Barakta?) want to stay Friday/Saturday.
3 double bedrooms, 1 twin bedroom, 2 attic rooms with mattresses on the floor, one gigantic settee, and a couple of camp beds in cupboards. With a bit of organisation about who goes where it could easily accommodate over a dozen people in comfort. The addition of the odd thermarest/sleeping bag would mean plenty of room for extras.
Show of hands from those interested?
I'd vaguely thought it might be pleasant to ride over on Friday night, breakfast at Arbut's, doze and socialise in the house Saturday, Fish and Chips for tea on Saturday, then Sunday morning assuming there's one running catch the steam train back to Pickering and ride back from there....