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the shizzle => news => Topic started by: lagerstarfish on April 02, 2012, 07:49:46 pm

Title: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: lagerstarfish on April 02, 2012, 07:49:46 pm: Toni Falconi has finally opened his new cafe at the car park by The Cow and Calf - included in the building is a toilet for public use.

Toni has run a business on the site for years from a temporary shack. He prudently bought the existing pump house building some time ago and has managed to sort out the various permissions to put the building to proper use.

No inside seating, but reasonable coffee and food. He didn't have bacon sandwiches on the menu, but assured me that this was only because he wrote the sign in a hurry. His sausage roll and pasty prices include VAT.

Parking is still free and limited.

I went to the opening do on Sunday - He laid on a very good spread of food and drink (plenty of Peroni, red and white whine). I would have posted up, but have a 20th Century phone with no internet ability. Not often you get smoked salmon, 6 types of dead pig and caviar laid on in Yorkshire.

As I say - toilets are for everyone; council fund the maintenance - no need for Spanish style crag logging
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: andy_e on April 02, 2012, 08:54:59 pm: If you've got diarrhoea and still want to climb then Yorkshire's the place to be- first Brimham, now Ilkley...
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: lagerstarfish on April 03, 2012, 09:06:07 am: Quote from: lagerstarfish on April 02, 2012, 07:49:46 pm
no need for Spanish style crag logging

I do not mean to imply anything about Spanish people; I refer only to the fact that the crags that I have been to that have the most amount of poo and associated wiping materials around them have been in Spain
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: mrjonathanr on April 03, 2012, 09:50:56 am: Quote from: lagerstarfish on April 02, 2012, 07:49:46 pm

I went to the opening do on Sunday - He laid on a very good spread of food and drink (plenty of Peroni, red and white whine).

That's the trouble with this sort of event, always someone moaning about something. What's wrong with good old fashioned ale?
Title: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: tomtom on April 03, 2012, 08:11:12 pm: Sorry wasn't able to post this up from your text Lagers.. I'm on holiday (limited internetii) :/

Sounds good though.. At last One good reason to visit Ilkley again ;)
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: BB on April 04, 2012, 06:19:58 am: I love it.

Yorkshire is the number 1 climbing destination for diarhoea sufferers.
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: andy_e on April 04, 2012, 09:47:47 am: Don't you mean the number 2 destination?
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: SA Chris on April 04, 2012, 11:57:01 am: No shit.
Title: Re: toilets at Ilkley, Cow and Calf parking
Post by: BB on April 04, 2012, 12:55:17 pm: Quote from: andi_e on April 04, 2012, 09:47:47 am
Don't you mean the number 2 destination?

No, definitely number 1, just from the arse.