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"We've got everything we need," she said. "We're happy.""Links of London Sale only work for the money so that one day I will be able to buy a place back in County Durham, " she insisted. "If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, I think the Queen would be quite pleased." Nor did the sun put its hat on for the bandstand's official reopening, on September 12, after a [pounds]216,000 refurbishment. "Most of the houses round here just have yards, " said Yvonne Richardson, who leads the Friends of North Lodge Park. "For many of us this is our back garden. We've spent a fruitless, frightless night with the Spirit Seekers at Middlesbrough Town Hall, finished second in the world's oldest annual domino drive, in Thirsk - "Once there was a waiting list, it was a dead man's shoes job, the Thirsk domino dinner, " someone said - joined a 104th birthday party in Wensleydale for the bright-twinkling Dorothy Walker and helped, closer to home, to celebrate the centenary of Timothy Hackworth primary school, in Shildon, reminiscing with Links of London Charms Dockray, the head.The column looks back on an eventful year which included a meeting with the 'Queen', countless train journeys and a trip back to the old school on its centenary SAVE for Garsdale railway station, 200 yards the foreign side of the North Yorkshire/Cumbria border, but still one of the most glorious places on earth, the John North column in 2010 has just once ventured beyond its North-East comfort zone. That was the very first, a New Year trip to London to chat with royal double Elizabeth Richard - born Mary Holder in Meadowfield, near Durham and still pretty anxious to get back home. "I only work for the money so that one day I will be able to buy a place back in County Durham, " she insisted. "If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, I think the Queen would be quite pleased." Alove of the North-East probably characterisesmany who've appeared hereabouts - not least Dr Tom Wright, the departed Bishop of Durham, Links of London Back to School Chubby Blue Pencil Charm pub lunch party piece proved to be Scott Dobson's Geordie version of the Exodus story. The one, memory suggests, where they went tappy lappy through the clarts. Michael Sadgrove, the Dean of Durham, has much taken to the region, too - not least when asked to bless the inaugural steam train on the Weardale Railway from Bishop Auckland to Stanhope and to jump aboard the footplate. Clerics love railways. "I'm the envy of every clergyman in the Church of England, " said the dean. The column has frequently run on railway lines, too, once or twice had a flavour of best bitter, more often fraternised with church and chapel. Though a non-religious occasion, one of the more memorable afternoons was at the lovely little Methodist chapel at Wind Mill, west of Bishop Auckland, where villagers met for a reunion and Joyce Davies recalled long-gone Sunday School anniversaries. "We thought we were facing the whole world, not just half of Wind Mill, " she said. That was April 24 and it just about managed to stay fine. Much of the time it didn't. Many columns Links of London Back to School Chubby Red Pencil Charm to mention rain, snow, ice or gales - and just three occasions all year when it was possible to compose it in the Outer Office, an infrequentedpicnic table in North Lodge Park. Nor did the sun put its hat on for the bandstand's official reopening, on September 12, after a [pounds]216,000 refurbishment. "Most of the houses round here just have yards, " said Yvonne Richardson, who leads the Friends of North Lodge Park.