It was at an event in Harrogate that I admired a reader's nails and discovered they were the result of a Jessica Geleration salon manicure (from around £30).
Stefan Simms, a member from Ealing, in London, told the conference in Harrogate that he knew of teachers who live "in a house with eight other teachers and they share two to a room, and if it's a big room it's three to a room.
The 2014 Tour de France Grand Depart starts in Leeds on 5 July with a stage that runs to Harrogate.
Twenty-seven years later she said of me, on stage at the Harrogate crime writing festival, that she knew "at once" that I "was absolutely trustworthy, honourable and honest".
Not the least of the reasons I agreed to attend the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing festival 2009 in Harrogate was that the name charmed me.
Leyland senior also acted as Moorside's groundsman, and in later years continued that role at Harrogate, Headingley Cricket Ground and Edgbaston.
You could hear them clapping, though, and the Harrogate audience followed suit "Though we weren't sure whether to," said Jake's father, David, "seeing that we're 220 miles away".
During the spring he had admitted that 2014 was "all about Harrogate".
Mr Hunt from Harrogate highlights the fact that unless leaseholders are given greater rights to query charges levied on them by their freeholders and managing agents then we are likely to see more problems in the future.
