Picnic.

BobClay said:

he went to our GP on the Wolverhampton Road. Our dour but good Scottish doctor checked him over and said: "If you don't pack up smoking, don't bother coming back to me."
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The big building by the entrance to Rowley Park? Dr Cowan? ( I think that was the name I’m thinking of)

Mudgie said:

At least that's not anti social like those living a few houses away who have barbecues that make me think I'm living near the pet crematorium ten miles away.

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We planned to sit out on our patio with a glass of wine and pizza after our walk last night. That plan was ruined with the people over the back having a barbeque . Don't know what they were burning , but I've never seen so much smoke for about an hour or so and it was heading straight for our garden as well as others. (They in the mean time were sat on their front garden , avoiding it ).

When we go for days out to zoos next week , I shall be packing my usual picnic. ....Corned beef or Tuna sandwiches , a can of pop for hubby and bottle of milk for me.

EasMid said:

Me too. Strangely I’ve never bought fags since I’ve been legally able.
I’m the only one of my siblings that has never smoked (apart from the trials as a kid) if I had smoked then seeing my Dad die a slow,painful death of lung & throat cancer in his late 50”s would have been enough yet my brother & sister still smoke. I don’t know how people afford to spend £60 or £70 a week on fags.

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Maybe people afford to spend £60 or £70 a week on fags by not drinking about twenty pints a week in pubs.

EasMid said:

The big building by the entrance to Rowley Park? Dr Cowan? ( I think that was the name I’m thinking of)

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No, much further down toward the town, almost at the island. I think the surgery is a dentist now and the GP practice moved around the corner. The Doctor I'm thinking of would come out to our house when my Old Man caught a heavy cold which caused him breathing difficulties and gave him a jab. One time he told me to drive him down to the SGI (I was home on leave) where they kept him in for a night with Oxygen.
Can't remember the doctor's name, but it was a very Scottish one. He got to know me pretty well giving me Cholera jabs prior to joining a ship, which was inevitably in some foreign place. Cholera was a requirement back then. This is all 40 years or more ago.

Bob said:

I saw the sea.

My nose is sunburnt and my car is full of sand.



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A bostin' day from the sound of it.

Resurrecting this as I had a proper adult moment today and invited a friend and her partner over for a picnic!

We had, new potatoes with wild garlic pesto (from the garden) a fresh baguette from the bakery, caprese with local tomatoes, hummus with carrot and cucumber sticks, kettle crisps and olives!

I made a small posy of flowers from the flowers (weeds...) In my garden and it went down a treat.

I feel so fanccyyyy!!

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:

Resurrecting this!

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And why not?