Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

[Carole]

Did everyone have a lovely day?

We woke up with hangovers.

Last night was village church service followed by piling into a neighbours house for food and booze, thankfully not our turn this year), a lovely evening but a late boozy night.

11.00am we open the fizz and open the prezzies with a plate of smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis.

At some point in the afternoon, (we always aim for 2.00.pm but it never is), we have Turkey with all the trimmings.
We never have a starter because the turkey is the main event and we are always too full for pudding.

Tomorrow will be making turkey pies, turkey soup, turkey curry, freezing turkey, nothing will get wasted.

 

[staffordjas]

Having a lovely Christmas here in Torquay with son.
Keep thinking tonight is boxing day night though. Had so many meals , mid- meal snacks and drinks events put on for us since arriving on Saturday I've lost track of what day it is.
.Especially today with 4 course Christmas meals both lunch time & evening.

Son and I had a lovely walk out in the rain this morning , watching the dogs in their new Christmas coats having great fun on the beach .

Sitting in hotel bar lounge at moment alternating Blue WKD & Cold River Cider after knocking back free bucks fizz throughout the day since before breakfast when gave us our pressies from hotel.

Cheers everyone

 

[Noah]

Quiet Christmas for us, just the two of us as there are a lot of family commitments at the moment. First real Christmas this year will be tomorrow and the big family Christmas just in the New Year.

 

[Mudgie]

Having a lovely Christmas here in Torquay with son.
Keep thinking tonight is boxing day night though. Had so many meals , mid- meal snacks and drinks events put on for us since arriving on Saturday I've lost track of what day it is.
.Especially today with 4 course Christmas meals both lunch time & evening.

Son and I had a lovely walk out in the rain this morning , watching the dogs in their new Christmas coats having great fun on the beach .

Sitting in hotel bar lounge at moment alternating Blue WKD & Cold River Cider after knocking back free bucks fizz throughout the day since before breakfast when gave us our pressies from hotel.

Cheers everyone

Which hotel ?
The Corbyn Head's the only one I've stayed in.

 

[Withnail]

There is literally only ONE good thing about Xmas.

And it's people. The people who surround you. The people you love.

My first one this year without my Father, who left us in October. He was a good man.

 

[PeterD]

Today we head to Southport, a few nights there in the motorhome before heading to St Anne's until NYE.

 

[Thehooperman]

There is literally only ONE good thing about Xmas.

And it's people. The people who surround you. The people you love.

My first one this year without my Father, who left us in October. He was a good man.

What a great song and so apt to your post @Withnail.

It evokes loads of fond memories for me too particularly the time we spent staying at my Grandad's in Wavertree whilst waiting for our new house in Haughton to be built in the early 70s.

 

[staffordjas]

Which hotel ?
The Corbyn Head's the only one I've stayed in.

The Corbyn Head has been knocked down ( noticed it had gone last year) and a building site there at the moment. Think it's being redeveloped into a big hotel or apartments by looks of it. Pity as we liked that hotel ,and the nice balcony rooms, especially as it was dog friendly.

We're in The Toorak, part of TLH Resort ,not far from Corbyn Head. 4 seperate hotels , interlinked under ground with Spa , gym, 25 metre pool ( all good intentions of 50 lengths a day not materialised.... managed 22 lengths one day but too stuffed to float since )as well as family pool.Indoor bowls, games room entertainment etc in the middle and can wander around using any hotel bars & entertainment.
Even got son up on the dance floor learning Line Dancing with me on Christmas eve afternoon for a laugh

Good job son is here as well , although his room is furthest away across other end of hotel as it could have possibly been so getting my steps in between the two rooms!
Hubby has spent all holiday in bed sleeping , feeling ill, except for going down for meals. Not even enjoying a drink in the bar with us.
He's back in bed again now after breakfast!

Son and I are having a good time though. Dragging son out for a walk with me now , it's actually stopped raining for the first time since we got here and the sun is out

 

[Mudgie]

The Corbyn Head has been knocked down ( noticed it had gone last year) and a building site there at the moment. Think it's being redeveloped into a big hotel or apartments by looks of it. Pity as we liked that hotel ,and the nice balcony rooms, especially as it was dog friendly.

We're in The Toorak, part of TLH Resort ,not far from Corbyn Head. 4 seperate hotels , interlinked under ground with Spa , gym, 25 metre pool ( all good intentions of 50 lengths a day not materialised.... managed 22 lengths one day but too stuffed to float since )as well as family pool.Indoor bowls, games room entertainment etc in the middle and can wander around using any hotel bars & entertainment.
Even got son up on the dance floor learning Line Dancing with me on Christmas eve afternoon for a laugh

Good job son is here as well , although his room is furthest away across other end of hotel as it could have possibly been so getting my steps in between the two rooms!
Hubby has spent all holiday in bed sleeping , feeling ill, except for going down for meals. Not even enjoying a drink in the bar with us.
He's back in bed again now after breakfast!

Son and I are having a good time though. Dragging son out for a walk with me now , it's actually stopped raining for the first time since we got here and the sun is out

Thanks for the update. It was 2004, so nearly twenty years ago, that I was given a room there for a national conference, no balcony or even sea view though.
I'm due a weekend in Torquay during April 2025 but haven't thought about accommodation yet. I stayed in Newton Abbot, the Union Inn, last time.

 

[Thehooperman]

Thanks for the update. It was 2004, so nearly twenty years ago, that I was given a room there for a national conference, no balcony or even sea view though.
I'm due a weekend in Torquay during April 2025 but haven't thought about accommodation yet. I stayed in Newton Abbot, the Union Inn, last time.

If it's only for a few nights then I'd recommend Hotel Peppers on Babbacombe Road.

It's a no fuss B&B/small hotel with comfortable rooms, good breakfast, near the town centre and reasonably priced when we stayed the week before the first lockdown.

 

[staffordjas]

@Mudgie building site where yellow boarding is , is where The Corbyn Head Hotel used to be .

 

[staffordjas]

Not being brave enough for the boxing day swim in the sea , which we saw loads taking part in ( even their dogs following them in were turning back as if to say this is bloody daft).......swam half a mile in our indoor pool instead , before relaxing steam room and sauna.
Son made me look extra slow going speeding up and down the pool doing about 2 miles in the same time, but hey ho I managed not to sink being weighed down by the last few days mounds of food & drink. Was determined to do those 32 lengths!
Even got hubby down to the pool for a quick dip.

 

[Mudgie]

If it's only for a few nights then I'd recommend Hotel Peppers on Babbacombe Road.

It's a no fuss B&B/small hotel with comfortable rooms, good breakfast, near the town centre and reasonably priced when we stayed the week before the first lockdown.

Thank you.
I shall bear that in mind.

 

[Mudgie]

@Mudgie building site where yellow boarding is , is where The Corbyn Head Hotel used to be .

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Thank you .
The sea wall looks familiar, but that's all.

 

[staffordjas]

Only told the manager ,on my way out of dining room, how fantastic the meals were....grabbed me to take me to meet the head chef personally and tell him myself..
He was most appreciative though as I was first one in his 38 years there to actually thank him. Food has been exceptional and made the holiday!

Son was wondering what I'd done as I was being marched off with " I'm just taking her to meet someone"

 

[Gramaisc]

Tonight, I ventured into town on foot, thinking it might be quiet.

I was wrong - the place was seething, and the Guards were making themselves very obvious.

I went, as ever, to the nearest acceptable pub.

This happens to be the nearest also to the, now populated, refugee village, so some Ukrainian presence was noted. It must be said that some of them were more understandable than some of the more feral locals...

 

[Gramaisc]

'My' cat has been very much a 'floor cat' until today.

After a night of very blustery rain, which is now restarting, after a brief respite, she has decided upon a rise in status, and altitude and temperature.

 

[tek-monkey]

Diesel at Asda is being charged at £1.45, says £1.50 on the sign. Small wins!

 

[staffordjas]

Had to demonstrate my clever ( breath-holding) manouevering skills infront of a coach load of people this morning in the pouring rain . Trying to reverse out of my hotel parking spot with a coach which had pulled up parked lengthways right behind me ready to start loading . But only cms to spare on my passenger side as some prat in a long estate car had parked last night with his passenger side almost touching mine, and the hotel wall about a foot away on my drivers side. Impossible to swing it back without hitting the car to get around the coach so coach backs up slightly , then I had to gingerly sliver down the narrow gap down the side of him trying to avoid all the other parked cars. Then he inched his way back up to let me inch my way down and around the back of him. PHEW! Made it out in one piece! (All the time hoping the 'helpful' old gentleman telling me "You're ok , you're going to miss it! " had been to Spec Savers! )

Followed by a journey back in absolutely atrocious weather, being battered by wind and torrential rain all the way and lots of it like driving in a stream.

Got us back in one piece though!

 

[Mudgie]

Had to demonstrate my clever ( breath-holding) manouevering skills infront of a coach load of people this morning in the pouring rain . Trying to reverse out of my hotel parking spot with a coach which had pulled up parked lengthways right behind me ready to start loading . But only cms to spare on my passenger side as some prat in a long estate car had parked last night with his passenger side almost touching mine, and the hotel wall about a foot away on my drivers side. Impossible to swing it back without hitting the car to get around the coach so coach backs up slightly , then I had to gingerly sliver down the narrow gap down the side of him trying to avoid all the other parked cars. Then he inched his way back up to let me inch my way down and around the back of him. PHEW! Made it out in one piece! (All the time hoping the 'helpful' old gentleman telling me "You're ok , you're going to miss it! " had been to Spec Savers! )

Followed by a journey back in absolutely atrocious weather, being battered by wind and torrential rain all the way and lots of it like driving in a stream.

Got us back in one piece though!

It wasn't quite clever breath-holding manoeuvring skills that I witnessed on the bus back from Rugeley this afternoon.
The driver tried to do a three point turn because of a tree blown across the road but the bus was longer ( 39 feet ) than the road road is wide ( approx. 24 feet ) resulting in the rear 'bumper' hanging off and half the passengers having to wait for a replacement bus. The other half, a young couple, walked off towards the Barley Mow.