Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

[Carole]

I am. I'm not anxious about the trip, just the daylight!

Did you enjoy your holiday and the midnight sun experience?

 

[Lucy]

It was fantastic thanks, such an amazing country. The midnight sun was great too, although it felt like I had jet lag as we were coming off the mountain at 1am. I'll put some pictures in the holiday thread.

 

[staffordjas]

Drove 160 miles up the motorway in a sauna ( not got the luxury of air-con)

Not a good idea to whack mascara on for hotel brekkie before starting off. Looked like something out of a horror movie by the time I filled up at the service station back home after wiping the sweat dripping into my eyes all the way.


Got home to find the conservatory thermometer at the top of the gauge at 50C. So probably even hotter than that.

Beware if driving down the M5. Been quite a few mobile speed cameras on bridges over the motorway the last two hols . With fast free flowing traffic each journey this hol they must have made a killing!

Google lady alerted me to loads, but was a bit slow on the one , so hoping didn't get me from afar (as I'd just accelerated to slot into fast lane with a stupid lorry pulling out on me as I was passing it ,and the one bloody time I wasn't watching my speedo didn't go over 70 as concentrating on keeping us all safe and getting into that gap)

 

[Trumpet]

Just had a smashing weekend, had a stopover last night with former neighbours who have recently moved back to Alveley. Their new local, the Three Horseshoes is a cracking village pub, Wye Valley HPA was bangin'.
On the home we met up for lunch at The Pheasant at Neenton with friends from Ludlow we haven't seen for ages. Will definitely be going back there.

 

[Trumpet]

@staffordjas there's a pub called the Cider House just outside Alveley.

 

[staffordjas]

@staffordjas there's a pub called the Cider House just outside Alveley.

Don't know if thats the one Ive been to before. Went to one years ago when hubby used to live in Wednesbury , it was around that area somewhere...


I was enjoying drinking ' Hunts' cider last week in Torquay. That was similar to Aspalls, Stowford Press .

Back down that way in a couple of weeks, so know what to go for.

 

[Cue]

Shenanigans afoot! A whole bunch of unmarked cars, a paddy wagon and a HGV just at the entrance to the island roundabout coming from Lichfield Road

 

[Glam]

Shenanigans afoot! A whole bunch of unmarked cars, a paddy wagon and a GFV just at the entrance to the island roundabout coming from Lichfield Road

What's a GFV when it's at home?

 

[Cue]

What's a GFV when it's at home?

A Goods Ferrying Vehicle

Or a typo

 

[joshua]

Shenanigans afoot! A whole bunch of unmarked cars, a paddy wagon and a HGV just at the entrance to the island roundabout coming from Lichfield Road

ARV ?

 

[Mudgie]

A Goods Ferrying Vehicle

Or a typo

So probably rather similar to the Heavy Goods Vehicles we've always known ?

 

[Carole]

We had a very pleasant afternoon in the sunshine at David Austin Roses.
A lovely wander round the gardens then tea and scones sitting outside the tea room. Very pleasantly surprised that it was all beautifully presented on bone china plates, cups and saucers. (Bone china always appreciated by a girl from Stoke).

 

[Mudgie]

We had a very pleasant afternoon in the sunshine at David Austin Roses.
A lovely wander round the gardens then tea and scones sitting outside the tea room. Very pleasantly surprised that it was all beautifully presented on bone china plates, cups and saucers. (Bone china always appreciated by a girl from Stoke).

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My wife and daughter were there yesterday afternoon.

 

[Glam]

We had a very pleasant afternoon in the sunshine at David Austin Roses.
A lovely wander round the gardens then tea and scones sitting outside the tea room. Very pleasantly surprised that it was all beautifully presented on bone china plates, cups and saucers. (Bone china always appreciated by a girl from Stoke).

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Did you look on the underside of the saucer to see where it was made?

 

[Mudgie]

Did you look on the underside of the saucer to see where it was made?

Probably no need to !

 

[Carole]

Did you look on the underside of the saucer to see where it was made?

Absolutely, first thing I did before I poured the tea!

 

[Glam]

Did you look on the underside of the saucer to see where it was made?

Absolutely, first thing I did before I poured the tea!

Has to be done!

 

[littleme]

*Nefopam 1 little me -10

Codine phosphate 0 - little me 10+

I think I finally have my knee pain sorted.


*Nefopam made me... Sick, dizzy, sweaty & generally terrible ...avoid at all costs as the effects lasted 4 days after I took the last tablet..

Still using uddermint & glucosamine tablets..,

 

[Mudgie]

Has to be done!

Bur remember, BEFORE you pour the tea !

 

[Carole]

We were over in Leicestershire and decided to pop over to Cosby Village as there is a nice tea room there.
Unbeknown to us it was the time of the Cosby Yarn Bomb, an annual event, where all of the village is decked out in knitted and crochet designs. We had a pleasant wander round, some of the designs were quite amazing, including my favourite, a full size knitted carousel with four horses.