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Posts archive for: 14 August, 2008
  • Good for you Boris

    You know I am getting to like Boris Johnson more and more.

    I loved his dfescription of passengers waiting for two and a half hours their baggage to be delivered at Gatwick Airport as "shuffling round the ox-pens, like inmates of some Victorian penitentiary" and the apology letter being "one of the most snivelling and insincere letters I have ever read."

    Of course Boris's experience mirrored that of mine at Stansted Airport just before Christmas where, except that he got lots of newspaper inches.

    And I love him for it.

  • Home at last (last week!)

    OK time to tie up the West country adventure.

    Having enjoyed a hearty breakfast at the Brewers Fayre in Weymouth we repacked the car and set off. Somehow despite having managed to drink some of the beer and coffee we had brought with us we seemed to have even more stuff than we had yesterday, including the Powder Monkey's bucket of shells.

    After a rainy drive through Dorset and Sommerset we arrived at Glastonbury where the impending downpour held off long enough for us to pay a visit to the Chalice Well Gardens where I had a paddle in the healing pool in the hope that it would do something to alleviate my by then extremely painfull ankle, Maybe it was just the cold numbing it, but it did help for a while.

    Suitably refreshed from my "dip" it was off to the 100 Monkeys for lunch where I enjoyed a really nice sweet potato and mushroom curry, Mab and Nick had the lentil soup and the Powder Monkley the Houmous salad, washed down with organic cider, beer and the most enormous but delicious strawberry milk shake for the Monkey. All in it came to £35 which was quite good. If you are looking for a nice restauarant in Glastonbury that specialises in organic food I'd strongly recommend the 100 Monkeys.

    So that was it and we were on our way back to the adult world of work again and it all seems so long ago now looking back from almost two weeks opn. I hope you have enjoyed the journey with us.

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