Spring Begins in Earnest
Weather be damned, my weekends are suddenly full of activity, so I know it's spring. This weekend, friday night was Q69's birthday so M & I headed over to meet them for the journey into town, where we had a few drinks, hung out and chatted with people, Q has a strange array of friends, which is great.
J&M
We weren't out very late, but while we were there M talked them into coming to ours on sat for the football. So Saturday I was up bright and early and cleaning like a demon, got soooo much done, frdges swapped and cleaneing done, and food shopping, ripped up the horrid carpet from the conservatory, prepared a tonne of food for our guests and generally made the place nice, M helped of course, mowed the lawn and did a few bits in the house, including hoovering. It's all starting to look nearly habitable now.
So Q & J came over, we hung out, watched footy, talked and passed the time till they went off to yet more partying. Sunday we weren't sure if we were going to do anything. We headed to borders for coffee and browsing, then came home and decided that we fancied Ironbridge, so I threw an overnight bag in the boot and off we went. We found a gorgeous room in a and stayed the night. The pub we were in was having it's quiz night, so we had a really wonderful supper and joined in the quiz, definately worth a pound for the entertainment value. M was appalled that it was my first ever pub quiz. I suspect i may do more. We were the first people ever to stay in the room and it wasn't quiet, being just above the bar, but we weren't exaclty going to bed early, and it was a very pretty calm room. We loved it so much we are going back in three weeks.
I can't do the Ironbridge itself justice, it was the first of it's kind of an amazing feat of engineering for it's time, even now it's pretty impressive, and the Gorge it is in is lovely, you feel so far from civilisation even though you are only 10miles from Wolverhampton. Just bliss. Lots of museams to explore next time too.
J&M
We weren't out very late, but while we were there M talked them into coming to ours on sat for the football. So Saturday I was up bright and early and cleaning like a demon, got soooo much done, frdges swapped and cleaneing done, and food shopping, ripped up the horrid carpet from the conservatory, prepared a tonne of food for our guests and generally made the place nice, M helped of course, mowed the lawn and did a few bits in the house, including hoovering. It's all starting to look nearly habitable now.
So Q & J came over, we hung out, watched footy, talked and passed the time till they went off to yet more partying. Sunday we weren't sure if we were going to do anything. We headed to borders for coffee and browsing, then came home and decided that we fancied Ironbridge, so I threw an overnight bag in the boot and off we went. We found a gorgeous room in a and stayed the night. The pub we were in was having it's quiz night, so we had a really wonderful supper and joined in the quiz, definately worth a pound for the entertainment value. M was appalled that it was my first ever pub quiz. I suspect i may do more. We were the first people ever to stay in the room and it wasn't quiet, being just above the bar, but we weren't exaclty going to bed early, and it was a very pretty calm room. We loved it so much we are going back in three weeks.
I can't do the Ironbridge itself justice, it was the first of it's kind of an amazing feat of engineering for it's time, even now it's pretty impressive, and the Gorge it is in is lovely, you feel so far from civilisation even though you are only 10miles from Wolverhampton. Just bliss. Lots of museams to explore next time too.
posted by Hageltoast at 1:24 pm
7 Comments:
What's a pub quiz? asks the canuk who has no pubs in Montreal.
lol, a lot of pubs (bars) in england have a quiznight, you enter ateam andswer some dumb questionand the winning team gets a lame prize, but itsloads of fun!!!
That's great! I love that you just decided to go. Not enough of that in the world, I tell you. In my world, anyway...
Photos next time???
Wait a second... those photos weren't there before... were they???
Carly, no they weren't, I had to get home to load the pictures, but posted the original post from work. It's ok, you aren't losing your mind. ;)
Kamper, Mark things he looks as tho he is in pain. lol
toast - your rum cake recipe, as requested, can now be found chez moi.
Phew! I was beginning to think I was going crazy!
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