Moving further south - we left for our next stopover........this time at Tessa and Fletch's in a little village near Grantham! so the journey felt nice and quick compared to recent distances!!
photos still on my old laptop which i have yet to retrieve.......to follow !!!!!
It was great to see Tessa and her new house........ brand spanking new kitchen which was fab and made me miss my own back in Harps!!! Kids all played great together which also makes for a lovely relaxing time.......so the wine came out soon after we arrived and we had a great catch-up and scrummy dinner/evening.........and a tour of the new Abbott estate to boot!! We even had our own little annexe for the McCabe clan to sleep in :-)
A bit of fresh air in the morning with a tour of the village and then it was time to hit the roads again and carry on our journey south..............back to Harpenden this time for the last 3 days of our trip!
We were arriving back about lunchtime just as we were passing The Crooked Chimney pub near Brocket Hall................oh let's stop here for some good old british pub grub we thought.........the last time we will be visiting this establishment even when we move back! my god.............we thought we'd have a quick lunch and be off.............how wrong we were! I mean how long does it take to dish up a few roasts which will already have been pre-cooked no doubt??!!!! i could have done it quicker myself even if i had to go to the shop first and cook it by campfire!!!!!! over 2 hours we had to wait.........thankfully after ruby had hers she slept completely undisturbed through the whole thing (ie me whinging every 5 minutes about how poor the service was and how we should have carried on to Harpenden!!!!!!)....anyway after a complaint and another round of drinks the food eventually arrived and we gobbled it up (starving by this point......in fact if I'd have known I would ahve been eating so late i would have ordered something more substantial having initially not being that hungry after munching on goodies sent off with us by Tessa!!!) C'est la vie..............the kids were under strict instructions that we would NOT be waiting for dessert and we would find some goodies in the car!!
We finally arrived back in Harpenden with not much of the afternoon left........but I managed to leave the older 2 with Shaun and Ruby and I made a pit-stop to see Abi and meet baby Nate before heading in to town to meet the rest of the McCabe clan in Nero for "an old times sake" coffee stop!
Terry and Pete had kindly offered their house to us for a few days whilst they were away for new year so we made a stop at Sainsburys for some dinner and enjoyed slobbing out in front of the TV! The next day we met Sarah in St Albans for lunch at my favourite venue Carluccios (yes I'm managing to visit all the old haunts whilst I'm here!!!) and the rest of the days were spent chilling out and having a bit of family time!!! Very enjoyable end to our stay. Happy New Year everyone! see you next time!
photos still on my old laptop which i have yet to retrieve.......to follow !!!!!
It was great to see Tessa and her new house........ brand spanking new kitchen which was fab and made me miss my own back in Harps!!! Kids all played great together which also makes for a lovely relaxing time.......so the wine came out soon after we arrived and we had a great catch-up and scrummy dinner/evening.........and a tour of the new Abbott estate to boot!! We even had our own little annexe for the McCabe clan to sleep in :-)
A bit of fresh air in the morning with a tour of the village and then it was time to hit the roads again and carry on our journey south..............back to Harpenden this time for the last 3 days of our trip!
We were arriving back about lunchtime just as we were passing The Crooked Chimney pub near Brocket Hall................oh let's stop here for some good old british pub grub we thought.........the last time we will be visiting this establishment even when we move back! my god.............we thought we'd have a quick lunch and be off.............how wrong we were! I mean how long does it take to dish up a few roasts which will already have been pre-cooked no doubt??!!!! i could have done it quicker myself even if i had to go to the shop first and cook it by campfire!!!!!! over 2 hours we had to wait.........thankfully after ruby had hers she slept completely undisturbed through the whole thing (ie me whinging every 5 minutes about how poor the service was and how we should have carried on to Harpenden!!!!!!)....anyway after a complaint and another round of drinks the food eventually arrived and we gobbled it up (starving by this point......in fact if I'd have known I would ahve been eating so late i would have ordered something more substantial having initially not being that hungry after munching on goodies sent off with us by Tessa!!!) C'est la vie..............the kids were under strict instructions that we would NOT be waiting for dessert and we would find some goodies in the car!!
We finally arrived back in Harpenden with not much of the afternoon left........but I managed to leave the older 2 with Shaun and Ruby and I made a pit-stop to see Abi and meet baby Nate before heading in to town to meet the rest of the McCabe clan in Nero for "an old times sake" coffee stop!
Terry and Pete had kindly offered their house to us for a few days whilst they were away for new year so we made a stop at Sainsburys for some dinner and enjoyed slobbing out in front of the TV! The next day we met Sarah in St Albans for lunch at my favourite venue Carluccios (yes I'm managing to visit all the old haunts whilst I'm here!!!) and the rest of the days were spent chilling out and having a bit of family time!!! Very enjoyable end to our stay. Happy New Year everyone! see you next time!
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