Weekend in Worcester

Not so much a weekend as a flying visit, we were travelling down on the Saturday, everything was going to plan and then this happened. Didn't even realise at first we just thought the road had got really bumpy, until we saw the smoke... Burning rubber does not smell good. Luckily it was the passenger side so it wasn't as hairy as it could have been to change on the hard shoulder. 

Motorway driving on a spare is not fun, seeing as you are not meant to exceed 50 miles per hour and we still had an hour to go. I have a little more sympathy for caravan towers now, not a lot just a little. We did manage to find somewhere to get a new one at our destination which I was extremely thankful for, I did not want to travel back on a spare, probably would have doubled our travel time.

This was our beautiful hotel, it's looks ever so pretty from the outside, it's not all that on the inside unfortunately, nice, modern and clean but nothing special. We did meet a crazy old lady in the car park who couldn't work reverse on her car, and expected us to push it, uphill!! She managed to remember how to drive it in the end thankfully, I really think some old people shouldn't be trusted with cars... am I wrong?

This beauty was behind our hotel, overlooking the car park! Bit strange but not an unwelcome site.

The reason we travelled all this way was for a 40th Birthday dinner, it was in held in their local pub, literally opposite the Birthday boy's house. I really enjoyed the food, poached duck egg, belly pork and pigeon finishing up with Toffee Holly Hog. As you can probably tell I tucked into my main before taking a picture, it was good though nom nom. The pub also had some tasty ale on from their micro brewery "This", "That" and "T'other".

The weekend seemed to fly by but it was fun, it's nice to get away and take in the scenery of a different town. Still nice to get home though if only to see Molly Moo.

What did you get up to this weekend?

Birthday Drinks

So last night I went out for some more birthday celebrations, first my mister and me went for dinner at the Black Market. I think the food we had was Persian, that's what it said on the menu anyway and it was delicious. I had Zereshk Polo, chicken with berries and pistachio, and Adam had Ghormeh Sabzi, green beef stuff, I can't remember what was in it but it was good, I will definitely be having that next time. Would highly recommend going there for food if you are ever in the area, they do some great burgers, seafood and pizzas too.

We then met up with a couple of friends for some drinks in the old town. I started the night with some Black Cherry Bulmers, but it was far too sweet to have more than 2, so ended the night with my trusty Jack Daniels and coke. Did a bit of dancing and made it home about 3:00am. Felt a little fuzzy this morning but nothing a gallon of water wouldn't fix. Maybe I'm not over the hill quite yet :o)

Do you have a go to tipple of choice?

Mad Hatters Tea

Well it happened, I turned 30 yesterday. The world didn't end, I didn't wake up with a full head of grey hair or deep set wrinkles all over my face, so I'm ok. Also my bestie reminded me that I am the youngest in our group of friends, which is nice.

So for my birthday my boyfriend an I went to the Sanderson hotel in London for the Mad Hatters Afternoon Tea. It was amazing! Sandwiches, loose leaf tea and cake lots of cake. It was so rich we didn't feel like we needed anything else for the rest of the day.

We just mooched around London for the rest of the day, we had the best of intentions to go to a museum or gallery, but it was so hot and getting from A to B seemed to take so much effort. But in all I had a great day. Now I'm off for dinner and drinks with friends to continue the birthday fun.

How do like to spend your birthday's?

Pre 30th blues

Well Wednesday was a rough one. It was the day before my 30th birthday, and for some reason this particular birthday has put a little black cloud over me for the past few weeks and playing havoc with my emotions. I know, I know it's only a number but I just couldn't shake it.

What made things worse is my friend cancelled our plans for the evening, and my other half had gone to watch the cricket for the evening, so I spent it all on my lonesome.

So to make up for it I pigged out on 2x pecan slices for lunch and a box of milk tray for dinner (courtesy of my ma and pa). Then I finished my book The Glass Painters Daughter and fiddled with my wedding plan file, can't say I really achieved a lot but hey I was feeling sorry for myself.

How did you feel when you turned 30, or is it yet to arrive?