Before leaving Dundee's Holiday Inn Express this morning I spent the last half hour while Marion was getting ready, imagining all the different ways that I could turn this seagull into a dead seagull.Shooting would have been too good for it and I favoured boiling it slowly in oil.Mind you I suppose it would have been unfair to single this one out from his twenty-nine pals who once again managed to squawk all bloody night. When the receptionist asked if we had enjoyed the stay I politely pointed out the seagull problem and it was clear that he was more than familiar with it. With the busiest road in Scotland at the front and the dreaded seabirds at the back, this has to be a hotel for insomniacs only.So tonight we are looking forward to a long sleep in our own bed.
It's our thirty-third wedding anniversary tomorrow and we are having some old friends around for a celebratory dinner. We bought all the food at the motorway services on the way back and no it isn't all Burger King and KFC. We went to the Farm Shop at Tebay and the variety of meat, vegetables and cheeses available there is quite amazing. I just looked at the bill though and, at £8.49, the luxury crackers to go with the cheese better be extremely good. Was that a mistake? It's a bit far to go back 80 miles to query it.If you are travelling up (or down) the M6 and passing Tebay, do check it out, it's a lot better than your average service station and your bound to get a good hot drink as I spotted one of our 1500 boilers in the cafe.
Instead of getting that free range and organic produce from Tebay services we could have gone to another service station and then logged onto the website fancy fast food.com. This site is specialising in recipes for converting your regular fast food into a fine dining experience.The above chicken chowder was converted from a KFC meal and looks a lot more appetising.Not sure if it will catch on though.
Holidaying in Britain this year has meant a lot more rain than usual but it hasn't really bothered us much in our first week. Let's hope that we get a bit more sunshine next week though as we want to get some gardening done.
We're going to have to get one of these monitors tomorrow. When we got back from Scotland there was an electricity bill that says that we have used £1878.97 worth of electricity in six months. The meter reading is right but I just can't see how two of us can possibly have got through that. That's £320 per month. It's not as if we can have an electricity leak. Has someone wired up the neighbours to our supply? It's always been quite steep but this seems outrageously so.
One of the benefits of holidaying in Britain is daytime TV. Where else could you see such high drama as this?
It's our thirty-third wedding anniversary tomorrow and we are having some old friends around for a celebratory dinner. We bought all the food at the motorway services on the way back and no it isn't all Burger King and KFC. We went to the Farm Shop at Tebay and the variety of meat, vegetables and cheeses available there is quite amazing. I just looked at the bill though and, at £8.49, the luxury crackers to go with the cheese better be extremely good. Was that a mistake? It's a bit far to go back 80 miles to query it.If you are travelling up (or down) the M6 and passing Tebay, do check it out, it's a lot better than your average service station and your bound to get a good hot drink as I spotted one of our 1500 boilers in the cafe.
Instead of getting that free range and organic produce from Tebay services we could have gone to another service station and then logged onto the website fancy fast food.com. This site is specialising in recipes for converting your regular fast food into a fine dining experience.The above chicken chowder was converted from a KFC meal and looks a lot more appetising.Not sure if it will catch on though.
Holidaying in Britain this year has meant a lot more rain than usual but it hasn't really bothered us much in our first week. Let's hope that we get a bit more sunshine next week though as we want to get some gardening done.
We're going to have to get one of these monitors tomorrow. When we got back from Scotland there was an electricity bill that says that we have used £1878.97 worth of electricity in six months. The meter reading is right but I just can't see how two of us can possibly have got through that. That's £320 per month. It's not as if we can have an electricity leak. Has someone wired up the neighbours to our supply? It's always been quite steep but this seems outrageously so.
One of the benefits of holidaying in Britain is daytime TV. Where else could you see such high drama as this?
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