The Light Side

Julia and I spent a long weekend with our friends Debbie and Panos in Manchester this weekend and despite the 9 hours driving on Friday we had a brilliant time.

Photos of our weekend can be see by clicking on the slide show below

Julia and I are enjoying a lovely weekend away. We're staying at a hotel in the South Downs (east of Southampton, north of Portsmouth).



We got here last night and had a lovely dinner at Greens Restaurant and Bar in Wickham Square. The food was really good, but a little pricey.




This morning I've been for a wander round the hotel grounds and local village, whilst Julia has had some beauty treatments. The hotel grounds boasted a "trim trail" which I avoided, and a woodland walk




It's great for the two of us to get away and thanks to my mother in law for house, animal and kid sitting.

Probably a visit to chichester this afternoon and maybe some swimming in the hotel swimming pool.

This Saturday Julia went off to Devon for a Guides media course whilst I stayed at home, did some jobs round the house and took the dogs on the previously blogged walk along the Castleman Trailway. In the evening we went over to Maureen's. Colin and Sharon were down for the weekend.

We often wake up on a Sunday morning to a "whoompf whoompf" sound, as though a big bird is flapping its wings outside our bedroom window. In fact, it's cyclists - there seems to be regular races round our way and it's their bikes making the noise, so I snapped one of the blighters as he went past.

We can't remember how long ago our last "lads weekend" was, but we reckon it was about 6 years ago that Simon and Neil saw each other, but this weekend (well Saturday mainly) we had a reunion.

Lads weekends were always about eating curry, drinking lots and just having an excellent time. And although we didn't consume as much alcohol this time (well I didn't ) we had a great time.

We spent the afternoon over at Simon's house (where my sister and family were also visiting) then went the Gurkha restaurant in the evening for dinner, finished off with some drinks in the Sandford Arms.

It was great to get together and have promised ourselves it won't be another 6+ years till the next time.