Quick Update, part the Nth
Oct. 4th, 2004 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroI appear to have successfully survived a weekend in the Cotswolds with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lastaii, wehmuth, techbint and nasrat. We ended up being late collecting the latter from a train station in the middle of nowhere, because being in the Cotswolds, we had to contend with the hordes of yuppies in Chelsea tractors who think that the speed limit outside Zone 3 is 35 mph. Same hordes have driven the price of everything in the area so sky-high I could barely afford to eat. Thank goodness we found a farm shop other than the one recommended to us by techbint's mum, which took overpriced into realms not previously witnessed by myself.
The weather was less bad than advertised, so we wandered around Sudeley Castle, which was cool, especially the pheasant and waterfowl enclosure complete with a very silly chicken. Then, after driving through Winchcombe more times than can possibly be healthy, we decided to make an attempt to see Belas Knapp. This was successful, though I nearly gave up 3/4 of the way up the steep part of the hill. Which was extremely humiliating, especially as I thought I'd been getting fitter lately.
Saturday evening found me somehow making the instant transformation from sober to Way Too Drunk. By some miracle I was alive and upright at the same time as everyone else on Sunday, which involved more driving around & looking at pretty countryside, with a stop at a nice country pub.
Unfortunately, we missed the brief window of food being served at said pub, and thus embarked on one of my least favourite road trip rituals, The Hunt for Food on Sunday Afternoon/Evening. This culminated in a visit to a pub which is likely the inspiration for chavscum.co.uk, and which, though advertising food until 6:00, didn't mean it unless you wanted the carvery. The veggies amonst us extorted some chips from them. Eventually. A culinary disappointment it may have been, but this diversion did give us the chance for a flying visit withdiffrentcolours.
I felt less bad than I should have today, until early afternoon when I felt more flu-like than exhausted, but I'm feeling much better now. I'm heading directly to lie down & read, just in case. I'm still on probation at work and need to actually go in.
lastaii, wehmuth, techbint and nasrat. We ended up being late collecting the latter from a train station in the middle of nowhere, because being in the Cotswolds, we had to contend with the hordes of yuppies in Chelsea tractors who think that the speed limit outside Zone 3 is 35 mph. Same hordes have driven the price of everything in the area so sky-high I could barely afford to eat. Thank goodness we found a farm shop other than the one recommended to us by techbint's mum, which took overpriced into realms not previously witnessed by myself.The weather was less bad than advertised, so we wandered around Sudeley Castle, which was cool, especially the pheasant and waterfowl enclosure complete with a very silly chicken. Then, after driving through Winchcombe more times than can possibly be healthy, we decided to make an attempt to see Belas Knapp. This was successful, though I nearly gave up 3/4 of the way up the steep part of the hill. Which was extremely humiliating, especially as I thought I'd been getting fitter lately.
Saturday evening found me somehow making the instant transformation from sober to Way Too Drunk. By some miracle I was alive and upright at the same time as everyone else on Sunday, which involved more driving around & looking at pretty countryside, with a stop at a nice country pub.
Unfortunately, we missed the brief window of food being served at said pub, and thus embarked on one of my least favourite road trip rituals, The Hunt for Food on Sunday Afternoon/Evening. This culminated in a visit to a pub which is likely the inspiration for chavscum.co.uk, and which, though advertising food until 6:00, didn't mean it unless you wanted the carvery. The veggies amonst us extorted some chips from them. Eventually. A culinary disappointment it may have been, but this diversion did give us the chance for a flying visit with
diffrentcolours.I felt less bad than I should have today, until early afternoon when I felt more flu-like than exhausted, but I'm feeling much better now. I'm heading directly to lie down & read, just in case. I'm still on probation at work and need to actually go in.
