- This is a photo of our little stone cottage: the scene of our dirty weekend in Cumbria.
- The big wet thing you can see through the window is lake Windermere.
- If traveling to lake Windermere, please note that it is a fuck of a long way from London. Like, five hours in a car (five and a half if you have an navigator vs. driver ‘discussion’ and miss the M6 toll road turn off).
- Shaved truffle on top of soup makes me feel a little funny in my pants.
- We ate at the Hotel on the first night and everything that could be, was served on a slate roof tile. And there was a pretentious little swooosh of sauce. Or jus. Or something on it. After eleventy squillion courses this became snort-laughingly hilarious. German maitre de was unmoved.
- We were woken by Manuel the Waiter (I learn English from a book) delivering breakfast. He dropped several glasses of juice. He left, mortified, only to return and drop the replacements.
- I bought the awesomest old lady tweed hat that I am going to wear every day in winter.
- Beatrix Potter has like 9 clocks in her house. Oh and the National Trust ladies are bloody pushy with their year long subscription offers and their timed entry only rules.
- The Drunken Duck Inn cooks the best ever duck in the known universe.
- I had forgotten how amazing the night sky in the country is. We saw a shooting star last night. This led to pashing.
- Don’t go the wrong way down a one way country road. The locals turn into spazmatrons.
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@ladylarew it is such a beautiful part of the country. did you love BP’s house? it was exactly what I imagined :)
I spent my 30th birthday walking from John Ruskin’s house to Beatrix Potter’s house. Wonderful way to spend a birthday! That was more than 25 years ago and I can still remember every part of the day!
@mr london-street The North is just far enough away. I saw enough ‘ALL YOU CAN EAT CAVERY!!!’ to last a lifetime.
The Drunken Duck Inn just sounds lovely. What a shame the North is so far away.
Now I just need to find a cottage like that in the Queenstown/Lakes area for the 1st week of April next year, that is probably about one eighth of the price of the windymere one, and is NOT BOOKED BY STUPID PEOPLE WHO HAVE STUPID CHILDREN ON STUPID SCHOOL HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!
Ah yes, there’ll be plenty of pashing, most certainly there will.
@thursday i suspect joe brown is well up for some pashing :)
Your command of the English language, sas, is beyond beyond. Well, if having descriptive words that mean whatever you intend them to mean is beyond, you are definitely, well, BEYOND. The place does look so romantic, even with eleventy squillion courses on a slate roof tile.
I’m sorry but I don’t know what pashing is. Am I likely to encounter this next week when I whizz down to the West country with Joe Brown for a few days in a National Trust cottage?
Funny in your pants could be good or bad depending on if it’s in the front or the back!
“navigator vs. driver ‘discussion’” hehehehe, I know them well.
Looks like a rather romantic place, even with spilled juice and pretentious sauces!
:-)
(I learn english from book)
Hysterical.
Sounds like a lovely visit.
@ess jay yeah but meteoroid sounds like hemeroid. which is not very romantic. and unlikely to lead to pashing.
SG knows better than to let you call it a shooting star
Fantastically funny post sas. Loved your twitter comment a bit earlier too about it being easier to go to work now. That is totally cool that you’re buzzing.
that looks amazing.