General: Holiday

Not so much as a holiday as just taking a week off work !    As it turned out, the week  I picked had hot, sunny weather and the football was on :-)

We decided to just mooch about doing whatever we wanted, so the week started with us going to Basingstoke shopping on Saturday, the highlight being having lunch out in Italian Restaurant Ask which was very nice and relaxed

Sunday saw us out at the Ely having a nice carvery with Steve and Mandy who had come over for the afternoon

Monday we went to take my Mum & Dad out as a Fathers Day treat, ending up at the Beefeater at Tattenham Corner, Epson.  Actually, it was nice grub with reasonable service, all at pretty decent price as well.

Tuesday was a bit of a change, in that we had a Pizza at home lunchtime as we went to Corinne's for tea later in the day.   We took lots of cakes with us just in case, but wouldn’t have needed them (better safe than sorry when it comes to having enough cakes ;-) )

Wednesday saw us back to our normal lunchtime trip out and went to The Bee which I blogged about earlier   We also squeezed in a trip to Lynn’s Mum before getting home in time for the footy.  

Thursday we went to The Inn @ West End which was superb, described in another earlier post after which we needed a bit of exercise so had a walk up and down Ascot high street

Friday was another potential going to the coast day, but in the end just went to Camberley for a bit of shopping, then off to The Carpenters Arms pub for lunch.   Having had lots of “posh nosh” it was actually refreshing to have the more traditional “pub grub”   I really was fancying my Steam & Ale pie with chips :-)

The end of the week has come already, so took it easy over the last weekend.   Saturday watched the F1 Valencia qualifying and ordered take away Pizza for the evening !    We watched one of the DVD’s I’d bought, Iron Man (which was great film)

Sunday was a busy day, with an early lunch at home, followed by the European GP which was a great race, followed immediately by the debacle that was the England/Germany game !     After relaxing in the sun in the garden, we spent the evening watching another DVD bought yesterday which was HellBoy II : The Golden Army  Unfortunately, for me, it was another sequel that failed to live up to the original film.   Was overlong, lazy, unbelievable (compared to the original anyway) and sentimental.   Overall very disappointing.  At least the return of Top Gear did not disappoint :-)

All-in all a very relaxing week off work, so should be fit, refreshed and ready to dive back into the normal routine…. why is it that Monday morning always feels depressing and a huge effort to do anything ;-)