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At last, a pub with fantastic food, the best I've had in ages. The Five Horseshoes in Maidensgrove we'd happened upon by accident before during a walk.
This time we'd intented to go to the Fox and Hounds, Christmas Common and start and finish a walk from there. That pub is closed until May 6th (something to do with renovation for a BBC programme involving Raymond Blanc) so we asked a local who suggested the 'shoes. And luckily it was the one we'd been trying to refind for a while! And it's a lovely drive from Bucks there, on the Oxfordshire border. The views from the garden are outstanding - of the rolling Chilterns, but do take a fleece as the wind can whip through even as the sun is pouring down.
I had duck rillets and herbland gnocchi, and Paul had pigs trotters and chilterb lamb. Beautifully presented and delish.
It's hard being a Birmingham City fan, there're joys and sorrows too. Well done on promotion to the Premiership (automatic too, thanks to Derby's defeat at Palace). And particularly thanks to manager Steve Bruce, who has had a hard time from fans, and still held the faith. XXX
For Dad's upcoming 74th birthday, what DO you get? He's got everything. My folks have just moved house, and have bought everything they need.
Something I had thought of actually having seen his existing one, bought by my mum donkeys ago, Dad said he needed a new conference/folio holder. (at 74? Yeah, I know, but amongst many other things he is my business manager, and still works as a consultant to the quantity surveying industry, plays golf, amateur dramatics, dinner parties, a social whirl like no other.)
Couldn't be faffed to schlep to Milton Keynes to have a look in, where, John Lewis? Quick scan online and found just what I wanted, from luggage/leather goods specialist www.goplaces.co.uk. Arrived two days later.
Perfect. I quite want one! And it has retractable handles so it doubles up as thin briefcase. Perfect again.
We love topshop, if only to inject a bit of wistful girldom into a hanging-on-in-there-to-39 year old's dreams of being super stylish all the time. Which is difficult in the country, I mean, who is going to wear these heels to the local pub when you are jostling with farmers and builders? But in the quest to retain some zing, somehow, I manage....
Keane's ethereal Bedshaped vid
Really miffed with Adobe. Crap, smug customer service.
When I plugged my Blackberry Pearl into my Sony Vaio, Adobe Photoshop Starter Edition launched, and automatically downloaded photos from my phone. Ah, quite handy I thought, like that. Easy to file, email etc. Good product. It asked me to register which I ignored. Then it stopped working. So I registered to "unlock" it as it asked me. Did that, got he code emailed to me, unlocked it, and nothing happened. ARghghgh.
Contacted customer support, with some bored techy saying they didn't support it over the phone and I had to raise a web case online. Did that. Got a reply within a couple of days (speedy, huh) which said to call the support desk. Which I had done in the first place. Duh. Another bored, smug techy said as it was a free product he didn't support it, "I only support paying customers".
Given the fact that I hadn't ASKED for the product in the first place, what a complete pain and waste of time.
Boo to Adobe. Will be spreading the word.
I've not generally been a fan of Kate Spicer, apart from when she pipped someone else I dislike (a fellow student at City University's post grad diploma in journalism - she's now a very successful novelist. Humpf) to a sex columnist job on GQ. I think perhaps it is her natural facial expression as seen on Masterchef, eyes bulging and nose turning up with pomp and circumstance at the poor contestants' food. Also perhaps because it seems to me that most of the women I dislike show traits that are very clear in myself. (I don't have bulging eyes, but then, neither does Kate...)
But I was engrossed in Super-Skinny Me: The Race to Size Zero on Channel 4. Kate was an overweight girl in a mostly boy boarding school (I'm guessing Marlborough?) and, like pretty much every woman I know at one stage or another has a propensity towards eating disorders major or minor.
Her journey was vile. Read it in The Times. I hope she has got over it.
How disgraceful were Peter Purves (weirdo) and the other judges on The Underdog Show, being so rude and judgemental to Huey from the Fun Lovin Criminals and Caspar, the lovable rescue dog he was training.
And then they put him in the final two along with Selina and Chump! FIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me and him on usual post Easter mini detox (just three weeks instead of the bi-annual five weeks) and love Becks No Alcohol bottles, (Cobra not quite as nice and brands like Bitburger, yeuch).
But when we're out and about walking at the weekends the lovely country pubs don't serve any decent no alcohol beers. Why not? I'm sure that even people drinking pints might switch to zero alcohol if they don't want to drink anymore but do want to stay in the pub longer.
Tulips are looking stunning.
Great yomp through the Chilterns nr Princes Risborough, some great lanes and hidden pubs.
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