Sunday Lunch with our Neighbours

It was to be a very leisurely Sunday for us.  Our neighbours Jan and Derek were taking us out for Sunday lunch so Mum was doing the same with Lilian.  This meant that we really had nothing to do until we left to go to the restaurant for the first sitting at 12.30pm.  Even when I have prepared our Sunday lunch on a Saturday I still have to cook it, plate it and serve it but today nothing, nada!!!  

I do not normally like going out for Sunday lunch but going to the Farmyard is the closest thing we have found to having a home cooked roast and Savvas's beef is absolutely the best and exactly how we like it - pink and tender.  There was leek and potato soup on offer followed by the salad counter then the roast dinner and a selection of about a dozen or so lovely little sweets.  It was leisurely and relaxing and probably the last time we will have to wear a mask in a restaurant as this gets completely relaxed on Wednesday save for visits to the hospital and as we are in the middle of a heatwave has not come a moment too soon.  There may well be times when we opt to wear a mask but it will be our decision and we wont need to get upset when we see people flouting the rules here.

We sat and chatted for ages at the table because we all seemed to be relaxed and comfortable.  I think Jan and Derek were suitably impressed which is good because hopefully it will be a venue they use again in the future.  They came back to ours to sit in the garden for the remainder of the afternoon.  It was a lovely temperature in the garden once the real heat of the day had passed but I knew it had been a hot one when I went into our bedroom and it was 26 degrees!!!

Mum had a nice time with Lilian.  I am so pleased that she (mum) seems so much her old self now that we have had her medication altered.  We are going to go down and see her on Tuesday and go to lunch at Peggies which I know she will enjoy as will we.

We are halfway through the current art/photographic challenge which is anything to do with Her Maj on this her platinum jubilee and having heard that Boris has nothing better to do than reintroduce imperial weights and measures in the UK I dug out my three old 10 shilling notes - crisp and with sequential serial numbers (had I placed them in the right order).  I hope they might one day be worth a fortune but somehow I doubt it!

Jan if you are reading this - it is very quiet without you both here and we have missed you!!