Saturday 11 September 2010

Please please its far to early!

Its September now not December!!

Drove past the Wateringbury Hotel today and guess what? They had two fully decorated Christmas Trees!!!! I realise that people have to arrange functions etc in advance but surely this is far far to early.

As my Mother used to say 'You know when its Christmas, the Easter Eggs are in the shops'!

I have just returned from a couple of days staying with friends in Dorset and had a great time and found the peace and sanity I needed to make some important decisions. I now know what I have to do and why I have to do it.

On a more positive note if you are ever in West Dorset and feel hungry visit the Weld Arms in East Lulworth the food is out of this world and the portions are huge. By huge I mean huge, imagine a plate 12 inches by 12 inches with one third of it taken up by chips another third with salad and the final bit a home made burger topped with bacon and Mozarella cheese. You will be pleased to know that I managed it but I felt the weight going on!

The name Weld Arms is nothing to do with welding but Weld is the family name of the people who own the Lulworth Estate.

On Monday I am off to France on Monday for a week, Le Touquet to be precise. I was going to fly from Lydd but there was no availability on the dates I wanted and the price at £149 was rather prohibitive so I am going to get a train to Dover, ferry to Calais than a local train to Le Touquet for a total return price of £12. There is some advantage of being a railwayman!

Andy

6 comments:

Sybil said...

Really abdy It is hard to believ that a Hotel of all places would be having Christmas Trees out at this tim eof the year....would put me clean of going ther for sure...
Quite rediculas. Have a lovely time in France hope for some nice late summer weather for you.
Sybil

Jan said...

How I envy you your trip to France it sounds lovely ..I do agee about Christmas ,it is far to early for decorating yet ,even for Christmas functions ,so that is no excuse ,perhaps they are going for some sort of record lol ...love Jan xx

Jeanie said...

It's unbelievable! There is no need for Christmas to arrive so early Andy. Commerce! Pah!
I'm so glad you had a peaceful thought provoking break in Dorset. Now you are back in touch with your thoughts and wishes...good luck with your decisions.
Enjoy France too. You lucky chap getting your travel so cheaply!
I wish...........sigh!

All the best.
Jeanie

Ken Riches said...

It absolutely is to early for anything Christmas. Enjoy your France trip.

Ally Lifewithally said...

Andy wish I could come with you sounds like a wonderful trip and at such a good price :O) Have a safe trip ~ Ally x

Liz said...

I wait to hear everything about your 'foreign French fancies'