Rudders at Home

Not a proper holiday, but I’m headed to Glasgow for a bit. Specifically, Paul and I are going up to see Radiohead. However, I’m excited to vist the city. I’ve never been to Glasgow before, and I’m interested in the prospect. Paul reckons I’m an east coast girl all the way, but who can tell until I’ve been to the other side?

I’ll tell you all about it when I get back. Should be a good weekend – maybe I’ll even find that elusive deep fried Mars bar…

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…with chocolate chips?

When I read this recipe here for cherry ice cream with chocolate chips, I couldn’t help but think about Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia. Cherry Garcia is my favorite flavor of Ben and Jerry’s, and because I haven’t made ice cream yet this year, I couldn’t resist this recipe.

In short, this ice cream was gorgeous. I personally think it’s the best I’ve made so far in my ice cream maker. I highly recommend trying it out sometime soon. For the Brits, 1 cup equals 237 mls, but I’m sure you can round up to 240.

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Finally, after months, and in fact a year of talking about it, Paul and I have gone ahead and bought a tent. We got it on sale, which was brilliant. I can’t wait till our first camping trip!

First thing we did when we brought it home was put it up – so when we arrive at the campsite late and tired, we know how to do it. We started in the living room, but had to move to our spare room when I thought we might put a pole through the TV! There was barely enough space  in the spare room, but we had some fun crawling in and out of the tent to get to the door. Maybe we should have done that outside…

And yes, someone in the house does need a hair cut.

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Well, I’m finally getting around to enlightening everyone on our trip to the Southeast coast of England. We went in April, for our anniversary.

Now, we didn’t go to Dover, but went to a place just outside of the town, in the country. We’ve been to Dover before, and it’s not a spectacular town. It’s a port, and so it isn’t the best, certainly not much to write home about. But, you can’t beat the idea of seeing the White Cliffs and so we stayed a lovely hotel outside of town in the countryside. The hotel was Wallet’s Court, a hotel and spa. We didn’t do much except get away from home on the Saturday. I think we spent the majority of the day eating. We had a nice cream tea when we arrived, and then because we weren’t going into town, we had a wonderful dinner there. Seriously, the dinner was gorgeous, and we were able to take our time with it. Normally when we go out to eat, we always are rushed through the meal, only to have to wait ages for the check to come. It was actually refreshing to be able to take our time, especially when the whole point of the evening was to spend some actual real time with one another. It was lovely.

The next day, we drove down the road and had a lovely view of Dover Castle. We didn’t visit the castle on this trip. However, we did walk by the cliffs, and I was able to get some pictures, which I’ve been wanting to do for ages. This walk, I have to say was breathtaking, and a big highlight. We live so close to Dover, and I’ve seen the cliffs from the ferry, but to see them so close was amazing. The walk takes you right along the top of them, all the way to a lighthouse.

The weather, as usual in England, was a bit unpredictable. When we started the weekend out, it was sunny and just warm enough to get away with a heavy sweater. Then, it cooled down quite a bit while we were away. It started to snow (of all things!) while we were walking, so we turned back after we were about halfway. Paul had left his coat in the car, thinking his sweatshirt would keep him warm enough. Unfortunately, he was wrong, and we had to turn around so we could go get him warm again.

It didn’t help that we had just cut his hair, so he had nothing on his head to keep him warm either!

And that just about sums up our trip to Dover. It made for a very nice weekend trip away, and it was a very happy anniversary for us.

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Paul and I have been out and about this lovely Sunday afternoon. The weather here has broken a bit – meaning we’ve seen some sun today. So, unable to bear being cooped up in the flat when the promise of sunshine is around, I made Paul take me for a drive today. We ended up at the National Trust property, Knole. In addition to a nice property, there is a deer park at Knole, and it seems that it would be a nice place to have a picnic. We had a nice wander around the park, and that’s where I took a picture of this pretty animal.

Initially, Paul thought these were roe deer, but the National Trust says that there are fallow and sika deer found in the deer park. Either way, it was pretty nice to see them there, and further pictures from the day can be found here in the gallery.

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