Twisted Kites

Would have been very difficult for Nicola and I to have had a nicer Valentine’s Day yesterday.

We got each other a big ‘cute’ card and a smaller ‘proper’ card. She bought me a puppy dog teddy that also says ‘love you loads’ when press its paw, that she made (and recorded) herself at the Build-a-Bear Workshop in Solihull, big choccy heart from Thorntons and a few other bits. I got her a lovely Eeyore teddy with pink hearts, posh sweets and chocs, Murano glass heart necklace and other bits too. I also ordered flowers to be delivered from Next flowers which she loved, they were truly beautiful.

In the evening I took her to a stunning country pub & restaurant, The Golden Lion in Easenhall, Warwickshire, for our evening meal. Four courses in a great location, old fashioned 16th century building, stylish tasty meal and top service, we will definitely go there again to eat.

After that we curled up with Lily O’Briens chocolates (desserts selection), a bottle of champagne and we watched Miss Potter. Just perfect.

The flowers I got for her (and a balloon):

The puppy teddy she got me (for when we are apart):

Both of us getting ready to go out for our meal:

It’s bank holiday weekend. I’m I’m working it yet again! The last couple of B/Hs have had relatively good traffic, not so much this weekend. Wonder if it’ll be any better this evening.

Managed to finally find some of those really nice chocolates that I mentioned on my old blog. Good old Woolworths! I thought I’d probably have to wait til I went to Ireland (as theyre Irish) so was nice to find them. They are milk chocolate filled with caramel and a dark chocolate top. Not too sweet, just right.

Less than 2 weeks til i go away. That is plenty of time for the sunshine to return. Yesterday was raining and windy and horrible to drive in. Even more so as the cars on the motorway cannot handle it (even drizzle) and slow to 50 like idiots (if they can’t drive on the motorway, get OFF the motorway!) so have to try weave round them using whatever gaps are possible (because they sit at 50 in all lanes no matter what’s around).

Even walking down the Chinese last night it was so cold and blustery it felt like November. Horrible.