Hi to everybody...woke up at nine to a lovely sunny day, got hubby up and we decided to go out for the day...first of all we thought we'd go to Christchurch then changed our minds and decided on Salisbury because it was market day there as well and I wanted to buy some more pork from the farmer's market stall I knew would be there....the best laid plans of mice and men never work to plan because the damn buses are there to thwart every one of them...set off at 10.15 to catch the 10.35, which must have gone early by some miracle or was cancelled, because it never showed up, so hung around until 10.45 and got the bus into Bournemouth instead of Boscombe and decided to catch the Salisbury bus from there instead...that was due around 11.05 and it arrived on time because it was the very first trip out of a new fleet of 42 buses costing a million pounds and we had the honour of travelling in its extra foot wide and extra foot tall interior with, I grant you, plenty of leg room, and the noisiest air conditioning unit I've ever heard but there we go...anyway, we arrived finally in Salisbury at 1.15...just in time to see that the farmer's market stall had almost sold out of everything I wanted...in fact everything I wanted...so decided to go and find a nice place to eat lunch...and did...the Reeve Bakery...we had an absolutely lovely lunch...I had lovely light chibatta with herbs and Wiltshire Ham and warm gooseberry chutney and tomato, and a side salad of a finely cut and delicious coleslaw and assorted lettuce with cherry tomatoes and crisps and hubby had an open french bread with prawns and a very nice mayonnaise with the same side salad as I had minus the coleslaw...and a tea and a coffee...both lunches were £4.50 and we thought that was excellent value considering the size of the plate and what they gave us...after that,
it was nearly 2.15 and the latest we could catch the bus home was 4.10 so we wandered around for a couple of hours and I realised hubby had a cold...thank goodness we didn't book anywhere for a few days...first one this year and it had to be now, but he's not feeling ill with it, just a really runny nose and blocked up too...a lemsip when we finally got home did the trick...the journey home was as bad as the one going, with the brand new bus running 15 minutes late leaving Salisbury and we'd arrive twenty minutes early in any case, which meant we missed our connecting bus in Bournemouth to bring us back to where we lived so spent another half an hour there waiting for the next one...all in all we spent a wasted two hours actually just waiting for the various buses to turn up...got home at 7.10 in the end...exhausted...had poached eggs on toast as I was too tired to cook and didn't really feel like a full meal after the substantial lunch...then I watched 'Road to Perdition' with Paul Newman in which he got his one and only Oscar...why, I'll never know because he was barely in it, and the other films where he was nominated, he deserved an Oscar for several of those, but think they gave him this one to make up for not giving him one ever...which was disgraceful as he was an extremely accomplished actor....Now, I'm tired and about ready for bed soon...my back played up while walking round Salisbury with all the standing I had to do at bus stops and uncomfortable seats...but...it was a beautiful day weather wise...just wish the bloody buses could get their act together and actually arrive on time for once in their darned lives then I would be a happy, happy bunny...One thing, did find hubby a really nice new dressing gown...LOL...so not an entirely wasted journey...
Hope you had a lovely day, will have a restful night, have sweet dreams and send great big hugs to one and all...