Hang overs all round

On Friday night Rachael and Janine came over for tea and a drink whilst Matt went over to Craig's for beer and crisps.  We all ended up quite tipsy - it was nice - a good happy evening in, been needing one of those for a while.  We woke up in good spirits, but with a terrible thirst and hunger which didn't go away all day.  We had to hang around for a while in the morning for a cake to be collected.  We thought we would go to Blackpool to the circus for the afternoon, but discovered it was closed.  Instead we headed to the Lake District for a walk around Tarn Hows - which is always pleasant.  We stopped off at Wilf's Cafe in Staveley and bumped into the family who used to live in our house, so spent a good half hour catching up - mostly them asking about local gossip.  We then headed to Tarn Hows, and did the walk around the lake which was very lovely as always.  We stopped off at Coniston for tea and a bun before heading back home.  Matt had a hankering for fish and chips, so much so that he offered to go and get them.  I wasn't as keen but as soon as I had one mouthful I was hooked and ate it all up.  It sorted out the hangover once and for all.

Beautiful British Dinner

Sunday we asked Tom what he wanted to do, his answer: "a train ride" - surprise surprise.  We decided on Bradford - for two reasons: to visit the National Media Museum and to have a curry (of course!).  On arrival we looked around the city centre, but it was quite dire, there was nothing of interest to keep us there at all.  In fact it was quite empty which for a Sunday lunchtime in a city centre is quite unusual.  We gave up and went in search of curry.  Matt knew of a good place he had been to before, The Kashmir, so we headed to it.   We got there to find it was looking very closed but a man inside beckoned us and we found the door open we went down into the basement and found a waiter - hurray.  We ordered popadoms, onion bhajis,  a lamb coconut dish and a chicken curry, with some rice and chapatis. It was very rough and ready - no plates, no cutlery, just the food.  Wow!  It was great - completely different to the usual Indian curry, and cheap - it cost us only £14.50 including drinks.  How do they do it?  Anyway a great fooding experience.  We then headed to the museum, which was fun.  There were some good displays for Tom, a gaming room full of computer games from our past - so much more basic than I remember, some displays including an original Wallace and Gromit set from The Wrong Trousers and much more that we didn't get to read or see properly as is the case when visiting a museum with a 5 year old.  Not to worry, we had fun.