Back to the old routines

[davidgillon]

 Lunch with friends yesterday, for I think the first time since pre-Covid. And just by chance we got an absolutely beautiful day for it - blue skies and warm. We've had a couple of other days with blue skies, but they've been bloody freezing. Definitely the best day of the year.

We were trying out a pub that's been refurbished. I've drunk there before, but not in ages, certainly 10 years, possibly 20, it's not as if there's any shortage of pubs on Rochester High Street and this one, formerly The Norman Conquest, but now (and apparently historically) the Royal Crown is at the absolute end of the high street, another hundred feet and you're in the river. It's definitely moved upmarket, one of my friends had hake in lobster sauce with samphire, another had mussels, this is not normal pub grub. Unfortunately the haddock from my haddock and chips had been a bit overdone, so the fish was too chewy and the batter too crunchy. OTOH it still tasted very nice, as did the chips.

I ended up parked where I normally do, which made it a little bit of a push to get to, "Oh," said the friend who'd suggested it, "I thought you'd park on the esplanade", at which point I did a slight head-desk, having completely forgotten there is parking on the esplanade, literally outside.

I waddled home three-ish and spent the entirety of the afternoon and evening trying not to fall asleep.

Could do with a few more days like that.

(But could do without feeling quite so shattered as I did this morning, need to do a bit of work on post-hibernation stamina).