TGIS :-) Midsummer madness in Minehead

Yo Friday peops,

What an interesting experience Minehead was – rather ‘surreal’ all round really. We had sun though and I had my legs out for 3 whole days :-O

Day 1 – 12 miler – coastal walk – every time we stopped to let pretty Russian doctor catch up - which was every 10 yards - she lay down looking more and more like the colour of Borchst :-)
Needless to say pub time was curtailed - pity - as one of the Walk leaders provided great entertainment in the beer garden getting into some great positions to pick the tics out with his green gadget– it’s the season apparently – and you’re not a true rambler till you’ve had one burrow down, suck the blood out of you and drop off…….I’m sure I am in that case ;-)

Day 2 – Dunkery Hill – 12 miler – bit more sunshine – and Ken patiently waiting while I insisted we get group shot around a funny (well I thought it was..) signpost – after 10 attempts we finally got the ‘Hello’ magazine shot of the year – much to the annoyance of the rest of the group who were still reeling from the previous day’s lie down stops – not sure if Gideon did it deliberately but got a great shot of Ken - see below!

There were fireworks in the evening over the harbour which was nice – except for all the Chav families who had scaled the barbed wire of Butlitz and were roaming the streets – mind you - some of our gang were giving them a run for their money! Needless to say – as some of you know - my patience wore out and I returned with some quieter friends to the hotel bar….. then at bed time decided to put my ear plugs in cos of the revellers – so when the fire alarm went off at 3 in the morning due to some late night tit heads not able to hold their beer…I slept through it all :-/

Day 3 – Ken becomes a true rambler as he finds his first ever tic and Gideon extracts it with his green gadget.

Ken, Dawn, Rachel and I stayed over an extra night – Me and Rach’ at a nice cheap B & B and Ken & Dawn down the road in posh place with four poster at Porlock Weir. Us girlies decided to leave them in peace and paint the town red – first pub didn’t do food – BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY!? So off we went to the ‘Hairy Dog’ - found a nice quiet corner - gorgeous pasta platter (low fat of course) and window seat to watch the talent go by – there wasn’t any – but we had a giggle at the fuglies (being so attractive ourselves of course)….and weirdly the same odd couple passed us each day - obvious ramblers - he wore his ear warmers/bandana upside down with his ears sticking up at the side of his head like a Nick Parks 'Creature Comforts' polar bear styley - then as we chilled right behind Rachel the large TV screen lights up and is suddenly full of Portsmouth players and everyone is staring at me and Rachel – cringe….for all the wrong reasons….

So then it’s one of those decisions - do you wait till kick off and pee them off or leave now and be polite? I’ll leave you to guess what we did…..so we had a girlie giggly night while Ken & Dawnie enjoyed playing in their four poster :-)

Anyway it recharged the batteries enough for a nice short week at work – and today me and the old uns have been to the Garden Show and got a few treats – mine is amazingly colourful and Stella thinks it’s a hoot – boy have I got taste!!…. and more news on that next week