Kates birthday on Monday so we have had my Mum and Dad up from Friday and my sister up on Saturday so we needed to get out and about man.SO on FRiday we decended on the Lion in town for an early doors bit of nosh – which was pretty good – I had the burger which was great – but the chips were not. Pops had a stew with the smallest dumpling ever – luckily we got the waitress and he had a load more sent over, and the rest had an adequate gammon. Just a couple of beers and then back for the rugby where Wales stuffed France – good times..
Saturday Claire arrived – and Kate let out a little yelp when she was surpised by her – so we set off for Chepstow. We come here quite a lot and there isnt too much here, but it is good enough to waste a few hours in. First stop was the overly complex parking meter, where the guy in front managed to win his money back, but no ticket, then he won his ticket. Then a quick walk down by the castle and a stroll over the iron bri9dge which takes you from Wales to Engerland – in the middle you can be in both places at once. It was windy and rubbish in Engerland, so we came back.
We had a waltz though the town and popped into the smith and jones pub at the top for some light refreshment. An odd array of quite reasonable food was provided – nothing great, in fact not even that good – but was edible, and then it was off to Tintern again. To start we went up the 365 steps – which really felt like 365 steps and had a slip and slide around in the mud – once slightly tired we set off for the village itself..We parked, we looked, we got confused and then we went to the pub because to park you have to pay £3 which is refundable if you buy a drink. I had water.
We had a little confusion when we left as to where everyone was but we managed to get home and after some poncing about ordered a nice big ruby murry. I liked it, Ant ate four, yes four, onion bajis with his.
Next day we headed off Tesco to pick up some stuff and then did something which for the life of me I cannot rememeber.
On Monday, which was Kates birthday proper I had to spend the morning waiting for the gas man to come back and give me a saftey certificate, then we went to Celtic Manor for a walk, which involved walking around the golf course – slightly confused. Then we went to see the Lego Movie which was “awesome, everything was awesome” then home and a small for me pizza hut.
And that was the weekend of the 22nd Feb. It was nice.