Chatsworth Café Crawl
May 20th 2014
A perfect May day.
After some initial confusion involving teeth, rampaging cows and lack of mobile phone signal, two Helens and Pam finally met up at Chatsworth garden centre. We enjoyed a very welcome pot of tea and caught up on all the news. Unfortunately all the tea drinking and catching up meant that we had very little time left for the walk which we had planned. We did manage to walk across the road to take in the views and Pam almost managed to take a photograph!
After some initial confusion involving teeth, rampaging cows and lack of mobile phone signal, two Helens and Pam finally met up at Chatsworth garden centre. We enjoyed a very welcome pot of tea and caught up on all the news. Unfortunately all the tea drinking and catching up meant that we had very little time left for the walk which we had planned. We did manage to walk across the road to take in the views and Pam almost managed to take a photograph!
Pam proudly showing off her new camera and discovering that it actually works better with batteries!
Having aborted our plans for a walk we drove up to the farm shop to meet up with Jo and Lynn. It was lovely to see Lynn especially as it was her birthday and to enrol her officially as Gelly Babe! We were able to catch up with all her news and were especially interested to hear her views on living in Skegness.
Jo's very carefully chosen gift for Lynn
The second pot of tea of the day
We did eventually get thrown out of the café - we did start to get the hint when they started cleaning up around us! And we said our goodbyes to Lynn who was going off for a birthday meal with her family.
Wonderful view from the tea shop at Chatsworth Farm Shop
Three birthday girls - and Pam!
Helen's lovely birthday bush
The very carefully made plan was to go for a walk before our meal, however once again too much talk and tea meant that there really wasn't time. So we drove back to Beeley to the Devonshire Arms. Helen J got changed into evening attire just in case the Duke and Duchess dropped in!
We did have time for Helen to give us all a demonstration of Nordic walking which made us all feel much healthier and the raucous laughter helped us work up an appetite for our meal.
That's the way to do it!
For some reason the landlord hid us away in the malt vault which meant that we weren't in danger of disturbing the regulars (or the Duke and Duchess for that matter - needless to say they didn't pop in for a pint)
The food was lovely and we had a delightful evening
Cheers!
Next time we really will do a walk - think we had better plan somewhere where there aren't any tea shops!
What a wonderful day dodging the rainclouds and initiating Lynn into the wonderful world of the GBs. A lovely way to celebrate May birthdays... thankyou.
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