Sat 1st May

May is here at last! and we decided to get out and do something with the day, Ant started the day by preparing a nice breakfast for me and we sat at the table and ate, very nice. I phoned Marion and Rosemary, i have decided the date of our garden party will be May 25th so i am giving people the heads up, unfortunatly ant is working both weekends during mum's visit so it has to be a week night but it will be very enjoyable all the same.
We got dressed and headed out to St Valerie, a very pretty port town on the Somme estuary, it was quite busy and we had a bit of a wander around, and an ice cream. We then headed to St Riquer, now a small town in the middle of nowhere but previously the site of a very important abbey. The result it a very attractive town with a huge Gothic splendor with some of the finest tracery around. Unfortunately there was a wedding on in the church so we could not go in but we had a wonder around the musuem next to it.
We headed home after this, arriving back about four, spent a bit of time messing around on the internet before starting on the dinner. We had planned to have pan fried lambs liver with a nice gravy of mushroom, bacon and onions, accompanied by new potatoes and mushy peas (ants insistance). Unfortunately i decided to do the peas in the microwave, which took about twice as long as i had thought and i still had to finish them in a pan, the liver was in too small bits to pan fry so i had to stew then in the gravy, the result being the liver was not how i had hoped and i was disapointed with the meal.
After dinner we sat and chatted listening to music and enjoying a glass or two of rosé, a very cheap Zinfandel from Lidl that is actually not bad at all, and finished the evening with a glass of decent whisky, we had a bit of a dance to All Around My Hat by Steeleye Span, blasting out of the new speakers and worrying the dogs. We headed up to bed quite merry after a very enjoyable day.