Tapas

It was a nice start to the day and whilst there were patches of cloud, it was warm, bright, and dry. We had a leisurely breakfast and then pottered around waiting for Ocado to deliver. It is always days when you are planning to go out that Ocado turn up at the very end of their delivery slot - or in today's case 10 minutes late. The Gorse Fox had an appointment in Chichester and Google was telling us to watch for the traffic. So when Ocado turned up and said "We don't like deliveries to new estates because the SatNav doesn't recognise all the roads", the Gorse Fox was not feeling sympathetic. "Well you've been delivering to us for the last 4 years without any problems" he countered. The driver responded there are two entrances to the estate and the directions are wrong - the Gorse Fox told him there was only one entrance and the other specifically says construction traffic only (actually is say ConstrNction Traffic Only - but one assumes he understands). There was no response. Delivery was completed and he wandered off to get lost somewhere else.

Originally our plan was for the Gorse Fox to attend if midday appointment then take the car to the garage for servicing and MOT. A late phone call yesterday changed this. The MOT could not be done as they have a fault on a machine. It was all re-arranged for Monday but did mean we had some time in Chichester which could be adequately accounted for with a trip to the Giggling Squid.

We wandered in and were shown to a table. It was clearly very popular at lunch times with the "Ladies who lunch" set. The Gorse Fox thinks he was one of only two males in the place! The food is essentially Thai cuisine and at lunchtime they do a tapas menu as well as some more traditional dishes. We both opted for the tapas and were very glad that we did. The Silver Vixen had "Wealthy Squid" and the Gorse Fox had "Two Squids" - they were slightly different selections of food - a Thai curry (red, green, or Massaman), some rice, and in the case of Wealthy Quid - some duck spring rolls and fish cakes. For the Two Squid the extras were salt and chilli squid, and beef in chilli and lime. The food was excellent and far more filling than you might expect. A very good choice for a decent lunch in town.

Urban-Cub and Pistol Pete dropped Ellie off with us during the afternoon and we will be looking after her until Urban-Cub finishes work tomorrow lunch  time.