Celebrate

We had to get going this morning. Diane was due at the surgery for her blood tests before 9:00. With that done we then had the usual Thursday morning shopping extravaganza with Ocado delivering and Sainsbury's filling in the things Ocado couldn't supply.

By midday, it was time to ship out. We were collecting Kim from Zoe's and all of us we heading out to lunch to celebrate Zoe's birthday. Ellie had her friend Sophia with her. Our destination was The Black Horse at Binsted. Diane has been there before and it is clearly a regular haunt for Darren and his family. It is a charming gastro-pub, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and overlooking a golf course. We settled in their garden room and waited for Barbara (Darren's mum) to join us.

The menu was impressive and I had no hope of remembering everything that was selected. I started, however, with a bucket of King Prawns. These were served with lovely granary bread and spiced mayonnaise. That set the scene nicely. For the main dish, Diane had sea bass and I had a Wagyu beef burger. Both turned out to be delicious. Finally, we had dessert. Diane selected the lemon posset and I had chocolate brownie cheesecake with ice cream.

The meal was superb and Ellie and Sophia were very well-behaved, but I'm sure the fact that they could roam off into the garden helped.

It was a lovely celebration but eventually, we had to head home. We dropped Kim and Barbs off at Zoe's, then wandered off home.