Affpuddle Fun times part 2

Sorry that it’s been a week between posts – but life has gotten pretty crazy.  Right now I have a cake in the oven and I have *mumble mumble* skipped the gym cause I worked late tonight…

Durdle Door

Anyhoo, Saturday morning it dawned bright and sunny.  I know, crazy huh, I could not believe it either.  So after a delicious breakfast of bacon and eggs, and coco pops, we jumped in the car and headed off to Lulworth Cove.  The drive was beautiful.  We arrived at Lulworth Cove and began the hike up to Durdle Door. 

 

The hike took maybe a half hour and it was pretty much straight up.  But the scenery was breathtaking.  And the sun was so nice to feel on my back.  Durdle Door was amazing and the water looked lovely.  The beach still makes me laugh here, its more the seaside as there is no sand, its pebbles.  It was in these pebbles that I started to look for fossils, and I found one!  It was a fossil of a shell so that was not hugely exciting but it was still fun.  P went for a swim, which was just pure madness, he was not in for long, mainly because it was freezing cold.  Us sane people sat on the beach and had a great catch up.

Seriously how did a wheelchair handle this?

There is one hugely inappropriate thing that made me giggle.  The whole way up to the track it was full of stairs and slopes.  On both the way up and the way down.  So how on earth did the guy in the wheelchair who was there on his own get there?  Seriously, it would have been impossible to get himself up there, and then if his friends did get him there, did they just leave him?  Very bizzare.

We then headed up to Corfe.  Corfe took my breath away.  There was an amazing ruin of a castle there and they were very idyllic.  There was a medieval fair going on and there were loads of gorgeous little tents with preserves and sweets.  It was just so quaint.  The whole town seemed to be stone and short.  The doorways were so small, even I had to stoop just a tad to get through them.

 

After some photo taking, it was off to Worth Matravers to the Square and Compass, which is a specialist cider pub.  P was very enthusiastic about this as he has been there before and loved the choice of ciders there.  It was gorgeous.  The sun was high in the sky, and the garden was strewn with stone benches.  There was a tent with a DJ who was playing a mix of chillout classics and some traditional songs.  The cider was amazing.  Our favourite was called Glastonbury.  The place was full of farmers and their wives and children.  We spent the afternoon in the sun and chilled out.  What a pleasure it was. 

After that the relaxation continued.  We headed back to our gorgeous wee thatched cottage and prepared dinner.  After I had a wee sleep we had a BBQ.  We sat out in our wee garden and had a bottle of wine whilst we waited for the BBQ to heat up.  The thing about BBQ’s over here is that they are not gas, you have to wait for the coals to heat and ash down….

Whilst this was on the boys headed to the churchyard and took photos.  They were ages so H and I cooked the dinner.  It was so nice to chat with H and properly catch up.  We have been making a habit of catching up over cocktails every few weeks for the last year or so.  It was nice to be able to have a few drinks without having to worry about catching the tube.  

We had a lovely dinner and then trooped inside when it got dark to watch some of the Inbetweeners.  Sadly we were tuckered out from the fresh air and did not make it to midnight.  Sadly I was feeling very wheezy and did not sleep very well, so the next morning I was not looking nor feeling my best.  Neither was J.  And it was pelting down.  So we all got in the car, headed back to the pub where we had left the camera, and were then on our way.  We stopped off in a small town called Worthminster, where there was a county fair going on, with Morris dancers, even in the rain, and there were loads of old ladies in rain bonnets.

So there you have it, it was an amazing weekend.  We relaxed, reconnected and laughed a lot.  Life is pretty good after a walk by the sea and some sunshine.  Let that be the lesson….