Rest and relaxation

What a lovely weekend.

My dear friend Janet was in London for the weekend and what a chilled and relaxed time we had.

On Janet's agenda were some long and leisurely breakfasts. Breakfast just happens to be my favourite meal, especially at weekends so that wasn't hard to provide. In fact I spent a fair amount of Friday making sure that I had all the ingredients for a fairly healthy, yet tasty feast. As we sipped our coffee we planned the day which included walking - surprise, surprise peppered with coffee stops.

As those of you who read my newsletter may know, there are plans to demolish Borough Market, the wonderful food market on the South side of the Thames, so we headed down there and had a great couple of hours sampling cheeses, picking mushrooms, queuing for hot spiced cider and just taking in all the sights, sounds and aromas. Our evening meal consisted of home made carrot and corriander soup, mushroom risotto with a green salad, a trio of amazing cheeses and a desert of slivers of three different tartes all washed down with red wine. Most of the ingredients were care of Borough Market - This place must stay!!

Today after yet another a fantastic, long breakfast we headed off to the Barbican to see 'the Curve' - check it out. Then wandered down to Smithfield for a very late lunch in Smiths and from there we walked to St.Paul's and across the 'wobbly bridge' to the Tate Modern and the slides. Ellie and Alan had been down one a month or so ago and today Ellie had a go on one of the smaller ones. This would be a great place to meet up with some of her friends over Easter. Then I can have a go too.

From there it was back home and an evening of all those things you need to do on a Sunday evening to get ready for the week ahead. It also meant a trip to Stanstead to get Janet on her Glasgow flight. It will be June before we get together again and by that time I shall have walked the Inca Trail and as a family, we will have done some more of Pointless Odyssey. Alan will have been to Dubai and who knows what Janet will have been up to.

There will clearly be the need for another weekend of rest and relaxation and some more catching up.