h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I hope every one had as good an Easter as we did The Olympian came down for a few days with his lady and we had a laugh a minute. On Easter Sunday I arranged lunch for 10 of us at a local hotel. The Olympian and Lady, me and The Boss, Son, His Wife and four G.C.
Unfortunately The Son forgot to put his clocks forward and turned up after phone calls from me very very late. However the hotel people were very good and kept our table free even tho it was very busy
After the meal we went to Porthleven where there was an Easter fete and watched the tug of war. Bought silly stuff from the stalls and generally played the happy tripper thing.
While our guests were here we enjoyed really good weather and were out and about every day. They left on Wednesday and I had to get down to raising more money for the boxing club. So far I have raised two and a half thousand pounds, the target is six thousand so it is coming along. We are hoping to open the club on the 1st of September and I am going to invite U.G. to come down and take me on for a demonstration bout to open the proceedings.
I have been so busy but having great fun. I have just ordered some more roses for my raised bed. The roses I have in it now all have my Christian name in their name somewhere, and the ones I have ordered all have The Boss' Christian name in them. So The Boss and I will be in bed together 24/7.
I have just discovered my car has been out of M.O.T. since last August it is booked in for tomorrow, my tax and insurance is up in July so when I paid them last year I just forgot about the test, it is the first time I have driven illegaly and feel really guilty.
I think Easter is a better holiday than Christmas and I have had such a good one. My garden is full of colour, as are the hedge rows. It is getting warmer and my poor old bones appreciate that, and the evenings are lighter. Brilliant!!

Hello Kif!

You're on! (Thinks: demonstration bout of what? Ah, well, game for anything)

BIG UG

Your garden sounds lovely. We are a bit slower up here. The forsythia is out, and the camelias, and the daffodils, of course, but the blossom is very slow and some of my hardy fuschias dared to start producing buds, and a sharp frost soon sorted them out. Am leaving them to start again - hope they do.

Did you say you went to the Marazion hotel - nearly the last one on the right as you leave Marazion? Did you go in there when it had all the armoury about the walls? I was so sorry when they changed it, it was just so unusual.

Life slowing up a bit again, time to breath, and I may be going on to the day shift.... but that is still in the pipeline.

Take care UG

Ooohhh! BOXING!

Prefer wrestling - it doesn't hold the danger of rearranged features, and it can be quite cosy sometimes

BOXING! You're still on!

UG

I think I may change my mind about boxing. if you are up for it how about wrestling in Cornish Clotted Cream?

just thought, The Marazion Hotel is on the left as you go towards Helston through the town. Are you thinking of the restaurant at Hayle by the railway. Terry English who made armour for most of the medieval films, like Robin Hood, owned that and there was armour all round the walls. The Lost boy worked with Terry on a film once and we went there quite often. It is closed and derelict now.

Cornish Clotted Cream



I like your style!

UG

No, the hotel I am thinking of is on the right hand side as you leave Marazion with the sea also on your right. You come into the car park almost at roof level of the hotel. I believe you have to go down a flight of stairs and into a small bar. There, you can have drinks and await your table being called.

When they call you, they come through an unusually narrow door into the bar and beckon you forward. When you enter, the room is actually two storeys high (or rather the ceiling is) and for half of the room it is upstairs with sea views, but the whole wall is a cream colour, with armoury of all sorts all over it.

As I say, it is not like that now, but it really made an impression on me the first time I visited. The care and attention by the staff was faultless - and the price was astronomical!! But worth it for the experience.

I'm glad to know you had a marvellous Easter, Kif

Now I know the place, but we have never been in there. I think perhaps we will try it and let you know if it has changed

Wasn't the armoury place by Hayle viaduct a carpet warehouse or something before it was boarded up. Or was it a junk shop? I seem to remember exploring it and deciding to go upstairs by a spiral staircase, which did not seem to be fixed at the top at all. After swaying perilously all the way up I then had to jump from the top step to the first floor!!!

More unnerving coming down than going up, as you may imagine, and nothing worth seeing when I got up there! Pure junk, no treasures!

Oh, I DO miss Cornwall!

Take care UG

yep it was both. Now it is going to be pulled down and turned into affordable housing,