Holidays 2

Waking up bright and early on our 1st full day's holiday, Dan got the kettle on and we settled into bed to read the papers. We mooched about a bit at home - I cleared out the fire and re-laid it - Dan faffed about a bit with my thinkpad to see if we could get connected. We wandered out into the village again at about 1:30 and settled on lunch in 'The Rowan Tree' a nice place on the main street with a 'tea room' feel about it. I had cock-a-leekie and D had the roast lamb shank. Simple tasty food, served beatifully with veg, massive portions, and at the amazing price of £7 each! We were very impressed and we'll deffo go back. We then did a little tour of the village again (it only takes 5 minutes) and stocked up on missing items in the COOP. The lady serving us was a bit mental so we got in quite well and chatted for about 10 minutes! It seems that all the shop-keepers are willing to spend a minute chatting to each customer. I think people have a bit more time here!
We got home and I, being in holiday mode, went for a nap, Dan was reading the paper and just chilling out by the fire. I came down after about an hour and a half to find him watching TV and being very relaxed. Papers EVERYWHERE. Ahhh yes that's what Sundays are for. Earlier we'd been to get some logs, kindling, coal and peat (yes, peat) from the local garage so Dan was waiting for me to put the peat on the fire. What a smell! It's wonderful.
After having decided to settle in for the night, we had just started watching "Charlie's Angels:Full throttle" when we heard a few fireworks go off. Damn, we were going to go to the town display. Quickly we made ourselves decent, and legged it out of the house. We followed some well wrapped up people who looked the part, through some side roads. Then Dan spotted the flames though the trees! A MASSIVE bonfire in the park! Excellent. You could feel the heat from about 200 yards away! Just as we arrived, the firework diplay began. We had a good 20 minutes of 'ooooh'-ing and 'ahhhh'-ing. They were great. When they were done we were just about to head back to the cottage when we realised there was a stall selling hot pork sarnies from a hog roast. YUM! Crackling and apple sauce to boot! On the way home we happened to fall into a pub and 2 pints of Guinness extra cold just seemed to find their way to the bar in front of us. It'd have been rude not to! Just as we were finishing up, Top Gear came on the pub's tv screen, so we legged it home to watch the boys having a bit of fun with clapped out cars accross Namibia. We were going to watch the dance-off part of Strictly Come Dancing, but Dan was so clueless as to who anybody was; that's Sam Fox isn't it - no it's Leiticia Dean, isn't that John Curry - err no I think he's dead (he meant Brendan Cole anyway!) that we gave up before anyone set foot on the dancefloor! Another chilled out day in the holiday zone!