A Couple of Days at Armitage

Tuesday 24^th April

We are staying put again today as we are still waiting for our laptop to be fixed.  It needs a new hard drive so probably won’t be fixed until Thursday.  It wasn’t a vey nice day and rain was forecast so we decided to have a day on the boat.  Kev is doing up a table for the front so he spent some time rubbing it down and putting on undercoat, I did some emails and generally we just chilled out.  We went out for a walk in the afternoon and then just chilled out for the rest of the day.

Wednesday 25^th April

It was a better day today weather wise so we went for a walk along the towpath and up into the village of Armitage to the Butchers and Bakers shop there.  There was a few caches on this stretch so we did them as we walked along.  We bought a few things then walked back down the road to the Plum Pudding Italian restaurant and had a spot of lunch.  They do a full menu but also they do a bar menu so we had a few dishes from that menu, they do belly pork in honey which is absolutely delicious and a really good charcuterie board, they also have a good gin menu and I had Strawberry Gin called Puerto de Indias from Spain and lovely it was too.

We were walking back to the boat and the sky went very dark and we had a short sharp shower, we ran for cover under the road bridge and chatted to a man with two lovely dogs which were Coltrievers (cross between a Collie and a Retriever), the rain stopped so we all carried on and we hadn’t got far when the heavens opened again and we got soaked, luckily it only lasted a few minutes and then the sun came out.  We got back to the boat and chilled out for the rest of the day.  Joe the chap who is mending our laptop rang to say he had got the hard drive and was working on it.  Hopefully the laptop should be ready by tomorrow.