25 October - Bumpkin & Pumpin'

Sometimes you just have to go eat somewhere simple but you still spend short of £150. Easily done if your humble trio of radishes or beetroot (age alert, took me asking a colleague about 'that wine coloured vegetable you eat sometimes and that stains everywhere if you get the juice on it, what's its name?' to remember the word) is £7. But am not complaining, Bumpkin gets my vote, the staff were very nice. The we went to nearby The Oak, then we went to the William IV which was a bit dead, and then we went to The Regent and danced a little. Toph was very self-congratulatory about the fact that all our friends who are ten years younger were claiming to be too tired to go out/do something. Either it's true or they simply didn't want our company. Hard to believe I know...

The boy would have happily checked out the nearby Paradise too but I dragged him home. I am older than him. I think the motor is fine but I had had some minor surgery after all and bed was calling.