Home again!

There’s no place like home…home sweet home…lots of phrases describe that feeling that whilst it’s lovely to go away, it’s also lovely to come home again. We’ve had a very quick trip to the far north of England to celebrate a long-delayed wedding of some young friends. They were caught up in the delays of the pandemic and this was the third date that they had set for the wedding. Third time lucky! Our hotel offered some new tastes for us in food as well as decor.. Ham hock terrine was served with pease pudding which was something I’d never tasted. It was delicious and described as being made from yellow split peas. Stotties were on the menu but not available that evening so I still needed to know what they were and the waitress described them as very flat bread rolls cooked on the base of the oven, for creating a very large sandwich, maybe looking a bit like a pitta bread ? It’s the first time I’d stayed in a purple room…carpet, walls, ceiling….you get the idea. I had to leave a light on overnight as it was so dark! Dimmer switches were unhelpful even in the daytime, but boutique-chic is probably the goal. Home again after a quick trip to the Scottish border for a photo in the extreme chill, this was only our second big journey since we went to South Carolina 2 years ago. Roll on normality x