90 years young

Well, hello there!  How are you?  Well, I hope!  Today, is the first Monday of half-term and it is bliss not to have to get up hideously early or go to school!  Inspiration Monday today was a total last minute thing as I had 1 hour in which to practice my flute, get changed, find presents and leave home!
I'm not a fan of the Peplum look being a pear-shaped lady so I went with a slinky sort of black top (Monsoon) and my 12 year old M&S jeans with Peacock black shoes.  You can't see them in the photo but I wore blingy gold strand earrings bought for when I had to have an ancient Greek costume! I added the thrifted polka-dot blazer for warmth! (Excuse errant strap in photo 1!)

 Today was my Grandad's 90th birthday so we went out for birthday celebrations to a pub called The Olde Dog in Herongate, which was a lovely traditional old pub! I can't believe he's 90!  He may be arthritic, finds it hard to walk, can't see very well, but he's got a sharper, keener mind than many teenagers!

He's a real inspiration:  He still does bee-keeping, collecting swarms for members of the public, makes and sells honey, helps out in a local primary school and is interested in all sorts of endeavours, gardening, music and the such-like! Happy Birthday Grandad!


My Mum made this amazing honey cake for him based on the traditional old-fashioned bee-hive using his honey in it! My young niece couldn't get enough of it, despite it being dried fruit soaked in something alcoholic! I'm sadly not keen on fruit cake!  Most people don't use this type of bee-hive nowadays!

The pub was really cosy and the service was great, friendly, helpful staff, nice choices- traditional hearty-pub fare and some more adventurous choices!

I went for lamb cutlets and was presented with the most HUMUNGOUS portion! this is after eating a substantial amount of beans!) .  3 cutlets, loads of creamy mash, green beans, sun-dried tomatoes, gravy...

 It stayed dry luckily though the sky looked rather lugubrious and menacing!

We headed back to my Mum's house where we had cake and tea and I played a little flute performance for my Grandad including a cool Ian Clarke piece called Tuberama which was NOT good to play on a full stomach as it involved MUCH use of the diaphragm muscles and I felt rather weak by the end of it!!!

As I type, the rain has started! Lucky eh?!

Head off to the Twobirds to see how everyone else tackled the Peplum look!