After work this evening, Sophie was meeting some friends at TGI Fridays at Sixfields so Keith and I decided to drop her off and then go for a drink at a pub in Blisworth called The Walnut Tree Inn.
First of all we had to pick Mike up from Brixworth and have something to eat which felt a bit strange as we almost never eat before going out for a drink!
Mike elected to stay at home so after dropping Sophie off at the restaurant we drove to Blisworth, about fifteen minutes away. I knew I should have researched where the pub was but thought it would be easy to find in the village...how wrong I was! We drove along every street and found one pub called The Royal Oak, but no sign of The Walnut Tree!
In desperation we turned Gladys on and after a few moments she started barking instructions at us as we turned down a road that led to the Blisworth Arm, near to the Grand Union canal. Luckily, as we drove along the pub appeared on the left and we managed to take the last parking space outside the front.
The Walnut Tree is also a hotel and although the bar was quiet there were quite a few people eating in the restaurant. We had a very relaxed couple of hours sitting on bar stools and chatting about our holiday in Scotland. We both decided that maybe in September we'll try and get away for a weekend, just the two of us but we didn't know where we would go...somewhere different perhaps?
At 10pm we picked Sophie up from seeing her friends and she'd also had a good night. We drove home and then all of us sat in the conservatory and Keith and I tried a wee dram of the Singleton Sunray that I'd bought at the Talisker distillery. It was beautiful!
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