The forecast was for another scorcher of a day today with the temperatures even higher than yesterday. This is so rare for the UK to have a hot Bank Holiday weekend! The seaside resorts must be rubbing their hands in glee!
As is now the custom on a Sunday, we took Sophie to the gym and went off in search of the papers. We also needed to buy some crumpets for breakfast so we went to Aldi on the Wellingborough road but even though it was several minutes past 10am, they weren't open. We went instead to the Aldi by B&Q and Keith popped in as I was dressed like a bag lady!
On the way back to get Sophie we drove around Brackmills and I said that Keith should really contact someone at Stanley Black and Decker who could show him around the new building, which is huge!
After picking Sophie up we headed home for a late breakfast of crumpets and then it was time for showers as we had decided to go to and look at the showhouses on the old university campus. Before we drove over we took the Sunday papers around to my Mum and Dad's house and my Mum said her knee was a lot better with the heat patches.
Sophie couldn't believe the amount of houses that had gone up on the old campus and there were already people living in some of them! The sales woman was showing people around a house so we wandered about until she was finished. A lot of the houses looked really small and they were crammed in very tightly!
We looked at a five bedroom house on the development and we were very surprised to see it had a separate, small dining room. The living room was also small but we did like the kitchen which had space for a table and four chairs as well as a sofa. Upstairs the bedrooms were quite small with the fifth converted into a study. When we looked out of the windows we were able to see into loads of other gardens, including the one right next to the showhome where the couple living there were sunbathing!
We had a chat with the sales woman and made up a story about my parents looking for a smaller house to live in! Luckily, she wasn't the regular sales woman so after having a chat, we headed back to the car and drove to Beckworth. It was very hot indeed and the temperature was about 32c.
There was no queue for the cafe and we were seated in the conservatory area, half of which was roped off as they were so quiet. We enjoyed a glass of Rose with a savoury cheese scone each and a bottle of sparkling water to quench our thirst!
Afterwards I half-heartedly looked around the plants but the thought of putting in winter flowering pansies now was not a good one - they are not keen on the heat!
Back home we sat in the garden and abandoned dinner. We were supposed to have had curry but as there was only three of us and none of fancied anything hot, we decided to have a snack instead!
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