A sophisticated evening out on the town

On Monday we went to Burger & Lobster, a tasty restaurant where we both tried lobster for the first time. The novelty was good and it tasted expensive but the difficulty eating it meant I would choose the lobster roll (basically a lobster hot-dog), which Vicki had, next time.

We then went to the Wydhams theatre in Soho to see Quartermaine's Terms which was very good. The best play I've seen and the first one I would pay to see again. Rowan Atkinson plays an eager but ultimately very lonely St John Quartermaine and the play covers a couple of years at the end of his career as a teacher of English to foreign students in Cambridge in the 1950s.

Reg would have enjoyed it too but he was too fat to fit in the box we had, as you can see from the photo.

Wriggly Tin

Wriggly Tin - 'a slang term for corrugated iron'

Otherwise known as the shepherds hut where we spent the first few days of the Easter break. Jimmy's birthday was Good Friday, and his birthday surprise beginning Easter Monday was two nights staying in a shepherds hut in the middle of a field in Hampshire! A bit risky, but luckily he says he loved it!

Wriggly Tin consists of two very cute and very cosy shepherds huts fully equipped with warm bed and wood burning stove (the bathroom is in another hut across the field!). Our hut, called Butser, was just big enough for the two of us to sleep and cook our breakfast before heading out for the day to enjoy the countryside around us.



We were able to hire bikes, which we made full use of by trying to visit as many villages in one day as we could (we managed 5). It really did make me want to pack up my bags and leave London for the countryside, all the villages so pretty, especially in the sunshine.

Alex, the owner, provided us with a lovely breakfast basket full of local produce which really did taste so much better! Another excellent foodie time was visiting the tearooms in the nearest village of Hambledon, all homemade and very quaint with their collection of over 100 different teapots!


It was a definite wake up call to how much we rely on the everyday mod-cons of electricity and plumbing! But also really peaceful to be completely away from it all, just the two of us. Plus we were blessed with some beautiful weather which always puts a smile on my face!

I found Wriggly Tin on Canopy and Stars, which has lots of 'unique' places to stay including yurts and treehouses - quite keen on trying one of these next!

More info on Wriggly Tin can be found at Alex's website