Sue’s birthday was on a Friday this year
and so I managed to get us tickets for lunch at Sorrels, our local fine dining
restaurant in Dorking. We had their taster menu with paired wines and felt
thoroughly spoilt. I don’t usually get moved that much by food, however I do
enjoy these taster events – it is more like food theatre (visuals, smells,
textures and tastes all wonderfully and surprisingly orchestrated into
something that transcends food).
That evening we went to Guildford as I
had got us tickets for an open-air performance of Robin Hood which was held in
the old castle quarry in a perfect tree surrounded glade. We picnicked in the
grounds and had a very entertaining evening.
On the Saturday, we had arranged for a
few friends to come around for a BBQ in our garden, and in the morning, we
found we had some uninvited guests – a swarm of bees had taken up residence in
a small tree in the veggie garden. Luckily there is a service via the bee
keeper’s association where you can ring up local apiarists who came and capture
them for relocation. Mike came with all his gear and shook most the swarm into
a box. He had to leave it over night to let the remaining bees return from
foraging and settle down in it. I closed the door that night and by the morning
it had gone. A few stragglers have remained on the tree, but we have been
assured they will move on.
Sunday, we drove out to the Cranleigh Agricultural Show and mooched about in the blazing sun looking at animals, farm
machinery, craft and food stalls, and demonstrations in the arena.
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