Mantelpiece  by happypat

Mantelpiece

Lunch out with friends today, boiled egg for supper tonight!!
Our local Inn goes from strength to strength and is a very upmarket looking place. An ambitious couple who own it, they have extended and renovated the whole place in the last few years and it looks just fabulous.
Quirky and different with lots of fascinating pictures and individual 'stuff' which makes it a pleasure to visit.
We are so lucky to have somewhere on our doorstep like that & so friendly too, just a great atmosphere.

Three good things:
1. Guardian Eyewitness; great daily photo on iPad with Exif.
2. A really easy to read book but with a gripping tale called 'Before We Met' by Lucy Whitehouse. Cheap on Kindle.
3. My knee is slightly better today.
This taste of the eating place shows it stylish and inviting, and restful too. Glad your knee is getting better.
May 29th, 2014  
How lovely - nice to have somewhere nearby.
May 29th, 2014  
It looks so homely - I'm surprised anyone goes home. You have captured the warmth beautifully.
May 29th, 2014  
Nice shot, love these cafes/pubs that have interesting things around and about.. is that your 'cow parsley' on the wall paper?..
May 29th, 2014  
What great warmth this place has
May 29th, 2014  
@julzmaioro yes a cow parsley wallpaper Julz! Good observation!
May 29th, 2014  
I've never seen this photo - its quite hilarious! Can you walk to this pub? I would love to have a pub like this down the road!
May 29th, 2014  
@maggiemae yes you can walk but might take 20minutes! Google it called The Cartford Inn.
May 29th, 2014  
Out village pub has just been taken over; so far so brilliant, it has really brought the village together. I like this, shows a sense of humour.
What did you do to your knee? I know I probably know so do feel free to ignore
May 29th, 2014  
Love the angel propped up against the bottle and fab picture. How did you get your exif info? Pray tell .......... Lucky tomhave such a wonderful quirky and cosy looking pub :-)
May 29th, 2014  
@lucypics Jack put me on the Guardian app....when the daily photo comes up you can press the info button & it usually tells you the camera, ISO etc...not always but quite a few. Brilliant photos too aren't they?
May 29th, 2014  
Glad the knee is improving. This looks a lovely place - you are definitely lucky to have a good pub. The picture is hilarious! Shed will be fine - it's 'bespoke' with two halves - one for bikes and one for tools and it's the bike half that is a bit tight for size. Initially they offered to reduce it to the price that they would have charged for a smaller one anyway so I wasn't impressed by that & we decided they could remake it. Then they said 6-8 weeks for another one and that would be all summer with a huge tent on the lawn (with shed contents inside) so I told them a much lower figure to keep the current one and they agreed. Hope it's the right decision!
May 29th, 2014  
@judithg their mistake then...I was thinking you might have measured wrong! As long as it will hold 4 bikes ? Kids will have cars soon so no worries!
May 29th, 2014  
@happypat oh yes - definitely theirs - I panicked in case the dimensions included the roof overhang or something but no - I said to the lads that I had had to move a flag so that the base was big enough and then they put a base down that was 6" smaller!
May 29th, 2014  
@judithg how frustrating & all the care & thought you put into your choice....never mind you having sleepless nights I bet they did too!
May 29th, 2014  
@happypat the lads who built it told me they had had 20% increase in sales every month since the middle of 2011 so I think they probably have too much work - but ours is such an unusual design you'd think they'd have double checked!
May 29th, 2014  
very retro and artistic me thinks Pat
May 29th, 2014  
@claireuk I half fell of a chair while shutting the Velux window in the top bedroom Claire....I have ordered a pole since so no more mishaps. My shoulder is worse today...I have 'ironing ' shoulder ha ha!
May 30th, 2014  
Just by looking at that painting it really does look like a lovely place
May 30th, 2014  
Brilliant photo. Looks like a pub with a sense of humour what a lovely atmosphere.
May 30th, 2014  
Wonderful shot, lots to look at, the painting is very interesting and tells a funny story. Glad to hear your knee is getting better.
May 30th, 2014  
How nice to have a friendly to local pub meet up .I like the picture on the mantle . btw hope your knee continues to get better Pat
May 30th, 2014  
Looks great, and I love the painting
May 30th, 2014  
Very cosy image
June 4th, 2014  
Glad your knee is getting better!
Interesting mantle!!! :)
June 4th, 2014  
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