Last one…

Since we worked together Noemi and I have often driven to lovely places to meet for lunch, she now lives in Poole and I live on the Hampshire/Sussex border so for a second time we met in the New Forest.  Things did not go to plan as flooding kept us from getting to The Pig as we’d planned for a final slap up lovely meal.  And my train was cancelled so I had to double back from Petersfield to Havant to drive over.   

As I pulled off the motorway Noemi rang saying that she was a minute away but the floodwater was so deep there was no access.  The hotel had rung her warning that there ‘might’ be a problem but she said the water was waist deep!  As I came into the area I could see how bad it was.   So we settled for a serviceable gastro pub in Brockenhurst called The Huntsman, which accounts for the arrows in the wall art, where we had a lovely lunch and caught up.  See extra for one of our regular pictures where we try to look as if we are a similar size. 

She’s going on to a great new job and my plans are firming up so, end of an era! 

Got home relatively easily and V and I had a decent dinner and watched another episode of Jackal - which has apparently been recommissioned.