Summer in the city.

Had a fairly chilled day if that is possible in this heat and in the city.

We walked down the road to the main Gloucester Road shopping area with a list of requirements but we stopped at Boston Tea Party ( great place for Brunch) for iced Coffee and the continued down to a pub called The Grace. This is newly named and used to be The Robin Hood. It was the nearest pub to G & J's former flat but we never ate there as it was a bit pricey. Grace obviously thought they had named it after her but it was I fact named after W. G. Grace the cricketer.

A tapas style lunch in the newly vamped beer garden with a glass of cider was very pleasant before continuing our shopping.

A bus back up the hill brought us to The Inn on the Green, the new local where we managed a second cider before hitting home.

The shop in the picture is one of our favourites selling art and craft work by local artists. Paper art seems to be very popular at the moment and Grace has gleaned ideas of some of the things she would like to make. (Last year she made decorative paper windmills as favours for,the ladies at her wedding.)

The flowers in the bath have come along wonderfully since I was last here in June but the bath chair seems to have disappeared.