Happy Anniversary 'House'

Today, we have lived in our house for forty years and we still love it. So today should have been a happy day, instead I have had the grumpies. I hate going to the hairdressers since mine sold her shop I find it stressful and haven't had a good cut since. So, to cheer me up, I suggested to Bri that we should 'do lunch' somewhere new for a change. Big Mistake!! We tried the Butlers Arms which we pass on our regular route to the garden centre. We point at it each time we pass and say, 'we should try it out'.
It was grim in there to say the least, being cold, dark and dreary, still we stayed, hopeful of at least there being something different on the menu. I ordered warm black pudding salad with apple and sauteed potatoes and a poached egg on top. When it came, it was a very small portion and covered in a vinaigrette dressing, so covered, that my tongue is still pickled andI am still hungry! Bri ordered a pea and tomato tortellini which was o.k but nothing out of the ordinary. Not exactly of Master chef class. No bread accompanied it until I asked the waiter. However, it was only lunch and at £5 per head not unreasonably priced.
We have decided to stick to our old haunts where we know for sure that we are going to get a good meal our favourite being Bromley Hayes Garden Centre which specialises in really good carvery lunches, steak and kidney pie, chicken and leek pie with great suet pastry, all home made. That's more like it, comfort food! But, coming home to our little house wth our happy little Molly made everything just fine.