We Get Some New Residents

During the night the dour weather hitting the West of Britain finally caught up with us. We woke to a dark grey rainy morning. Mustn't complain though, we've had some great sunny warm days over the last two months since we've been home from our travels. The garden is desperate for rain and I need the soil moist to be able to plant some spring bulbs.

There's not much to be done outside today so after my morning swim and when 'Himself' had finished cleaning out the fish tank we decided to go out. The tank needs some new lighting and our fish stocks of little guppies had dwindled to five. So we needed to hit the Aquatic stores.

First though, lunch. We decide to try one of the new food outlet that have opened up across the 'Boro during the Summer. This one is a  new build  Pub on a brand new housing estate called Cardea. The Pub is called The Apple Cart'. As soon as you push the doors open you can smell the newness. Allot of wood has been used in the decor and that's the predominate smell. The decor was disappointing for a brand new building. It was done with no flair, almost a 1980's style decor and with such a mismatch number of prints and photograph crammed on all the empty wall spaces. 

 It's seems a friendly place though. The waiter showed us to a table and explained how they worked. Most pubs of this sort have a table number and you decide on the food you want and order at the bar. This system was a table waiting service. The food came quickly after we ordered. The menu was quite large and varied but with a pub of this size serving mainly food it had to be bulk ordered and mostly pre-cooked. 

Lots of seating outside but not for today!

eclectic styling somewhat retro!

They had a good selection of beers.

 After lunch we walked across to the brand new Morrisons store serving the estate to do some shopping. The problem with shopping with 'Himself' is that I find food in the trolley that is luxury not necessity and my bill gets expensive! The store holds no surprises. All these new food stores are built in the same style.

Three aquatic stores later we have a stylish new 'intelligent' lighting system for the Orb fish tank and a dozen new colourful residents.

Darned fish refuse to pose!