Beverley And Drewton Farm Shop

Another trip out with my support worker today. I saw my first snow of the winter as we drove over The Wolds, but it was mainly sunny in Beverley. My legs are much improved, I only wore the minimum amount of strapping, but am still struggling with climbing stairs though.

We struggled to find a pub where we could have lunch and so went to the cafe at Brown's department store. I had fish and chips, which was okay, but the seats were very uncomfortable.

Later on I bought a game pie from a butcher's shop.

On the way back home we called in at Drewton Farm shop for tea and cake at the cafe - I bought a couple of things for later at the shop. 

There's a decent view of The Wolds  from the car park.

Hemswell Antiques Centre and Gainsborough

I booked my support worker for a day out today and since the weather forecast was looking rather miserable the plan was to go to the antiques centre at Hemswell Cliff, a few miles east of Gainsborough. That's what we did, since it's the default option for rainy days, but the weather was much better than expected and so we only stayed there for a couple of hours before going to Gainsborough to have a look round.

We stopped at the Trent Port pub en route for breakfast but we won't be going there again; we were treated rather rudely because Siobhan was struggling to use the vehicle registration parking permit system which they've implemented to prevent dogwalkers from using the pub car park.

I'm not sure how many separate buildings there are that are being used as antique centres at Hemswell Cliff; it must be maybe six or eight...of differing quality. [It's an old RAF base.] We only went inside three of them, and only climbed up to the first floor in one of them - my legs, which aren't strapped up as much now as they used to be, managed okay.

We went in the charity shops, and a few other shops in Gainsborough. I bought a Shrewsbury biscuit from one of the bakeries - the women who served me was very patronising because I pronounced 'Shrewsbury' differently to what she does. I've never seen a Shrewsbury biscuit before; it's a large shortbread biscuit with a chocolate design on it.

We found a nice coffee shop down by the river which has a lovely terrace which will be nice to sit out on in the summer; we ate our tea and cakes inside though.