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.
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