Last Thursday, I had grand plans for getting my hair cut in the morning before arriving in Horsham around lunchtime. I completely failed at the former, and turned up late afternoon just before the commuter rush. This did rather set the theme for the weekend.
Good Friday morning was a figment of my (and
On Saturday, we all got up bright and early to head to Arundel castle, except
On Sunday, this year we didn't go along to the dawn Easter service that St Johns has run the past few years (for that matter, I'm not sure it was happening this year). The main Easter service itself was good, with a suitably entertaining sermon on the proof that the stone was moved (complete with carefully-chosen heckler). We then trundled back into town for a grand lunch at Côte, and were originally planning to explore more of the Italian festival but found out that it wasn't actually happening on the Sunday - just Friday, Saturday and Monday. The afternoon was spent again at the grandparents, where a sort of Easter tea with nibbles and chocolates went down quite well.
Yesterday, we successfully left bright and early to head down to Arundel, expecting to be delayed by vast amounts of Easter traffic but instead finding an almost complete lack of traffic on the A27. Even the weird bit where the dual carriageway ends at half a roundabout (the council never finished the bypass) was empty, and that always has a long queue. Since we'd gotten to Arundel earlier than expected we pottered around the sleepy town and had a cup of tea (or coffee) and bit of toast in a cafe By the time the castle had actually opened the sun had disappeared behind the clouds and we decided that it was too cold. So we continued on to Fareham, and decided to visit Explosion in Gosport (well worth a visit). We explored about half the museum before pausing for lunch, and decided that it was a bit chilly in the cafe there. So we changed plan (again), and trundled along to a local pub that's normally very good. This time, they seemed to be having something of an off day. Sigh.