Polsedon Lacey

Following our first meal out of the new era at Wetherspoons (see 5th November), we have now followed up with a second at Polesden Lacey, where two meals cost perhaps three times what two meals cost at Wetherspoons: quantity about the same, quality rather better. BH had liver with vegetables, I had sausage with vegetables. The mashed potato was really a version of bubble & squeak, there was crinkly cabbage and the whole was quite strongly flavoured with gravy. But fine.

We were interested by the party of tandem cyclists in the canteen at the same time - the drill being that the chap on the front of the tandem could see while the chap on the back was blind. A fine bit of volunteering - I just hope that the chaps on front don't get carried away. I wouldn't like to answer for a tandem in a jam with the chap on the back not being able to see.

We also took the opportunity to visit the nearby fish shop at Bookham. Must be doing OK because we remember visiting the place years and years ago and it is still there - but it is odd that it is almost invisible on the web. Good variety of wet fish, some large crabs, some kippers which I was not too sure about and some smoked haddock which we took. A bit dark for natural (rather than dyed) but the first two thirds did well for lunch today and the last third went down well in the remains of yesterdays chicken fricassée served as soup. A soup which was predominantly yellow, but with highlights of other colours provided by left over vegetables left over from lunch. BH had taken the wise precaution of cooking the haddock before adding it to the chicken with the result that the result was not too salty.

PS: just been rather dismayed to discover that the new template I am using does not seem to include a search button like the last. Nor does Google search seem to get at the blog in the same way that it got at the last. These are features which I make quite a lot of use of so all very tiresome - and all goes to show how things get missed by informal testing.