Making Good Use: Lunch - Neuf Point, Charity Shops

06/27/2012

Lunch - Neuf Point, Charity Shops - Nul Point

Check out that blue sky - woohoo!!

I had the most delicious birthday lunch in Leigh on Sea at The Boatyard. As the weather was totally gorgeous (am sporting slightly sunburnt forearms today as a result,) we sat out on the Deck

And - like Otis Reading - watched the tide come in.

This boat was sailing along an impossibly small channel of water within feet of where we were sitting. Quite a surreal experience.

Passing the same two boats as in the second photo .

The food was delish - I had a warm flatbread with shredded duck on salad leaves with a plum compote, P also had a warm flatbread but with a crayfish salad. And we both shared a platter of Greek meze - very yummy and just the thing for a sunny summer's day.

Leigh on Sea itself was lovely with some excellent independent shops in the town ( though it was sad to find that Roses and Rue had, indeed, closed down.) Sadly, the charity shops were absolute pants!! I trawled all nine that I could find and only came home with a Monsoon sleeveless shirt for myself - and that cost me £5.99!!!! It is very nice though and fits like a dream and I know it would have cost a heck of a lot more when it was new.

P, as always in a charity shop, was perusing the mens' shirts and was somewhat taken aback that the average price they were asking was £7.99. Luckily, we found two very nice pure cotton shirts for him this morning on the £1.00 rail in one of our local high street chazzas.

Thank you so much for all your kind birthday wishes yesterday, too. They certainly contributed to me having a really lovely day.

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