Cotswold

Cotswold

Following our stay in the New Forest, we then decamped, moving over to the Cotswolds.  I thought that we might try a BnB with an attached (and attractive) restaurant.  Better to rest our weary legs after a long day hiking.  Our chosen venue was the 

Mildred

Mildred

I should have known better. So I say with hindsight.  Although, I should come to learn about suspicious signs. Like if the staff seem a bit too aloof.  Then again, maybe it is just my face. Or if the fellow customers tend to lean towards 

Bluebird Brothers

Bluebird Brothers

Usually when people laugh in my face, it is after I get to know them.  Usually after about an hour. This time, it was within 30 seconds of stepping in. Bluebird Brothers is an interesting coffee place. It is quite cosy. Maybe it would be 

Bodeans

Bodeans

Desperation makes me do stupid things. I often do ill advised things without such emotional baggage but the weight of despondency and despair makes thing particularly idiotic. Like that time I ate that chicken sashimi in famished hunger. Or perhaps that time I thought it 

Brunswick East

Brunswick East

There is definitely something to be said for creating expectation. Look at that decal.  Promisingly, something not mainstream. Motif repeated on rather snazzy copper plaque at the door if you missed it. The theme continues into the waiting room.  Got to keep it real.  Some