Cosy Cafe Eastleigh

We had various reasons to head over to Eastleigh at the weekend, so popped into the Swan Centre, and opportunistically found the Cosy Café just round the corner from the car park.

Initially thought it was a bit of a large greasy spoon, but turned out to be really quick and friendly service, and very good value.

We both had the smaller cooked breakfast (as fancied fried bread),

Basic but good!

but their all day pancake menu looked yummy.

Yummy pancake menu

For next time!.......

Went for a wander around the small but compact shopping centre (we both like it there) then went off on chores.

Took Peggy and Jessie for a very nice walk along Chilling beachfront.

The boss/2nd boss/3rd boss. And Jan last...! How rude!

When the sun came out it was glorious, intercepted by the odd rain shower.

Jess enjoyed herself chasing the geese.

Polly had a quiet afternoon snoozing on the sofa.

Polly sniffing out the sausage from her mum's pocket

Peggy waiting for Polly to be told off!

Which she seems to manage to get up on quite easily when she is by herself!

All for this week! x

Mums friend!

Mums view!

Piggys Cafe Woolston. Thorpe Park. Battersea Dogs Home..........

Busy few days at the beginning of the month! We went up to Piggys café in Woolston for breakfast on the Saturday.

Piggys Cafe

Got there for 0900 - good job as it filled up quickly. From what we can gather it is renowned for its milkshakes,

The yummy milkshake menu

but we settled for cooked breakfast for Margaret and pancakes for Jan. Good value for money (though the pancakes a bit dry).

Nice little café. Full of piggy ornaments, but fast and friendly service.

Piggy ornaments! (Margaret on Left, Jan on Right!!)

Monday we headed up the motorway to Thorpe Park (as Jan gained free tickets!).

Rainy day - but we were lucky and it held off while we were there.

Straight in and did about four rides in quick succession... Luckily we hadn't eaten breakfast!Margaret is much braver than Jan though - she wanted to do the bigger rides

Scarey ride for Margaret...

 but Jan liked the wet ones!

Water ride for Jan

 Had cheesy chips for brunch (forgot the photo - but it started raining heavily by then). Being that we did the water rides first it didn't matter as we were wet!

Jan had pre-decided that we must visit the Battersea Dogs Home at Old Windsor, as it was only 10 minutes up the road.

What a lovely place! The staff were so welcoming, and it was so quiet in the kennels, as the dogs were obviously so well cared for and content. So many lovely dogs of all shapes and sizes.

Toothy!

Aww

Polly and Patch!!

Polly and Peggy were lucky they didn't end up with 10 new companions!!

We all survived Halloween and Fireworks night.

Jessies scarey Halloween photo

Not too scarey!

Jessie and Polly seem worse affected...... Polly only settles on her mums lap.

Scared Polly

Peggy had an op to remove a large lump,

Miserable

Wonky shaving round op site

and they threw in a tooth removal/dental check, so she had a couple of miserable days with Polly looking after her,

Nurse Polly (yeah right - after leftovers really!)

but has bounced back quite quickly.

We didn't meet up much for dog walks, so Jessie has been taking it easy.

That's it for now - about a week behind so another entry coming in the next few days!!

x

Yo Dude Jakey!! x

Elsie's Tearoom Botley and BayTree Cafe Poole

Sorry we have been off the radar for a couple of weeks but sometimes duties get in the way. Jan had to do couple of weeks doing flu clinics and then Jan and her friend Heidi did the Run or Dye 5 km run. Can't understand why she thought this was more fun than having brekkie with me.

Last Saturday we went to Botley to Elsie's Tearoom. We were following up a recommendation and it was very nice. Quite different, old fashioned and very pretty. Elsie's only opened in August to give local people somewhere different to eat and drink. 

Elsie's is just after going through Botley from the Mill end and on the left hand side. There is a car park just past on the same side of the road. You would need to be looking out for it. They had a very nice menu which was healthier than our usual Saturday brekkies.

Scrambled eggs for Jan and cheese on toast with home made chutney for me.


Very tasty

Each cost £4.20,  coffee extra.

If you do still feel hungry after that, they do sell lovely cakes as well.

We managed to walk off some calories later. We took Peggy and Jessie for a walk round a local farm. Jan likes to visit the horses. Me, I keep my distance because I'm a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to horses. 

Bit of a bad hair day I would say!

Me busy trying to keep Jessie safely on her lead away from those big feet but as soon as I think we are at a safe distance she shoots off back to say hello. Didn't get trampled though.

Wobbly Polly had to stay home though.  We do get her out on short walks but that one would have been too much for her.

This Saturday Jan needed to make a visit down to Poole so we combined it with a brekkie trip. We just picked something off the Internet. We went to the Bay Tree Cafe in Poole. We had a very nice breakfast. We both went for the Eggs Benedict with bacon which was very tasty. We are doing very well lately, ages since we had a fat laden full English. Our arteries must be pleased. I think we will be getting withdrawal symptoms very soon.

 That is about all for this week, more soon....................Margaret x