shewhomust | A keepsake and a kiss (Reply)

And girl it looks so pretty to me
Like it always did
Oh like the Spanish City to me
When we were kids

On Monday, for my birthday treat, we went to the seaside.

We spent the day in Whitley Bay: a bright, breezy stroll along the front, brunch in Valerie's Tearoom at the Spanish City, and then we hit the shops... Fewer artisan speciality shops than I had expected, but plenty of charity shops, and

durham_rambler indulged me, so we went into them all. And bought a surprising variety of books: from a nice little copy of Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters to Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great, and even a detective story for

durham_rambler (a Martin Edwards, whose title escapes me at the moment).

Then we came home, and I cooked a fennel risotto and opened a bottle of Jurançon. A day well spent.