Happy Birthday to me Part II

Thank you all for the birthday wishes to my earlier post. You are all very kind and I had such a lovely relaxing sort of birthday.


When we arrived in Preston our first thought, of course was food. So we ate at DUK, and had lots of lovely Tapas food- the photo is a bit dark because a) we were underground in a cellar so no natural light and b) I did not like the one I took with my flash!
The food was excellent and we were too stuffed for dessert!
Then a walk around Preston. I have known Shan for 23 years and have been popping up to Preston for most of that time. The buildings are very grand and the shops were busy. We went to the Harris Museum and Art Gallery which is a Grade 1 listed Neo Classical building completed in 1893.

We went to see a painting I had heard of 'Pauline in the yellow dress' painted by Sir James Gunn in 1944 and next to it was the yellow dress his wife wore in the portrait.
We called in PAD Gallery too for some inspiration. Lots of lovely arts and crafts on display there.

Shan had bought me a gift card for Waterstones-she knows me so well. So we went and I spent ages looking at the books before picking some light hearted novels by Jack Sheffield about a teacher in the 1970's in a small North Yorkshire village school.

Then back to Shan's for a slice of cake and cup of coffee. It is years since anyone has baked me a birthday cake and she had done two! One mini one for us to share and a BIG one for me to take home. Thank you Shan!