The Old Unicorn (Leeds, West Yorkshire)
We didn’t have breakfast this morning, beta offered to buy it for us, so we left early enough to see her for 10am. The morning traffic was non-existent so we arrived early. The wife used Greta to direct us and soon we were outside her house. Something was strange, I was sure that the door used to be white, and I couldn’t remember it having metal bars over it. The wife said that she was sure there used to be grass not concrete.
The wife banged on the door, but nothing happened. We were expecting beta to come running out, thought she might jump on nellie and hug her. But nothing. Was we at the right house? We rang beta and said we were outside, but she said we were not. Then we knew, were were in the wrong street.
Who ever named the area decided it might be fun to have very similar named “Duckford Crescent”, “Duckford Avenue”, “Duckford Deadend”, and we were parallel with the correct street. We moved quickly and went to the correct address.
At last we were in the right place, after a few hugs and stuff, it was time for breakfast. We took a walk and got to ‘Frankie and Benny’ which could not do any cooking due to an extractor fan failure. By the time we walked to MacDonalds they had stopped doing breakfast. So we walked back to the car and drove to the Unicorn.
Beta paid for us to have a great fried breakfast, I took a few photos, which always makes people stare at you (why would someone want to have a picture of the carpet?)
After breakfast we went back to beta’s and chatted a lot, finally early evening came so we went into town and went to the hell hole that is Primark. A shop that makes a jumble sale look organised. There was so many people (Leeds is bigger than Ashford), the girls bought shoes (not really a shock here)
We eat at an Indian restaurant, which was really good. They cooked a huge family naan, which made us feel so stuffed that we skipped desert. As early evening fell we left. Greta took us down the M1 (rather than A1M) so we didn’t even see the OK dinner on the way back. Halfway and the wife asks me if we should “pop in” and see gamma (he lives in Exeter), I said ‘why not’, but we didn’t. Maybe next time.
The traffic was pretty good (as it was late), and we got home just around midnight.
Lovely day, and Nellie is now with her new owner. Let’s hope Beta can pass the test soon.
