A six legged cow and other things.

Haven't posted for a week or so, this entry will cover a couple of things. Dear old Norfolk beckoned again so off I went driving miles & miles  spending the night at the George Hotel near Norwich again. It's a Best Western hotel, perfectly adequate in all respects.   A pint of 'Fork Handles' from Elgoods Brewery near Kings Lynn helped me wade through emails, 4.5% of nectar.
It seemed that Whitebait was off every menu for years and years, I don't know whether its the 'in' thing to eat but its back with a vengeance, which is a good thing. I like Whitebait & had it as my starter followed by a very good Sirloin steak cooked rare, the only way a steak should be cooked really!

 

A treat on Friday evening as we were off to see a band at The Grove Theatre. It was the Illegal Eagles, a tribute band to none other than .....The Eagles. Now you know I like a tribute band, on Planet Rock Wyatt Wendell one of the DJ's reckons that there is only a point to having a tribute band if the original is no longer around otherwise why not see the original. He has a point  but when The Eagles last toured in the UK tickets were £100 upwards, far dearer  than I'd be prepared to pay so if there's a good tribute act...... well why not?  This lot were very good, the band are celebrating their 20th anniversary , though their line up has changed the legendary Danny Vaughn was with them the first time we saw them.
They played all the old barnstormers you'd expect 'Life in the fast lane,' Take it to the limit,' Lyin'eyes,' 'Hotel California, 'Desperado,' 'Heartache Tonight' et al. They are aiming to play all the tracks from the album 'Hotel California'  at their gigs as it's the  40th anniversary of the release  of this album though I can't remember which track they played apart from the title track of course!
This line up played more from the Eagles back catalogue maybe. Not always a bad thing but alot of the tracks were of a similar tempo so it wasn't the best gig we'd seen them do but a good night nonetheless.

It was all go that weekend as on the Bank Holiday Monday we had a get together at home for Ella & Julian's Birthdays. We were joined by Paul & Kate, Tim, Olly & Laura & Gary & Ellie so it made for a very pleasant  afternoon. The Memsahib gave the food a Mexican slant with home made pulled pork with Chipotle sauce ( pork shoulder cooked for  8 hours!), home made Guacamole & Salsa, sour cream, chicken, wraps, salad etc and puds included  a very nice homemade Banana cake. All delicious!

Home made Guacamole

Laura & Tara get some eats.

Pulled Pork.

  Back to the grind  again & off to Shropshire. Stayed again  at The Lion Hotel in central Shrewsbury. All the beers were off! All three! Someone said they didn't taste right so were taken off sale, the barman said I could try them if I wanted but I was quite happy to go along with the opinion of whoever took them off so slummed it on Cider then a glass of red. Eat in the bar again & had Whitebait for starter ( see what I mean) then a mixed grill. It was reasonably good though no lamb chop so extra steak and gammon. Egg was a bit over cooked but on the whole a nice meal.
Oh yes, the six legged cow. I was driving through Shropshire and was convinced there was a six legged Friesian cow in amongst others in a field. Bare I mind I could only glance over as I was driving, as I drove further along and got a slightly different view I could see it was actually two four legged cows standing one in front of the other overlapping in such a way as to make it look like one six legged cow. The markings matched up perfectly. So another mystery solved.