Sunday night we got back from a trip to Nottingham to attend the National AGM of Butterfly Conservation - and Julia kindly offered to put us up. Fortunately she lives in a nice house, not a large hollowed out oak in the Forest. So we had a very comfortable stay. After a somewhat stressful journey up, she took us out for an Indian meal at The Himalayan.
http://www.himalayaninn.com/
The restaurant was very smart, the staff charming and efficient, and I had one of my favourites - a paneer curry, followed by Kulfi ice-cream. They even let us take the little pot the Kulfi came in home with us. Captain B wants it for a marmalade pot - in which is homemade marmalade can be housed in state.
Thoroughly recommended - we would go there again the next time we are staying with Julia.
We got to the AGM on Saturday - the venue was The Nottingham Belfry Hotel - very organised - they did a good job. Some of the talks were a bit too dry and graphy for me. I really like ones with lots of pretty butterflies landing on equally pretty flowers - but possibly my tastes should not be pandered to. Jim (Asher) got the morning's business done in an exemplary and interesting manner, and Nigel, our new National Treasurer (and Treasure) coped fine with a computer glitch that robbed him of all his slides.
And one of the Awardees was Jamie from West Sussex. That was what gave me the incentive to get up there - along with being able to see Julia.
We had a good drive back on Sunday - through some lovely Autumn sunshine, and showers.
Today we shopped in the morning - took Jackie's shopping round to her and stopped for a coffee and a catch up. Then we had lunch - soup, veggie - and I made a big fruit cake in case it is going to be needed at the local AGM on Saturday. (It will come in for the sandwich lunches if not.) And I bit the bullet and got down to the load of butterfly paperwork that arrived on Friday morning just as we were leaving.
Six new Membership packages are now ready to go to the Post Office.
And I managed a bit of studying. So a busy enough day - for me - these days.
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