I’ve had a really quiet weekend, which has been blissful. A bit of family stuff, a bit of tidying stuff and a bit of relaxing stuff. Thanks to a gum abscess I’m off alcohol for 5 days, so there’s been lots of cups of tea. I’ve quite enjoyed the forced abstinence and am going to try and use it to kick-start a ‘nearly dry July’. Not completely stopping, but cutting out drinking in the week as much as poss. Unless there’s a really good reason. Trouble is, a sunny London evening usually is a really good reason.
A quiet weekend was definitely needed after the We Are Friday Summer party last weekend. After leaving The Peartree we went to The Dome Garden in The Forest of Dean. It’s an eco-site, with fixed domes and beds with proper bedding. It was a brilliant weekend of glamping, fun and laughter, with more than a fair amount of alcohol thrown in.
We were really lucky with the weather- no rain until we were leaving, so there was lots of lying around in the sun and sitting around the enormous fire pit in the evening. Also, a very, very funny game of Cards Against Humanity. Less said about that the better 🙂
There was biking, canooing and kyaking activities laid on, but after a bit of a late (ahem…!) night on the Friday they seemed like far too strenuous pursuits so I hung around the campsite chilling out. It really is a lovely site and quite magical when the big fire is lit.
We had two nights in the dome. Ours was a fixed, concrete one with a separate bathroom, which was good as it didn’t get searingly hot in there in the morning or during the day. Definitely the 5* accomodation! Mind you, you had to make a fire to heat the water, so not a lot of showering went on in our dome. Getting a hot shower and climbing straight into clean pyjamas when we got home felt like heaven.
Note: I didn’t take many pictures so two of these are from The Dome Garden website. You can probably guess which two.
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