The Pryordurkins

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With nearly seven hundred driven miles under our belts we are back at home having made fleeting visits to relatives in the south of the country.  Starting out on Friday we headed off to Bury St Edmonds for a Durkin family lunch, before spending the night in Huntingdon with my sister.  Saturday then had us heading off to Milton Keynes for a Pryor family lunch before setting off the Quedgley in Gloucestershire for tea with the in-laws.  After tea we made our way from Quedgley back home to York arriving around 10pm.

Sunday was a fairly laid back affair with a bit of shopping at the local garden centre and all seemed to be going well until Monday morning when Paul woke in the early hours feeling like death warmed up.  Paul has come down with a stomach bug; the symptoms of which are too graphic to mention here, but even my sense of sarcasm can’t hide the fact that he really doesn’t look well.  Doctors advice so far, is to rest and if nothing improves in 24 hours to call him out.

So Monday has me, following a very nice haircut and close wet shave from Alex at Cube this morning, carefully tip toeing around the house, making as little noise as possible hoping Paul will sleep through most of the day.

I’m hoping it’s not a virus that’s spreadable!

Remembering last year that the Christmas wreaths we bought from Jo’Anns Florists on Middle Street in Blackhall, we much better and half the price of the one we bought in York, I returned yesterday to pick up two of them.  One to put on pops grave and one for our front door.  At £25 each, they were as is now usual; excellent.  This shop over the many years we have now bought flowers from them has consistently supplied good quality, nicely presented seasonal flowers.  They have always been very competitively priced and with a second florists in the same village clearly keen to remain that way.  Living so far away as we now do, my sister in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and myself in York, we usually ring up to have them delivered but as in this case, you can also pick them up in person.

Give them a go; they are worth the travel and certainly great value.

Pryordurkin rating 3 Stars.

Telephone: 0191 586 4817

While visiting Huntingdon this weekend, we took the opportunity to head into Cambridge, where we used to live until moving to Yorkshire. The new John Lewis store is now open, so we just had to look around.

Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. We thought it was great. Big, spacious and full of quality merchandise. For a brief moment, we even wished we had never left Cambridge.

When are they going to open a store in York is the only question we were left pondering after exploring all five floors of excellence.

Let us know what you think.

Score: 5 Stars. Visited November 2007.

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