Day 3138 A different flavour.

19th March 2026

Today was the last of my appointments.

I was meeting my friend Rob for the final masala dosa of this visit.

We were confused when the doors to the Indian Temptation restaurant were locked.

This was a setback, I had got myself synced up for this tasty dish, what were we going to do?

We ended up at a new place in the Shires Yard.

Rob, being outspoken, as he is, soon made friends with the staff.

We gave this new place the opportunity to seduce us with their masala dosa, and it was good. Different in texture from the one served at Indian temptation, but was a bit more tasty, it didn’t have the chickpea crunch.

I’m sure they thought Rob was a food critic because the chickpea roll was served as a second course.

Then that was followed by a carrot tea, a delicate flavour that was unusual and free of charge. I’m sure if we had stayed we would have been given a dessert, but we had somewhere else to go.

I like the walk down Pultney street, the scale of the continuous Georgian terrace alway takes my breath away.

“ And it doesn’t allow for the curvature of the earth” mocked Rob.

We ended our walk at the Holborn museum, this is the usual haunt of my Art School pals to meet.

The original school was in Sidney Place, and Sidney gardens was our playground, it was a unique place.

Apart from the two of us we were joined by Tom, with a large floppy hat that shaded his face.

When he spoke, he was so quiet, I found it difficult to hear what he was saying. Rob found the same, so it wasn’t my hearing.

We stayed about an hour, I needed to get back to Bradford on Avon, I wanted to get there before Nicola and Colin, who had been working on the garden, left for home.

Unfortunately the timetable didn’t work out, but I did see the results of their toils, and it was amazing, I could see the soil again.

It had been a busy day, I had the boiler serviced in the morning, driven to Wickes to get some outside solar lights, walked up the steep Wine Street, that nearly killed me, and sorted out a new broadband supplier, this had been a good day.