CYCLE 5 DAY 10
Today was my partners 60th birthday and we spent it at Champneys spar. An early start got us there at about 9 o’clock. If it had been left to my sat nav we would have arrived somewhere four and a half miles away, thankfully it is well signposted from quite a distance off. Our first time at this spar so we of course acted innocent and appealing dumb to get shown everything and to be looked after. So after signing up and collecting our fluffy robes and flip flops we were given a quick look round and importantly shown where breakfast was. Breakfast was of course the health kind, but as we had toast and coffee before leaving the healthy stuff was manageable.
We made our way to the changing rooms clutching our locker fobs and agreed to meet in the pool. I got another bloke to show me how to use the locker fobs and was soon in the bubbly bit of the pool waiting for my partner. We bubbled away merrily for ages until the thought of coffee and a scone became overpowering. I spent ten minutes in the sauna listening to two people discussing why and what they had to eat the night before and other really interesting tit bits about their domestic lives and then the tedious decision making about what they were going to eat at lunch time. They lasted all of three minutes in the sauna, noting in passing that it was “hot in here”.
With fresh dazers and wrapped in our fluffy robes we head to the cafe for coffee and scones. Top tip: spread the jam on first before the cream, otherwise the jam does not spread and sits in a lump on the cream. By the time we had downed the scones it was time for my partner to go and have her revitalising all over treatment, which left me to ponder my e-mails, WhatsApp messages and read a news paper. My partner reappeared about an hour later looking quite flopsy and feeling hungry so we headed for the restaurant to have our three course meal. The meal was okay, opportunities for less “healthy” eating.
There is only one thing to do when you have just eaten a meal in a fluffy robe and that is to grab a coffee and head for a sofa, or more accurate a day bed. Snuggling down to a brief nap was both our aims. Of course there was the usual paranoia about snoring, farting or drooling to excess in public but I certainly went under very quickly and resurfaced at some point after three o’clock. My partner did the same and I think we continued to “drift” for a while until we both got thirsty and a tad peckish. A quick jaunt to the cafe and back to the sofas to eat, drink and chat. In no time at all it was time for my partner’s pedicure, so off she went while I further lazed and eventually had a shower and changed out of my fluffy gown.
We meet up again about six o’clock. Checkout relieved us of some money, told us our flip flops were ours to keep as was the bag they came in and waved us good bye. Home and some quick organising of the days post and a chocolate cake and my partner set to opening her cards and presents, including some lovely flowers from work. We made ourselves comfortable and watched Fantastic Beasts the Crimes of Grindlewald. Excellent fun that left us all wanting a Niffler. So end of a day of rest, relaxation and celebration, so time to blog and think about tomorrows trip to the registrar and the partnering venue. From now until the new year the dairy is busy.
