Wholesome.

So I said last week I’d be taking (dragging….) Tom to a tea shop and that I did on Sunday. Was a beaut of a day in sunny Norwich, all be it very cold! We had a little wander through the cobbled lanes and stopped at Ye Olde Sweet Shop on London Street. Wow! If I had ever wished I wasn’t on a diet, it was right about then!! Shelf after shelf after old wooden shelf of sweets from my childhood. Now I am not really a chocolate fan, I like it but I don’t seem to have that female obsession with it, whereas jelly sweets, jelly beans, pick & mix and penny sweets are right up my street and this shop has it all and then some. How I walked out empty handed I will never know.

Anyway off we trot in the sunshine & a very Baltic feeling head wind to Wholesome on Swan Lane.

I have wanted to visit here in ages after I popped in once for a takeaway soup which was delish but they have a teeny café upstairs and I wanted to trial a sandwich or a wedge of cake & we were also in need of a hot mug of something too! However…….It’s Sunday, Wholesome is shut on a Sunday! What a fab start to the tea shop trialling!! Not. Wholesome we will be back..…just not on a Sunday. Sob. 

 

So it’s off to Faithful Franks on Bedford Street.

I won’t write much as I will do a proper post about Franks soon. But their Coffee is fab. I am by no means a coffee connoisseur, infact till about 4 years ago I detested the stuff and when I first heard people talk about a ‘crema’ on an espresso I assumed someone had gone a little over the top with the can of squirty stuff! Anyway, Franks have nice mugs, the coffee is hot (I HATE a luke warm latte!) & my cappuccino had a lot of froth.

I’ll be honest I am swayed by a lot of froth.

Tom’s Americano looked lush too.

We were going to have a little something for lunch but again I had forgotten that it was Sunday & Sunday means the breakfast menu runs all day. As lovely as it all looked, I didn’t need scrambled egg for a second time in one day. I will definitely be going back for the pancakes though :)

The diet is going well, no slip ups at all this week. 7^th Weigh in tomorrow and I am hoping for 2lbs off so I can get my next half stone award. Can’t really believe I am going into week 8 & still ‘on the wagon’, I don’t stick to diets. I lose 2 stone, realise how much happier I am just to get that amount of weight off and then celebrate my happiness with a lovely meal out somewhere!! Not this time. I am in this for the long haul. Skinny Minny 2012 here I come.

One Thing I Know For Sure: If they’d have taken card*, I’d have had every sherbet fountain that sweetshop had.

Big Love x

*They did take card, but Tom kindly didn’t tell me till after we had left.