Julie's Boggle

On a whim, we decided to take our car to be cleaned at our favourite car wash this afternoon. (It kind of needs to be a whim in this case because getting to this car-wash is a bit of an excursion – so just needing to have the car washed is not normally enough of an excuse. Of course, we were also giving our tired battery some extra charging time!)

It is no coincidence that this car wash is in the car park of The Royal Oak – a large pub which does pretty good food… The pub itself is in Farnham Common, outside of London’s famous orbital motorway, the M25, in Buckinghamshire. It’s a lovely, fairly rural setting – and not a bad drive from Shepherds Bush – but at 35 minutes door to door, you can see why we don’t pop out that often.

So after leaving our car with the friendly attendants, we settled back for a lazy Sunday lunch washed down with a pint of Speckled Hen and followed by a stroll into the village nearby where we cased out the Real Estate shop.

After goggling at the number of “spacious family homes” going for £500 000 on average, we wandered back, handed over our £25 for the car wash and valet, and headed back to London with our sparkly car…

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