2fer Insta Meet Ups!

 Hello my lovelies!

If you’re in the UK right now I hope you’re managing to keep cool in this heatwave. 

Seems blogger meetups are like buses. 

You wait for three years then two come along pretty much at once!

Here I am in Guernsey recently with two Instagram/blogger mates 

Annemarie from @my_over50_fashion_life and 

Jacqui from @jc30iom, 

meeting up and chatting like crazy over a tasty al fresco brunch.

These two lovely ladies both chose to holiday here in the same week and enjoyed happy and hot times on our beautiful island. 

My first 2022 meet up was with the lovely Annemarie a few weeks ago. 

We got together for a long-overdue chat whilst I was holidaying in Sussex in June (here walking along the beach hut lined promenade). 

We cooled off with heatwave aperos at a beachside restaurant. 

We walked around the iconic De La Warr pavilion and its environs. 

It was so refreshing to catch up for a chat after soooo long. 

We’d both come armed (or headed!) with the totally obligatory straw hats.

Ok, let’s start up another meet up with the what I ate, as that’s the order my phone chose to load the pics!

I ate a most delicious chicken schnitzel, the cream sauce was truly amazing.  We ate at @thefarmhouse, where Jacqui was staying; she had a wonderful stay there.

The sun was still shining as we left the car park. 

And finally, my phone has deigned to give you the lovely Jacqui!

We first met up when she was holidaying in Guernsey in 2020 

and then I reciprocated with a holiday in IoM (where Jacqui lives) a few weeks later. 

I didn’t tell you about these meet ups at the time as I was on a blogging sabbatical, so I thought I’d just cover them briefly here. 

The reason for all this activity across the Irish Sea in 2020 was that our two islands set up a bridging link as both islands were Covid free all through that summer.  

We didn’t have a similar link with neighbouring Jersey as that island still had a fair number of Covid cases on the island.  That’s how seriously we were taking it back then. 

How times have changed eh, things seem more relaxed now and our skies are a-buzz with vapour trails - stir crazy folk seem to have gone a little travel crazy. 

The skies evidence how much travel is going on. 

Oh how I digress. 

Let’s get on to the second meet up of last week. 

Whilst Annemarie was here we met up for dinner. 

Well we were tradition-bound to do a selfie eh?

I wore a simple black linen dress on this hot evening.  

Spot something?  It’s the same dress as I wore to meet up with Jacqui in 2020, so it must be designated meet up dress! 

I’ll tell you more of this dress in another post. 

But right now, let’s talk about what I ate!

I ate this  gorgeously tasty seafood gratin at The Captain’s pub. 

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Oh my, it was fab, but so rich and filling that half ended up in a doggy bag which with a bit of padding gave us a lovely meal next day. 

We have to get home before dark (not a Cinderella thing, it’s night time driving issues - an age thing eh) so we enjoyed a coffee out on the deck, listening to the evening bird chorus. 

I’ll post some more on our adventures soon.  

So, that’s my 2020 and 2022 meet ups covered. 

Two super meet ups in quick succession. 

Aren’t I the lucky Pouting Pensioner?!

Both mates had been to the island before and were keen to return.  Each had an amazing time whilst here. 

You can catch up on their holiday shenanigans on their Insta accounts as shown at the beginning of this post. 

You can also read more on Jacqui’s blog

The Diary of a Nobody

.by following the link HERE

where she’s recently posted on her holiday,

and see more on Annemarie’s YouTube channel

of the same title as her Instagram account

by following the link HERE.

where she will shortly be including her visit within one of her vlogs. 

If you are a blogger/Instagramer/YouTuber, have you met up with any SM mates recently?

Please share in the comments below.

And talking of YouTube …

I leave you with a little two minute film of me following the glorious evening sun on the drive back home after my dinner with Jacqui. 

I hope to post more video content on my channel.  

You can always find me on YouTube

by checking in to my The Pouting Pensioner channel by following the link HERE.

And don’t forget to subscribe because my postings are erratic!

A la perchoine,

Mary xxx