JP enjoying the remarkable 'Sound of the Sea' course at the Fat Duck in Bray. There's an ipod in there which plays soothing sea sounds. They give you a glass plate on a tray of sand and on the glass is an array of fish and seafood, edible shells and rocks and edible fishy foam stuff. We got to the restaurant first of the people having lunch there that day so every bizarre thing on the tasting menu turned up to us first meaning we generally had no idea what it was going to look like. No one was playing it cool and eating off the a la carte menu.

We went to the Fat Duck in Bray for our wedding anniversary and it was marvellous and peculiar in approximately equal measure. This is the course featuring a tray of moss with dry ice poured on it.

This is Dorchester Abbey in Oxfordshire, just opposite a nice little antique shop where the owner beas a more-than-passing resemblance to 'Cash in the Attic' star Jonty Hearndon. I only know this because there was a Jonty Hearndon book in there and the chap on the cover was also the proprietor. Fours stars from Simon Jenkins for the church, which was pretty good and had a 12th century knight in 'action effigy' drawing his sword on his tomb and some spectacular windows but lots of oddly dead space.