The Mill Tea and Dining Room, Lyme Regis

Yesterday evening we were taken out by my mother to The Mill Tea and Dining Room in Lyme Regis. See www.teaanddiningroom.co.uk
The place is very small - maybe 6 tables. The food was excellent English fare. My only criticism being that some products were used a lot. Many things on the menu used leeks for example. On the plus side, this showed imaginative use of seasonal, local produce.
I had a leek and caper starter, my mother and wife had the carbeens - rissoles made from pig trotters and pork. For the main I had stuffed chicken leg - stuffed with leeks! The others had skate with caper sauce and rolled pork belly. For the desert the ladies had lemon curd blancmange and I had warm stewed quince with vanilla ice cream. I had never had quince before - it was lovely.
Well worth visiting again I think.

Bordon to Liphook Rail Link Bus

Yesterday I was planning a trip to Southampton from Whitehill by public transport, so I thought I would investigate using the new Rail Link bus service provided by East Hampshire District Council. I remembered that it had been reported in the “Bordon Herald” that the timetable could be found on East Hampshire Council’s website at www.easthants.gov.uk. I went to the website and could find nothing from their “home page”. I tried using the “search this site” links from the home page. These search links had technical problems. I tried an alphabetical browse through council services… there was nothing about the bus listed under Whitehill, Bordon, Liphook, “rail link” or bus. After about 20 minutes of searching I found a community news feed. The last item on this feed was about the new bus service. This eventually led me to a hyperlink to the timetable.

So, in a spirit of cooperation: the news feed led to this page http://www.easthants.gov.uk/ehdc/community.nsf/webpages/8.93+Rail+Link+Service. The timetable itself is at http://www.easthants.gov.uk/ehdc/community.nsf/0/538C7BA936AD54918025762C0048DC9E/$File/Timetable.pdf. So that’s nice and easy to find now.

I have taken the liberty of using an online service to shorten the first of these hyperlinks for ease of use. You may prefer to type http://tinyurl.com/ykncg5r into your preferred web browser in order to visit the description of the service and link to the timetable.

I have reported the failed website search to the East Hampshire “Contact Us” service. So it may – in due course – get fixed. The bus service itself may well be failing to attract customers if it is not easy to find out where and when it runs.