Another Track Day at Goodwood

Our group is quite large and our hosts rented out a few houses for everyone to stay at - we are at Hollingsfield Lodge waaaay out in the countryside about 30 minutes from the track. I'm talking way out - one lane dirt roads, brick cottages with ivy and flowers growing on them, huge fields of sheep, birds and bunnies everywhere - just like a movie setting. 

There are 9 people staying here, none of us knew each other when we got here but are now fast friends and of course have our own  "team" name ... our group texts are titled "hollingsfield cool kids" haha. 

Yesterday we were set up in a large area with umbrellas and the weather was decent so our location was perfect; today it rained and was quite chilly and we were lucky enough to be in an enclosed tent all day - nice. They had a huge lunch buffet, complete with multiple puddings for dessert and then later on brought out afternoon tea - finger sandwiches, scones, etc  and set up this really cute cookie display where they hung decorated car cookies up using clothespins - I'm stealing this idea for sure. I'm including a picture of the view from our room at the house, the cookies, and a couple of our view of the track today.

Last night we went into Chichester and ate dinner at the Nags Head Pub and Carvery. Overall the people have been very welcoming and friendly here but not so at the pub, it sort of became a joke counting how many times we could catch the wait staffs eye and order food and more drinks! If we were playing a drinking game and had to drink every time one of the waitresses literally looked over top of our heads and wouldn't make eye contact we would all definitely have been drunk! Anyway - there's a point to my story hahaha -  we ordered "chips" as a starter (very thick fries, crunchy and hot, with or without some kind of white cheese overtop - gotta say they are so far the best thing I've eaten here and I'd love to learn to make them when I get home). My housemate and new friend Annette asked for mayo to dip hers in (mmmmm mayo and fries) and they brought her an entire big jar of mayo but of course we couldn't get any plates. She had what I think is a smart solution, I told her I wanted to post her great idea and took her picture to pass on to you -  she squeezed mayo on her knife and dipped that way. It worked great and didn't make a mess - I think you could prob do this with ketchup too (which they didn't have by the way!) but obviously ranch or runny sauce isn't gonna work so good, maybe put it on your spoon in that case...individual dip bowls :). Genius, right?