Winstone's Ice Cream - Minchinhampton Common

On a perfect sunny Bank Holiday Monday I visited my godmother who lives up on the hill above Stroud in a small village by Minchinhampton Common. After sitting in her garden relaxing we mustered up the energy to stroll up onto the common, past the cows into a herd of playful gambolling bank holiday makers eating ice cream and playing games so we could get our hands on some delicious Winstones ice cream.

We joined the back of a lengthy queue and licked our lips in anticipation of the cold creamy treat...

As the queue shuffled slowly closer and closer to its destination the excitement escalated, children discussing what flavour they wanted and arguing with their parents about whether they were allowed a double cone and sauce and a flake and whined about how long it was taking. One child said with haughty disgust 'why does he take so long doing his job, he should be quicker' of the flustered and hard working lone ice cream server.

After 30 minutes we were able to read the list of ice cream flavours - mmmm banana and toffee, rhubarb crumble, strawberries and cream... etc etc.

I set my heart on rhubarb crumble and toffee and banana... hopping on one foot to the next we nervously counted down to our turn 'two people in front of us... now one...'

Then it was OUR TURN! Godmother ordered a double vanilla and I placed my order 'NO TOFFEE AND BANANA, NO RHUBARB...' barked the hot, grumpy and overworked man.

I changed my order to vanilla and the scrapings of the rhubarb tub, paid our £7 for TWO ice creams and withdrew.

As we ambled back along the common enjoying our delicious ice creams godmother uttered the words 'we could of gone to Tesco and got ten ice creams for that price and we wouldn't even of had to wait.'

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