SHOPPING: Rushden Lakes

Our first visit to the Rushden Lakes shopping centre and we were super surprised by how busy the car park was considering it was a Monday and not yet the school holidays. It was also extremely warm, especially when we got back in the car to go home. 

The centre was good though, plenty of nice shops and even some different ones like 'Magazine Heaven' (where Rose bought me a copy of 'Fistful of Metal'). There were an unbelievable number of 'gay-interest' magazines too, most of which featured ludicrously ripped men on the covers (in exceedingly small pants!). 

There was also a lot of those magazines that you only ever hear about but didn't actually think existed outside of London, like 'Wallpaper'... and very high end fashion magazines. Interesting stuff. They also had the new issue of the revived QP which has doubled in price to £12 and has almost no watches in it. 

There was an interesting looking cake shop called Butterwick, but we didn't go in there (maybe next time). They seemed to have a lot of enormous cakes in the window, some of which were adorned with Biscoff biscuits. Yummy!

Not available in men's sizes!

We visited Skechers and bought a pair of trainers each (40% off) and generally had a mooch round before we headed to 'Bills' for lunch. Except there was a queue for 'Bills' and most of the seating seemed to be outside. We headed instead to Wildwood (which we'd never been to before) and had a very nice chicken burger and fries.

Later we visited 'Heavenly Desserts' which offer a bewildering array of desserts at an equally bewildering price (two puddings and two Cokes - £25) but still as a treat it was pretty special, and the Croffle thing I had was pretty amazing (if a bit sickly by the end of the second one!), Rose on the other hand picked the least calorific thing on the menu (a fruit sundae thing which came in a jar the size of her head) but I must admit her mango sorbet was very nice...

All in all it was a splendid day out, but next time maybe we will share a Croffle, it was way too big for one person to eat.