Well, 'tis the morning after the night before 08:54 and I'm sat in the garden on the laptop whilst the rest of the house is snoozing :) My habit of recent weeks of waking up at 5:30am after having nightmares about the huge list of things to do was only slightly modified to 6:45am after a 3:30am bedtime...sigh. I think I'll sleep for a week when I get there, but still - I certainly can't complain!
HUGE thanks has to go to Richard and Tracy for being daft enough...er... lovely enough to let us all invade their house last night to save the nightmares of cleaning today (the wonders of owning a dishwasher), I really, really apprieciate all the effort they went to to set the house up/clean out the garage and the huge amount of cleaning Tracy Rhodes did.
The celebration of the going away and Mike's 32nd Birthday also ended up being a celebration of Kev's birthday (although he didn't tell us until 5 minutes before he was leaving) and Crine's birthday (on Sunday) so ALSO and without a doubt we have to thank everyone who turned up :) Dan's Dad and Sister Bab's who travelled down from Colchester, Marky Hankin (git) who surprised us by turning up from Somerset after pretending he had to work (git git), Tim and Lou who didn't turn up until almost midnight after being sat in traffic for 3 hours on their way down from the midlands and Jez/Zuz who travelled down from Basingstoke, which admittedly isn't as far as the others but is still a fantastic effort in a rented van! Thanks also to everyone for the good wishes/cards/pressies and alcohol :) We ended up with a huge assortment from SLRC ladies tops and wind up torches to an excellent mix-CD full of songs about places in America and Russian Vodka (which I think is now going to Billing!). Very cool.
An excellent party ensued; Steve ended up in the hot tub (fully clothed), JU brought much Bubble happiness, Little Dave played with fire, various experiments happened with the Chocolate fountain and the 'boys' spent all night sat in the garage... they feel safe in there. Bless. Pics to follow when Bab's gets up and I get get back in the lounge to get the Camera!
The list of 'things to do today' is still huge... I've tidied the bedroom already and finished packing, so: one more lot of washing, dusting, hoovering, getting tyres on my new Mini Wheels (Mmmm.... white superlite :) so he has a hope of passing the MOT on our return), cleaning, waxing and making sure Mike and Becky know where the keys are then paying cheques in, posting t-shirts to Jules, dropping the HSE back to Moo, picking lots of stuff up from Richard and Tracy after last night, buying pillows for anyone using the house whilst we're away and checking I've got all the paperwork in place... Ah. No worries.
Help.
HUGE thanks has to go to Richard and Tracy for being daft enough...er... lovely enough to let us all invade their house last night to save the nightmares of cleaning today (the wonders of owning a dishwasher), I really, really apprieciate all the effort they went to to set the house up/clean out the garage and the huge amount of cleaning Tracy Rhodes did.
The celebration of the going away and Mike's 32nd Birthday also ended up being a celebration of Kev's birthday (although he didn't tell us until 5 minutes before he was leaving) and Crine's birthday (on Sunday) so ALSO and without a doubt we have to thank everyone who turned up :) Dan's Dad and Sister Bab's who travelled down from Colchester, Marky Hankin (git) who surprised us by turning up from Somerset after pretending he had to work (git git), Tim and Lou who didn't turn up until almost midnight after being sat in traffic for 3 hours on their way down from the midlands and Jez/Zuz who travelled down from Basingstoke, which admittedly isn't as far as the others but is still a fantastic effort in a rented van! Thanks also to everyone for the good wishes/cards/pressies and alcohol :) We ended up with a huge assortment from SLRC ladies tops and wind up torches to an excellent mix-CD full of songs about places in America and Russian Vodka (which I think is now going to Billing!). Very cool.
An excellent party ensued; Steve ended up in the hot tub (fully clothed), JU brought much Bubble happiness, Little Dave played with fire, various experiments happened with the Chocolate fountain and the 'boys' spent all night sat in the garage... they feel safe in there. Bless. Pics to follow when Bab's gets up and I get get back in the lounge to get the Camera!
The list of 'things to do today' is still huge... I've tidied the bedroom already and finished packing, so: one more lot of washing, dusting, hoovering, getting tyres on my new Mini Wheels (Mmmm.... white superlite :) so he has a hope of passing the MOT on our return), cleaning, waxing and making sure Mike and Becky know where the keys are then paying cheques in, posting t-shirts to Jules, dropping the HSE back to Moo, picking lots of stuff up from Richard and Tracy after last night, buying pillows for anyone using the house whilst we're away and checking I've got all the paperwork in place... Ah. No worries.
Help.
4 comments:
Hee Hee! all that with a hangover! It must run in the family ( the ability to type with blinding headache that is!)Looks like a great party - even if the photo looks as if Jen is only half wearing her top!
Have a great trip guys - We're getting greener by the minute!!
Margery(Mum) and Ron
Hee hee - looked like a great party - even if it does look as if Jen is only half wearing her top! Have a great trip guys! we're going greener by the minute!
Margery(Mum) and Ron
Have a great trip guys we will miss you loads.
Richard & Tracy
Woo for bubbles and beer :D
Promised I'd give you the link for bubble supplies so here it is:
www.bubbleinc.co.uk - don't spend *all* your money there.
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