My Mum came to my flat to have a snooze after church so that she could enjoy the afternoon at Kate and Nigel’s. Sean arrived from Tonbridge at 12h30. Both he and Josie had sore throats.
We got to Kate and Nigel’s at about 1pm. The house was sparkling clean. Michelle and Richard had stayed overnight so as to help with cooking, cleaning and looking after Wendy.
The funniest thing was what they did to Sean. They have been teasing him for years about Pink Fluffy Handcuffs. This year they gave him some with the inscription “Better late than Never”. We all had a lot of fun with it and Sean was a jolly good sport about it.
There are always disasters at big celebrations. Kate’s oven is impossible. It either gets too hot and burns everything or it is too slow to cook what has to be cooked. She had already had to throw away roast potatoes because they had burned, and had another batch in. When the turkey was cooked, she sliced it and put it in a Pyrex dish and put it in the oven to keep warm while the second batch of roast potatoes was cooking. We all heard a loud CRACK and she ran to see what was happening. I thought she had scalded herself because she burst into tears. I went to help her and found that she hadn’t scalded herself. The CRACK had been the Pyrex dish shattering. She had to throw out most of the turkey because of the risk of people eating glass splinters.
Poor Kate was frazzled but I must say she rose to the occasion. She Triumphed through Disaster. We all had a very nice lunch indeed. Luckily turkey was not the only meat on the menu. The Pyrex dish shattering was not her fault and was quite unexpected. You are supposed to be able to cook in Pyrex and they are designed to withstand the heat of cooking. It must have had a flaw in it somewhere.
Richard put in a lot of work washing up at the kitchen sink.
Michelle was sweet and funny and helped the day go well just by being herself.
Sean said he had never seen Nigel look so well and happy.
Josie was reading Little Black Sambo to Wendy. Sean bought her the book and Kate is worried about trouble if somebody sees such a non-pc book in the house.
Woozle had a lot of fun. Her best prezzie was her doll and pushchair. Michelle had bought her a “Messy Play” kit with paint, chalk, crayons, playdough, shapes etc but by that time, all Woozle wanted to do was to play with her “Baby”. Michelle got her a wonderful outfit. A red dress with heart shaped patch pockets with matching tights and a cream blouse to go underneath the dress. She looked splendid in it.
There are too many photos to put on the Blog, but you can see the Online album here:
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