We had a very relaxed start to the weekend and didn't really do anything until the mid afternoon. I found my old video camera and we looked at some ancient footage from 1994 when Keith and I were in France on holiday. We both looked so young and Keith's accent was much more pronounced than it is now!
Sophie and I also managed to get rid of some big knots in Archie's fur which made him a lot happier, although he has a bit of a bald patch on his back. It will soon grow back!
Mike had been out since yesterday afternoon with some friends and I went and picked him up at 2pm, just before Soph and I went down to Majestic in Northampton as I wanted to buy a few bottles of wine. We picked out some Californian reds and a couple of Loire whites and then had a quick tasting of some Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand which I wasn't keen on at all! It's too much like cats' pee!
From Majestic we drove to the Gallone's ice-cream parlour in Kingsthorpe and I treated us both to a Nutcracker sundae. The place was very busy as usual and we just about managed to grab a table! While we were out Keith had taken Mike to a Garden Party in Guilsborough in his role as an army cadet and he had told us that he would be able to eat from the open buffet so not to worry about his dinner. Keith had made a fruity curry but I had a feeling that when Mike returned home he would still want some...I do know my son!
We decided to go and have a drink at the pub in Guilsborough which had been re-named, for some strange reason, as The Witch and Sow. It used to be called The Ward Arms and the last time we'd visited had been quite a few years ago. The place had undergone a transformation and the lounge bar was now quite sparsely furnished in the latest fashionable style with mis-matched chairs and tables, a piano and bare wood everywhere. We were the only ones in the lounge so we took a seat by the window with our drinks where we had a good view onto the small car park.
One by one, single people had started to arrive, including a man who kept wandering about the car park and moving his car. He must have been out there for at least fifteen minutes, looking at the available spaces and then walking up and down before getting back into his car and manoeuvring it into a different position. Another lady arrived in a white Audi TT and a woman drove up dressed in a very strange outfit indeed. We sat goggle-eyed at all the comings and goings and wondering what was going on!
We soon realised that all these people were meeting each other and we suspected that it was a singles group gathering for drinks and a meal. Without being really nasty, some of them did look a bit strange including one man who Sophie was convinced was a murderer! However they all seemed to be getting on really well but it was fascinating seeing them all arrive and start chatting with each other!
At 8pm we went to collect Mike from his posh garden party but he hadn't really had the kind of evening he'd been expecting! His role was to stand at the entrance to a very grand house in his cadet uniform and direct people into the car park. Of the buffet, he'd seen no sign! Therefore he was starving hungry (and tired) and moaned vociferously all the way home about how rude some of the people attending the party had been!
Luckily, although Keith had catered for just three of us there was more than enough curry to go around so Mikey didn't go hungry!
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