We're quizzed!

I was very glad today was Friday and after an uneventful shift, I sped home to relax for a while. Tonight, Sophie and I were out at a quiz in the village hall and we decided to take advantage of the fish and chip van again! We said we weren't going to use it every week, and we won't, but tonight it was very convenient!

Of course, this week there was no sign of them at about 6.30pm, so we set off in search of the distinctive blue and white van in Walgrave, and found them opposite the old leather factory in the village. Sophie ordered while I stayed in the car, and then we returned home to put Keith's meal in the oven to keep warm, while we shared a portion of fish and chips. Again, they were delicious with crispy batter and heavenly chips! Yum!

Keith arrived home from the pub just as we were due to leave and he was not happy with the beer tonight. I think it's time for him to find a new boozer! Luckily, our local in Old has been taken over by an experienced couple who already run pubs, so hopefully, things may be better there over the summer!

Sophie and I left just before 7.30pm and parked easily in the village hall car park. We had feared there was only going to be three of us but another couple joined us, Heather and Neil, who live just around the corner. So we had five in our team with Julie, another neighbour. We had to come up with a name for our team so we chose The Cheery Hillians! Sophie went to the bar and bought a bottle of Prosecco, so that started things off very well!

First up was a sheet of paper with sixteen ex-Prime Ministers and we had to give the names. We then had three categories of questions, followed by a break. We did OK with the names of the politicians (helped by one of the men who was serving at the bar... well there were only five of us, and the other teams all had six!). Our strongest round was geography with only one answer missed out!

During the break, people had bought raffle tickets and they took part in a game of "higher or lower" played with cards, with Ace being the top card. One lucky lady won £50!

The next round of questions weren't bad but we fell down badly with the music round, which consisted of ten one-hit wonders, and we had to guess who the singer or group was... we scored two which brought our overall score down considerably! We didn't come last, which was something, but we all said the music round was very hard indeed!

We bid goodbye to our new friends and trundled home in the car, before relaxing on the sofa with Keith and Monty to watch tonight's episode of Masterchef. It had been a very enjoyable evening!