Bank Holiday Street Party 2024

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A Bank Holiday Street Party in nearby Berwick Way for no other reason than ‘because we could’! 👍👍

Well, the weather wasn’t exactly ‘glorious’ – a cool and breezy 17°C – but that didn’t prevent around 20 of us from getting together at the foot of Berwick Way.

With Mick, the Burger King on BBQ duties serving up some excellent burgers and sausages, Janet and Ann on Mains and Jo and Sam on Desserts, we forgot the weather (for a while anyway!) and tucked into some excellent food. By popular request, Ann’s home-made Cheese Straws made an appearance! 😘

If burgers and sausages weren’t enough, collectively, we’d assembled a massive list of additional junk food that included all the usual suspects – pizzas, peanuts, sausage rolls and crisps. The variety of processed food was only outdone by the array of alcohol on offer – we even had an ice-bucket! Let’s not say we don’t do these things half-heartedly!!! 😮

Jo reproduced her Coronation Trifle from June 2022, which was supported by individual Lemon Drizzle Cakes and a Cheesecake, in case we were bored! (err, we weren’t!) 🤣🤣🤣

And, in a rare display of ‘healthy options’ (sort of!) we enjoyed Sam’s ‘double-decker’ part-of-our-five-a-day Fruit Meringue! 😋

Momentarily, we were guilt-free!

Wow! What a great turnout, especially given that the weather didn’t really co-operate! Still, it could have been worse, at least it wasn’t raining. Afterwards, it was easy to see that we all did the food (and drink) justice! The sound of popping corks was only interrupted by the obligatory Amazon delivery driver’s reversing beepers, doing his best to get to his destinations without running us over!

If there was a single thing that was a (slight) disappointment, it was, as expected, the weather. It began breezy (as we frequently ‘rescued’ paper plates, cups, tablecloths and hats all heading in the direction of the next county!) and turned increasingly cloudy and cool. By around 3.30 it was just bordering on ‘yuk’ but that may have been because we ran out of food and drink! 😮

We all agreed that overall, it had been a very worthwhile get-together and there was even talk of making it a regular event! Sounds like a plan! 😊

Best news of all was that after taking the cost of the food and drink into account, we had money left over in the shape of £60. We donated that to Cransley Hospice. 👍👍.

Same time next year then!!! 😘