How popular are we? Well, I don’t know about that, but today, we had the unusual situation where we were invited to two events pretty much at the same time! Both included great food and great friends – and the weather looked promising too! 👍😎
Party 1
Beginning at the very sociable time of 1.30pm, we joined our friends at the ‘Lower-Berwick-Way-Slightly-Delayed-VE-Party‘.
It was a great turnout based on how many were invited. At its height, there were 20 of us, including – Jo, Janet, Helen, Bev, Jools, Kevin, Sarah, Dan, Jodie, Steve, Juliet, Sam and us two – tucking into some yummy food and catching up with each other’s news!
Being tucked away in the corner of Berwick Way, kept us safe from passing traffic, but it’s generally pretty quiet anyway, traffic-wise. Apart from a hasty rearrangements of the seating to let a nearby couple onto their drive, it was an interruption-free and very enjoyable get-together! 🙂🙂.
Jo and Janet did the heavy lifting (sometimes literally), getting the invites out, arranging the furniture and of course, organising the food. It was all for a good cause too! We didn’t just sit there, filling our faces (well, we did actually!), but J&J added a little to the admission price, meaning we raised some extra money (£65) – all donated to Cransley Hospice.
Bev and Sam also created some mouth-watering sweet treats to help with the calorie count, and it all went down a treat! The most striking temptation was surely Janet’s VE Trifle (note those cleverly positioned chocolate buttons!) – and not surprisingly, it didn’t last long at all! 😉.
It was good to get together, and even the Sun came out (but like us, didn’t stay for the duration!). We toddled back up the road just after 3.15 – to Paul & Karen’s.
Party 2
It’s a tough life! We’d (I’d already eaten enough to keep me going for a week!) as we joined Roger & Debbie and Bobby & Stella for one of Karen’s legendary slow-cooked BBQed meat joints and Debbie’s melt-in-the-mouth Pavlovas!
The weather held, but as we moved from the lower part of the garden to the top – to chase the Sun – the temperature did drop, quite dramatically, as the afternoon turned to early evening. We had a great laugh whilst enjoying even more food, and when eventually left at around 7pm, I for one, was beginning to feel that I might have overdone things on the calorie front! Surely not! 😉
Thanks everyone! We had a great time today AND did something for charity too! 👍👍. Tomorrow won’t be a day to jump on the scales! 🤔
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