It's been another hard week at the Ford Motor Factory for me this week - three and a half days grafting keeping the British motor industry going has left me little time to practise the dark art of cooking and even less time for the mysteries of golf!
We did manage yet another barbeque last Saturday - well the weather was so nice, it seemed silly not to! Bob & Liz were most impressed with the red pepper pesto on their Jersey Royals and the chilli sausages had a kick like Lionel Messi.
Jonny joined us for the Sunday roast - pork with stuffing and apple sauce and Monday saw the Thai chicken curry rear its ugly head again! Wednesday's lasagne was a particularly good one. The sauce had been left cooking for a while and had absorbed all the wonderful herby flavours and I had taken the trouble to make my own cheese sauce! All mopped up with garlic bread and a green salad.On Friday we battled with the traffic up the motorways to visit some friends in Northwich - five and a half hours to do a journey that should have taken three and a half! All because some dimwit had crashed their car at the junction of the M5 and M50! With steam coming out of my ears and a thirst like a camel in the Gobi desert, I was admiring Tina and Mike's back garden which backs onto the Trent & Mersey Canal and lo and behold I spot Irene Stewart riding her bike along the tow path! I used to teach with Irene at Atlantic College and she and her husband John have a narrow boat. After an exchange of words of surprise at seeing each other, I discovered that their boat had broken down and that they were waiting for the Narrow boat equivalent of the RAC to come out to them - so whilst John waited on board, Irene joined Tina, Mike, Simon, Julie, Sue and I for drinks on the terrace! Coincidence or what?
More barbeques were consumed on Friday and Saturday - the highlight for me was the Barbadian chicken kebabs - soaked in rum and spices! Obviously the eating and drinking was interupted by the football on Saturday night and by a sisesta in the sun on Satuday afternoon - my only comment about the football - it was a pity that John Terry hadn't decided to try it on with Rob Green's missus! What a shambles!
On Sunday we did a tour of the North - over for lunch with my Mum near Skipton and then down to Sheffield for dinner with Sue's Mum and Dad and ready to pick Alice up this morning for the journey home!
I think it'll be Thai chicken curry again tonight!
Small world! I bumped into someone whilst swimming in a slate quarry on an island off the west coast who's mum worked at the college.
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