Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

It was Pete’s 70th birthday last Thursday, so as a celebration, he and Dawn invited us and Carol and John round for Sunday lunch. “Can I come and help do the prep?” I asked. Well, naturally, that would be very nice, thank you, they said. “Shall I bring the puds?” offered Carol. Agreement all round. Brilliant. So we were set.

Apparently, Pete and Dawn have a very special way of cooking chicken which I didn’t know about. Also apparently, Dawn was panicking by nine o’clock as I hadn’t arrived to put the chicken in the oven yet……oops. Anyway, all was well in the end. I did arrive and put the chicken in the oven in time. Between us, Jack and I managed to get that cooked along with roast potatoes and parsnips, plus ‘all the trimmings’ and a pile of veg. And pretty much on time, too.

For once, Pete didn’t have to cook. He was able to sit back and enjoy his glass of champagne before lunch and then tuck into whatever was on offer. Judging by the food piled high on everyone’s plates it was definitely a ‘winner, winner, chicken dinner’!!!

Dessert was on the winner list, too. I mean, an exotic fruit salad? Yes, please!! And a second pudding? With cream? Don’t mind if we do!!!

What a fabulous time we had. So very lovely to eat with friends and spend the afternoon together. In fact, we were so enjoying ourselves that we couldn’t drag ourselves away and it was well into the evening before we said our goodbyes. “Hang on!” I said as we were halfway out of the door. “We haven’t had a team photo!!”

Of course, by then, we were giggling so much that I couldn’t take a decent selfie at all. Poor John is very blurred…..

After the day’s shenanigans we were tired so we were straight to bed once we were home to be ready for an early-ish start this morning. John was to be at Heartlands for 10 o’clock to be injected with a radioactive substance in preparation for a bone scan later on in the day.

It all worked out quite smoothly, in fact, but John has felt pretty tired all day. In between the journeys there and back, John rested while I fiddled about with more painting. This time, it was the skirting boards in our old bedroom that were the target. We’re having a new carpet in there tomorrow…… that’ll be nice. Might have the house looking decent soon.

Take care everyone. God bless.