What another fantastic day today. It was difficult to get up this morning after such an energetic and late party last night. Sara and I had had a great time and were relaxing in bed when we discovered that it was already 8.15 a.m. Malcolm and Sam were already up and Malcolm had made tea. We had a hasty shower and breakfast before David and Andrea arrived at around 9.00 a.m. and we all went off to church. It was an informal praise service with Linda leading - the subject being the Parable of the Mustard Seed - Matthew 13:31. It was a lovely service with coffee outside in the bright and warm sun. My only disappointment was that whilst the songs were very appropriate they were not that well known and I didn't feel I could sing with gusto. The main thing, though, was to have family and friends there - David and Andrea, Malcolm and Sam (although I think Sam would have preferred to have been somewhere else - as Tom!). We returned home for a short while and then we all went to Waitrose in Salisbury for some essential shopping (and me for some necessary cash) before going up to Salisbury Racecourse for the afternoon's racing. We had a wonderful time up there and Mary managed another win - taking home £5.35 to add to her growing holiday savings. We went back to David and Andrea's rented cottage for cold drinks before returning back to Winterslow. I had a short siesta - 1 hour, before David and Andrea returned to us. Tonight I took David down to the Lion's Head pub with Geoff next door, and Paul B for the monthly Pub Quiz. We were later joined by Chris, Jeremy, Klynn, Richard and Tim who formed a second team. We called our team "The Tar Heals" - a deliberate misspelling of the nickname for people from North Carolina. We had some banter between us and we were determined to beat them. We had a really great night; drank a few pints of London Pride bitter between us and won!!! Yeah!!! A bottle of wine each was the prize!! Not only had we beaten our rivals (Chris, Jeremy, Klynn, Richard and Tim) but we beat all the teams there to come first!! To my shame, I didn't recognise "Titanic" (the film) as the answer to one question. I will not be allowed to live that one down! David seemed to have a really good evening and was able to talk about guns to Paul who is a serving major in the army. When we got home, a bit later than we had predicted, Andrea said she could see David had enjoyed himself. He fitted in well with the group who took to him as a long lost friend. Tonight I noted quite a few positive comments on Facebook about Sara's party which seems to have been such an immense success with our friends. It will be so hard to go to work tomorrow after such an exciting and fun packed weekend - pig roasts apart!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Winning Post - Church, Racing and Pub Quiz
What another fantastic day today. It was difficult to get up this morning after such an energetic and late party last night. Sara and I had had a great time and were relaxing in bed when we discovered that it was already 8.15 a.m. Malcolm and Sam were already up and Malcolm had made tea. We had a hasty shower and breakfast before David and Andrea arrived at around 9.00 a.m. and we all went off to church. It was an informal praise service with Linda leading - the subject being the Parable of the Mustard Seed - Matthew 13:31. It was a lovely service with coffee outside in the bright and warm sun. My only disappointment was that whilst the songs were very appropriate they were not that well known and I didn't feel I could sing with gusto. The main thing, though, was to have family and friends there - David and Andrea, Malcolm and Sam (although I think Sam would have preferred to have been somewhere else - as Tom!). We returned home for a short while and then we all went to Waitrose in Salisbury for some essential shopping (and me for some necessary cash) before going up to Salisbury Racecourse for the afternoon's racing. We had a wonderful time up there and Mary managed another win - taking home £5.35 to add to her growing holiday savings. We went back to David and Andrea's rented cottage for cold drinks before returning back to Winterslow. I had a short siesta - 1 hour, before David and Andrea returned to us. Tonight I took David down to the Lion's Head pub with Geoff next door, and Paul B for the monthly Pub Quiz. We were later joined by Chris, Jeremy, Klynn, Richard and Tim who formed a second team. We called our team "The Tar Heals" - a deliberate misspelling of the nickname for people from North Carolina. We had some banter between us and we were determined to beat them. We had a really great night; drank a few pints of London Pride bitter between us and won!!! Yeah!!! A bottle of wine each was the prize!! Not only had we beaten our rivals (Chris, Jeremy, Klynn, Richard and Tim) but we beat all the teams there to come first!! To my shame, I didn't recognise "Titanic" (the film) as the answer to one question. I will not be allowed to live that one down! David seemed to have a really good evening and was able to talk about guns to Paul who is a serving major in the army. When we got home, a bit later than we had predicted, Andrea said she could see David had enjoyed himself. He fitted in well with the group who took to him as a long lost friend. Tonight I noted quite a few positive comments on Facebook about Sara's party which seems to have been such an immense success with our friends. It will be so hard to go to work tomorrow after such an exciting and fun packed weekend - pig roasts apart!
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