i left work half an hour early this evening so i could be back in time to go to our church small group festive midwinter (bit late) family meal. it was a ‘bring a plate’ meal, which means you turn up with some food and share it all about.
so we put our christmas hats on, cooked a pizza and went round to layne and lorraine’s house (having picked debbie and laura up on the way). we knocked on their door and sang ‘we wish you a merry christmas’ until lorraine came out and informed us layne had just gone down with a stomach bug and could the meal be relocated ! so we all headed to our house (which was a mess, so needed a speedy tidy up).
but we had a really great time. much laughing was done by young and old. it was the first time we’d properly met Eugine’s wife and family (he’s wearing the red t-shirt and his wife and kids are in the background. we talked about internationalness as eugine and thomas (bottom left) have both lived in various countries and travelled to many more. so we chatted about the Philippines, Singapore, Paris and Germany whilst eating philippine, malaysian, italian and wherever chips and salad are from, food.
by the way, the second picture is of our old food processor which broke because the plastic switch fell apart. it’s a moulinex and i managed to find a place in northampton called belstar electrics which sells spare parts and accessories for appliances . To be honest it was a bit of a long shot whether i’d ordered the right part, but i had. i placed the order sunday evening new zealand time and the part had arrived by the next saturday morning and slotted in to place perfectly. a fully mended appliance for just five pounds and ninety pence including postage !
i was so excited i emailed them a misspelled thank you note which they put on their website here So next time something breaks in your house (washing machine, coffee grinder, blender jug lid etc) check there first ! Just in case you are interested, we got this
phew, what a lot of words today. good night.