on Friday night nothing seemed to go right and i began to think the weekend was doomed...rob was over an hour late back from his school trip courtesy of the same M25 chaos that caught pat and Shaun, Katie's paper round took forever so dinner was late. hadn't had time during the day to do my preparations for the weekend. had tried to get a new top and failed miserably... Saturday dawned and i was running round like a loony to get ready to leave by half eight...needless to say we left at half nine...got the kids to Greg's and we were off... we made good time till we hit oxford and fell foul of the headington roundabout.... this seriously disrupted our journey and it all went downhill from there...picked Marlene and Linda up in Tewksbury and headed back across country to Bourton to meet the others.. arrived in Bourton too late to join them in birdland boo hoo, especially boo hoo now that I've seen the pictures of the cute penguins. had a minor panic when we put petrol in the car as we apparently were running on fumes and it started flowing out of the filler cap but the gauge only showed a half tank. Liz's Peter was worried that the petrol tank might have collapsed..if it had i think i would have done too..hot and tired and bothered as i was by the journey. Thankfully the gods were kind and it seems my petrol gauge is knackered.. off round the model village we went which is lovely and then just time for a romantic stroll round the town. we found a pub and sat and relaxed for the first time all day over a cold coke. then it was a mad dash back to Cheltenham to register at the hotel, have a shower and change for dinner..and drink the champagne mark had bought for us to share in our room before meeting up with the others. we had 55 minutes to do all the above and just managed it. into the restaurant and there was a lovely surprise, the table was surrounded by balloons. i had beautiful cards and gifts and felt very spoiled. there was much laughter and chit chat, as Beth calls it. Mark stood up and made his little speech and i did get snuffly.. the tone was lowered by a flying pair of knickers and an overnight schedule LOL then it all went quiet and a cake with candles appeared..i was really touched, and very grateful there were only 4 candles to blow out and not 43.... we all enjoyed the cake and there was some left for me to bring home to the children. after dinner it was all back to our room for more wine and chat..the funniest thing was the queue of people outside the door clutching their tooth mugs... i don't know if we'll be allowed back there again LOL. thanks to all of you for making me feel so special on my birthday, it was truly lovely.
Sounds like a lovely time was had by all :) Pity about that darn roundabout!! DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 on Friday night nothing seemed to go right and i began to think the weekend was doomed...rob was over an hour late back from his school trip courtesy of the same M25 chaos that caught pat and Shaun, Katie's paper round took forever so dinner was late. hadn't had time during the day to do my preparations for the weekend. had tried to get a new top and failed miserably... Saturday dawned and i was running round like a loony to get ready to leave by half eight...needless to say we left at half nine...got the kids to Greg's and we were off... we made good time till we hit oxford and fell foul of the headington roundabout.... this seriously disrupted our journey and it all went downhill from there...picked Marlene and Linda up in Tewksbury and headed back across country to Bourton to meet the others.. arrived in Bourton too late to join them in birdland boo hoo, especially boo hoo now that I've seen the pictures of the cute penguins. had a minor panic when we put petrol in the car as we apparently were running on fumes and it started flowing out of the filler cap but the gauge only showed a half tank. Liz's Peter was worried that the petrol tank might have collapsed..if it had i think i would have done too..hot and tired and bothered as i was by the journey. Thankfully the gods were kind and it seems my petrol gauge is knackered.. off round the model village we went which is lovely and then just time for a romantic stroll round the town. we found a pub and sat and relaxed for the first time all day over a cold coke. then it was a mad dash back to Cheltenham to register at the hotel, have a shower and change for dinner..and drink the champagne mark had bought for us to share in our room before meeting up with the others. we had 55 minutes to do all the above and just managed it. into the restaurant and there was a lovely surprise, the table was surrounded by balloons. i had beautiful cards and gifts and felt very spoiled. there was much laughter and chit chat, as Beth calls it. Mark stood up and made his little speech and i did get snuffly.. the tone was lowered by a flying pair of knickers and an overnight schedule LOL then it all went quiet and a cake with candles appeared..i was really touched, and very grateful there were only 4 candles to blow out and not 43.... we all enjoyed the cake and there was some left for me to bring home to the children. after dinner it was all back to our room for more wine and chat..the funniest thing was the queue of people outside the door clutching their tooth mugs... i don't know if we'll be allowed back there again LOL. thanks to all of you for making me feel so special on my birthday, it was truly lovely. ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others.