I feel now that I have discovered my destiny in life. I'm going all out to be a party monster and stretch our occasional weekend gatherings into an all year round rolling party. Our latest event kicked off with the first guests arriving on 2nd October and the last ones leaving on the 11th. With the extra labour on site, and Dave wanting to learn about hedge laying, we knocked out another 25m of hedging. Although it was a smaller event than normal, we peaked on Saturday night with 27 people helping to consume chicken and duck paella. My new recipe went well but still needs a small amount of tweaking to reach the same brilliance of the sea food version.
We had a couple of a deaths over the weekend, one suicide by a young chick who decided to swim with the ducks and one brutal murder of a toad. Lucy had put her welly on and wandered around for 10 minutes before deciding there was something in her boot. On removing her boot and screaming like a girl as the dead toad landed on the floor in front of her she exclaimed "I thought it was a plum". Now if you had a plum in your boot, would you wander around for a while before dealing with it?
We managed 2 games of softball for the weekend, a new record I believe. Next time we might see if we can get down to 1. We also invented a new game of softball using a frizbee which was excellent and far more demanding on the players.
The usual night hikes took place and we managed not to lose anyone. We also christened the new tarmac at the top of the hill, lying down for half an hour and star gazing. Big kirsty, not to be mistaken with little Kirsty, also christened the new tarmac but that's a whole different story.
Jane and I loosened the reins for this event allowing others to do the cooking. We were honoured with Dave and Kirstys crispy duck starter, beef wellington followed by chocolate orange pudding, Russels chicken pie and chilli, Lucys array of apple based puddings right up to her toffee apples at which she tried dipping her finger in the toffee rather than the apple, finishing off with Sues upside down cakes on numerous occasions. All in all a great and filling feast.
I feel now that I have discovered my destiny in life. I'm going all out to be a party monster and stretch our occasional weekend gatherings into an all year round rolling party. Our latest event kicked off with the first guests arriving on 2nd October and the last ones leaving on the 11th. With the extra labour on site, and Dave wanting to learn about hedge laying, we knocked out another 25m of hedging. Although it was a smaller event than normal, we peaked on Saturday night with 27 people helping to consume chicken and duck paella. My new recipe went well but still needs a small amount of tweaking to reach the same brilliance of the sea food version.
We had a couple of a deaths over the weekend, one suicide by a young chick who decided to swim with the ducks and one brutal murder of a toad. Lucy had put her welly on and wandered around for 10 minutes before deciding there was something in her boot. On removing her boot and screaming like a girl as the dead toad landed on the floor in front of her she exclaimed "I thought it was a plum". Now if you had a plum in your boot, would you wander around for a while before dealing with it?
We managed 2 games of softball for the weekend, a new record I believe. Next time we might see if we can get down to 1. We also invented a new game of softball using a frizbee which was excellent and far more demanding on the players.
The usual night hikes took place and we managed not to lose anyone. We also christened the new tarmac at the top of the hill, lying down for half an hour and star gazing. Big kirsty, not to be mistaken with little Kirsty, also christened the new tarmac but that's a whole different story.
Jane and I loosened the reins for this event allowing others to do the cooking. We were honoured with Dave and Kirstys crispy duck starter, beef wellington followed by chocolate orange pudding, Russels chicken pie and chilli, Lucys array of apple based puddings right up to her toffee apples at which she tried dipping her finger in the toffee rather than the apple, finishing off with Sues upside down cakes on numerous occasions. All in all a great and filling feast.
3 comments:
Photos look great! Love to all x
Sounds like fun was had by all.
How rude! It was a fab week - i love Chateau Larcombe and hope my hedge is being looked after, that you have shaken your plums/sloes everyday and that you have kept up the equine grooming regime! much love and BIG cwtches to all. Lucy xx PS. I tried the drums for the first time just now, they're a lot of fun!
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