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The first concrete indication that the day wasn't going to be all smooth sailing happened when I went to take the two chickens from the outside fridge.

This fridge is not usually running but is merely used as a convenient storage area for bottles of beer etc. On this occasion we had put the beer for the party in it and also various items of foodstuffs which needed to be kept cool, but couldn't be kept in the main kitchen fridge which was chockers. It had been running now for a couple of days

Said chickens had started to freeze! Fortunately, I had decided to take them from the fridge at 5.00am to allow an hour or so to bring them up to room temperature. So defrost them in a sink of water then checked the fridge to make sure no other items were affected.

By 7.00am the chickens were in the oven and I could start cleaning up the back patio area. The morning was quite breezy and as fast as I was brushing up leaves and sand, Mother Nature, was having a bit of a laugh by re-distributing my efforts into other parts of the patio.

The day had just begun :-|

Not quite a total disaster - yet! :-0

Dear Allan

Hello

Putting aside the chickens, hope the day gets better.

Remember, if anyone is cheeky about 70th birthday, just say you are 7 years old, with lots of tax added!


Take gentle care
Very best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

Thanks, EOS.

I'm glad to say that the day is well and truly over and that we can now return to what passes for normality in this particular household :-D

The chicken was only the warm up act, in a manner of speaking, for the main performance, but I'm too traumatised to continue at the moment. For that read, have to clear the house up and find the bits of broken glass from a beautiful vase that has now, alas, passed into whatever realm smashed vases enter at the end of their existence :-D

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Let's hope today is better! mind you its snowing hard here, and an elderly pony needs attention!! plus a dog needs walking, so......! :-(

Nearly as good as mine in 2016 :-D but that's another story .write it down Allan all the wonderful moments .Next year will be even better ;-) :-D :-D

I will, Barbra, I will. :-D

It has taken me all day today to recover from the ordeal, so I'll post later :-0

Sounds like you need to lay down and a massage wouldn't come a miss.

Hope to hear how it really was a good birthday party.... :-D :-D

Hmm. Can we translate 'ordeal' as hangover?

I was reading this thinking he needs the hair of the dog great minds Maggie :-D

I'm sure it wasn't all bad Allan......

Allan, you aren't still kalied are you? :-S :-D

Maggie, I don't do hangovers mainly because I try to maintain a certain amount of blood in my alcohol stream.

Caroline, like the Curate's egg it was good in parts; the best part being when they all left :-|

JoyLousie, see my response to Maggie above, although I will admit to having a couple of whiskeys at about 1.00pm to fortify myself for the coming ordeal (non-hangover type) :-D :-D

OK, so the two chickens were roasting, the house was full of bread, four loaves, two wholemeal and one white sandwich loaves and one white toaster (purchased by me in error) and two dozen bread rolls.

Now the plan was simple in design, but the execution was slightly flawed :-(


The menu consisted of crisps and picky things, carrot and celery sticks, some Polish sausage slices, little biscuits and dip. This was to be followed by mini meat pies, sausage rolls and some mini quiches. Then a chicken salad and a salmon quiche, together with a cold meat platter and prawns. the whole was to be finished with a fruit platter and cheeseboard. There was also a pasta salad and a coleslaw plus a plate of various sandwiches and some honey and soy chicken thighs. A cheesecake was also involved, which had been made the previous day together with the salmon quiche. ;-)

By 2.00pm OH had, by some miracle, prepared the trays for the picky things, the pasta salad and the coleslaw and also the assorted sandwiches as well as the chicken thighs.
2.00pm is important as that was the time I said that the whole shebang would start.

2.00pm came, and went, as did 2.15pm. No guests :-S

Friday was a bit of a curate's egg with the puppy (now 9 1/2 months).
We had a training class in the morning which went quite well then went to a pub for lunch with other puppy parents as one of the pups is going off to advanced training shortly.
Gave Bianca a large rawhide chew during the meal which she enjoyed but we didn't watch carefully enough so she ate more of it than we intended.
Went to Sainbury's in the evening and as we entered the foyer she did a poo which we cleared up.
Coming out after shopping she was sick in the car park.
Filled the car with fuel and found that the fuel gauge is mis-reading so will have to get that checked out.
When we go home she was sick again so it was carpet scrubbing time.
So, a good start to the day but then downhill.

:-D :-D :-D

Brian - :-S

Allan - who wrote/ sent out the invitations?

And.......Allan.....2.16 everyone turned up at once???

I did, Maggie, and it was checked by OH before being sent. She knows what I'm like.

Between 2.15 and 2.30 Caroline except for one niece and her family who didn't turn up until 3.30pm, so that was twenty of them :-0