Friends for dinner

We had a house full last night which I always thrive on. Having kept in contact with my school friends from decades ago, eveWry now and then we all manage to get together - partners included (except for Elena who brings her sister as her hubby isn't into 'gatherings')! Leigh (Suk's hubby) is a Chelscum supporter and he'd come straight from the game - could've been tension in the house but nah, it was ok. I'd already accepted the defeat and it wasn't an embarrassing score so we managed to talk about it ok. The Pompey Manure game was on Sky at the time and Praful (Sunita's hubby) is a fan. Never mind eh?! He got a ribbing of course and no-one was more happy than Leigh - only 3 pts gap now. Simon (Ellie's partner) is a Gooner who also got a ribbing as they lost at home to Wet Spam earlier. It's not very often you can get four fans of four top teams in a room together. Anyway, I'm blabbing about footie again - can't help myself.

Dinner was a variety of dishes as three of us are veggies (me included) and we had pasta bake, selection of veg, sauted potatoes, rice and chicken. Dessert was home made trifle or a chocolate gateau made by Asda. It all seemed to go down ok and then John gave everyone a Easter egg. Well it is Easter after all! Sadly Ellie and Si had to leave early as they have a five month old baby who will only take breast milk and not formula so needs were must.

After dinner every one just chatted for a while (as you do). As usual, one of the topics was about how great Walmart is in the States. Suk and Leigh are going to Florida on Wednesday and she always manages to spend a hours on end in there. Four of us: John, Leigh, Praful and myself then had a game of bowling and golf on the Nintendo Wii which is always good for a laugh and then a sports quiz on Buzz. Hehe! I whipped the guys arses!

When it got to 11:30 Leigh and I watched Match of the Day back - a tad unsociable I know but hey, that's what we enjoy and it's nice to chat about football with someone who equally loves the game - John I feel is just being polite when I rabbit on about it!! The highlight of this part of the night was when John made Leigh a cup of tea and presented it to him in my Spurs mug! You should've seen his face! I made a deal with him though - I agreed to let him watch back the Chelscum highlights, if he drank out of the mug!

Everyone left about 12:45 and it had been a good night. Can't wait for the next gathering.

(Posted 8 Apr 2007)