Weekends and best friends - Redux

So, jet lag recovered and having been re-introduced to the delights of Milton Keynes by Punctuation on Friday, Lisa and 'he who is never late but thankfully was' because I was so behind, arrived here early on Saturday afternoon.

The first point of note is that Hammy did not this time , unlike last time, manage to inflict a wound on Lisa significant enough to draw copious amounts of blood within the first few minutes! Things were looking good!

After much animated chatter, coffee and greetings Fletch had decided we should introduce Lisa to the Saturday afternoon ways of a Brit...and spend it in the pub taking in the Six Nations! I managed to negotiate on behalf of the women of the party a nice bar as opposed to a spit and sawdust pub, and off we went for an afternoon of Six nations entertainment and Guinness. Guinness of course is considered a food group and hence qualified as lunch! It was a lovely afternoon, Lisa and I of course took something less than avid notice of the game/games and whilst the boys shouted at the plasma on the wall we chattered away merrily for hours, though Lisa did make a very convincing effort at taking an interest in the boys stuff....


Eventually hunger got the better of us and we pottered across the road for an early dinner at the local Chinese where copious amounts of Saki were 'tested' and more hilarity and chatter continued into the night until our stamina began to fade and we made our way the few hundred yards back home to some serious Lincolnshire Poacher and a good red wine. Lisa, like myself was less than convinced by the single malts!

Sunday morning we woke bleary eyed, Fletch served up a 'full English' to further Lisa's British culinary training, she even ate the black pudding, be impressed and late morning they were ready to move onto their next port of call and left with hopes of making it back again later in the week for a short visit should their busy itinerary allow it.

It was fab to have her back again and considering the 4000 mile distance from Omaha, so soon again after the last trip was amazing!

It of course is never long enough, the good things never are and we could chatter on unendingly for days but that only makes it extra special when we do get together for real! :o)

There was one aspect of the whole weekend though that was particularly unbelievable....we forgot to eat the chocolate cake!! Hey ho, I'll just have to manage it on my own now!