My Life's Ingredients

I don't know how and why, but whatever time we're leaving home, we always managed to get to Newcastle around 3 or 4pm ... and therefore getting stuck for a while on the bridge.  Usually, it's taking us 2 hours to get to Newcastle ... so we're now stumped how we managed 3 (!!)  hours this time ... surely we didn't have a 1-hr break at Berwick to get to Aldi and Morrisons??? That delay meant that we arrived with 1 hour delay at Doncaster - but at least this time we were still in time for the dinner. :)  This year's hotel was the Holiday Inn Express, with a pub/restaurant conveniently just across the car park. :) We shared table with Mel, Chris H and Mark S and had lots of fun ... including Mel, Doug and me telling stories from last year's Orlando holiday. ;) Main was good, dessert was "oomph" ... far too much ... thinly sliced Choc Mousse, but the height of that thing ... geesh! And it was sooo heavy (in the chocolate sense), I couldn't eve...

Well... nearly. Got everything sorted, baking for the "Bake off" with Mel is done and packed, bags packed, everything packed. ;) Now we are just waiting for TD to turn up so we can get on the road to Doncaster. :) Looking forward to seeing all the people again I only see once a year (Mel, Nathan, Sharon, Gary, Susan, Mark, Nigel...) and others I see more often but not often enough (Tony, Ken, Gary, Debbie...). :) I think we (the BritBowl Crew) really should look into a BritBowl Volunteers getaway once a year. ;) Well.. that's us off now ... I will try to report from Sunny (?) Donny this weekend. ;)

It's nearly a month gone since my last blog entry ... time's just been rushing past and I didn't feel like blogging. :o However, I will be updating the blog with back dated entries over the next couple of days, just to keep it chronologically. :) As for right now - I've finally got my date for the day surgery (cyst again) - it's on the 15th October, so I will give the October crop a miss. It's the first one I will miss since April, and the past couple of months I was feeling not too happy about having to be at the crop early and leaving after everyone had gone because Lisa had taken some months off due to family commitments. My MOJO had disappeared as well, so I am hoping it returns once I get some organisation in my scrap area - which I am planning to do next week as I am off work anyway. We'll see... I decided to watch the Monday Night Football game (Dolphins v Colts) while DH was sleeping ... was up until close to 5am!! What a nail biter of a game!!! S...