A Relaxing Saturday And Friends for Supper

We had a fairly relaxing Saturday, got a few jobs done around the house, and the place is looking nice and tidy. I really ought to have got down to some serious college work, but I was struggling, I really must starting getting stuck in though!!

Jamie was at his Drama Club this morning and then went with Mike to his guitar lesson. We have decided to send him separately to his school lesson, just to get him really going again. And when Mike got back it looks like it was the right decision. His teacher asked him to play something, just so he could gauge where he is at and Jamie, being Jamie decided to treat him to 'Nothing Else Matters' and then 'One' by Metallic. His teacher asked him to play something from his book too, but seems he was suitably impressed, in fact said Jamie appears to have a bit of a talent and needs to get his act together and not mess around when he should be practicing (well Mike's paraphrasing of it!) By the end of his first lesson with his new tutor it was decided that he will be going for his Grade 1 in December and possibly his Grade 2 in March - if he practices. We have promised him he can have an electric guitar if he gets his Grade 1 - that to me sounds like a real incentive.

After lunch Jamie spent time with Kian and then we went to the supermarket as we were having our friends Anne and Martin around for Saturday night supper. It was well overdue for us to return the invite, and it is always difficult getting a date as Mike and Martin work opposite shifts. But a suitable night was found and it was tonight.


I had planned to do something relatively simple but hopefully tasty! We started with a tasting platter (the 'in' name for it!), but lots of yummy things on a platter with lots of bread - so salami, ham, chorizo, hummus, olives, cornichons, garlic bread, veg sticks, yummy bread and butter and Parmesan cheese. For mains I did spaghetti and meatballs (can't really go wrong with that) with added mozzarella and desert was citrus tart and fresh fruit salad. Sorry, even though I prepared it, I have to say it was totally scrumptious and the company was wonderful so it was a totally enjoyable evening. Jamie kept popping in and topping up his supply of food and I think he was finally in bed by about midnight (how bad is that!)


It was a totally lovely evening and I look forward to repeating it again much sooner than last time!

We ended up having a long discussion about friendship and some 'friends' we had had who enjoyed our hospitality for years and years and years and had never once invited us to their house, even for a coffee let alone to reciprocate the many meals they had shared with us, we once had a 'you're welcome anytime' but as we all know that is not the same as organising something. Even when we pointed out to them that it was causing problems, Mike's view was that they were socially retarded but ultimately we had to give them the heave ho, how do you deal with people like that. We decided in the end the positives in the friendship we far far outweighed by the negatives they brought into our lives and it was far far better for us not to have them in our lives in any way at all.

Earlier in the day, Jamie and I had been to Tesco and I had bought some flowers to practice with and was thrilled to find in Tesco some Germini, which they are now selling on cardboard racquet's, and they were selling 10 for £3.00 which works out as amazing value as they are working out at 30p a stem. I didn't have time to use them today so will hope to get some work done with them and the other flowers I have tomorrow.

Ciao

Sue

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