Above photo is of great Grand daughter, Astrid, who, together with her mother, Amelia, and her grand mother, Sarah, came and had lunch with us yesterday. Great Granny Anny had put on a gooseberry crumble for pudding. Astrid didn't really like gooseberries, and indeed these needed more muscovado sugar, so Granny had a think and provided a chocolate ice cream from the freezer, which (surprise) Astrid did like, so everyone was happy.
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It has been a very sociable sort of a week, and yesterday we went to our friends Jill and Keith for lunch. Also at lunch was our old friend David and his friend Michael - no not me, but another of the many Michaels born in the 30s/40s. Jill gave us a glorious venison casserole, followed by a sticky toffee pudding, then a cheese board, then tea/coffee. There used to be an old saying that the way to a man's heart is through his tummy - it's especially true if you add the word 'old' in front of man.
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Today we continued to socialise by meeting up (at a garden centre in Needham Market) with fellow blogger Zoe, and her husband Tim. We had a very good beef pie, and picked up the threads - it had been over a year since we'd seen them. I'd assumed we were 'going Dutch' , but it turned out that Tim was a good deal nippier on his feet than I am, and got to the cashier an easy 'first' - with Horner an 'also ran' - though 'ran' was pushing it. It was lovely catching up on all the news with them.
After they'd gone we had a look round the other shops on the same site, and I found a really nice scarf that Ann loved, so I bought it as a Christmas present for her (not having found one yet). Being called up for supper, so Goodnight All.
P.s. Zoe - it was really lovely to see you both. Mustn't leave it so long till next time.
3 comments:
Wonderful portrait of your great granddaughter Mike. I've pinched it for my "Astrid" file.
Thank you Crowbard. You'll be pleased to hear that the missing front tooth is no longer quite so noticable.
Should perhaps have made it clearer that Astrid didn't play up over pudding in any way. Just that she was rather doubtful over gooseberries, and breathed an audible sigh of relief, when informed by Great Grandpa that she needn't eat them if she didn't like them. So Great Granny put on her thinking cap and came up with a chocolate icecream lollipop, which Astrid thought was a pretty good swop for rather sharp goosegogs!
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