The best laid plans...

Backblipped 23.08.21


I was just out of the shower when I got a call from Dot, one of my group of pals due to visit today, to say she'd just been informed she had to isolate as she's been in close contact with someone who now has covid!  What a blow!  

She's been working all summer (she runs an organisation that provides fun activities to children of all abilities during the summer holidays, and all year round) and now the schools are back, this is her first week off!  She was so upset to be missing out our get together, and we were just as upset at her absence.  Also keeping everything crossed she remains covid free!

So that left Eileen, Alice and me!  

Alice arrived from Lanark just five minutes before Eileen arrived from Peebles.  Oh it was so good to see them!   The last time we got together was April 2019.  We were due to get together again in May 2020 but of course Covid put paid to that.  Also Alice had a very serious cancer battle last year and thankfully she has come through it!  It was such a relief to see her looking so well and back to her usual gorgeous self.  An emotional moment!

Despite the last 18 months being a vortex of nothingness, we still had loads to catch up on and it won't surprise anyone to learn that we chatted through coffee and cake, dinner, dessert (Alice made THE most amazing strawberry pavlova, a funny story about which I will tell you at the end :-) and into the wee small hours!  :-)

The others were missed but during our chatting we managed to get another day sorted in November for our next get together.  Keeping everything crossed we will all be able to get together then!

I think it was just after 1.30am when we climbed the wooden hill to Bedfordshire :-))

Pavlova story. :-))

Alice made the most delicious and enormous pavlova for dessert and as it was too big to fit in our already bursting at the seams fridge, David put it through in the fridge used by Alan's support team.  This is a common occurrence, especially when we are entertaining and our fridge gets full.  It's also common practice for me to make extra goodies when I am cooking for guests and give them through to Alan's team to enjoy.

After our main course, David popped through to the fridge to bring the pavlova back through.  Lana, Alan's support worker who was on duty, was making a cup of tea and as David lifted the pavlova out of the fridge he quipped "I hope you've left us some Lana"  and she laughed and said yes....then went bright red as she realised David was actually taking it away!  She has assumed I'd left it in there for the team and had eaten a large slice!  hahahahahahahaha!  She was absolutely mortified!   David was quick to reassure her that we would have given her a slice anyway but the poor woman was still completely embarrassed!   She'll never live it down!  :-)))

P.S. I had hoped to get a group photo of us all but since we were down to just three, thought I'd wait till our November get together, so you get my newly completed bed throw instead :-)