Fancy Nancy's

Fabulous cocktails at Mr.Coopers.

It was very nice not to work this morning, gym, haircut, matinee of the dance show, I was back stage wearing my orange chaperone tabard looking after Heidi and her 3 friends plus the Singing in the rains and Cats girls. Mark was watching today and as Heidi's dances were all before the interval she watched the 2nd half with him.

Indy and Heidi went to Ang's for a sleepover, I walked the dogs in the sunshine and got ready for our big night out! Gillian, Simon, Nicki, Mark, Sally, Simon, Mark and I all dressed up and ready arrived in town, straight to Épernay for cocktails. Gillian's Fancy Nancy tasted amazing! Sally wedged her heel between the cobbles on the way over to the restaurant, I think the men who came to help were scared by how raucous our champagne cocktails on empty stomachs had already made us. We'd left the boys at a pull your own beer bar so we could avail ourselves of the cocktails at Mr.Coopers . My very tequila-y Paper Aeroplane was full of unidentifiable ingredients but tasted superb.

Simon Rogan is a genius, my dinner was amazing, luckily Mark chose differently, bonus - I obviously had to try all his too. I asked the waitress to recommend a dessert and the resulting Caramel Tart definitely ranks in my all time favourite top 5 puddings list. Sublime. I had such a great night with fabulous friends, so much chattering and laughing (and that was just the husbands!). Our 12.30 taxi seemed to come far too early, whilst the others were ready for bed Mr.W and I were ready for dancing, they dropped us off at Suburbia and we hit the dance floor. I would love to think my dancing is as good as I imagine it to be but I think it's probably on a par with Mr.W's and his was b a d!