Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Doozergirl

Notso hungry for tripe

SingleSue

As much as I love youngest, I never thought he would be the one where I almost call the hospitals/police wondering where he is......but he was!

2 and a half hours after he was due to be home last night and I am pacing the front room, the boys checking Facebook etc when in he walks, all cool and nonplussed at the reaction he got. Turns out he was invited to an after party and he didn't realise that I would need to know or thought that I would somehow know what he had done.

Yes, that's right, the one who hates social events, the one who hates parties, went to an after party..well it was more marshmallows around a camp fire event than a party but still, he went to one!

He had a great time at the prom, he danced (!!), took selfies and loved it and out of the £11 I gave him (£1 for the driver, £10 for him for photos and drink), I got £9.60 back....he didn't give the driver anything, balked at the price of the photos and only bought one diet coke all night.

Generali

I got Shanghai'd by the in Laws and ended up at Paramatta Leagues club. Hmmmm. The angels stayed at home today .

However, that means I've got slow cooked lamb, rillettes and tarte tatin for dinner tomorrow! Hooray!

TBH that's no bad thing. I still get tired very easily and I'm exhausted from the skating. This tiredness is getting very boring.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

Wow. So hungry for that!

It sounds delicious.

Spirit_2

Wonder how the girls are getting on?

They are either up to their arms in Viakal and steam cleaners


or



Still in their jim jams drinking coffee and sobering up.

I am not hung over this morning..which has pleased me no end.

Spirit_2

SingleSue wrote: »

As much as I love youngest, I never thought he would be the one where I almost call the hospitals/police wondering where he is......but he was!

2 and a half hours after he was due to be home last night and I am pacing the front room, the boys checking Facebook etc when in he walks, all cool and nonplussed at the reaction he got. Turns out he was invited to an after party and he didn't realise that I would need to know or thought that I would somehow know what he had done.

Yes, that's right, the one who hates social events, the one who hates parties, went to an after party..well it was more marshmallows around a camp fire event than a party but still, he went to one!

He had a great time at the prom, he danced (!!), took selfies and loved it and out of the £11 I gave him (£1 for the driver, £10 for him for photos and drink), I got £9.60 back....he didn't give the driver anything, balked at the price of the photos and only bought one diet coke all night.

All sounds just as it should be...wonderful teenage stuff.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

I got Shanghai'd by the in Laws and ended up at Paramatta Leagues club. Hmmmm. The angels stayed at home today .

Maybe, just maybe, the angels needed a break after beating the stiletto wearing devils off your tongue and will be back tomorrow.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

I got Shanghai'd by the in Laws and ended up at Paramatta Leagues club. Hmmmm. The angels stayed at home today .

However, that means I've got slow cooked lamb, rillettes and tarte tatin for dinner tomorrow! Hooray!

TBH that's no bad thing. I still get tired very easily and I'm exhausted from the skating. This tiredness is getting very boring.

I would still be interested in giving Gen a 'day off' work to be taken when he is tired and just can't face it and if it is given by us then he does not need to think about the 'but can we afford it'. Perhaps we could discuss at the other place or by email? It is just really an idea to go to your aid a little when we are several thousand miles too far away to pop round and look after the kids for a day or whatever would we could do to help if we were local.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I would still be interested in giving Gen a 'day off' work to be taken when he is tired and just can't face it and if it is given by us then he does not need to think about the 'but can we afford it'. Perhaps we could discuss at the other place or by email?

Up for it.

I'm budgeting quite hard ATM, so would like to arrange sooner rather than later please, so I know I can commit to it.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Maybe, just maybe, the angels needed a break after beating the stiletto wearing devils off your tongue and will be back tomorrow.

You must have a fair idea about what my tastebuds have just been through given your Australian connections. This place is your bog standard leagues club, connected to Paramatta Eels, possibly the worst of all the NRL clubs in one of the grottier suburbs of Sydney. In fact this happened in Paramatta this week:

http://www.news.com.au/national/lover-of-accused-westfield-parramatta-stabbing-murderer-says-she-wants-to-help-him/story-fncynjr2-1226982535692

It's one of those places where things like that happen.

I had steak and chips. At least the steak was rare as I ordered I guess and it wasn't a bad piece of meat at all: you have to work quite hard to find bad red meat in Australian cities. The salad wasn't up to much and the dressing was that commercially made rubbish with guar gum and a hundred different E numbers (only here we only have numbers rather than E numbers). The chips were frozen chips, undercooked and cold. The wine, I can only assume, came from a bottle marked 'For internal use only. In case of ingestion do not induce vomiting and call the Poisons Hotline'.

Upon leaving we had to run the gauntlet of drunken men staggering around the foyer (where they shouldn't be drinking but were), swearing and generally acting in a way that I don't like them to act around the Generalissimos.

These clubs sell alcohol but are meant to be family places. Some, unfortunately, attract young drunks who really should be in the pub not in a leagues club.