Pizza Pizza!
Posted on September 30, 2009
A couple of weekends ago I was invited to PizzaExpress for a mini blogger meet and great. I packed Squidge up in the car, programed my TomTom and hit the road. The meet up was in Preston and we arrived with time to spare. I struggled to find parking but finally found something, searched for money for the meter and realized I didn’t have any change. I asked someone if they had change for a £5, she didn’t but she gave me 50p. Great! I thanked her and headed to meet the other bloggers thinking I had an hour on the meter. I didn’t, I had 30 minutes and when I came out to feed the meter a £50 was waiting for me– joy!
Ok so back to the reason I went to Preston– FREE PIZZA!!! I had only ever been to PizzaExpress once before, dinner for a friend who was moving to Wales. When I arrived Sandy of Baby Baby was already there. We decided to wait a bit until the others arrived. Good think too as we didn’t see the waitress again for a good 30 minutes. Once everyone arrived we caught the waitresses attention and ordered our meal. PizzaExpress has a nice kids menu but I was surprised when the meal arrived– very kid unfriendly. My main gripe was that the drinks were adult sized and in very trendy glass cups. I was thinking greasy pizza and tall skinny glass of juice. I spent a lot of time watching out to make sure she didn’t have an accident. So now that I have my gripes out of the way I can concentrate on the good bits. The food was YUMMY!! I love a good thin crust pizza a PizzaExpress delivered on that front. I didn’t try the new Leggera just because I don’t eat salad at restaurants unless its a chicken ceasar salad– I know I’m weird!! I’m usually disappointed w/ restaurant food but I am happy to report that I left very satisfied.
I had a fantastic time meeting the other bloggers. Sally from Who’s the Mummy and her daughter Flea and Sandy from Baby Baby and her son Presley are really nice and friendly. I also met Yummy Mammy who was excited to share her good news– ex-husband had agreed to let her daughter move to England. So it was a bit of a celebration too.
Overall I enjoyed PizzaExpress, all they need to do is sort the kids drinks and have more staff on for lunch! Thanks Sandy for organizing it and PizzaExpress for the fab pizza!
Whoa!
Posted on September 28, 2009
I love this photograph!

Expectations
Posted on September 21, 2009
On Sunday Wal, Squidge and I went to Derbyshire. We took precious moments away from the bathroom remodel to look at a location for our wedding. We had booked a table for Sunday lunch and were looking forward to it. I think we all had different expectations of our afternoon. I was looking forward to showing Wal the beautiful house and talking about what I wanted. Wal I suspect was looking forward to a traditional Sunday lunch. Squidge was dreaming of running around and playing hide and seek. All of our expectations were met yesterday. It was a gloriously sunny afternoon. The weather could not have been better and Cressbrook Hall shined. Lunch was fantastic, starter, main and dessert– nom nom nom. We ran around a little bit w/ Squidge.
We chatted about what would happen, where it would happen and when I couldn’t answer some of Wal’s questions we spoke to Bobby who owns the Hall. She made Wal comfortable and answered all of his questions. We tentatively reserved the date with promises to call Bakewell Registrars office to book them. After booking the registrar we were to confirm our reservation w/ a deposit, Wal was OK with this. We went home and about an hour after we got home Bobby called. She called to say that her daughter had taken a booking for the day we wanted…sorry…unfortunate…better to tell you sooner rather than wait until tomorrow…blah…blahh. blaaaaah…
To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. I almost cried. My reaction to this setback pissed me off. It’s just a fecking wedding. Wal and I have been together for a while. We have a child together. We want another child. We’re planning on buying a new house. This whole marriage/wedding thing is not going to fundamentally change our lives. I don’t have any idea why I’m allowing myself to get sucked into this emotional rollercoaster. There are other dates available. I’m going to talk to Wal tonight and see what he thinks. If it begins to get all weird and bridezilla-ish well just forget all about it and continue to live in sin.
While we were up in the Peak District we decided to do a little ‘splorin. It really is pretty up there when the sun is shining.




