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!
Lythem Es-8





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.





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